Pages in category "Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

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 …

Apr 21, 2017 · The one above simply plots the 296 largest Soviet cities, which is every Soviet city with over 100,000 people. It becomes much easier to see just how important Ukraine and the …

Closed cities are part of Russia’s Soviet legacy. As the USSR was aspiring to rival the U.S. militarily, numerous closed cities popped up in the communist country, where research and...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its …

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 …

Cities and towns in the Soviet Union: Principal Cities: Moscow, Leningrad (for a short time named Petrograd (1914-1924), today Saint Petersburg), Kyiv, Baku, Odesa, Kharkiv, Tashkent, …

Jan 9, 2025 · St. Petersburg - Soviet Union, Russia, History: Civil war reigned in Russia from 1918 to 1920, during which the Bolsheviks successfully defended their government against …

Jan 30, 2025 · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific …

4 days ago · The capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) until the union dissolved in 1991, Moscow attracted world attention as a center of communist power; indeed, …