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Tomsk
Tomsk (Томск), city in western Siberia and administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Founded 1604 by decree of Boris Godunov; Siberia's first university (1888); noted for historic wooden architecture and student population.
Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село)
Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село), now Pushkin, is a former Romanov imperial residence 25 km south of Saint Petersburg, home to the Catherine Palace with the Amber Room, the Alexander Palace of Nicholas II, and the Imperial Lyceum of Pushkin.
Tula, Russia
Tula (Тула) is a Russian city, oblast center 185 km from Moscow, first mentioned in 1146. Known for its 1520 kremlin, the 1712 Peter I arms factory, the Arms Museum, samovars, and gingerbread.
Tver (Тверь)
Tver (Тверь) is a Volga River city founded in 1135, administrative center of Tver Oblast, medieval rival principality capital, rebuilt on a regular three-ray plan after the 1763 fire, population 412,806 (2025).
Tyumen (Тюмень)
Tyumen (Тюмень), founded 1586 on the Tura River by voivodes Sukin and Myasnoy, is the first Russian city in Siberia and administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, now a major oil and gas hub.
Ufa (Уфа)
Ufa (Уфа) is the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia, founded as a fortress in 1574, a city of 1.19 million known for oil refining, machine building, and chemicals.
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude (Улан-Удэ), formerly Verkhneudinsk until 1934, is the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, on the Selenga at the Uda confluence; founded 1666, population 435,500 (2019), Trans-Siberian junction.
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск)
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск), formerly Simbirsk, is a Volga city and capital of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia; founded 1648, renamed 9 May 1924 for Lenin (born there as Ulyanov), 632,771 residents in 2024, UNESCO City of Literature since 2015.
Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, its second city after Vladivostok. Founded as the village of Nikolskoye in 1866, it is a junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Veliky Novgorod (Великий Новгород)
Veliky Novgorod (Великий Новгород), Novgorod the Great: ancient Russian city on the Volkhov River, first mentioned 859, capital of the medieval Novgorod Republic until Muscovy's 1478 annexation, UNESCO World Heritage site.
Verkhoyansk
Verkhoyansk (Верхоянск), a small town on the Yana River in Yakutia, Russia, about 115 km north of the Arctic Circle; a Pole of Cold with a −67.7°C record low (1892) and the WMO-verified Arctic record high of 38°C (20 June 2020).
Vladikavkaz (Владикавказ)
Vladikavkaz (Владикавказ, Ossetian Дзæуджыхъæу), formerly Ordzhonikidze and Dzaudzhikau, is the capital of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, founded as a fortress on the Terek on 6 May 1784 to guard the Georgian Military Road.
Vladimir
Vladimir (Владимир), city on the Klyazma River 180 km east of Moscow, administrative center of Vladimir Oblast; medieval capital of North-Eastern Rus (1157-1439) with UNESCO-listed 12th-century white-stone monuments; population about 341,600 (2026).
Vladivostok (Владивосток)
Vladivostok (Владивосток), 'Ruler of the East', is the Pacific port city and administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, founded 2 July 1860 on Golden Horn Bay; Trans-Siberian terminus, free port regime, population about 654,000.
Volgograd
Volgograd (Tsaritsyn 1589, Stalingrad 1925–1961), a Russian city on the lower Volga; site of the Battle of Stalingrad, Mamayev Kurgan, Volga-Don Canal hub, about 1.02 million residents.
Volzhsky
Volzhsky (Волжский), industrial satellite city of Volgograd on the Akhtuba, founded 1951 for builders of the Volzhskaya HPP (2,671 MW, Europe's largest), city since 1954, 313,034 residents (2025), sotsgorod planning.
Vorkuta (Воркута)
Vorkuta (Воркута) is a coal-mining city in the Komi Republic, Russia, at 67°30'N, 64°E in the Pechora basin. Founded via Gulag camps in 1931, linked by rail in 1941; population fell from 100,200 (1989) to 59,200 (2016).
Voronezh
Voronezh (Воронеж), a million-plus city and administrative center of Voronezh Oblast in western Russia on the Voronezh River; founded as a fortress in 1586, birthplace of the Russian navy under Peter I, rebuilt after 1942–1943 fighting, now a major student and industrial center.
Vyborg (Выборг)
Vyborg (Выборг; formerly Viipuri, Finland) is a Russian border city founded in 1293 around Vyborg Castle, which passed from Swedish to Russian (1710) to Finnish and Soviet control.
Yakutsk
Yakutsk (Якутск), capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on the Lena River, is the world's coldest city, founded in 1632, built on 250–422 m of permafrost, with about 385,000 residents and a diamond-based regional economy.
Yaroslavl (Ярославль)
Yaroslavl (Ярославль), Russian city on the Volga at the Kotorosl confluence 250 km northeast of Moscow; founded by Yaroslav the Wise, a UNESCO World Heritage historic center with 17th-century churches and a neoclassical radial plan.
Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург)
Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург), formerly Sverdlovsk, is Russia's fourth-largest city, founded 1723 and named for Catherine I. Ural industrial, transport, and cultural hub on the Iset River with about 1.5 million residents, constructivist architecture, and top Russian quality-of-life rankings.
Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar-Ola (Йошкар-Ола, "Red City"), formerly Tsarevokokshaisk and Krasnokokshaisk, is the capital of Mari El, Russia, founded in 1584 as the fortress Tsaryov city on Kokshaga by decree of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich; population about 296,000.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Toyohara, 豊原) is the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; Japanese colonial capital of Karafuto 1905–1945, renamed 1946, population about 209,000.
Zheleznodorozhnyy, Moscow Oblast
Zheleznodorozhnyy (Железнодорожный), a former city in Moscow Oblast east of Moscow, grew from the 1861 Obiralovka railway station, was renamed in 1939, became a city in 1952, and merged into Balashikha in 2015.
Zlatoust
Zlatoust (Златоуст) is a southern Ural city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, founded in 1754 around an iron foundry, known for its 1815 arms factory, engraved steel, and metallurgy.