The population of Russia is 144 million people and it’s mostly urban. By the end of 2016, there were 15 metropolises with the number of residents exceeding 1 million.
Moscow is the largest Russian city with the population of 12.3 million. It is also the most populous in Europe although in the world’s rankings Moscow scored only #17.
15 Biggest Russian Cities by Population Size
The latest data by the government statistics service Rosstat, adjusted for 2016, shows the following numbers, population-wise.
- Moscow 12.38 mln
- St. Petersburg 5.23
- Novosibirsk 1.58
- Yekaterinburg 1.48
- Nizhny Novgorod 1.27
- Kazan 1.21
- Chelyabinsk 1.19
- Omsk 1.17
- Samara 1.17
- Rostov-on-Don 1.12
- Ufa 1.11
- Krasnoyarsk 1.08
- Perm 1.04
- Voronezh 1.03
- Volgograd 1.02
The majority of highly populated locations are in the European part of the country. Only 5 of them are in Asia: Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk.
- Technically, Chelyabinsk is on the Eurasian boundary. But the city is located on the left bank of the Ural River, so it’s in Asia.
- Yekaterinburg, too, is near the Eurasian edge. The city centre is 37 km (23 miles) from the geographical boundary but the town’s perimeter is much closer.
- St. Petersburg is close to Finland, and you can get to the Finnish side by bus or ferry.
- Rostov-on-Don is the closest settlement to the Ukrainian border in the South of Russia on River Don. It’s not too far from the Black Sea and Caucasus mountains.
- Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Krasnoyarsk are in Siberia.
- Kazan is the capital of Tatar Autonomous Republic.
- Ufa is the capital of Bashkir Autonomous Republic. Tatars and Bashkirs are predominantly Muslim nations within prevalently Christian Russian Federation.
- Krasnoyarsk is the farthest of the large centres from Moscow: 4141 km (2573 miles) by road or 3354 km (2084) by air.
All 1 million plus Russian metropolises are administrative centres of their regions.
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