1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Izhevsk, Russia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Izhevsk—648,213, Europe/Samara, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in central Russia, capital of Udmurtia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Izhevsk is GeoNames ID 554840. Its recorded administrative path is Udmurtiya Republic → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Izhevsk occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Izhevsk ranks 857 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 20; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 68. Its 648,213 population value is 1.00 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 664,046 regional median. Izhevsk sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Izhevsk's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Izhevsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Naberezhnyye Chelny at 132.979 km with 509,870 recorded people; Perm at 223.461 km with 982,419 recorded people; Kazan at 277.737 km with 1,243,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 144.758 km. Compared with Naberezhnyye Chelny, Izhevsk's recorded population is 1.27 times as large. Against Izhevsk, Naberezhnyye Chelny follows Tukayevskiy Rayon → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Samara, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Izhevsk's. Against Izhevsk, Perm follows Perm Krai → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Yekaterinburg instead of Europe/Samara, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Izhevsk's. Against Izhevsk, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Samara, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Izhevsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 828 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Izhevsk's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 554840, the coordinate pair 56.8523 / 53.1986, country rank 20 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 523750 at 132.979 km bind Izhevsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Izhevsk's reference point is 56.8523° north and 53.1986° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Samara is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Izhevsk's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Izhevsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Izhevsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Izhevsk, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Izhevsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Naberezhnyye Chelny (132.979 km), Perm (223.461 km), Kazan (277.737 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.