1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Kirov, 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 Kirov—507,155, Europe/Kirov, 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: capital of Kirov Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kirov is GeoNames ID 548408. Its recorded administrative path is Kirovo-Chepetskiy Rayon → Kirov Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kirov 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, Kirov ranks 1,129 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 37; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 112. Its 507,155 population value is 0.78 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 664,046 regional median. Kirov sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Kirov'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.
Kirov's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Izhevsk at 286.089 km with 648,213 recorded people; Cheboksary at 309.954 km with 492,331 recorded people; Kazan at 314.045 km with 1,243,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.956 km. Compared with Izhevsk, Kirov's recorded population is 0.78 times as large. Against Kirov, Izhevsk follows Udmurtiya Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Samara instead of Europe/Kirov, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kirov's. Against Kirov, Cheboksary follows Cheboksarskiy Rayon → Chuvash 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/Kirov, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kirov's. Against Kirov, 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/Kirov, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kirov's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,101 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kirov'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 548408, the coordinate pair 58.5981 / 49.6578, country rank 37 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 554840 at 286.089 km bind Kirov to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kirov's reference point is 58.5981° north and 49.6578° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Kirov is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kirov's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kirov's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kirov's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kirov, 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
Kirov's closest other entries in this atlas are Izhevsk (286.089 km), Cheboksary (309.954 km), Kazan (314.045 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.