Penza

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Penza

Total population

487,978

Coordinates53.20°, 45.02°

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

Overview

Penza is the largest city and administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Sura River, 625 kilometers (388 mi) southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census, Penza had a population of 517,311, making it the 36th-largest city in Russia.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Konstantin Badigin

Soviet Naval officer and explorer (1910–1984)

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Russian theatre director (1874–1940)

A

Anna Andreyeva

Soviet shot putter

Y

Yuri Babenko

Russian ice hockey player

N

Natalia Lavrova

Olympic rhythmic gymnast (1984–2010)

Aleksandr Melentyev

Soviet sport shooter (1954–2015)

Y

Yuliya Pakhalina

diver

Andrei Kuzmin

Russian ice hockey player

I

Irina Kalinina

Soviet diver

N

Nadezhda Bazhina

Russian diver

Yelena Dembo

Russian-Greek chess player

D

Dmitry Kokarev

Russian chess player

Vladimir Zazubrin

Russian author, journalist and writer (1895-1937)

I

Igor Lukashin

Russian diver

Anton Slepyshev

Russian ice hockey player

Sergei Svetlov

Russian ice hockey player

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

Nearby places in Penza Oblast

• Bessonovka
  8 mi away · pop. 13,500
• Mokshan
  24 mi away · pop. 11,710
• Shemysheyka
  26 mi away · pop. 6,566
• Lunino
  28.4 mi away · pop. 8,021
• Gorodishche
  28.8 mi away · pop. 8,027
• Sursk
  29.1 mi away · pop. 6,674
• Chaadayevka
  37.4 mi away · pop. 7,450
• Issa
  47 mi away · pop. 5,271
• Russkiy Kameshkir
  50.1 mi away · pop. 5,300
• Malaya Serdoba
  50.4 mi away · pop. 5,353
• Nizhniy Lomov
  60.1 mi away · pop. 21,626
• Serdobsk
  61.4 mi away · pop. 33,553

Browse all places in Penza Oblast →

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 Penza

Penza Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)

USA International Business Publications · 2000

Penza Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

USA International Business Publications · 2001

Otechestvennai︠a︡ kulʹtura i razvitie kraevedenii︠a︡

2001

Rozhdenie, vstuplenie v brak i smertʹ v tradit︠s︡ionnoĭ i︠u︡zhnorusskoĭ obri︠a︡dnosti (Lipet︠s︡kai︠a︡, Tambovskai︠a︡, Penzenskai︠a︡ oblasti)

V. S. Buzin · 2015

Penzenskai︠a︡ oblast' v t︠s︡ifrakh i faktakh

Penzenskai͡a oblastʹ (Russia). Statisticheskoe upravlenie · 1987

Nekotorye voprosy razvitiia proizvodstvennykh otnoshenii v period stroitelʹstva kommunizma

N. A. Sti︠a︡zhkov · 1970

Iazyk i stilʹ proizvedenii M.Iu. Lermontova

A. D. Alekseenko · 1969

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