1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ulyanovsk—626,540, Europe/Ulyanovsk, 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 Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ulyanovsk is GeoNames ID 479123. Its recorded administrative path is Ulyanovskiy Rayon → Ulyanovsk → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ulyanovsk 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 2022-10-16; 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, Ulyanovsk ranks 890 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 22; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 72. Its 626,540 population value is 0.97 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.94 times the 664,046 regional median. Ulyanovsk sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Ulyanovsk'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.
Ulyanovsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tolyatti at 108.712 km with 702,879 recorded people; Kazan at 169.019 km with 1,243,500 recorded people; Samara at 169.513 km with 1,163,399 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 60.801 km. Compared with Tolyatti, Ulyanovsk's recorded population is 0.89 times as large. Against Ulyanovsk, Tolyatti follows Samara Oblast → 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/Ulyanovsk, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ulyanovsk's. Against Ulyanovsk, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Ulyanovsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ulyanovsk's. Against Ulyanovsk, Samara follows Samara Oblast → 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/Ulyanovsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ulyanovsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 730 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ulyanovsk'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 479123, the coordinate pair 54.3282 / 48.3866, country rank 22 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 482283 at 108.712 km bind Ulyanovsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ulyanovsk's reference point is 54.3282° north and 48.3866° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Ulyanovsk is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ulyanovsk's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ulyanovsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ulyanovsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ulyanovsk, 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
Ulyanovsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Tolyatti (108.712 km), Kazan (169.019 km), Samara (169.513 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-10-16; 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.