where is yoshkar-ola located in russia?

Answer 1

About 300 km (200 miles) to the north-west from Kazan, and 400 km (250 miles) to the east from Nizhny Novgorod (or about a thousand km to the east from Moscow).

It's the capital of autonomous republic Mari El

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Answer 2

I am not russian. I do not know.