List of city name changes in Russia and Soviet Union

Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country. Some names are changed locally but the new names are not recognised by other countries,...

in Russia were

a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

after the October Revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

of 1917
more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

due to political reasons
in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated on the Baltic coast. It has a population of The oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia. Since its creation it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then the...

exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
soon after the reconquest of Southern Sakhalin
Sakhalin
Sakhalin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast...

in 1945, Japanese placenames were replaced with Russian ones.
Circa 1972-73, many Chinese or Chinese-sounding place names in the Russian Far East
Russian Far East
Russian Far East is a term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i.e., extreme east parts of Russia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean...

were replaced with Russian-sounding ones
in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the disintegration of the federal political structures and central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , resulting in the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union between March 11, 1990 and December 25, 1991...

, renamings (often for restoration of original names) happened

In the list below sometimes the year of renaming appears in brackets after the new name.

Abinsky → Abinsk
Abinsk
Abinsk , known as Abinsky before 1963, is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located southwest of Krasnodar. Population: 23,000 ....

(1963)
Adygeysk (1969) → Teuchezhsk (1976) → Adygeysk
Adygeysk
Adygeysk is a town in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located near Krasnodar Reservoir, northwest of Maykop, the capital of the republic. The town is in direct jurisdiction of the republic. Population: -History:...

(1992)
Aksayskaya → Aksaysk
Alexandria (1838) → Dakhovsky (1864) → Dakhovsky Posad (1874) → Sochi
Sochi
Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...

(1896)
Alexandrovsk (1896) → Polyarny (1939)
Alexandrovskaya → Alexandrovka → Alexandrovsky (1917) → Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located near the Tatar Strait on the western shores of Northern Sakhalin at the foot of the Western Sakhalin Mountains. Population: 21,000 . It was known as during Japanese occupation between 1918-1925.-History:A settlement called...

(1926)
Alexandrovskoye (1860) → Alexandrovka (1926) → Krasnopartizansk (1931) → Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya (1936) → Belogorsk
Belogorsk, Amur Oblast
Belogorsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River, a tributary of the Zeya. Population: 67,400 ; 53,000 ; 34,000 .-History:...

(1957)
Alexeyevsk (1912) → Svobodny
Svobodny, Amur Oblast
Svobodny is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 58,730 ; 63,889 ; -Geography:The town is located north of Blagoveshchensk on the right bank of the Zeya River.-History:...

(1917)
Almetyevo → Almetyevsk
Almetyevsk
Almetyevsk , also spelled Almat and Elmet, is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Zay River southeast of Kazan. Population: 77,000 ; 49,000 ....
Antrea → Kamennogorsk
Kamennogorsk
Kamennogorsk , known as Antrea before 1948, is a town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus on the left bank of the Vuoksa River northwest of St. Petersburg...

(1948)
Apsheronskaya (1863) → Apsheronsk
Apsheronsk
Apsheronsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Pshekha River . Population: 33,400 .It was founded in 1863 as the stanitsa of Apsheronskaya .The town's main industries are forestry and woodworking....

(1947)
Armyansky Aul (1839) → Armavir (1848)
Arzamas-16 (1946) → Kremlyov (1991) → Sarov
Sarov
Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ., while from 1946 to 1991 it was called Arzamas-16 . The town is off limits to foreigners as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. Population: -History:The history of the town can be divided...

(1995)
Astapovo → Lev Tolstoy (settlement)
Lev Tolstoy (settlement)
Lev Tolstoy is a settlement in the northern part of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District. Population: 8,800 ; 9,035 ; 9,139 ....

(1918)
Balanda → Kalininsk (1962)
Bashanta → Gorodovikovsk
Gorodovikovsk
Gorodovikovsk is a town and the administrative center of Gorodovikovsky District of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia, located on the Bashantenon River, west of Elista. Population:...

(1971)
Batalpashinkaya (1804) → Batalpashinsk (1931) → Sulimov (1934) → Yezhovo-Cherkessk (1937) → Cherkessk
Cherkessk
Cherkessk is the capital city of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, as well as its political, economic, and cultural center. Population: 121,439 ; 116,244 ; -History:...

(1939)
Beloozero (862) → Belozersk
Belozersk
Belozersk , known as Beloozero until 1777 , is a town and the administrative center of Belozersky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Beloye, from which it takes the name...

(1777)
Belorechenskaya (1863) → Belorechensk
Belorechensk, Krasnodar Krai
Belorechensk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the Belaya River, from which it takes its name. Population: It was established as a Cossack settlement in 1863. Town status was granted to it in 1958. During the Soviet era, a corrective labor camp was located here.-External links:*...

(1958)
Beloretsk → Mezhgorye
Mezhgorye
Mezhgorye may refer to:*Mezhgorye, Republic of Bashkortostan, a closed town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia*Mezhgorye, Primorsky Krai, a village in Primorsky Krai, Russia...

(1995)
Belotsarsk (1914) → Khem-Beldyr (1918) → Kyzyl
Kyzyl
-External links:*** in Kyzyl, Russia*...

(1926)
Bikinskaya → Bikin
Biryuch → Budyonny → Krasnogvardeyskoye → Biryuch
Biryuch
Biryuch is a town and the administrative center of Krasnogvardeysky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Tikhaya Sosna River. Population:...

(2007)
Bobriki → Donskoy
Donskoy, Tula Oblast
Donskoy is a town in Tula Oblast, Russia, located in the upper streams of the Don River, southeast of Tula. Population: It was granted town status in 1939.-External links:...
Bobriki → Stalinogorsk (1934) → Novomoskovsk
Novomoskovsk, Russia
Novomoskovsk , called Bobriki before 1934 and Stalinogorsk between 1934 and 1961, is a city in Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers. Population: 143,000 ; 107,000 ; 76,000 ....

(1961)
Bogdanovo → Spassk → Bednodemyanovsk → Spassk
Spassk, Penza Oblast
Spassk is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District of Penza Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:In 1648, an uncultivated field was discovered in Shatsky Uyezd and was given to a nearby Savior monastery. In 1663, a village was established there, called Bogdanovo. In 1779, it was...

(2005)
Bolokhovsky → Bolokhovo
Bolokhovo
Bolokhovo is a town in Kireyevsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Olen River , southeast of Tula. Population: It was granted town status in 1943....
Bondyuzhsk → Mendeleyevsk
Mendeleyevsk
Mendeleyevsk is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Toyma River, east of Kazan. Population:...
Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor (1938)
Beryozovskoye → Björkö → Koivisto → Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
Primorsk is a coastal town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, and the largest Russian port on the Baltic. It is located on the Karelian Isthmus, west of St. Petersburg, at the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, near Birch Islands, protected as a sea bird sanctuary...

(1948)
Chegem Pervy → Chegem
Chegem
Chegem is a town and the administrative center of Chegemsky District of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located north of Nalchik, at the elevation of about . Population:...
Chembar → Belinsky
Belinsky (town)
Belinsky is a town and the administrative center of Belinsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Bolshoy and Maly Chembar Rivers, west of Penza. Population:...

(1948)
Chertanla → Novyy Uzen' (1835) → Novouzensk
Novouzensk
Novouzensk is a town and the administrative center of Novouzensky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Bolshoy Uzen River at its confluence with the Chertanly River, southeast of Saratov. Population:...
Chesnokovka → Novoaltaysk
Novoaltaysk
Novoaltaysk , known as Chesnokovka before 1962, is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Ob River across from Barnaul. Population: 51,000 ; 9,000 ....

(1962)
Chelyabinsk-40 (1945) → Chelyabinsk-65 → Ozyorsk
Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
Ozyorsk or Ozersk is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded on the shore of the Irtyash Lake in 1945...

(1994)
Chelyabinsk-70 → Snezhinsk
Snezhinsk
Snezhinsk is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1957, and was known as Chelyabinsk-70 until 1991...

(1991)
Chibyu (1929) → Ukhta
Ukhta
Ukhta is an important industrial town in the Komi Republic of Russia. Population: Oil springs along the Ukhta River were already known in the 17th century. In the mid-19th century, industrialist M. K. Sidorov started to drill for oil in this area. It was one of the first oil wells in...

(1939)
Chinnay → Krasnogorsk
Cranz → Zelenogradsk
Zelenogradsk
Zelenogradsk, is a town and the administrative center of Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, Located on the Sambian coastline near the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea...

(1945)
Darkehmen → Angerapp (1938) → Ozyorsk
Ozyorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Ozyorsk is a town and the administrative center of Ozyorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Angrapa River, southeast of Chernyakhovsk near the border with the Polish Warmia-Masuria Voivodship. Population: -Notable residents:...

(1945)
Dmitriyev → Dmitriyev-na-Svape → Dmitriyev
Dmitrovka → Dmitrovsk → Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky → Dmitrovsk
Dmitrovsk
Dmitrovsk is a town and the administrative center of Dmitrovsky District of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Obshcheritsa River near its confluence with the Nerussa, southwest of Oryol. Population:...

(2005)
Dokshukino (1913) → Nartkala
Nartkala
Nartkala is a town and the administrative center of Urvansky District of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located northeast of Nalchik. Population:...

(1967)
Dolgoprudny → Dirizhablstroy → Dolgoprudny
Dolgoprudny
Dolgoprudny is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about north of Moscow city center. The town's name is derived from Russian "" —a long and narrow pond situated in the northeastern part of the town. The town's name is sometimes colloquially shortened as Dolgopa. Population:...
Dvigatelstroy → Kaspiysk
Kaspiysk
Kaspiysk , until 1947 known as Dvigatelstroy , is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea, southeast of Makhachkala. Population: 43,000 ....

(1947)
Dzerzhinsky → Sorsk
Sorsk
Sorsk is a town in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located northwest of Abakan. Population: It was founded as the work settlement of Dzerzhinsky in the 1940s. It was renamed Sorsk and granted town status in 1966....

(1966)
Elektroperedacha → Elektrogorsk
Elektrogorsk
Elektrogorsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east from Moscow. Population: Elektrogorsk was founded in 1912 due to the construction of the first big peat-fired thermal power station in Russia, which would be called Elektroperedacha . The settlement was named after the power station...

(1946)
Enso (1887) → Svetogorsk
Svetogorsk
Svetogorsk is an industrial town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus, on the Vuoksa River. It is located one kilometer from the Russian–Finnish border, five kilometers from the Finnish town of Imatra, and 207 kilometers from St. Petersburg...

(1948)
Esutoru → Uglegorsk
Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast
Uglegorsk is a coastal port town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the western coast of Sakhalin 359 km west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population: 13,396 ; 18,402 .-History:...

(1946)
Fischhausen → Primorsk
Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Primorsk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Fischhausen, is an urban locality in Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Vistula Lagoon. Population:...

(1946)
Friedland → Pravdinsk
Pravdinsk
Pravdinsk is a town and the administrative center of Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Lava River, approximately east of Bagrationovsk...

(1946)
Galkino-Vrasskoye (1884) → Ochiai (1905) → Dolinsk
Dolinsk
Dolinsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Dolinsky District. In Japanese, it is known as Ochiai . Population: 12,555 ; 15,653 .-Geography:...

(1946)
Goly Karamysh → Baltser → Krasnoarmeysk
Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov Oblast
Krasnoarmeysk is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located south of Saratov. Population: It was founded in 1764—1766 as the German colony of Baltser . The other name of the colony was Goly Karamysh , after the river on which it was located. In 1914, the settlement was officially renamed Goly...

(1942)
Gorodetsk → Bezhetsk
Bezhetsk
Bezhetsk is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina River. It serves as the administrative center of Bezhetsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population: 29,000 ....

(1766)
Gorodok → Zakamensk
Zakamensk
Zakamensk is a town and the administrative center of Zakamensky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Dzhida River southwest of Ulan-Ude and from the Mongolian border. Population: -History:...

(1959)
Grushyovskaya → Gornoye Grushyovskoye → Alexandrovsk-Grushyovsky → Shakhty
Shakhty
Shakhty is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the southeastern spur of Donetsk mountain ridge, northeast of Rostov-on-Don. Its population was 240,152 per the preliminary results of the 2010 Census; up from 222,592 recorded in the 2002 Census....

(1921)
Gukovsky → Gukovo
Gukovo
Gukovo is a mining town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located close to the border with Ukraine. Population: At , Gukovo is the highest elevated town in Rostov Oblast.Gukovo is also notable for being one of the few rally-racing clubs in the south of Russia....
Gumbinnen → Gusev
Gusev
Gusev is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. Population: -History:...
Gundorovka → Donetsk
Donetsk, Russia
Donetsk , known as Gundorovka until 1955, is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River. Population: 38,000 ....
Gzhatsk → Gagarin
Heiliegenbeil → Mamonovo
Mamonovo
Mamonovo , prior to 1945 known by its German name Heiligenbeil, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: Mamonovo is named after a Soviet Commander, Nikolai Vasilyevich Mamonov , killed in action near Pułtusk on 26 October 1944, who was posthumously given the title Hero of the Soviet...
Heinrichswalde → Slavsk
Slavsk
Slavsk, prior to 1945 known by its German name Heinrichswalde, is a town and the administrative center of Slavsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located to the west of Sovetsk. The town has a railway station on the Sovetsk-Kaliningrad railroad. Population:...
Iletskaya Zashchita → Iletsk → Iletskoye → Iletskaya Zashchita → Sol-Iletsk
Sol-Iletsk
Sol-Iletsk is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Ilek River , south of Orenburg. Population: 22,000 ; 11,802 ....
Iman → Dalnerechensk
Dalnerechensk
Dalnerechensk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: It was originally known as Iman , but its Russian name was changed to Dalnerechensk in 1972, as part of a general campaign of asserting Soviet sovereignty in the region...
Insterburg → Chernyakhovsk
Chernyakhovsk
Chernyakhovsk is a town and the administrative center of Chernyakhovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Instruch and the Angrapa Rivers, forming the Pregolya...
Ivanovo-Voznesensk → Ivanovo
Izhevsky Zavod → Izhevsk → Ustinov → Izhevsk
Izhevsk
Izhevsk is the capital city of the Udmurt Republic, Russia, situated on the Izh River in the Western Urals. Population: From 1984 to 1987 Izhevsk carried the name Ustinov |Minister of Defense of the USSR]], Marshal of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Ustinov). The city is an important industrial center,...
Izhma → Sosnogorsk
Sosnogorsk
Sosnogorsk is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Izhma River. Population: Municipally, it is incorporated as Sosnogorsk Municipal District ....
Kainsk → Kuybyshev
Kalata → Kirovgrad
Kirovgrad
Kirovgrad is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:The settlement Kalatay was, according to various sources, founded in 1661, 1663, or 1675...
Kaliningrad → Korolyov
Korolyov (city)
Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration. It was originally founded as Kaliningrad in 1938 by Vasily Boldyrev, Naum Nosovsky, and Mikhail Loginov as the leading Soviet center for production of anti-tank...
Kamen → Kamen-na-Obi
Kamen-na-Obi
Kamen-na-Obi , known until 1933 as Kamen , is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ob River northwest of Barnaul. Population: 36,000 ....
Kamenskaya → Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky is a town in Rostov Oblast, located on the Seversky Donets River. It was founded by Cossack settlers in 1686 and was granted town status in 1927...
Kamensky Zavod → Kamensk-Uralsky
Kamensk-Uralsky
Kamensk-Uralsky is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset Rivers . Population: 173,000 ; 51,000 .The mayor of the city is Mikhail Astakhov.-History:...
Kamyshin → Dmitriyevsk → Kamyshin
Kamyshin
Kamyshin is a city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir of the Volga River, in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River. Population: 101,000 ; 24,000 ....
Kasivabora → Severo-Kurilsk
Severo-Kurilsk
Severo-Kurilsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is situated in the northern part of the Kuril Islands, on the island of Paramushir. Population: 2,592 ; 5,180 .-History:...
Kaspiysky → Lagan
Lagan, Russia
Lagan is a town and the administrative center of Lagansky District of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia, located a few kilometers from the Caspian Sea. Population: In terms of population, it is the second biggest town in the republic after the capital Elista.The town was founded in 1870. Town...
Khabarovka → Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...
Kharovsky → Kharovsk
Kharovsk
Kharovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kharovsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the Kubena River north of Vologda. Kharovsk also serves as the administrative center of Kharovsky Selsoviet which it is administratively not part of. Municipally, it is incorporated as a...
Khibinogorsk → Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
Kirovsk , known as Khibinogorsk until 1934, is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the spurs of the Khibiny Massif on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr, south of Murmansk...
Khlynov → Vyatka → Kirov
Kirov, Kirov Oblast
Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...
Khonto → Nevelsk
Nevelsk
Nevelsk is a port town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Population 18,639 .-Geography:The town is located on the southwest coast of Sakhalin, 123 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the Sea of Japan.-History:...
Khotchino → Gatchina → Trotsk (1923) → Krasnogvardeysk (1929) → Gatchina
Gatchina
Gatchina is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of St. Petersburg by the road leading to Pskov...

(1944)
Khrushchyovskaya → Uzlovaya
Uzlovaya
Uzlovaya is a town and the administrative center of Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1873 as a railway station Khrushchyovskaya . It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877, and granted town status in 1938. The station connects three important railway directions:...
Kiyskoye → Mariinsk
Mariinsk
Mariinsk is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Kiya River northeast of Kemerovo. Population: 39,700 .It was founded in the 18th century as the village of Kiyskoye . In 1856, it was granted town status and renamed Mariinsk after Empress Maria, consort of Alexander II, one...
Kodinsky → Kodinsk
Kodinsk
Kodinsk is a town and the administrative center of Kezhemsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Angara River, north of Krasnoyarsk. Population:...
Kolchugino → Lenino → Leninsk-Kuznetsky
Leninsk-Kuznetsky
Leninsk-Kuznetsky , known as Kolchugino until 1925, is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Inya River . Population: 128,000 ; 83,000 ; 20,000 ....
Komsomolsky → Yugorsk
Yugorsk
Yugorsk is a town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated in the northwestern part of the East-West lowland, from Khanty-Mansiysk. Population: Area: . Postal code: 628260. International dialing code: 34675....
Korela → Keksgolm → Priozyorsk
Korsakovsky Post → Otomari → Korsakov
Korsakov (town)
Korsakov is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Korsakovsky District. Population: 35,079 ; The town is located some south from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, on the coast of the Salmon Cove in the Aniva Bay.-History:Little is known...
Kozlov → Michurinsk
Michurinsk
Michurinsk , before 1932—Kozlov , is the second most populous town in Tambov Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1635 at the northern end of the emerging Belgorod Line. A 25-km earthen wall was built eastward across the open steppe effectively blocking the Nogai Trail, a Tatar raiding...
Königsberg → Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...
Krasnaya Sloboda → Krasnoslobodsk
Krasnoslobodsk, Volgograd Oblast
Krasnoslobodsk is a town in Sredneakhtubinsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River across from Volgograd. Population:...
Krasnoflotsky → Krasnoarmeysky → Krasnoarmeysk
Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Oblast
Krasnoarmeysk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Vorya River northeast of Moscow. Population: The town grew from the village of Muromtsevo , where a textile factory was established in 1834...
Krasnoyarsk-26 → Zheleznogorsk
Kremlyov → Sarov
Sarov
Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ., while from 1946 to 1991 it was called Arzamas-16 . The town is off limits to foreigners as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. Population: -History:The history of the town can be divided...
Krestov Brod → Roshal
Roshal (town)
Roshal is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Voymega River east of Moscow. Population: Roshal was founded in 1916 as a settlement of Krestov Brod . It was renamed Roshal in 1917 in honor of a Bolshevik Semyon Roshal and granted town status in 1940....
Kseniyevsky → Asino
Asino
Asino is a town and the administrative center of Asinovsky District of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:It was founded in 1896 as Kseniyevsky transmigratory settlement; in 1930 the construction of the railway Tomsk–Kseniyevskoye started...
Kudelka → Asbest
Asbest
Asbest is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Reft River on the eastern slopes of the Urals, northeast of Yekaterinburg. Population: Postal code: 624260. International dialing code: +7 ....
Kukarka → Sovetsk
Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast
Sovetsk , formerly Kukarka , is a town and the administrative center of Sovetsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia. Population: In the 12th century, Kukarka was a capital of the local principality of Chumbylat, a renowned Mari leader and warrior. The town was occupied in 1594 by Russians during...
Kurgannaya → Kurganinsk
Kurganinsk
Kurganinsk is a town and the administrative center of Kurganinsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Bolshaya Laba River east of Krasnodar. Population:...
Kushvinsky Zavod → Kushva
Kushva
Kushva is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated in the Ural Mountains near Yekaterinburg. Population: -History:Originally a mining town founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its iron ore deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod ...
Kuznetsk → Novokuznetsk → Stalinsk → Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It serves as the administrative center of Novokuznetsky District, but it is not administratively a part of it...
Kuznetsovo → Konakovo
Konakovo
Konakovo is a town and the administrative center of Konakovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of Ivankovo Reservoir . Population: It was founded in 1806 and was granted town status in 1937....
Labiau → Polessk
Polessk
Polessk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Labiau is a town and the administrative center of Polessky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: 4,744 ....
Labinskaya → Labinsk
Labinsk
Labinsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Bolshaya Laba River southeast of Krasnodar and southwest of Armavir. Population: 53,000 .-History:...
Lakinsky → Lakinsk
Lakinsk
Lakinsk is a town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Klyazma River, southwest of Vladimir. Population: Lakinsk grew out of the village Undol , which was in the same area as the modern town and is documented as far back as the end of the 15th century. In 1889, a...
Laptevo → Yasnogorsk
Yasnogorsk, Tula Oblast
Yasnogorsk is a town and the administrative center of Yasnogorsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Vashana River , north of Tula. Population:...
Lazdinay → Lazdenen → Krasnoznamensk
Lermontovsky → Lermontov
Likhvin → Chekalin
Chekalin
Chekalin , formerly known as Likhvin is a town in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River. Population: It is the least populous inhabited locality in Russia with the town status....
Lopasnya → Chyornoye Ozero → Chekhov
Chekhov, Moscow Oblast
Chekhov is a town and the administrative center of Chekhovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. Before 1954, it was named Lopasnya , after the Lopasnya River. Population: 56,000 ....
Losinaya Sloboda → Losino-Petrovsky
Losino-Petrovsky
Losino-Petrovsky is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Vorya and Klyazma Rivers northeast of Moscow. Population:...
Lyantorsky → Lyantor
Lyantor
Lyantor is a town in Surgutsky District of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Pim River , northeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. Population:...
Lyutoga → Rudaka → Aniva
Aniva
Aniva is a coastal town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Aniva Bay in southern Sakhalin on the Lyutoga River 37 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population: 8,084 ; 8,905 .-History:...
Maoka (Mauka) → Kholmsk
Kholmsk
Kholmsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Kholmsky District. Population: 35,141 .-History:The town was founded in 1870 as a military post. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the town was transferred to Japanese control, along with the rest of southern...
Mechetnaya → Nikolayevsk → Pugachyov
Pugachyov
Pugachyov is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Irgiz River , northeast of Saratov. Population: It was founded as the sloboda of Mechetnaya in 1764 by Old Believers who returned from Poland. In 1835, it was granted town status and renamed Nikolayevsk , after the ruling Tsar...
Medvezhyya Gora → Medvezhyegorsk
Medvezhyegorsk
Medvezhyegorsk , formerly known as Medvezhya Gora and Karhumäki, is a town and the administrative center of Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Population: 15,800 ....
Melekess → Dimitrovgrad
Dimitrovgrad
Dimitrovgrad is the name of three towns in Europe:* Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria* Dimitrovgrad, Russia* Dimitrovgrad, SerbiaAll three were named after Georgi Dimitrov....
Mikhaylovskoye → Shpakovskoye → Mikhaylovsk
Mikhaylovsk, Stavropol Krai
Mikhaylovsk is a town and the administrative center of Shpakovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located along the Tashla River, northeast of Stavropol...
Mikhaylovsky Zavod → Mikhaylovsk
Mikhaylovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Mikhaylovsk is a town in Nizhneserginsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Mikhaylovsky Pond southwest of Yekaterinburg. Population:...
Mikoyan-Shakhar → Klukhori → Karachayevsk
Karachayevsk
Karachayevsk is a town in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, located on the Kuban River in the Caucasus Mountains. Population: It was founded in 1929 as Georgievskoye and was soon renamed after Anastas Mikoyan as Mikoyan-Shahar...
Mukhtuya → Lensk
Lensk
Lensk is a town and the administrative center of Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, approximately west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. Population: -History:...
Muravlenkovsky → Muravlenko
Muravlenko
Muravlenko is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located southeast of Salekhard. Population: It was founded as the oil-extracting settlement of Muravlenkovsky in 1984. It was granted town status on August 6, 1990....
Mysovaya → Mysovsk → Babushkin
Naberezhnye Chelny → Brezhnev → Naberezhnye Chelny
Naberezhnye Chelny
Naberezhnye Chelny is the second largest city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.A major industrial center, Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River some 225 km east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoir. It serves as the administrative center of Tukayevsky District, although it is not...
Nadezhdinsk → Kabakovsk → Nadezhdinsk → Serov
Naykhoro → Gornozavodsk
Nazyvayevskaya → Nazyvayevka → Nazyvayevsk
Nazyvayevsk
Nazyvayevsk is a town in Omsk Oblast, Russia, located west of Omsk. Population: It is a transfer point on the northern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway between the Western Siberian and Sverdlovsk railroads....
Neuhausen → Guryevsk
Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Guryevsk is a town and the administrative center of Guryevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
Nevdubstroy → Kirovsk
Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast
Kirovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Neva River, east of St. Petersburg. Population:...
Nevyansky Zavod → Nevyansk
Nevyansk
Nevyansk is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Neyva River on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 29,800 ....
Nezametny → Aldan
Aldan, Russia
Aldan is a gold-mining town and the administrative center of Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: -Geography:Aldan is situated in the Aldan highlands, about south of the republic's capital of Yakutsk in the Aldan River basin, on the stream Orto-Sala near its mouth in the...
Nikolayevsky → Nikolayevsk → Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
Nikolo-Pestrovka → Nikolo-Pestrovsky → Nikolsk
Nikolsk, Penza Oblast
Nikolsk is a town and the administrative center of Nikolsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyrgan River northeast of Penza. Population:...
Nikolskoye → Nikolsk → Nikolsk-Ussuriysky → Voroshilov → Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the fertile valley of the Razdolnaya River, north of Vladivostok and about from both the Chinese border and the Pacific Ocean. Population: -Medieval history:...
Nikolsky Khutor → Sursk
Sursk
Sursk is a town in Gorodishchensky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sura River, east of Penza. Population:...
Nizhnetagilsky Zavod → Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...
Nizhnevartovsky → Nizhnevartovsk
Nizhnevartovsk
Nizhnevartovsk is the second largest city in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located along the right bank of the Ob River. Population: 251,860 ; 239,044 ;...
Nizhnevolzhsk → Narimanov
Nizhny Novgorod → Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...
Noda → Chekhov → Chekhovo
Chekhovo, Sakhalin Oblast
Chekhovo is a village in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, at the Strait of Tartary. Population: 4,944 ; 7,901 .Before 1946 it was named Noda . It was granted town status and renamed Chekhov in 1947. It was demoted to village in 2004 , and changed its name to Chekhovo....

(2004)
Nolinsk → Molotovsk → Nolinsk
Nolinsk
Nolinsk is a town and the administrative center of Nolinsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Voya River , south of Kirov. Population:...
Novaya Derevnya → Alexandrovsky → Novonikolayevsky → Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
Novaya Pokrovka → Svoboda (1943) → Liski → Georgiu-Dezh (1965) → Liski
Liski
Liski is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka in 1571 and renamed Svoboda in 1943, and after a period again as Liski, the city was renamed Georgiu-Dezh in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again...

(1990)
Novgorod → Veliky Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod is one of Russia's most historic cities and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast. It is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg. The city lies along the Volkhov River just below its outflow from Lake Ilmen...

(1998)
Novo-Mariinsk → Anadyr
Anadyr (town)
Anadyr is a port town and the administrative centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. It is at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman...
Novoalexandrovskaya → Novoalexandrovsk
Novoalexandrovsk
Novoalexandrovsk is a town and the administrative center of Novoalexandrovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the bank of the Rasshevatka River, southwest of Stavropol. Population:...
Novokuybyshevsky → Novokuybyshevsk
Novokuybyshevsk
Novokuybyshevsk is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the western bank of the Volga River, away from it. Population: Established in 1946, it was granted town status in 1952...
Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
Novopavlovskaya → Novopavlovsk
Novopavlovsk
Novopavlovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kirovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kura River. Population: It was founded in 1777....
Novotroitsk → Baley
Baley
Baley is a town and the administrative center of Baleysky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Unda River east of Chita...
Novovoronezhsky → Novovoronezh
Novovoronezh
Novovoronezh is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Don River south of Voronezh. The Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant is located there. Population: -External links:**...
Novy Zay → Zainsk
Zainsk
Zainsk is a town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Stepnoy Zay River , east of Kazan. It serves as the administrative center of Zainsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:...
Novyye Petushki → Petushki
Petushki
Petushki is a town and the administrative center of Petushinsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Klyazma River, west of Vladimir on the Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod railway and motorway. Population:...
Nyakh → Nyagan
Nyagan
Nyagan is a town in the northwestern part of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated near the Ob River and northwest of Khanty-Mansiysk. It is named after the Nyagan-Yugan River, a tributary of the Ob River. Population: -Economy and history:...
Obdorsk → Salekhard
Salekhard
-International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Salekhard is twinned with:*Azov, Rostov Oblast, Russia-External links:*...
Olensk → Vilyuysk
Vilyuysk
Vilyuysk is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about from Yakutsk on the Vilyuy River...
Olkhovsky → Artyomovsk
Artyomovsk
Artyomovsk is a town in Kuraginsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of Krasnoyarsk. Population: It was founded in 1700 as the settlement of Olkhovka . In 1860, it was referred to as a mining settlement of Olkhovsky . It was granted town status in 1939....
Olzheras → Mezhdurechensk
Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast
Mezhdurechensk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: -Administrative and municipal status:Administratively, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Mezhdurechensk—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts.Municipally, the territories of the...
Omutninsky Zavod → Omutninsk
Omutninsk
Omutninsk is a town and the administrative center of Omutninsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia. Population: It was first mentioned in 1773; town status was granted to it in 1921.The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is situated near Omutninsk...
Oraniyenbaum → Lomonosov
Lomonosov, Russia
Lomonosov is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg proper. Population:...
Orenburg → Chkalov → Orenburg
Orenburg
Orenburg is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies southeast of Moscow, very close to the border with Kazakhstan. Population: 546,987 ; 549,361 ; Highest point: 154.4 m...
Oreshek → Nöteborg → Shlisselburg → Petrokrepost → Shlisselburg
Shlisselburg
Shlisselburg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. From 1944 to 1992, it was known as Petrokrepost...
Orlov → Khalturin → Orlov
Orlov, Russia
Orlov is a town and the administrative center of Orlovsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Vyatka River, west of Kirov. Population: It was first mentioned in 1459. Town status was granted to it in 1780...
Osinovka → Osinniki
Osinniki
Osinniki , known until 1938 as Osinovka , is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population:...
Ostyako-Vogulsk → Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...
Pavlovo → Pavlovsky Posad
Pavlovsky Posad
Pavlovsky Posad is a town and the administrative center of Pavlovo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located from Moscow, at the confluence of the Klyazma and the Vokhna Rivers. Population: The Moscow–Vladimir railway goes through the town....
Pavlovsk → Slutsk → Pavlovsk
Pechory → Petseri → Pechory
Pechory
Pechory : Petseri; ) is a town and the administrative center of Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Population: The population includes a few hundred ethnic Estonians.The town is famous for the Russian Orthodox Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery....
Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky → Ryazan
Ryazan
Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...
Perm → Molotov → Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
Permskoye → Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Pervomaysky → Novodvinsk
Novodvinsk
Novodvinsk is a town in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River, south of Arkhangelsk. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance , while municipally, it is incorporated as Novodvinsk Urban Okrug...
Pesochnya → Kirov
Kirov, Kaluga Oblast
Kirov , formerly known as Pesochnya , is a town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolva River southwest of Kaluga. Population: 31,888 ; 38,893 ; 29,000 . It is home to Shaykovka air base....
Peterhof → Petrodvorets → Petergof
Petropavlovsky → Petropavlovsky Port → Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the main city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Population: .-History:It was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering, in the service of the Russian Navy...
Petropavlovsky → Severouralsk
Severouralsk
Severouralsk in the Northern Urals) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vagran River at its confluence with the Kolonga River, north of Yekaterinburg. Population: The town is served by Severouralsk Airport....
Petrovskoye → Petrovsk-Port → Makhachkala
Makhachkala
-Twin towns/sister cities:Makhachkala is twinned with: Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Spokane, United States Vladikavkaz, Russia Yalova, Turkey Ndola, Zambia-See also:*...
Petrovskoye → Svetlograd
Svetlograd
Svetlograd is a town and the administrative center of Petrovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Kalaus River, northeast of Stavropol. Population:...
Petrovsky Zavod → Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
Pillau → Baltiysk
Baltiysk
Baltiysk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Pillau , is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, located on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Bay from the Gdańsk Bay. Baltiysk...
Pokrovskaya → Pokrovsk → Engels
Engels (city)
Engels is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River, located across from Saratov and connected to it with a bridge . Population: 163,000 ; 130,000 ; 91,000 ; 22,000 ....
Pokrovskoye → Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk, Sakha Republic
Pokrovsk is a town in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, southwest of Yakutsk. Population: -Geography:...
Porechye → Demidov
Poshekhonye → Poshekhonye-Volodarsk → Poshekhonye
Poshekhonye
Poshekhonye is a town and the administrative center of Poshekhonsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Yaroslavl. It stands on the Sogozha River . Population:...
Prishib → Leninsk
Leninsk, Volgograd Oblast
Leninsk is a town and the administrative center of Leninsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River east of Volgograd. Population:...
Protva → Zhukov
Zhukov (town)
Zhukov is a town and the administrative center of Zhukovsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Ugodka River northwest of Kaluga. Population:...
Pryoysish-Elau → Bagrationovsk
Bagrationovsk
Bagrationovsk is a town and the administrative center of Bagrationovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
Pyora → Gondatti → Vladimiro-Shimanovsky → Shimanovsk
Shimanovsk
Shimanovsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 22,267 .-Geography:Shimanovsk is located on the Bolshaya Pyora River, a right-hand tributary of the Zeya, some 250 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk.-History:...
Raduga → Vladimir-30 → Raduzhny
Raduzhny, Vladimir Oblast
Raduzhny is a closed town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Pol, Buzha, and Uzhbol Rivers, south of Vladimir. Population: It was established in 1971 as a settlement for the workers of a defense industry design bureau. In 1977, it was granted work settlement status and named Vladimir-30...
Ragnit → Neman
Neman (town)
Neman is a town and the administrative center of Nemansky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the historic Prussia region, east of the town of Sovetsk, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it currently forms the border with the Klaipėda Region in...
Ranenburg → Chaplygin
Chaplygin
Chaplygin or Chaplygina may refer to:*Aleksey Pavlovich Chaplygin, russian writer*Sergey Chaplygin , Russian Soviet physicist**Chaplygin , a lunar crater named after him...
Rastyapino → Dzerzhinsk
Dzerzhinsk, Russia
Dzerzhinsk is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, situated along the Oka River, about east of Moscow. Population: The city is named after Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, a Polish Bolshevik leader who was the first head of the Cheka ....
Rauschen → Svetlogorsk
Svetlogorsk
Svetlogorsk may refer to one of the following:*Śvietłahorsk, a city in Belarus*Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia*Svetlogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, an urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia...
Raychikha → Raychikhinsk
Raychikhinsk
Raychikhinsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. 2002 population—24,498.-Geography:Raychikhinsk lies in the Zeya-Bureya basin in the Russian Far East, around 40 km from the Amur River and the border to China...
Romanov-Borisoglebsk → Tutayev
Tutayev
Tutayev is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Population: Before 1918, the settlement was called Romanov-Borisoglebsk , and before 1822, when an order of the Tsar united them, there were two separate towns: Romanov and Borisoglebsk . Romanov has existed since the 14th century and...
Romanov-na-Murmane → Murmansk
Murmansk
Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...

(1917)
Romanovsky → Kropotkin
Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai
Kropotkin is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuban River. Population: 70,000 ; 42,000 ; 27,000 ....
Saint Petersburg (1703) → Petrograd (1914) → Leningrad (1924) → Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg)
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

(1991)
Samara → Kuybyshev → Samara
Samara, Russia
Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...
Selyutora → Siritoru → Makarov
Semyonovka → Arsenyev
Arsenyev
Arsenyev is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located about northeast of Vladivostok. Population: -History:The history of Arsenyev begins in 1895, when the settlement of Semyonovka was founded. The first settlement dwellers were the Old Believers. In 1901 the migrant peasants from what is now...
Serdobol → Sortavala
Sortavala
Sortavala is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga. Population: It is an important station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad.-History:...
Sereda → Furmanov
Sergiyev Posad → Sergiyev → Zagorsk → Sergiyev Posad
Sergiyev Posad
Sergiyev Posad is a city and the administrative center of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It grew in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh. The town status was granted to it in 1742...
Sergiyevskoye → Plavsk
Plavsk
Plavsk is a town and the administrative center of Plavsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Plava River. Population:...
Shakhty → Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk is a town and the administrative center of Selenginsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Gusinoye, southwest of Ulan-Ude. Population: 13,800 .-History:...
Sharypovskoye → Sharypovo → Chernenko → Sharypovo
Sharypovo
Sharypovo is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Beresh River , west of Krasnoyarsk. It serves as the administrative center of Sharypovsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:...
Shcheglovo → Shcheglovsk → Kemerovo
Kemerovo
Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...
Shikhrany → Kanash
Kanash
Kanash is a town in the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located from the republic's capital city of Cheboksary at a major railway junction. It serves as the administrative center of Kanashsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population: Area: .Kanash was founded in 1891...
Shkotovo-17 → Tikhookeansky → Fokino
Fokino, Primorsky Krai
Fokino is a closed town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Peter the Great between Vladivostok and Nakhodka, on the Abrek Bay, about south of Vladivostok. Population: -History:...
Sieklakhti → Lakhdenpokhya
Lakhdenpokhya
Lakhdenpokhya is a town and the administrative center of Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located west of Petrozavodsk on the Aurayoki River, and a railway station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad. Population:...
Simbirsk → Ulyanovsk
Ulyanovsk
Ulyanovsk The city is the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin , for whom it is named.-History:Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. The fort of "Simbirsk" was strategically placed on a hill on the Western bank of the Volga River...
Skalisty → Gadzhiyevo
Gadzhiyevo
Gadzhiyevo is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The town was also known as Yagelnaya Guba until 1967, Skalisty from 1981 to 1994, although it was often referred to as Murmansk-130 . The name Skalisty was made official in 1994, but in 1999 the town was renamed back to Gadzhiyevo—the name...
Slavyanskaya → Slavyansk-na-Kubani
Slavyansk-na-Kubani
Slavyansk-na-Kubani is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located in the Kuban river delta. Population: 56,000 .Slavyansk originated in the Middle Ages as Copa or Coparia, a Genoese trade outpost controlled by the Ghisolfi family...
Solnechnogorsky → Solnechnogorsk
Solnechnogorsk
Solnechnogorsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Solnechnogorsky District. It is situated on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Highway and the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, on the coast of Senezh Lake, north-west from Moscow. Population: Originally, there was a village...
Sorochinskoye → Sorochinsk
Sorochinsk
Sorochinsk is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the Samara River , northwest of Orenburg. Population: It was founded in 1737 as the fortress of Sorochinskaya . It had been known as the village of Sorochinskoye since the 19th century. It was granted town status and renamed Sorochinsk...
Spassk → Spassk-Tatarsky → Kuybyshev → Bolgar, Russia
Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Dalny
Spassk-Dalny
Spassk-Dalny , sometimes called Spassk, is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Prikhankayskaya Flatland on the coast of Khanka Lake. Population:...
Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Ryazansky
Spassk-Ryazansky
Spassk-Ryazansky is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of the Lake Spasskoye southeast of Ryazan. Population:...
Stakhanovo → Zhukovsky
Stallupönen → Nesterov
Nesterov
Nesterov is a town and the administrative center of Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:In the Middle Ages, the area in Old Prussia had been settled by the Nadruvian tribe of the Baltic Prussians. It was conquered by the Teutonic Knights about 1276 and...
Stary Rogozhsky Yam → Bogorodsk → Noginsk
Noginsk
Noginsk is a town and the administrative center of Noginsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of the MKAD ring road on the Klyazma River. Population:...
Stavropol → Togliatti
Tolyatti
Tolyatti , also known as Togliatti, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It serves as the administrative center of Stavropolsky District, although it is administratively separate from it...
Stavropol → Voroshilovsk → Stavropol
Stavropol
-International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...
Stupinskaya → Elektrovoz → Stupino
Stupino
Stupino is a town and the administrative center of Stupinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:...
Suchansky Rudnik → Suchan → Partizansk
Partizansk
Partizansk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on a spur of the Sikhote-Alin mountains, about east of Vladivostok. Population: The town was formerly known as Suchan and Gamarnik.-Geography:...
Sudostroy → Molotovsk → Severodvinsk
Severodvinsk
Severodvinsk is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina River, west of Arkhangelsk. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . Municipally, it is incorporated as Severodvinsk Urban Okrug. The city was founded as...
Sundyr → Mariinsky Posad
Mariinsky Posad
Mariinsky Posad is a town and the administrative center of Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, east of Cheboksary. Population:...
Suyetikha → Biryusinsk
Biryusinsk
Biryusinsk is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Biryusa River , northwest of Irkutsk. Administratively, Biryusinsk is under the jurisdiction of the nearby town of Tayshet. Population:...
Sverdlovsk-45 → Lesnoy
Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Lesnoy is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg on the banks of the Tura River. Population: -History:...
Svoboda → Liski → Georgiu-Dey → Liski
Liski
Liski is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka in 1571 and renamed Svoboda in 1943, and after a period again as Liski, the city was renamed Georgiu-Dezh in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again...
Svobodny → Cherepanovo
Cherepanovo
Cherepanovo is a town and the administrative center of Cherepanovsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Novosibirsk. Population:...
Svyatoy Krest → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk
Budyonnovsk
Budyonnovsk , also spelled Budennovsk, is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Previously, it was named Svyatoy Krest and Prikumsk...
Syana → Kurilsk
Kurilsk
Kurilsk ; , Shana) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, situated on the island of Iturup. It is the administrative center of Kurilsky District. Population: 2,233 ; 2,699 .-History:...
Sysertsky Zavod → Sysert
Sysert
Sysert is a town and the administrative center of Sysertsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sysert River , south of Yekaterinburg. Population:...
Taldom → Leninsk → Taldom
Taldom
Taldom is a town and the administrative center of Taldomsky District in the northern part of Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated north of Moscow, on a suburban railway connecting Moscow to Savyolovo. Population: The settlement was founded in 1677...
Tapiau → Gvardeysk
Gvardeysk
Gvardeysk is a town and the administrative center of Gvardeysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Pregolya River east of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
Tashino → Pervomaysk
Pervomaysk
Pervomaysk or Pervomaisk may refer to:*Pervomaysk, Russia, a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia*Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine*Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast, a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine...
Temir-Khan-Shura → Buynaksk
Buynaksk
Buynaksk is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus on the Shura-Ozen River, southwest of the republic's capital Makhachkala. Population: 40,000 ....
Terijoki → Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg
Zelenogorsk , ' before 1948, is a municipal town in Kurortny District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, located in part of the Karelian Isthmus on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and a station on the St. Petersburg-Vyborg railroad. It is located about northwest of central Saint...
Tetyukhe → Dalnegorsk
Dalnegorsk
Dalnegorsk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: It was formerly known from its founding in 1899 as Tetyukhe , until it was renamed in 1972 as part of a campaign to change any Chinese-derived placenames in the Primorsky Krai.-History:...
Tikhmenevsky → Sikuka → Poronaysk
Poronaysk
Poronaysk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the Poronay River some 288 km north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It is the administrative center of Poronaysky District. Population: 17,400 ; 17,954 ; 25,971 ....
Tikhoretskaya → Tikhoretsk
Tikhoretsk
Tikhoretsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Population: The town is an important part of the southern rail network....
Tilsit → Sovetsk
Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Sovetsk , known by its historical German name of Tilsit in East Prussia before 1946, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River. Population: -History of Tilsit:...
Tomarioru → Tomari
Tomsk-7 → Seversk
Seversk
Seversk is a closed city in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Tomsk on the right bank of the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1949, it was known as Pyaty Pochtovy until 1954 and as Tomsk-7 until 1992. Town status was granted to it in 1956.The current Chair of the City Duma and Mayor...
Toro → Shakhtyorsk
Troitsa → Udomlya
Udomlya
Udomlya is a town and the administrative center of Udomelsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located north of Tver, on the Rybinsk–Bologoye railway. Population:...
Troitsko-Zaozyornoye → Zaozyorny
Troitskosavsk → Kyakhta
Kyakhta
Kyakhta is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Russian-Mongolian border. Population: The town stands directly opposite the Mongolian border town of Altanbulag.-History:...
Troitskoye → Troitsky → Troitsk
Troitsk, Moscow Oblast
Troitsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Desna River southwest of Moscow on the Kaluzhskoye Highway. Population: 39,874 ; 32,653 ;...
Trongzund → Uuras → Trongzund → Vysotsk
Vysotsk
Vysotsk is a coastal town and a seaport in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Vyborg, southwest of Vyborg and northwest of St. Petersburg. It hosts a base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and an oil terminal...
Trotsk → Chapayevsk
Chapayevsk
Chapayevsk is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, located from the city of Samara, on the right bank of the Chapayevka River . Population:...
Truyevo-Naryshkino → Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located east of Penza and west of Samara and the Volga River. Population: -External links:*...
Tsaritsyn → Stalingrad → Volgograd
Volgograd
Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
Tsarskoye Selo → Detskoye Selo → Pushkin
Pushkin (town)
Pushkin is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its train station, Detskoye Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail Terminal of the city...
Tsaryovokokshaysk → Krasnokokshaysk → Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar-Ola is the capital city of the Mari El Republic, Russia. Population: Yoshkar-Ola means red city in Mari. The current name is the third to have been given to the city. The city was known as Tsaryovokokshaysk before 1919 and as Krasnokokshaysk between 1919 and 1927...
Tsimlyanskaya → Tsimlyansk
Tsimlyansk
Tsimlyansk is a town and the administrative center of Tsimlyansky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Don River, on the coast of Tsimlyansk Reservoir, northeast of Rostov-on-Don. Population:...
Turyinsky → Krasnoturyinsk
Krasnoturyinsk
Krasnoturyinsk is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turya River , north of Yekaterinburg. Population: It was one of the copper mining settlements established in 1758 on the Turya River. At the time, it was known as Turyinskiye Rudniki . Later it was known as Turyinsky...
Tver → Kalinin → Tver
Tver
Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...
Tyndinsky → Tynda
Tynda
Tynda is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is an important railway junction, often referred to as the capital of the BAM. The name is of Evenk origin, tendy translating roughly as on the river bank. Population: -Geography:...
Udinsk → Verhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...
Ulala → Oyrot-Tura → Gorno-Altaysk
Gorno-Altaysk
Gorno-Altaysk is the capital town of the Altai Republic, Russia, situated east of Moscow. Population: This only town of the republic lies in a narrow Mayma Valley in the foothills of the Altay Mountains...
Uralmedstroy → Krasnouralsk
Krasnouralsk
Krasnouralsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Cosmonaut Vitaliy Sevastyanov was born here.-History:It was established in 1832 with the discovery of gold....
Usolye → Usolye-Sibirskoye
Usolye-Sibirskoye
Usolye-Sibirskoye is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Angara River. Population: -History:It was founded in 1669 under the name Usolye, an archaic Russian word for a salt producing town, by Mikhalevs brothers, the Cossacks who had discovered salt deposits in a...
Ust-Abakanskoye → Khakassk → Abakan
Abakan
Abakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:...
Ust-Belokalitvenskaya → Belaya Kalitva
Belaya Kalitva
Belaya Kalitva is a town and the administrative center of Belokalitvinsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population: -External links:*...
Ust-Katavsky Zavod → Ust-Katav
Ust-Katav
Ust-Katav is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Yuryuzan River. Population: -Transport:Ust-Katav is situated near the Transsiberian Railway, as well as the M5 "Ural" motorway.-Industry:...
Ust-Medveditskaya → Serafimovich
Serafimovich
Serafimovich is a town and the administrative center of Serafimovichsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Don River, northwest of Volgograd. Population:...
Ust-Sheksna → Rybansk → Rybnaya Sloboda → Rybnoy → Rybinsk → Shcherbakov → Rybinsk → Andropov → Rybinsk
Rybinsk
Rybinsk is the second largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna Rivers. Population: It is served by Rybinsk Staroselye airport.-Early history:...
Ust Zeysky military post → Blagoveshchensk
Blagoveshchensk
Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...
Vasilyovo → Chkalovsk
Chkalovsk, Russia
Chkalovsk is a town and the administrative center of Chkalovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Volga River, northwest of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: -History:...
Vayenga → Severomorsk
Severomorsk
Severomorsk is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located about north of Murmansk along the Kola Bay. Population: This is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Severomorsk has the largest drydock on the Kola Peninsula....
Velikoknyazheskaya → Proletarskaya → Proletarsk
Proletarsk
Proletarsk is a town and the administrative center of Proletarsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Rostov-Baku Line. The Manych River flows through the city. Population:...
Velyaminovsky → Tuapse
Tuapse
Tuapse is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. It serves as the administrative center of Tuapsinsky District, although administratively it is separate from it...
Verkhneudinsky → Verkhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...
Vinodelnoye → Ipatovo
Ipatovo
Ipatovo is a town and the administrative center of Ipatovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Kalaus River about northeast of Stavropol. Population:...
Vladikavkaz → Ordzhonikidze → Dzaudzhikau → Ordzhonikidze → Vladikavkaz
Vladikavkaz
-Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:...
Vladimirovka → Toyokhara → Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
-Demographics:Most residents are ethnic Russians, but there also exists a sizable population of Koreans. Of the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans, half are estimated to live in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, comprising roughly 12% of the city's population...
Volkhovstroy → Volkhov
Volkhov
Volkhov is an industrial town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated east of St. Petersburg, on the Volkhov River. Population: -History:...

(1940)
Volodary → Volodarsk
Volodarsk
Volodarsk may refer to:* Volodarsk, Russia, a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia* Volodarsk-Volynskyi, an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine* Poshekhonye-Volodarsk, name of the town of Poshekhonye in 1918–1992...
Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye → Sovetskoye → Zelenokumsk
Zelenokumsk
Zelenokumsk is a town and the administrative center of Sovetsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia. The Kuma River flows through the town. Population:...
Voskresenskoye → Voskresensk → Istra
Istra
Istra is a town and the administrative center of Istrinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Istra River, west of Moscow, on the Moscow–Riga railway...

(not to be confused with another Voskresensk
Voskresensk
Voskresensk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located southeast from Moscow, on the shores of the Moskva River. Population: Town status was granted to Voskresensk in 1938.-Notable athletes:...

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Voznesenskaya → Vereshchagino
Vyborg → Viipuri → Vyborg
Vyborg
Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...
Vyzhaikha → Krasnovishersk
Krasnovishersk
-History:The town grew out of the settlement of Vizhaikha . Since 1926, the town served as the 4th branch of the Solovki prison camp, and since 1929—as the independent management of the Vishera camps...
Yakovlevskoye → Privolzhsk
Privolzhsk
Privolzhsk is a town and the administrative center of Privolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Shacha River northeast of Ivanovo. Population:...
Yama → Yamsky Gorodok → Yama → Yamburg → Kingisepp
Kingisepp
Kingisepp , formerly Yamburg , Yam , and Yama , is an ancient town and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located along the Luga Riverw west of St. Petersburg, east of Narva, and south of the Gulf of Finland...

(1922)
Yauntlatgale → Abrene → Pytalovo
Pytalovo
Pytalovo is a town and the administrative center of Pytalovsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Population: Pytalovo was part of independent Latvia as Abrene until Latvia was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union...
Yegorshino → Artyomovsky
Artyomovsky
Artyomovsky , Artyomovskaya , or Artyomovskoye may refer to:*Artyomovsky District, a district of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia*Artyomovsky Urban Okrug, name of several urban okrugs in Russia...
Yekaterinburg → Sverdlovsk → Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
Yekaterinodar → Krasnodar
Krasnodar
Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...
Yekaterinenstadt (Baronsk) → Marxstadt → Marks
Yuryuzansky Zavod → Yuryuzan
Zaozyorny-13 → Krasnoyarsk-45 → Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Zelenogorsk is a closed town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was formerly known as Krasnoyarsk-45 and was involved in enriching uranium for the Soviet nuclear program...

(1992)
Zarinskaya → Zarinsk
Zarinsk
Zarinsk is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Chumysh River east of Barnaul. Population: The railway station of Zarinskaya was established in 1952. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1958 and town status in 1979....
Zatishye → Elektrostal
Elektrostal
Elektrostal , known as Zatishye until 1938, is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: 135,000 ; 123,000 ; 97,000 ; 43,000 . Town status was granted to it in 1938.-Industry:...
Zavolzhye → Zavolzhsk
Zavolzhsk
Zavolzhsk is a town and the administrative center of Zavolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. It is one of the towns of the Golden Ring and is situated on the left bank of the Volga River , opposite Kineshma. The town is located about downstream of Kostroma and northeast of Ivanovo...
Zavoyko → Yelizovo
Yelizovo
Yelizovo is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Avacha River northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: Founded in 1848 as the village of Stary Ostrog , it was renamed Zavoyko in 1897, after the Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko who led the defense of Petropavlovsk in 1854....
Zernovoy → Zernograd
Zernograd
Zernograd is a town and the administrative center of Zernogradsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Rostov-on-Don. Population:...
Zeysky Sklad → Zeya-Pristan → Zeya
Zeya (town)
Zeya is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the Zeya River some 230 km southeast of Tynda and 532 km north of Blagoveshchensk...
Zhdanovsk → Zapolyarny
Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast
Zapolyarny is a town in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, south of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project. Population: The area where the town is located belonged to Finland in 1920–1944...
Zheleznodorozhny → Yemva
Yemva
Yemva is a town and the administrative center of Knyazhpogostsky District of the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Vym River northeast of Syktyvkar. Population:...
Zhirnoye → Zhirnovsky → Zhirnovsk
Zhirnovsk
Zhirnovsk is a town and the administrative center of Zhirnovsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, which itself flows into the Don River. Zhirnovsk lies north of Volgograd and south of its nearest town, Kalininsk, which is in neighboring...
Zimmerbude → Svetly
Svetly, Kaliningrad Oblast
Svetly , prior to 1945 known by its German name Zimmerbude, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Vistula Bay west of Kaliningrad. Population: 21,745 ;...
Zlatoust-36 → Tryokhgorny
Tryokhgorny
Tryokhgorny three mountains) is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the western part of the oblast from Chelyabinsk. Population: It was founded in 1952, and was earlier known under the name Zlatoust-36 ....
Zmeiny → Never-1 → Rukhlovo → Skovorodino
Skovorodino
Skovorodino is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,100 ; 10,566 ; 13,824 .-Geography:The town is located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River some 669 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk...

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