Destinations
Russia: cities and how to get around
171 cities with airports, stations, hotels and the journeys between them, from public data.
Russia has 171 cities on this site, including the capital, Moscow. Each one has an overview and pages for flights, hotels, trains, buses, driving and things to do — hostels too, where the city has them — built from public data, plus city-to-city pages for the journeys between them.
CapitalMoscow
Population144.5 million
Area17,100,000 km²
CurrencyRuble (RUB)
Dialling code+7
Driving sideRight
Plug typesEuro, Schuko
Emergency numberhttp://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1061257 / http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24233148 / http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25648794
Official languagesRussian
Internet domain.ru
Cities in Russia
| City | Region | Population | Airport | Hotels listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow | Moscow | 10,381,222 | SVO (28 km) | 1,621+ |
| Saint Petersburg | St.-Petersburg | 5,351,935 | LED (16 km) | — |
| Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk Oblast | 1,612,833 | OVB (20 km) | 52 |
| Yekaterinburg | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 1,495,066 | SVX (17 km) | 162 |
| Nizhniy Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 1,259,013 | GOJ (17 km) | — |
| Kazan | Tatarstan Republic | 1,243,500 | KZN (23 km) | 90 |
| Chelyabinsk | Chelyabinsk | 1,202,371 | CEK (17 km) | 38 |
| Omsk | Omsk Oblast | 1,172,070 | OMS (5 km) | 35 |
| Samara | Samara Oblast | 1,163,399 | KUF (33 km) | 54 |
| Rostov-on-Don | Rostov | 1,130,305 | — | 93 |
| Ufa | Bashkortostan Republic | 1,120,547 | UFA (21 km) | 47 |
| Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 1,090,811 | KJA (32 km) | 34 |
| Voronezh | Voronezh Oblast | 1,047,549 | VOZ (16 km) | 32 |
| Volgograd | Volgograd Oblast | 1,013,533 | VOG (14 km) | 34 |
| Perm | Perm Krai | 982,419 | PEE (17 km) | 33 |
| Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 899,541 | KRR (15 km) | 118 |
| Saratov | Saratov Oblast | 844,858 | GSV (23 km) | 15 |
| Tyumen | Tyumen Oblast | 768,358 | TJM (12 km) | 41 |
| Tolyatti | Samara Oblast | 702,879 | KUF (54 km) | 12 |
| Izhevsk | Udmurtiya Republic | 648,213 | IJK (16 km) | 15 |
| Barnaul | Altai Krai | 632,372 | BAX (12 km) | 18 |
| Ulyanovsk | Ulyanovsk | 626,540 | ULV (12 km) | 18 |
| Irkutsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 623,869 | IKT (8 km) | 67 |
| Khabarovsk | Khabarovsk | 618,150 | KHV (10 km) | 27 |
| Yaroslavl | Yaroslavl Oblast | 608,722 | IAR (19 km) | 19 |
| Vladivostok | Primorye | 604,901 | VVO (39 km) | 193 |
| Makhachkala | Dagestan | 596,356 | MCX (22 km) | 11 |
| Tomsk | Tomsk Oblast | 574,002 | TOF (19 km) | 23 |
| Orenburg | Orenburg Oblast | 564,773 | REN (25 km) | 5 |
| Kemerovo | Kuzbass | 558,973 | KEJ (9 km) | 4 |
| Novokuznetsk | Kuzbass | 539,616 | NOZ (18 km) | 12 |
| Ryazan’ | Ryazan Oblast | 538,962 | — | — |
| Astrakhan | Astrakhan Oblast | 533,925 | ASF (8 km) | 19 |
| Penza | Penza Oblast | 523,553 | PEZ (9 km) | 14 |
| Naberezhnyye Chelny | Tatarstan Republic | 509,870 | NBC (28 km) | — |
| Lipetsk | Lipetsk Oblast | 509,735 | VOZ (89 km) | 8 |
| Kirov | Kirov Oblast | 507,155 | KVX (21 km) | 6 |
| Cheboksary | Chuvash Republic | 492,331 | CSY (8 km) | 12 |
| Tula | Tula Oblast | 482,873 | — | 55 |
| Kaliningrad | Kaliningrad Oblast | 475,056 | KGD (21 km) | 38 |
| Kursk | Kursk Oblast | 448,733 | — | 17 |
| Stavropol | Stavropol Kray | 433,931 | STW (14 km) | 10 |
| Bryansk | Bryansk Oblast | 427,236 | — | 9 |
| Tver | Tver Oblast | 420,065 | — | 9 |
| Magnitogorsk | Chelyabinsk | 413,351 | MQF (17 km) | 5 |
| Ivanovo | Ivanovo Oblast | 406,113 | IAR (79 km) | 8 |
| Nizhny Tagil | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 381,116 | — | — |
| Ulan-Ude | Buryatiya Republic | 360,278 | UUD (11 km) | — |
| Vladimir | Vladimir Oblast | 357,024 | IWA (95 km) | — |
| Arkhangel’sk | Arkhangelskaya | 349,742 | ARH (10 km) | — |
| Chita | Zabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray | 349,005 | HTA (13 km) | — |
| Belgorod | Belgorod Oblast | 345,289 | — | — |
| Kaluga | Kaluga Oblast | 340,851 | — | — |
| Smolensk | Smolensk Oblast | 330,025 | — | — |
| Sochi | Krasnodar Krai | 327,608 | AER (25 km) | — |
| Volzhsky | Volgograd Oblast | 323,293 | VOG (32 km) | — |
| Saransk | Mordoviya Republic | 318,841 | SKX (7 km) | — |
| Cherepovets | Vologda Oblast | 315,738 | CEE (17 km) | — |
| Vologda | Vologda Oblast | 312,420 | — | — |
| Kurgan | Kurgan Oblast | 309,285 | KRO (5 km) | — |
| Vladikavkaz | North Ossetia–Alania | 306,258 | GRV (92 km) | — |
| Orël | Oryol oblast | 303,696 | — | — |
| Surgut | Khanty-Mansia | 300,367 | SGC (9 km) | — |
| Grozny | Chechnya | 297,137 | GRV (9 km) | — |
| Murmansk | Murmansk | 295,374 | MMK (25 km) | — |
| Tambov | Tambov Oblast | 293,661 | — | — |
| Petrozavodsk | Karelia | 279,190 | PES (15 km) | — |
| Taganrog | Rostov | 279,056 | — | — |
| Kostroma | Kostroma Oblast | 277,280 | IAR (51 km) | — |
| Komsomolsk-on-Amur | Khabarovsk | 275,908 | KXK (17 km) | — |
| Yoshkar-Ola | Mariy-El Republic | 268,272 | CSY (70 km) | — |
| Sterlitamak | Bashkortostan Republic | 267,231 | — | — |
| Bratsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 256,600 | BTK (27 km) | — |
| Orsk | Orenburg Oblast | 246,836 | OSW (19 km) | — |
| Syktyvkar | Komi | 245,083 | SCW (2 km) | — |
| Nizhnevartovsk | Khanty-Mansia | 244,937 | NJC (4 km) | — |
| Angarsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 243,158 | IKT (46 km) | — |
| Novorossiysk | Krasnodar Krai | 241,856 | GDZ (26 km) | — |
| Khimki | Moscow Oblast | 239,967 | SVO (9 km) | — |
| Nalchik | Kabardino-Balkariya Republic | 239,300 | MRV (92 km) | — |
| Yakutsk | Sakha | 235,600 | YKS (7 km) | — |
| Nizhnekamsk | Tatarstan Republic | 234,297 | NBC (19 km) | — |
| Dzerzhinsk | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 233,126 | GOJ (20 km) | — |
| Staryy Oskol | Belgorod Oblast | 226,977 | — | — |
| Blagoveshchensk | Amur Oblast | 225,091 | HEK (19 km) | — |
| Velikiy Novgorod | Novgorod Oblast | 222,868 | — | — |
| Shakhty | Rostov | 221,312 | — | — |
| Prokop’yevsk | Kuzbass | 219,000 | NOZ (16 km) | — |
| Rybinsk | Yaroslavl Oblast | 216,724 | IAR (95 km) | — |
| Zelenograd | Moscow | 215,727 | SVO (14 km) | — |
| Biysk | Altai Krai | 215,430 | — | — |
| Pskov | Pskov Oblast | 210,501 | PKV (6 km) | — |
| Balakovo | Saratov Oblast | 199,572 | BWO (19 km) | — |
| Armavir | Krasnodar Krai | 199,548 | STW (79 km) | — |
| Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | Sakhalin Oblast | 198,973 | UUS (8 km) | — |
| Engels | Saratov Oblast | 196,011 | GSV (26 km) | — |
| Severodvinsk | Arkhangelskaya | 194,292 | ARH (43 km) | — |
| Zlatoust | Chelyabinsk | 191,366 | — | — |
| Syzran | Samara Oblast | 189,338 | — | — |
| Abakan | Khakasiya Republic | 184,168 | ABA (4 km) | — |
| Kamensk-Ural’skiy | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 182,500 | SVX (79 km) | — |
| Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | Kamchatka | 181,216 | PKC (17 km) | — |
| Podolsk | Moscow Oblast | 179,400 | DME (22 km) | — |
| Berezniki | Perm Krai | 167,748 | — | — |
| Volgodonsk | Rostov | 167,731 | — | — |
| Miass | Chelyabinsk | 167,500 | CEK (93 km) | — |
| Novocherkassk | Rostov | 166,974 | — | — |
| Nazran | Ingushetiya Republic | 164,131 | GRV (77 km) | — |
| Rubtsovsk | Altai Krai | 161,065 | — | — |
| Mytishchi | Moscow Oblast | 160,542 | SVO (21 km) | — |
| Salavat | Bashkortostan Republic | 159,893 | — | — |
| Ussuriysk | Primorye | 157,068 | VVO (48 km) | — |
| Lyubertsy | Moscow Oblast | 154,650 | ZIA (21 km) | — |
| Kovrov | Vladimir Oblast | 154,224 | IWA (69 km) | — |
| Balashikha | Moscow Oblast | 150,103 | ZIA (30 km) | — |
| Kolomna | Moscow Oblast | 147,690 | DME (67 km) | — |
| Nakhodka | Primorye | 146,920 | VVO (88 km) | — |
| Elektrostal’ | Moscow Oblast | 144,387 | ZIA (32 km) | — |
| Pyatigorsk | Stavropol Kray | 142,865 | MRV (20 km) | — |
| Maykop | Adygeya Republic | 141,970 | KRR (87 km) | — |
| Zheleznodorozhnyy | Moscow Oblast | 141,648 | ZIA (23 km) | — |
| Norilsk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 140,800 | NSK (35 km) | — |
| Al’met’yevsk | Tatarstan Republic | 140,437 | UUA (43 km) | — |
| Korolev | Moscow Oblast | 139,798 | SVO (27 km) | — |
| Kolpino | St.-Petersburg | 138,979 | LED (19 km) | — |
| Odintsovo | Moscow Oblast | 137,041 | VKO (9 km) | — |
| Nevinnomyssk | Stavropol Kray | 134,345 | STW (55 km) | — |
| Pervouralsk | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 133,600 | SVX (55 km) | — |
| Kislovodsk | Stavropol Kray | 132,771 | MRV (45 km) | — |
| Dimitrovgrad | Ulyanovsk | 132,226 | KUF (87 km) | — |
| Novomoskovsk | Tula Oblast | 130,982 | — | — |
| Kamyshin | Volgograd Oblast | 128,626 | — | — |
| Novocheboksarsk | Chuvash Republic | 128,468 | CSY (8 km) | — |
| Serpukhov | Moscow Oblast | 128,158 | DME (63 km) | — |
| Murom | Vladimir Oblast | 126,931 | — | — |
| Khasavyurt | Dagestan | 126,829 | GRV (73 km) | — |
| Neftekamsk | Bashkortostan Republic | 126,805 | IJK (96 km) | — |
| Cherkessk | Karachayevo-Cherkesiya Republic | 122,395 | MRV (83 km) | — |
| Orekhovo-Zuyevo | Moscow Oblast | 120,000 | ZIA (60 km) | — |
| Achinsk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 117,634 | — | — |
| Kyzyl | Republic of Tyva | 116,983 | KYZ (5 km) | — |
| Noginsk | Moscow Oblast | 115,979 | ZIA (39 km) | — |
| Yelets | Lipetsk Oblast | 115,688 | — | — |
| Novo-Peredelkino | Moscow | 115,536 | VKO (8 km) | — |
| Tobolsk | Tyumen Oblast | 113,800 | RMZ (16 km) | — |
| Shchyolkovo | Moscow Oblast | 113,000 | SVO (35 km) | — |
| Nefteyugansk | Khanty-Mansia | 112,632 | SGC (51 km) | — |
| Novokuybyshevsk | Samara Oblast | 111,800 | KUF (48 km) | — |
| Noyabrsk | Yamalo-Nenets | 110,000 | NOJ (8 km) | — |
| Bataysk | Rostov | 109,962 | — | — |
| Seversk | Tomsk Oblast | 109,844 | TOF (31 km) | — |
| Arzamas | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 109,479 | GOJ (93 km) | — |
| Sergiyev Posad | Moscow Oblast | 109,252 | SVO (58 km) | — |
| Leninsk-Kuznetsky | Kuzbass | 109,023 | KEJ (68 km) | — |
| Oktyabrsky | Bashkortostan Republic | 108,200 | UUA (47 km) | — |
| Obninsk | Kaluga Oblast | 107,392 | VKO (67 km) | — |
| Elista | Kalmykiya Republic | 106,971 | ESL (9 km) | — |
| Cherëmushki | Moscow | 106,587 | VKO (21 km) | — |
| Novotroitsk | Orenburg Oblast | 106,186 | OSW (24 km) | — |
| Derbent | Dagestan | 105,965 | MCX (98 km) | — |
| Kiselëvsk | Kuzbass | 104,000 | NOZ (24 km) | — |
| Velikiye Luki | Pskov Oblast | 103,149 | — | — |
| Pushkino | Moscow Oblast | 102,816 | SVO (26 km) | — |
| Artëm | Primorye | 102,300 | VVO (6 km) | — |
| Ukhta | Komi | 102,187 | UCT (6 km) | — |
| Kansk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 101,502 | — | — |
| Khanty-Mansiysk | Khanty-Mansia | 101,466 | HMA (4 km) | — |
| Mezhdurechensk | Kuzbass | 101,026 | NOZ (79 km) | — |
| Solikamsk | Perm Krai | 100,812 | — | — |
| Glazov | Udmurtiya Republic | 100,676 | — | — |
| Ust’-Ilimsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 100,271 | — | — |
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