this is somehow even more ridiculous than my adygea quiz
Cities can also be entered in Cyrillic. Russian and Altay are accepted, with some Kazakh/Qazaq type-ins for a few larger places (I might update this with more type-ins later).
Romanization of Cyrillic I used: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SwFt8tpYA6Nx3c6b0i2i2MRYXSVg-M3JaYg5m6L1Ugw/edit?usp=sharing
Data from Russia 2010 Census: http://pop-stat.mashke.org/russia-census-2010/altaj.htm
Maps from NaturalEarth: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/