Oryol Maps & Facts :: Don and Ruth Ossewaarde

Russia is a country of 143 million people.

The European Plain, west of the Ural Mountains, is often referred to as European Russia.

Oryol, Russia (many times spelled Orel) is a city of 335,400 people located 382 kilometers (about 235 miles) south of Moscow. The Russian word Oryol means "eagle".

Russia is divided into many regions, called oblasts. Oryol is the main city of the Orlovskaya oblast. There are 875,800 people in the oblast.