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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.
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.
Chita (Russian: Чита, IPA:) is a city and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway route, [8] roughly 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) east of Irkutsk and roughly 2,100 kilometers (1,300 mi) west of Khabarovsk.
Zima railway station. The village of Staraya Zima (Ста́рая Зима́) on the present site of the town was established in 1743. [citation needed] In 1772, its population began to grow more quickly due to the construction of a horse-tract from Moscow which crossed the Oka River.
Some larger subjects have multiple three-digit prefixes. For instance, Moscow's postal codes fall in the range 101–129. Larger cities/towns have a "pochtamt" (Russian: почтамт, from German Postamt), or a main post office, which is assigned the main postal code for the city. For instance Moscow's pochtamt has a postal code of 101000.
The city is known for its natural landscape; author Anton Chekhov judged Krasnoyarsk to be the most beautiful city in Siberia. [22] The Stolby Nature Sanctuary is located 10 km south of the city. Krasnoyarsk is a major educational centre in Siberia, and hosts the Siberian Federal University .
Novosibirsk [a] is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, [21] making it the most populous city in Siberia and the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Tyumen is often regarded as the first Siberian city, from the western direction. [14] Tyumen was the first Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 1586 to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east of the Ural Mountains. Located at the junction of several important ...