Orel or Oryol (Орёл) is a city in Russia, administrative center of the Oryol Oblast. It is located on the Oka River, approximately 360 km south-south-west of Moscow, at 52°58′ N 36°04′ E Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Ока Length 1,500 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed ? km² Origin ? Mouth Volga River Basin countries Russia Oka (Russian: Ока́) is a great river in Russia, right confluent of Volga. ... Saint Basils Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin at Red Square. ...
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It was founded 1566 as a fortress. Events January 7 - Pius V becomes Pope Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands. ...
Population 333,600 (as of 2002 All-Russia Population Census). 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Orel Region is one of the smaller Russian regions, with an area of 24 700 km2.
Orel is an old territory with a wealth of historical and cultural traditions, which gave the world outstanding writers such as Ivan Turgenev and Leonid Andreev and the philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin.
Orel observed its 400th anniversary in 1966, and in honor of this event a 20-m-high monument was built with a letter for the generation of 2066 enclosed in its base.