Ryazan’
Ryazan is the largest city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia.
Ryazan is the largest city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia, 196 km (122 mi) southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census, Ryazan had a population of 524,927, making it the 33rd most populated city in Russia, and the fourth most populated in Central Russia after Moscow, Voronezh, and Yaroslavl.
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Worth seeing in and around Ryazan’
4 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.
- 01Sergei Yesenin Ryazan State University
The Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin is a university in Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1915.
700 m · university in Ryazan, Russia · Wikipedia - 02Ryazan Oblast State Art Museum named after I.P. Pojalostin
The Pozhalostin Ryazan Regional and State Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in Russia. It houses about 12,000 items of Russian and Western Art, mainly paintings, graphics, sculptures, traditional arts and crafts, dating from the late 15th to the late 20th centuries.
700 m · art museum · Wikipedia - 03Gorky Library
The Ryazan Oblast Universal Scientific Library is a central public library in Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast, Russia.
100 m · library · Wikipedia - 04Ryazan kremli
The Ryazan Kremlin, the oldest part of the city of Ryazan, is a historical and architectural museum. It is one of the oldest museums in Russia.
800 m · museum in Ryazan, Russia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Kremlin of Ryazan. The city's major architectural attraction with a number of old churches and a very beautiful cathedral. Kremlin is located at a high river bank, and you can enjoy an amazing view from it. The city center here changes into the rural floodplain of the Oka river. There are several museums and exhibitions inside the kremlin, you can also buy local souvenirs there.
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Things to do
Take a 3-hour boat trip from the Kremlin embarkment along Oka-river and back. With Russian pop-music and spontaneous dances on the top deck. Visit bee and honey museum and horse-breeding institute in Rybnoe.
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Getting to Ryazan’
- Airports
- Zhukovsky (ZIA), 144 km · Domodedovo (DME), 146 km · Vnukovo (VKO), 191 km
- Moscow → Ryazan’182 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · ₽720–960
- Nizhny Novgorod → Ryazan’330 km · quickest by road, 8h 19m · ₽1,580–2,110
- Tunoshna → Ryazan’325 km · quickest by road, 8h 41m · ₽1,740–2,320
- 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 Ryazan’
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 Ryazan’. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou can get around the city by taking a minibus, a taxi or a bus.
From Wikivoyage: Ryazan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.
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Next door to Ryazan’
- Ryazansky Districtdistrict in Ryazan Oblast, Russia4.3 km