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This is a list of Russian towns and cities that were renamed.
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This is a list of Russian towns and cities that were renamed.
Historical reasons behind geographical renaming were
In the list below sometimes the year of renaming appears in brackets after the new name.
Rybinsk is the second-largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers, 267 kilometres (166 mi) north-north-east of Moscow. Population: 200,771 (2010 Russian census); 222,653 (2002 Census); 251,442 (1989 Soviet census).
Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country. Places are also sometimes assigned dual names for various reasons.
Administratively, Leningrad Oblast is divided into seventeen districts and a town of oblast significance, Sosnovy Bor. Lomonosovsky District is the only one in Russia which has its administrative center located in the area of a different subject of Russian Federation.
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This is a list of the Coats of arms of the Russian Federation and its federal subjects.
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Zarechny, Zarechnaya, or Zarechnoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Yuzhny, Yuzhnaya, or Yuzhnoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Mirny, Mirnaya, or Mirnoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Kaliningrad, until 1946 known as Königsberg, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The city sits about 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia. The city is situated on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon on the Baltic Sea, and is the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2020 was 489,359, with up to 800,000 residents in the urban agglomeration. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region, and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea.
Novy, Novaya, or Novoye is the name of several rural localities in Russia.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Samara, Russia.
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