Population
|
City
|
8,967,332
|
Moscow
|
5,023,500
|
Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
|
2,587,945
|
Kiev (Kyiv)
|
2,079,000
|
Tashkent
|
1,607,000
|
Minsk
|
1,593,970
|
Kharkov (Kharkiv)
|
1,438,133
|
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod)
|
1,436,516
|
Novosibirsk
|
1,364,621
|
Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
|
|
Population
|
City
|
1,259,692
|
Tbilisi
|
1,254,460
|
Kuybyshev (Samara)
|
1,178,000
|
Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro)
|
1,150,055
|
Baku
|
1,148,418
|
Omsk
|
1,141,777
|
Chelyabinsk
|
1,115,371
|
Odessa
|
1,109,100
|
Donetsk
|
|
Population
|
City
|
1,100,372
|
Yerevan
|
1,094,378
|
Kazan
|
1,090,944
|
Perm
|
1,082,052
|
Ufa
|
1,071,900
|
Alma-Ata (Almaty)
|
1,022,578
|
Volgograd
|
1,019,305
|
Rostov-on-Don
|
915,106
|
Riga
|
|
More specifically, it’s changing from being based off of the Russian name (Киев) to the Ukrainian name (Київ)