What is "oryol"

Oryol or Orel (, lit. eagle) is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow. Population:

At least five ships of the Imperial Russian Navy have been named Oryol (Eagle). The name is often rendered in English-language sources as Orel, but this is a bad transliteration of the Cyrillic.

• - frigate destroyed at Astrakhan by rebels in 1670

• - 74-gun ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was scrapped in 1833

• - 74-gun ship of the line scrapped in 1848

• - 84-gun ship of the line converted to steam power while still under construction

• - pre-dreadnought battleship captured by Japan during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905