1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Novokuznetsk, 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 Novokuznetsk—539,616, Asia/Novokuznetsk, 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 Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Novokuznetsk is GeoNames ID 1496990. Its recorded administrative path is Kuzbass → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Novokuznetsk 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 2025-04-15; 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, Novokuznetsk ranks 1,042 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 31; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 97. Its 539,616 population value is 0.83 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 664,046 regional median. Novokuznetsk sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Novokuznetsk'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.
Novokuznetsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kemerovo at 189.588 km with 558,973 recorded people; Barnaul at 229.333 km with 632,372 recorded people; Novosibirsk at 306.333 km with 1,612,833 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 116.745 km. Compared with Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo follows Kuzbass → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Novokuznetsk identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Novokuznetsk's. Against Novokuznetsk, Barnaul follows Barnaul Urban Okrug → Altai Krai → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Barnaul instead of Asia/Novokuznetsk, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Novokuznetsk's. Against Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk follows Novosibirskiy Rayon → Novosibirsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novosibirsk instead of Asia/Novokuznetsk, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Novokuznetsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 965 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Novokuznetsk'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 1496990, the coordinate pair 53.7575 / 87.1360, country rank 31 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1503901 at 189.588 km bind Novokuznetsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Novokuznetsk's reference point is 53.7575° north and 87.1360° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Novokuznetsk is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Novokuznetsk's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Novokuznetsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Novokuznetsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Novokuznetsk, 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
Novokuznetsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Kemerovo (189.588 km), Barnaul (229.333 km), Novosibirsk (306.333 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-04-15; 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.