Post-Soviet Cities That Have Lost the Most People

Name the cities in Post-Soviet states that have lost the most people since the last Soviet census in 1989.
Populations highlighted in italics are estimates for cities formerly occupied by Ukraine but annexed by Russia sometime since 2014
Mainly based off of citypopulation.de. For other sources, view this Google Doc
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Est. Loss
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Country
City
-508,005
-46%
Ukraine
Donetsk
-420,000
-81%
Ukraine
Mariupol
-318,563
-35%
Latvia
Riga
-233,148
-16%
Russia
Nizhny Novgorod
Gorky
-231,695
-47%
Ukraine
Luhansk
-209,395
-18%
Ukraine
Dnipro
Dnipropetrovsk
-204,707
-43%
Russia
Murmansk
-204,223
-47%
Ukraine
Makiivka
-188,834
-12%
Ukraine
Kharkiv
-178,221
-53%
Ukraine
Horlivka
-173,857
-20%
Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia
-122,605
-25%
Russia
Ivanovo
-119,256
-29%
Russia
Archangelsk
Arkhangelsk
-114,862
-10%
Armenia
Yerevan
-113,877
-27%
Lithuania
Kaunas
-109,155
-15%
Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih
-109,014
-25%
Russia
Nizhniy Tagil
-105,595
-39%
Russia
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
-104,834
-9%
Ukraine
Odesa
-101,220
-37%
Russia
Prokopyevsk
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