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Russian Cities with Progressively More Letters

Guess the 25 independent Russian cities (and other rural settlements) in question with the clues provided to you. A descending 1–25 letter long sequence in the answer column will appear if you get them all correct. You must type out the city's FULL name to get credit.
A row highlighted in blue means the city is both the capital AND most populous urban area in the region.
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Last updated: December 16, 2025
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No.
Region
Pop. (mil)
Hint
Answer
1
[—]
19.1
First letter of Russia's most populous city
M
2
Novosibirsk
0.03
Town named for large river that runs beside it
Ob
3
Bashkortostan
1.12
Est. 1574 on the orders of Ivan the Terrible
Ufa
4
[—]
1.13
Settled on namesake branch of the Irtysh River
Omsk
5
Zabaykalsky
0.33
Settled on namesake branch of the Ingoda River
Chita
6
[—]
0.85
Est. 1586; Russia's first Siberian settlement
Tyumen
7
Altai (Krai)
0.63
Historic mining city rich in copper and silver
Barnaul
8
[—]
0.27
World's largest city above the Arctic Circle
Murmansk
9
[—]
1.16
Largest city in South Russia; on the River Kuban
Krasnodar
10
[—]
5.60
Second largest city in Russia – Saint _______
Petersburg
11
[—]
0.30
Est. 1584; Russia's first international port
Arkhangelsk
12
Krasnodar
0.26
Large Black Sea port; lit. "New Russia"
Novorossiysk
13
Sverdlovsk
1.54
Metropolis named for Empress Catherine the Great
Yekaterinburg
14
Khanty-Mansi
0.28
Second largest city in K-M; known for oil boom
Nizhnevartovsk
15
Amur
0.23
lit. "The City of the Annunciation"; opposite Heihe, CN
Blagoveshchensk
16
Sakhalin
0.18
Largest Russian city in formerly Japanese territory
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
17
Tatarstan
0.55
City home to the world's largest car factory
Naberezhnye-Chelny
18
Rostov
0.08
On the Donets River; ~10 mi east of Ukraine
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
19
Zabaykalsky
0.02
On the Balyaga River and Trans-Siberian Railway
Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
20
Irkutsk
0.03
One of Russia's largest open iron mine cities
Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky
21
Sverdlovsk
0.01
lit. "Upper Banks of the Sinyachikhi"
Verkhnyaya-Sinyachikha
22
Altai (Rep.)
<0.01
lit. "Leeward of the Tyolyos (Tribe) Lake"
Podvetrenno-Teleutskoye
23
Kamchatka
0.17
Russia's easternmost major city (100k+ pop.)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
24
Krasnodar
0.01
Quaint village with WWII museum founded 1794
Staronizhestebliyevskaya
25
Amur
<0.01
lit. "Upper Section of the City of the Annunciation"
Verkhneblagoveshchenskoye
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