Map of Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Yoshkar-Ola is the administrative centre of Mariy-El Republic, Russia, with a population of about 268,272. It lies at 56.6388°N, 47.8908°E. Yoshkar-Ola is about 643 km (399 mi) east of Moscow, the capital. The nearest city on our map is Novocheboksarsk, 64 km to the southwest.

Yoshkar-Ola at a glance

Where is Yoshkar-Ola?

• Located in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres.
• Daylight ranges from about 6 h 48 min on the shortest day to 17 h 47 min on the longest day (around 21 December and 21 June).

Cities near Yoshkar-Ola

• Novocheboksarsk — 64 km southwest
• Cheboksary — 69 km southwest
• Volzhsk — 91 km south
• Zelenodolsk — 97 km southeast
• Kazan — 121 km southeast
• Kanash — 128 km south
• Shumerlya — 156 km southwest
• Alatyr’ — 216 km southwest
• Kirov — 242 km northeast
• Ulyanovsk — 259 km south

Largest cities in Mariy-El Republic

• Volzhsk — 58,000

Largest cities in Russia

• Moscow — 10,381,222
• Saint Petersburg — 5,351,935
• Novosibirsk — 1,612,833
• Yekaterinburg — 1,495,066
• Nizhniy Novgorod — 1,259,013
• Kazan — 1,243,500
• Chelyabinsk — 1,202,371
• Omsk — 1,172,070
• Samara — 1,163,399
• Rostov-na-Donu — 1,130,305

Map of Russia and all its cities →

Sources: place names, coordinates, populations and time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0, data retrieved October 2026). Population figures are the latest values recorded in GeoNames; depending on the country they refer to the city proper, a municipality or a wider urban area, so they can differ from census or metro-area figures. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.