| Pre-Soviet Name | Named After | Soviet Name | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrograd | The First Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | Leningrad | 100%
|
| Yuzivka | The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Stalino | 81%
|
| Tsaritsyn | The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Stalingrad | 74%
|
| Tiflis | Local Name for the City | Tbilisi | 63%
|
| Erevan | Local Name for the City | Yerevan | 59%
|
| Nizhny Novgorod | Socialist Writer | Gorky | 48%
|
| Yekaterinoslav | The Third Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee | Dnipropetrovsk | 44%
|
| Novonikolayevsk | Siberia | Novosibirsk | 33%
|
| Yekaterinburg | The Second Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets | Sverdlovsk | 33%
|
| Dyushambe | The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Stalinabad | 30%
|
| Verny | Nearby Medieval Settlement | Alma-Ata | 26%
|
| Pishpek | The Fourth People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs | Frunze | 26%
|
| Samara | The First First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union | Kuybyshev | 26%
|
| Yekaterinodar | Communism | Krasnodar | 22%
|
| Petrovsk-Port | Commander of the Dagestan Red Army | Makhachkala | 22%
|
| Perm | The Third Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | Molotov | 22%
|
| Stavropol | The Third General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party | Tolyatti | 22%
|
| Naberezhnye Chelny | The Seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Brezhnev | 19%
|
| Akmolinsk | The Virgin Lands Campaign | Tselinograd | 15%
|
| Simbirsk | The First Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | Ulyanovsk | 15%
|
| Izhevsk | The Thirteenth First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union | Ustinov | 15%
|
| Aleksandrovsk | The Dnieper River | Zaporizhzhia | 7%
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| Ashkhabad | People's Commissar of Labor at the 3rd Regional Congress of Soviets of Turkestan | Poltoratsk | 4%
|
| Stavropol | The Third Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Voroshilovsk | 4%
|
| Chernyaev | Local Name for the City | Shymkent | 0%
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