1117 Russian cities with population estimates (as of January 1, 2020) and geographic coordinates

Files and columns

1. towns.csv:

• city_name
• population - Rosstat estimate, thousand people, as of 1.1.2020
• region_name - subnational region (oblast, republic or krai)

To be added (via dadata.ru and OSM):

• lat,lon - geographic coordinates (from OSM)
• federal_district, eg "Центральный"
• region_iso_code - ISO 3166 code, eg RU-VLD
• fias_id - код ФИАС
• kladr_id - код КЛАДР (depreciated)
• place_id - OpenStreetMap (OSM) identifier

2. regions.csv - list of Russian Federation regions

Sources

• City list and city population collected from Rosstat publication Регионы России. Основные социально-экономические показатели городов and parsed from publication Microsoft Word files.
• City list corresponds to this Wikipedia article.

Comments

• Белоозерский not found in Rosstat publication, but should be considered a city as of 1.1.2020
• Дмитриев and Дмитриев-Льговский are the same city.
• Ханты-Мансийский and Ямало-Ненецкий autonomous regions excluded to avoid duplication (parts of Тюменская область).
• Several notable towns are classified as administrative part of larger cities (eg Сестрорецк is a municpality at Санкт-Петербург) and not reported in this dataset.