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Pages in category "Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
Urban planning in the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War era was dictated by ideological, political, social as well as economic motives. Unlike the urban development in the Western countries, Soviet-style planning often called for the complete redesigning of cities.
Dnipro – former closed city, a major center of Soviet aerospace industry. Simferopol-28, Crimea – former closed town, a Soviet military space mission control center. Kamianske – former closed city, largest Uranium processing factory in former Soviet Union. [28] Feodosia-13, Crimea – former closed town, a central storage of nuclear weapons.
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
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 ...
During Joseph Stalin's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour of him as part of the cult of personality surrounding him.
Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union (168 P) Pages in category "Socialist planned cities" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.
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.