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English name Russian name Meaning and notes Moscow: Москва Moskva: From the Moskva River. See Etymology of Moscow: St. Petersburg: Санкт-Петербург Sankt-Peterburg: Named by Emperor Peter the Great after his patron saint (German: Sankt "saint" and Burg "fortress"). Soviet-era name Leningrad is still retained in the name of ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
This is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin.Some or all of the locations in former Soviet republics and satellites were renamed (frequently reverting to pre-Soviet names) after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the names of the thousands of streets, avenues, squares ...
a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
The oblast was named after the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). The oblast has an area of 84,500 square kilometers (32,600 sq mi) and a population of 1,716,868 (2010 Census); [1] up from 1,669,205 recorded in the 2002 Census. [2] The most populous town of the oblast is Gatchina, with 88,659 inhabitants (as of the 2002 Census). [2
Pages in category "Cities and towns in Leningrad Oblast" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities. Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.