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Third Largest City in Russia??
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Posted by: Raspberry

Been seeing Yekaterinburg being referred to as the "third largest city in Russia" by some sources. However, other sources say that Nizhniy Novogorod is really the third city.

Is one being referred to by size, or by population? Anyone have any input on this??

Posted by: metaforest

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Originally Posted by Raspberry

Been seeing Yekaterinburg being referred to as the "third largest city in Russia" by some sources. However, other sources say that Nizhniy Novogorod is really the third city.

Is one being referred to by size, or by population? Anyone have any input on this??

I read it was the 5th largest city.

Really, I do not know. Depends on who you ask, and how they think of BIG...

Yekaterinburg is 1.6M people and is spread over a very large area. Take a look on Google Earth.
Chelyabinsk is 1.3M and is also a sprawl...

For comparison: Seattle is 600K people, but it's metro area which is economically part of the city holds 2.5 million: more than half of the state population.... Where is the border really drawn? The political border does not tell anything useful in this case. I think this is also true of Yekaterinburg.

YMMV

-Metaforest

Posted by: Spakoyna

The 3rd largest city in Russia is Novosibirsk.

Posted by: Volga Trader

Moscow, 10.4 m
St. Petersburg, 4.6 m
Novosibirsk, 1.4 m
Ekatrinburg, 1.3 m
Nizhny, 1.3
Samara, 1.1

Saratov, 0.9 but Saratov+Engels = 1.2 m

Moscow Region 37.5 m people 27% of population, about 35-40% of economy
Upper Volga (NN - Saratov) 31.1 m, people. NN & Samara are notable prosperous.

The Ekatrinburg Okrug is in 6th place which suprised me.

Posted by: Volga Trader

The figures I quoted in the previous message are 2005 estimates. In the 1990's Nizhny had the 3rd largest registered population. The more propsperous Russian cities contain large numbers of unregistered inhabitants.

Posted by: Volga Trader

The two large Russian cities display the most distinct city region formation. The size of Moscow and St Petersburg relative to the other major cities reflects the long history of Russia as a centralized state.

Moscow hosts half of Russia’s banking activities, more than one fifth of its retail and one third of the national wholesale trade. But, with a mere 5.8 per cent of Russia’s total population as of 2000, Moscow – although unquestionably a large city – is a primate city in economic rather than in relative population terms.

Between the 1970s and early 1980s, the growth of Russia’s biggest cities proceeded largely unchecked. Faced with chronic urban housing shortages, pollution and escalating traffic congestion, authorities did attempt to control migration to the major cities while simultaneously encouraging development of small- and medium-sized cities. Nevertheless, the scope and tempo of big-city growth continued with combinations of natural growth and considerable illegal and undocumented labour migration.

Whereas in 1970, six Russian cities had populations of over one million, by 1990 there were 12. Due to the strong concentration of economic and political power in Moscow and Leningrad, metropolitanization and urban region formation did not become a feature of many Russian cities. Only the two cities with federal status, Leningrad and Moscow, grew to become regional cities with populations of 4.6 million and 8.4 million inhabitants, respectively, for the city proper, and total urban region populations of 6.3 and 15.2 million, respectively.

Posted by: vic2012

Volga,

Nestled in, very close behind Ekaterinburg and Nizhny is my stamping ground: Omsk at 1.25m

Posted by: Jutman

I like this source : http://www.geohive.com/cntry/russia.php

Under cities, there is this with more than Ѕ million in 2002:
Moskva [EN Moscow] 10,126,424
Sankt Peterburg [EN St.Petersburg] 4,661,219
Novosibirsk 1,425,508
Nizhnii Novgorod 1,311,252
Ekaterinoburg [EN Yekaterinburg] 1,293,537
Samara (Samarskaya oblast) 1,157,880
Omsk 1,134,016
Kazan 1,105,289
Chelyabinsk 1,077,174
Rostov-na-Donu 1,068,267
Ufa 1,042,437
Volgograd 1,011,417
Perm 1,001,653
------------------------
Krasnoyarsk 909,341
Saratov 873,055
Voronezh 848,752
Tolyatti 702,879
Krasnodar 646,175
Ulyanovsk 635,947
Izhevsk 632,140
Yaroslavl 613,088
Barnaul 600,749
Vladivostok 594,701
Irkutsk 593,604
Khabarovsk 583,072
Novokuznetsk 549,870
Orenburg 549,361
Ryazan 521,560
Penza 518,025
Tyumen 510,719
Naberezhnye Tchelny 509,870
Lipetsk 506,114
Astrakhan 504,501

There was a news some months ago, saying that Skt.pete has falling population due to the high price of accomodation and general living costs.