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City in Oryol Oblast, Russia

Oryol

Oryol, also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, situated on the Oka River, approximately 368 kilometers (229 mi) south-southwest of Moscow.

Oryol
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The place

Oryol, also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, situated on the Oka River, approximately 368 kilometers (229 mi) south-southwest of Moscow. It is part of the Central Federal District, as well as the Central Economic Region.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oryol

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.

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    Central Stadium

    FC Oryol is a Russian football club based in the city of Oryol. From 2004 to 2006 FC Oryol played in the Russian First Division.

    1.6 km · multi-use stadium in Oryol, Russia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Synagogue in Oryol

    Oryol Synagogue is a synagogue in Oryol, Oryol Oblast, Russia. It is the only synagogue in the region.

    400 m · synagogue in Oryol, Russia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oryol State Agrarian University

    Oryol State Agrarian University named after N. V. Parakhin or Oryol SAU named after N. V. Parakhin (Oryol SAU; Russian: Орловский государственный аграрный университет имени Н. В. Парахина; Орловский ГАУ им. Н. В. Парахина, Orlovskiy gosudarstvennyy agrarnyy universitet imeni N. V. Parakhina; Orlovskiy GAU im.

    2.6 km · oryol State Agrarian University in Oryol, Russia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Oryol State Institute of Culture

    Oryol State Institute of Culture is a Russian state higher educational institution located in the city of Oryol, the administrative centre of Oryol Oblast.

    1.5 km · oryol State Institute of Culture in Oryol, Russia · Wikipedia

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Oryol Museum of Fine Arts
  2. 02
    Oryol Museum of Regional Studies

    Museum of Military History House of Ivan Turgenev House of Ivan Bunin House of Nikolai Leskov Bogoyavlensky Cathedral, among the churches it is the oldest building in the city, founded in 1640.

From Wikivoyage: Oryol, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Korfball, a Dutch sport of which Russia's best team trains in the city.

From Wikivoyage: Oryol, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Oryol

Airports
Domodedovo (DME), 296 km
Stations
Oryol Yuzhny Airport, 5.9 km
  • Moscow → Oryol
    325 km · quickest by road, 6h 34m · ₽1,340–1,790
  • Tunoshna → Oryol
    569 km · quickest by road, 11h 45m · ₽2,380–3,180
  • Nizhny Novgorod → Oryol
    630 km · quickest by road, 13h 56m · ₽2,890–3,850
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oryol

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 Oryol. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTo travel around, locals choose between public buses, trolley-buses, trams and numerous minibus-taxies.
  • Get aroundFares vary from a fixed US$0.33 (buses, trolley-buses and trams) to US$0.50 (minibus-taxies); however, you may prefer to move around by a private taxi (US$3-7 for trips within the city).

From Wikivoyage: Oryol, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AbkhaziaGE

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,167 km
  2. 021,178 km
  3. 03
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,180 km
  4. 04
    Mestia and Upper SvanetiGE

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,208 km
  5. 05
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,214 km

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