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Russia
116 cities in the atlas · 124 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: Pavel Kazachkov · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Moscow
- Currency
- RUB
- Russian Ruble
- Local time
- Moscow Standard TimeUTC+03:00
- 10 more
- Calling code
- +7
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and F
Facts
Russia in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Moscow
- Currency
- Russian Ruble RUBToday's indicative rate: RUB 10 ≈ USD 0.119Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: RussianOfficial in part of the country: Tatar, Bashkir, Chechen, Avaric, Udmurt, Yakut, Kabardian, Erzya, Buriat, Moksha, Kumyk, Komi, Lezghian, Karachay-Balkar, Ingush, Tuvinian, Azerbaijani, Adyghe and Komi-PermyakSpoken: Russian, Tatar, Kalmyk, Adyghe and Komi
- Time zones
- Eastern European Standard TimeUTC+02:00Moscow Standard TimeUTC+03:00Samara Standard TimeUTC+04:00Yekaterinburg Standard TimeUTC+05:00Omsk Standard TimeUTC+06:00Krasnoyarsk Standard TimeUTC+07:00Irkutsk Standard TimeUTC+08:00Yakutsk Standard TimeUTC+09:00Vladivostok Standard TimeUTC+10:00Magadan Standard TimeUTC+11:00Kamchatka Standard TimeUTC+12:00
- Calling code
- +7
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and F220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 01fire02police03ambulance101fire102police103ambulance112general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 143,513,328 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 17,100,000 km²
- Internet domain
- .ru
When to go
Climate across Russia
In May to August, more than half of the 84 cities with figures in Russia have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow | -7° | -6° | 0° | 9° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 22° | 16° | 8° | 0° | -5° |
| Saint Petersburg | -7° | -5° | 0° | 8° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 20° | 15° | 7° | 0° | -4° |
| Krasnodar | 4° | 6° | 10° | 17° | 23° | 28° | 32° | 33° | 26° | 18° | 11° | 6° |
| Sochi | 5° | 6° | 9° | 14° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 23° | 18° | 12° | 7° |
| Kazan’ | -11° | -9° | -2° | 8° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 22° | 16° | 7° | -2° | -9° |
| Vladivostok | -6° | -3° | 3° | 9° | 14° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 21° | 14° | 4° | -4° |
| Novosibirsk | -16° | -13° | -3° | 7° | 17° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 15° | 5° | -5° | -13° |
| Volgograd | -4° | -3° | 6° | 15° | 24° | 29° | 32° | 31° | 23° | 14° | 5° | -2° |
| Kaliningrad | -1° | 0° | 5° | 12° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 23° | 18° | 12° | 6° | 1° |
| Yekaterinburg | -13° | -11° | -3° | 6° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 21° | 14° | 5° | -5° | -12° |
| Cities good for going, of 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 74 | 72 | 69 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
On the map
Where Russia is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
Cities
Cities in Russia
All 116 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
- MoscowCapital10,381,222
- Saint PetersburgSt.-Petersburg5,351,935
- NovosibirskNovosibirsk Oblast1,612,833
- YekaterinburgSverdlovsk Oblast1,495,066
- Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Oblast1,259,013
- Kazan’Tatarstan Republic1,243,500
- ChelyabinskChelyabinsk Oblast1,202,371
- OmskOmsk Oblast1,172,070
- SamaraSamara Oblast1,163,399
- Rostov-on-DonRostov Oblast1,130,305
- UfaBashkortostan Republic1,120,547
- KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk Krai1,090,811
- VoronezhVoronezh Oblast1,047,549
- VolgogradVolgograd Oblast1,013,533
- PermPerm Krai982,419
- KrasnodarKrasnodar Krai899,541
- SaratovSaratov Oblast844,858
- TyumenTyumen Oblast768,358
- TolyattiSamara Oblast702,879
- IzhevskUdmurtiya Republic648,213
- BarnaulAltai Krai632,372
- UlyanovskUlyanovsk Oblast626,540
- IrkutskIrkutsk Oblast623,869
- Khabarovsk618,150
- YaroslavlYaroslavl Oblast608,722
- VladivostokPrimorskiy (Maritime) Kray604,901
- MakhachkalaDagestan596,356
- TomskTomsk Oblast574,002
- OrenburgOrenburg Oblast564,773
- KemerovoKemerovo Oblast558,973
More cities · 54
- Novokuznetsk
- Ryazan
- Astrakhan
- Penza
- Naberezhnye Chelny
- Lipetsk
- Kirov
- Cheboksary
- Tula
- Kaliningrad
- Kursk
- Stavropol
- Bryansk
- Tver'
- Magnitogorsk
- Ivanovo
- Nizhny Tagil
- Ulan-Ude
- Vladimir
- Arkhangelsk
- Chita
- Belgorod
- Kaluga
- Smolensk
- Sochi
- Saransk
- Cherepovets
- Vologda
- Kurgan
- Vladikavkaz
- Oryol
- Surgut
- Grozny
- Murmansk
- Petrozavodsk
- Kostroma
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- Syktyvkar
- Nalchik
- Yakutsk
- Blagoveshchensk
- Pskov
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- Abakan
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
- Kyzyl
- Tobolsk
- Elista
- Khanty-Mansiysk
- Magadan
- Vorkuta
- Salekhard
- Naryan-Mar
- Anadyr
Airports
Airports in Russia
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
- DMEDomodedovo International AirportMoscow
- SVOSheremetyevo International AirportMoscow
- VKOVnukovo International AirportMoscow
- ZIAZhukovsky International AirportMoscow
- LEDPulkovo AirportSaint Petersburg
- OVBNovosibirsk Tolmachevo AirportNovosibirsk
- SVXKoltsovo AirportYekaterinburg
- GOJNizhny Novgorod / Strigino International AirportNizhny Novgorod
- KZNKazan International AirportKazan’
- CEKKurchatov Chelyabinsk International AirportChelyabinsk
- OMSOmsk Central AirportOmsk
- KUFKurumoch International AirportSamara
- UFAUfa International AirportUfa
- KJAKrasnoyarsk International AirportKrasnoyarsk
- VOGVolgograd International AirportVolgograd
- PEEPerm International AirportPerm
- KRRKrasnodar Pashkovsky International AirportKrasnodar
- GSVGagarin International AirportSaratov
- TJMRoshchino International AirportTyumen
- BAXBarnaul Gherman Titov International AirportBarnaul
- IKTIrkutsk International AirportIrkutsk
- IARGolden Ring Yaroslavl International AirportYaroslavl
- MCXMakhachkala Uytash International AirportMakhachkala
- TOFTomsk Kamov AirportTomsk
- KEJAlexei Leonov Kemerovo International AirportKemerovo
- ASFAstrakhan Narimanovo Boris M. Kustodiev International AirportAstrakhan
- KGDKhrabrovo AirportKaliningrad
- MQFMagnitogorsk International AirportMagnitogorsk
- UUDBaikal International AirportUlan-Ude
- HTAChita-Kadala International AirportChita
- AERSochi International AirportSochi
- SKXSaransk International AirportSaransk
- SGCSurgut International AirportSurgut
- GRVAkhmat Kadyrov Grozny International AirportGrozny
- MMKEmperor Nicholas II Murmansk AirportMurmansk
- NJCNizhnevartovsk AirportNizhnevartovsk
- YKSPlaton Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportYakutsk
- UUSYuzhno-Sakhalinsk International AirportYuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- ABAAbakan International AirportAbakan
- PKCYelizovo AirportPetropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
- NSKAlykel International AirportNorilsk
- VVOVladivostok International AirportArtyom
- MRVMineralnye Vody AirportMineralnye Vody
Medium airports · 81
- KCY · Krasnoyarsk
- VOZ · Voronezh
- IJK · Izhevsk
- ULV · Ulyanovsk
- ULY · Ulyanovsk
- KHV · Khabarovsk
- REN · Orenburg
- NOZ · Novokuznetsk
- PEZ · Penza
- KVX · Kirov
- CSY · Cheboksary
- STW · Stavropol
- IWA · Ivanovo
- ARH · Arkhangelsk
- CEE · Cherepovets
- KRO · Kurgan
- PES · Petrozavodsk
- KMW · Kostroma
- KXK · Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- BTK · Bratsk
- OSW · Orsk
- SCW · Syktyvkar
- NAL · Nalchik
- NBC · Nizhnekamsk
- BQS · Blagoveshchensk
- PKV · Pskov
- BWO · Balakovo
- KYZ · Kyzyl
- RMZ · Tobolsk
- NOJ · Noyabrsk
- ESL · Elista
- UCT · Ukhta
- HMA · Khanty-Mansiysk
- NUX · Novy Urengoy
- GDX · Magadan
- UUA · Bugulma
- VKT · Vorkuta
- IGT · Sunzha
- NER · Neryungri
- KSZ · Kotlas
- KGP · Kogalym
- NYA · Nyagan
- GDZ · Gelendzhik
- SLY · Salekhard
- UKX · Ust’-Kut
- NYM · Nadym
- PEX · Pechora
- USK · Usinsk
- MJZ · Mirny
- URJ · Uray
- OGZ · Beslan
- VUS · Velikiy Ustyug
- NLI · Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
- ULK · Lensk
- OVS · Sovetskiy
- EYK · Beloyarskiy
- EIE · Yeniseysk
- NNM · Naryan-Mar
- DYR · Anadyr
- PYJ · Udachny
- AMV · Amderma
- BVJ · Bovanenkovo
- CKH · Chokurdah
- CYX · Cherskiy
- HTG · Khatanga
- IAA · Igarka
- IKS · Tiksi
- KPW · Keperveem
- MQJ · Khonuu
- OHO · Okhotsk
- OLZ · Olyokminsk
- PWE · Apapelgino
- SBT · Sabetta
- SEK · Srednekolymsk
- SYS · Saskylakh
- USR · Ust-Nera
- VAQ · Vanavara
- VEO · Severo-Yeniseysk
- VYI · Vilyuisk
- ZIX · Zhigansk
- ZKP · Zyryanka
Photographs
Russia in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
MoscowPhoto: U.S. Department of State · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Saint PetersburgPhoto: Florstein ( Telegram: WikiPhoto.Space ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
KrasnodarKrasnodar-1 railway station · Photo: Ален Катин · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kazan’Qazan Kremlin · Photo: Fendes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
VladivostokPhoto: Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
NovosibirskPhoto: Alex Polezhaev · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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