Cheboksary

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Cheboksary

Total population

497,061

Elevation105 m

Coordinates56.14°, 47.25°

Demographic figures from Rosstat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Cheboksary is the capital and largest city of Chuvashia, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

N

Nikolay Ayzman

Soviet actor (1905-1967)

I

Impanuil Ignatyev

A

Aleksey Illarionov

Russian geographer

V

Valery Korichnev

A

Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikhailov

Soviet composer (1931-1997)

G

Georgy Orlov

Russian poet (1925-2007)

V

Vyacheslav Aleksandrov

actor

V

Vasily Vasilyev

A

Anistrad Vasilyev

scientist

A

Aleksandr Vasilyev

V

Valery Yegorov

A

Aleksey Zaytsev

N

Nikolai Ishentey

Marina Fedorovna Karyagina

Russian-Soviet poet

V

Vladimir Makarov

poet

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Chuvashia

• Novocheboksarsk
  9.5 mi away
• Mariinsky Posad
  18.3 mi away · pop. 7,468
• Tsivilsk
  20.9 mi away · pop. 12,857
• Alikovo
  33.8 mi away · pop. 2,653
• Yadrin
  42.5 mi away
• Kozlovka
  43.8 mi away
• Kanash
  44.7 mi away
• Vurnary
  46.2 mi away · pop. 9,739
• Yantikovo
  47.8 mi away · pop. 3,151
• Krasnyye Chetai
  52 mi away · pop. 2,623
• Shumerlya
  54.8 mi away · pop. 25,554
• Ibresi
  58.3 mi away · pop. 7,881

Browse all places in Chuvashia →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Cheboksary

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Dotted-stalked Suillus

Suillus granulatus

Seen 2026-09-24

Scaly Tooth

Sarcodon squamosus

Seen 2026-09-24

pinesap

Monotropa hypopitys

Seen 2026-09-24

Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

Seen 2026-09-24

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Seen 2026-09-24

False Death-cap

Amanita citrina

Seen 2026-09-24

Franchet's Amanita

Amanita franchetii

Seen 2026-09-24

Speckled Wood

Pararge aegeria

Seen 2026-09-24

Spanish Slug

Arion vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-24

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).