General info

Entity:
Russia
Capital:
Moscow
Population (2008-07-01):
140,702,094 (CIA)
Area:
17,075,200 sq.km.
Country code:
ru
Region:
Eastern Europe

Russia

Administrative units

administrative units capital area (sq.km.) population
2002-10-09
census		 population
2008-01-01
estimate
source: population - State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics.
Central Fеdеrаl District Moscow 652,800 38,000,651 37,150,741
Belgorodskaya oblast' Belgorod 27,100 1,511,620 1,519,137
Bryanskaya oblast' Bryansk 34,900 1,378,941 1,308,479
Ivanovskaya oblast' Ivanovo 23,900 1,148,329 1,079,605
Kaluzhskaya oblast' Kaluga 29,900 1,041,641 1,005,648
Kostromskaya oblast' Kostroma 60,100 736,641 697,043
Kurskaya oblast' Kursk 29,800 1,235,091 1,162,475
Lipetskaya oblast' Lipetsk 24,100 1,213,499 1,168,814
Moskovskaya oblast' Moskva 45,900 6,618,538 6,672,773
Gorod Moskva Moskva 1,100 10,382,754 10,470,318
Orlovskaya oblast' Orel 24,700 860,262 821,934
Ryazanskaya oblast' Ryazan 39,600 1,227,910 1,164,530
Smolenskaya oblast' Smolensk 49,800 1,049,574 983,227
Tambovskaya oblast' Tambov 34,300 1,178,443 1,106,035
Tul'skaya oblast' Tula 25,700 1,675,758 1,566,295
Tverskaya oblast' Tver 84,100 1,471,459 1,379,542
Vladimirskaya oblast' Vladimir 29,000 1,523,990 1,449,475
Voronezhskaya oblast' Voronezh 52,400 2,378,803 2,280,406
Yaroslavskaya oblast' Yaroslavl 36,400 1,367,398 1,315,005
Far East Fеdеrаl District Khabarovsk 6,179,900 6,692,865 6,486,419
Amurskaya oblast' Blagoveshchensk 363,700 902,844 869,617
Chukotskiy avtonomnyy okrug Anadyr 737,700 53,824 50,263
Kamchatskaya oblast' Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky 472,300 358,801 345,669
Khabarovskiy kray Khabarovsk 752,600 1,436,570 1,403,712
Magadanskaya oblast' Magadan 461,400 182,726 165,820
Primorskiy kray Vladivostok 165,900 2,071,210 1,995,828
Respublika Sakha [Yakutia] Yakutsk 3,103,200 949,280 951,436
Sakhalinskaya oblast' Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 87,100 546,695 518,539
Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast' Birobidzhan 36,000 190,915 185,535
North West Fеdеrаl District St. Petersburg 1,677,900 13,974,466 13,501,038
Arkhangel'skaya oblast' Arkhangelsk 587,400 1,336,539 1,271,877
Nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug Naryan-Mar 176,700 41,546 42,019
Kaliningradskaya oblast' Kaliningrad 15,100 955,281 937,404
Respublika Kareliya Petrozavodsk 172,400 716,281 690,653
Respublika Komi Syktyvkar 415,900 1,018,674 968,164
Leningradskaya oblast' Sankt-Peterburg 85,900 1,669,205 1,633,350
Murmanskaya oblast' Murmansk 144,900 892,534 850,929
Novgorodskaya oblast' Novgorod 55,300 694,355 652,437
Pskovskaya oblast' Pskov 55,300 760,810 705,289
Gorod Sankt-Peterburg Sankt-Peterburg   4,661,219 4,568,047
Vologodskaya oblast' Vologda 145,700 1,269,568 1,222,888
Privolzhsky (Volga) Fеdеrаl District Nizhny Novgorod 1,035,900 31,154,744 30,241,581
Respublika Bashkortostan Ufa 143,600 4,104,336 4,052,731
Chuvashskaya Respublika Cheboksary 18,300 1,313,754 1,282,567
Kirovskaya oblast' Kirov 120,800 1,503,529 1,413,257
Respublika Mariy-El Yoshkar-Ola 23,200 727,979 703,220
Respublika Mordoviya Saransk 26,200 888,766 840,391
Nizhegorodskaya oblast' Nizhnii Novgorod 74,800 3,524,028 3,359,816
Orenburgskaya oblast' Orenburg 124,000 2,179,551 2,119,003
Penzenskaya oblast' Penza 43,200 1,452,941 1,388,021
Permsky kray Perm 160,600 2,819,421 2,718,227
Samarskaya oblast' Samara 53,600 3,239,737 3,172,787
Saratovskaya oblast' Saratov 100,200 2,668,310 2,583,808
Respublika Tatarstan Kazan 68,000 3,779,265 3,762,809
Udmurtskaya Respublika Izhevsk 42,100 1,570,316 1,532,736
Ul'yanovskaya oblast' Ulyanovsk 37,300 1,382,811 1,312,208
Siberian Fеdеrаl District Novosibirsk 5,114,800 20,062,938 19,553,461
Respublika Altay Gorno-Altaysk 92,600 202,947 207,122
Altayskiy kray Barnaul 169,100 2,607,426 2,508,478
Respublika Buryatiya Ulan-Ude 351,300 981,238 959,892
Chitinskaya oblast' Chita 431,500 1,155,346 1,118,931
Aginskiy Buryatskiy avtonomnyy okrug Aginskoye 19,000 72,213 76,383
Irkutskaya oblast' Irkutsk 767,900 2,581,705 2,507,676
Kemerovskaya oblast' Kemerovo 95,500 2,899,142 2,823,539
Respublika Khakasiya Abakan 61,900 546,072 537,230
Krasnoyarskiy kray Krasnoyarsk 2,339,700 2,966,042 2,890,350
Novosibirskaya oblast' Novosibirsk 178,200 2,692,251 2,635,642
Omskaya oblast' Omsk 139,700 2,079,220 2,017,997
Tomskaya oblast' Tomsk 316,900 1,046,039 1,034,985
Respublika Tyva [Tuva] Kyzyl 170,500 305,510 311,619
South Fеdеrаl District Rostov-on-Don 585,950 22,907,141 22,835,216
Respublika Adygeya Maikop 7,600 447,109 441,176
Astrakhanskaya oblast' Astrakhan 44,100 1,005,276 1,000,874
Volgogradskaya oblast' Volgograd 113,900 2,699,223 2,608,762
Respublika Dagestan Makhachkala 50,300 2,576,531 2,687,822
Respublika Ingushskaya [Ingushetiya] Magas 3,750 467,294 499,502
Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika Nalchik 12,500 901,494 891,338
Respublika Kalmykiya Elista 76,100 292,410 285,541
Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika Cherkessk 14,100 439,470 427,418
Krasnodarskiy kray Krasnodar 76,000 5,125,221 5,121,799
Rostovskaya oblast' Rostov-no-Donu 100,800 4,404,013 4,254,421
Respublika Severnaya Osetiya [Alaniya] Vladikavkaz 8,000 710,275 702,456
Stavropol'skiy kray Stavropol 66,500 2,735,139 2,705,067
Chechenskaya Respublika Grozny 12,300 1,103,686 1,209,040
Urals Fеdеrаl District Yekaterinburg 1,788,400 12,373,926 12,240,382
Chelyabinskaya oblast' Chelyabinsk 87,900 3,603,339 3,510,990
Kurganskaya oblast' Kurgan 71,000 1,019,532 960,410
Sverdlovskaya oblast' Yekaterinburg 194,300 4,486,214 4,395,617
Tyumenskaya oblast' Tyumen 1,435,200 3,264,841 3,373,365
Khanty-Mansiyskiy avtonomnyy okrug Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk 523,100 1,432,817 1,505,248
Yamalo-Nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug Salekhard 750,300 507,006 542,732
total   17,075,400 145,166,731 142,008,838

Agglomerations

name population
1994-07-01
estimate		 population
1999
estimate
Moskva [EN Moscow] 8,663,142 8,537,700
Sankt Peterburg [EN St.Petersburg] 4,827,538 ..
Novosibirsk 1,401,100 ..
Nizhnii Novgorod 1,391,250 1,366,100
Ekaterinoburg [EN Yekaterinburg] 1,322,950 1,313,750
Samara (Samarskaya oblast) 1,220,950 1,183,350
Omsk 1,186,000 1,177,000
Chelyabinsk 1,114,400 1,111,100
Ufa 1,095,850 1,093,700
Kazan 1,081,750 1,092,150
Perm 1,044,350 1,024,250
Volgograd 1,026,750 1,024,900
Voronezh 975,800 978,100
Saratov 901,600 ..
Krasnodar 757,950 757,150
Tolyatti 707,150 734,300
Ulan-Ude 693,050 ..
Vladivostok 659,050 636,600
Barnaul 654,850 647,600
Novokuznetsk 589,350 579,250
Irkutsk 582,150 ..
Tula 579,300 554,650
Orenburg 546,150 541,500
Tyumen 543,000 556,200
Kemerovo 539,700 532,200
Naberezhnye Tchelny 532,900 524,400
Ryazan 531,500 531,200
Penza 528,550 528,500
Lipetsk 510,400 ..
Ulyanovsk .. 690,300
source: United Nations Statistics Division.

Main cities

name population
2002-10-09
census		 population
2006-01-01
estimate
Moskva [EN Moscow] 10,126,424 10,420,000
Sankt Peterburg [EN St.Petersburg] 4,661,219 4,581,000
Novosibirsk 1,425,508 1,397,000
Nizhnii Novgorod 1,311,252 1,284,000
Ekaterinoburg [EN Yekaterinburg] 1,293,537 1,308,000
Samara (Samarskaya oblast) 1,157,880 1,143,000
Omsk 1,134,016 1,139,000
Kazan 1,105,289 1,113,000
Chelyabinsk 1,077,174 1,093,000
Rostov-na-Donu 1,068,267 1,055,000
Ufa 1,042,437 1,030,000
Volgograd 1,011,417 992,000
Perm 1,001,653 993,000
Krasnoyarsk 909,341 921,000
Saratov 873,055 850,000
Voronezh 848,752 846,000
Tolyatti 702,879 705,000
Krasnodar 646,175 710,000
Ulyanovsk 635,947 617,000
Izhevsk 632,140 620,000
Yaroslavl 613,088 604,000
Barnaul 600,749 604,000
Vladivostok 594,701 584,000
Irkutsk 593,604 578,000
Khabarovsk 583,072 578,000
Novokuznetsk 549,870 562,000
Orenburg 549,361 534,000
Ryazan 521,560 513,000
Penza 518,025 510,000
Tyumen 510,719 543,000
Naberezhnye Tchelny 509,870 507,000
Lipetsk 506,114 503,000
Astrakhan 504,501 499,000
Tomsk 487,838 490,000
Kemerovo 484,754 520,000
Tula 481,216 509,000
Makhachkala 462,412 466,000
Kirov 457,578 469,000
Cheboksary 440,621 442,000
Ivanovo 431,721 413,000
Bryansk 431,526 420,000
Kaliningrad 430,003 424,000
Magnitogorsk 418,545 413,000
Kursk 412,442 406,000
Tver 408,903 406,000
Nizhny Tagil 390,498 380,000
Ulan-Ude 359,391 348,000
Arkhangelsk 356,051 350,000
Stavropol 354,867 358,000
Kurgan 345,515 330,000
Belgorod 337,030 344,000
Murmansk 336,137 321,000
Kaluga 334,751 329,000
Orel 333,310 326,000
Sochi 328,809 330,000
Smolensk 325,137 318,000
Chita 316,643 306,000
Vladimir 315,954 341,000
Vladikavkaz 315,608 314,000
Volzhsky 313,169 309,000
Cherepovets 311,869 308,000
Saransk 304,866 297,000
Tambov 293,658 285,000
Vologda 293,046 287,000
Surgut 285,027 291,000
Taganrog 281,947 269,000
Komsomolsk-na-Amure 281,035 273,000
Kostroma 278,750 275,000
Naltchik 274,974 271,000
Petrozavodsk 266,160 265,000
Sterlitamak 264,362 266,000
Dzerzhinsk 261,334 253,000
Bratsk 259,335 255,000
Ioshkar-Ola 256,719 251,000
Orsk 250,963 247,000
Angarsk 247,118 246,000
Nizhenvartovsk 239,044 241,000
Novorossiysk 232,079 231,000
Syktivkar 230,011 229,000
Nizhnekamsk 225,399 227,000
Prokopyevsk 224,597 217,000
Rybinsk 222,653 215,000
Shakhty 222,592 248,000
Blagoveshchensk 219,221 212,000
Biisk 218,562 225,000
Novgorod 216,856 218,000
Starsy Oskol 215,898 218,000
Zelenograd 215,727 ..
Groznyy 210,720 218,000
Yakutsk 210,642 239,000
Pskov 202,780 197,000
Severodvinsk 201,551 195,000
Balakovo 200,470 199,000
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 198,028 195,000
Zlatoust 194,551 190,000
Engels 193,984 195,000
Armavir 193,964 191,000
Syzran 188,107 182,000
Kamensk-Uralsky 186,153 183,000
Podolsk 180,963 180,000
Uzno-Sakhalinsk 175,085 173,000
Berezniki 173,077 168,000
Novocherkassk 170,822 180,000
Volgodonsk 165,994 171,000
Abakan 165,197 164,000
Rubtsovsk 163,063 159,000
Mytishchi 159,900 162,000
Salavat 158,600 157,000
Miass 158,420 155,000
Ussuriisk 157,759 155,000
Maikop 156,931 157,000
Lyubertsy 156,691 159,000
Kovrov 155,499 152,000
Kolomna 150,129 148,000
Nakhodka 148,826 172,000
Balashikha 147,909 183,000
Elektrostal 146,294 146,000
Korolev (ex-Kaliningrad) 142,568 173,000
Khimki 141,000 180,000
Pyatigorsk 140,559 140,000
Almetievsk 140,437 142,000
Odintsovo 134,844 132,000
Norilsk 134,832 213,000
Novomoskovsk 134,081 128,000
Pervouralsk 132,277 133,000
Nevinnomyssk 132,141 130,000
Serpukhov 131,097 125,000
Dimitrovgrad 130,871 128,000
Kislovodsk 129,788 129,000
Kamyshin 127,891 122,000
Murom 126,901 122,000
Novocheboksarsk 125,857 126,000
Nazran 125,066 130,000
Neftekamsk 122,290 118,000
Orekhovo-Zuevo 122,248 122,000
Chasavurt 121,817 125,000
Achinsk 118,744 113,000
Noginsk 117,555 116,000
Elets 116,726 113,000
Cherkessk 116,244 117,000
Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) 113,581 113,000
Novokuybishevsk 112,973 112,000
Shchelkovo 112,865 113,000
Leninsk-Kuznetsky 112,253 108,000
Arzamas 109,432 107,000
Seversk 109,106 108,000
Oktyabrsky 108,647 108,000
Nefteyugansk 107,830 113,000
Bataysk 107,438 104,000
Kiselevsk 106,341 104,000
Novotroitsk 106,315 104,000
Obninsk 105,706 105,000
Velikie Luky 104,979 102,000
Elista 104,254 103,000
Kyzyl 104,105 109,000
Zheleznodorozhny 103,931 117,000
Uhta 103,340 103,000
Sarapul 103,141 ..
Kansk 103,000 102,000
Solikamsk 102,531 ..
Mezhdurechensk 101,987 104,000
Zhukovsky 101,328 101,000
Novoshakhtinsk 101,131 115,000
Derbent 101,031 106,000
Glazov 100,894 100,000
Ust-Ilimsk 100,592 ..
Zelenodolsk 100,139 ..
source: State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics.