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a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged. ‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.
This is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin.Some or all of the locations in former Soviet republics and satellites were renamed (frequently reverting to pre-Soviet names) after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the names of the thousands of streets, avenues, squares ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
During World War I, Saint Petersburg was renamed 'Petrograd', amounting effectively to a translation of the name from German to Russian. At a meeting on November 16, 2016, with the prime ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Russia's prime minister Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Americano coffee should be renamed "Rusiano ...
The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities. Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.
New Moscow (Russian: Новая Москва, romanized: Novaya Moskva) [1] or Greater Moscow are territories that were transferred to the Russian capital Moscow in 2012 in the course of the largest project to expand the territory of Moscow in the entire history of the administrative-territorial division of the city. [2]
The street runs by the Russian embassy. [30] [29] Luxembourg: Luxembourg City: Route nationale 3 Boulevard de Kyiv (Kyiv Boulevard) 18 August 2022 Official The new name notably uses the Ukrainian spelling rather than the French spelling (Kiev), as the latter is identical to the city's name in Russian. [31] North Macedonia: Skopje: Part of ul.