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Russia: cities by population

Russia has a population of 144,478,050, with Moscow as its capital. The 50 largest of its 4,988 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Moscow	Moscow	10,381,222
2	Saint Petersburg	St.-Petersburg	5,351,935
3	Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk Oblast	1,612,833
4	Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk Oblast	1,495,066
5	Nizhniy Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	1,259,013
6	Kazan	Tatarstan Republic	1,243,500
7	Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk	1,202,371
8	Omsk	Omsk Oblast	1,172,070
9	Samara	Samara Oblast	1,163,399
10	Rostov-on-Don	Rostov	1,130,305
11	Ufa	Bashkortostan Republic	1,120,547
12	Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Krai	1,090,811
13	Voronezh	Voronezh Oblast	1,047,549
14	Volgograd	Volgograd Oblast	1,013,533
15	Perm	Perm Krai	982,419
16	Krasnodar	Krasnodar Krai	899,541
17	Saratov	Saratov Oblast	844,858
18	Tyumen	Tyumen Oblast	768,358
19	Tolyatti	Samara Oblast	702,879
20	Izhevsk	Udmurtiya Republic	648,213
21	Barnaul	Altai Krai	632,372
22	Ulyanovsk	Ulyanovsk	626,540
23	Irkutsk	Irkutsk Oblast	623,869
24	Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk	618,150
25	Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl Oblast	608,722
26	Vladivostok	Primorye	604,901
27	Makhachkala	Dagestan	596,356
28	Tomsk	Tomsk Oblast	574,002
29	Orenburg	Orenburg Oblast	564,773
30	Kemerovo	Kuzbass	558,973
31	Novokuznetsk	Kuzbass	539,616
32	Ryazan’	Ryazan Oblast	538,962
33	Astrakhan	Astrakhan Oblast	533,925
34	Penza	Penza Oblast	523,553
35	Naberezhnyye Chelny	Tatarstan Republic	509,870
36	Lipetsk	Lipetsk Oblast	509,735
37	Kirov	Kirov Oblast	507,155
38	Cheboksary	Chuvash Republic	492,331
39	Tula	Tula Oblast	482,873
40	Kaliningrad	Kaliningrad Oblast	475,056
41	Kursk	Kursk Oblast	448,733
42	Stavropol	Stavropol Kray	433,931
43	Bryansk	Bryansk Oblast	427,236
44	Tver	Tver Oblast	420,065
45	Magnitogorsk	Chelyabinsk	413,351
46	Ivanovo	Ivanovo Oblast	406,113
47	Nizhny Tagil	Sverdlovsk Oblast	381,116
48	Ulan-Ude	Buryatiya Republic	360,278
49	Vladimir	Vladimir Oblast	357,024
50	Arkhangel’sk	Arkhangelskaya	349,742

Twenty years earlier: Russia in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 144,003,901.