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Top 20 most populous cities · 🇷🇺 Russia
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Altai Krai Astrakhan Oblast Belgorod Oblast Bryansk Oblast Buryatia Chuvashia Dagestan Irkutsk Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast Kaluga Oblast Kemerovo Oblast Khabarovsk Krai Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District Kirov Oblast Krasnodar Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai Kurgan Oblast Kursk Oblast Mordovia Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast Omsk Oblast Orenburg Oblast Penza Oblast Perm Krai Primorsky Krai Rostov Oblast Ryazan Oblast Samara Oblast Saratov Oblast Smolensk Oblast Stavropol Krai Sverdlovsk Oblast Tatarstan Tomsk Oblast Tula Oblast Tver Oblast Udmurtia Ulyanovsk Oblast Vladimir Oblast Volgograd Oblast Voronezh Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast Zabaykalsky Krai
Why these 20
City population from Wikidata's preferred figure (usually the latest census or official estimate). City limits differ a lot between countries, so compare within a country first.
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Yekaterinburg
forth-largest city in Russia, administrative center of Ural Federal District
1,468,833
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Nizhny Novgorod
capital of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in central Russia
1,198,245
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How it is measured
Wikidata: cities and big cities with 300,000 people or more.
References
- Wikidata query: cities by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 19:22 UTC.
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