Izhevsk
Izhevsk is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia.
Izhevsk is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city in Russia, and the most populous in Udmurtia, with over 600,000 inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Izhevsk
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Trinity Cemetery Church.
- 02Udmurtia State Circus
Esplanade and Izhevsk Lake Embankment.
- 03The People's Friendship Monument
The Square of the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution.
- 04Udmurt Zoo
- 05Kirov Park
A huge park between the Zoo and the lake.
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Things to do
Go see the popular local ice hockey team, HC Izhstal.
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Where to eat
Brauplatz, Borodina 25,. Restaurant & brewery. Gorkiy Sad, Maksima Gorkogo 72,. Nice presentation, with white tablecloths. Gorod, Karla Marksa 177,. English menus and a French countryside ambiance. Hot Pelmen (Горячий пельмень), Kommunarov 230,. Authentic pelmeni made from scratch. Popular with locals. Okhotnichiy Rai, Maiskaya 35A,. Unusual menu - wild boar, elk. Ambiance of a hunter's lodge. Teremok, ул.
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Getting to Izhevsk
- Airports
- Perm (PEE), 208 km · Kazan (KZN), 277 km
- Stations
- Izhevsk station, 3.5 km
- Perm → Izhevsk223 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₽1,020–1,370
- Kazan → Izhevsk278 km · quickest by road, 6h 58m · ₽1,320–1,750
- Ufa → Izhevsk305 km · quickest by road, 6h 53m · ₽1,340–1,790
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Izhevsk
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Izhevsk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIzhevsk has trams, buses, minibuses, trolleybuses, and taxis.
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