From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Type of federal subject of Russia
In the
Russian Federation, a city of federal importance
[1]
[2] (
Russian: город федерального значения,
romanized: gorod federalnogo znacheniya), also known as a federal city, is a
city that has a status of both an inhabited locality and a constituent
federal subject. Russia claims three federal cities:
Moscow,
Saint Petersburg and
Sevastopol,
[3] which was
annexed in 2014 and remains internationally recognised as part of
Ukraine.
[4]
Moscow and Saint Petersburg are
the largest cities in the country:
Moscow is the
national capital and
Saint Petersburg is a former Russian capital and an important port city by the
Baltic Sea.
[5] Currently,
Sevastopol houses the
Sevastopol Naval Base, the main port of the Russian
Black Sea Fleet.
Notes
-
^ Annexed by Russia in 2014; recognized internationally as a part of Ukraine.
References
-
^
"Chapter 3. The Federal Structure - The Constitution of the Russian Federation". www.constitution.ru.
-
^
"Конституция Российской Федерации".
-
^
"Putin signs laws on reunification of Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia".
ITAR TASS. March 21, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
-
^
"General Assembly Adopts Resolution Calling upon States Not to Recognize Changes in Status of Crimea Region | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
-
^ Gritsai, Olga; van der Wusten, Herman (2000). "Moscow and St. Petersburg, a sequence of capitals, a tale of two cities". GeoJournal. 51 (1/2): 33–45.
doi:
10.1023/A:1010849220006.
JSTOR
41147495.
S2CID
154264277.
-
^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (May 21, 2004).
"Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Archived from
the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
-
^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (January 1, 2014).
"Оценка численности населения на 1 января 2014 года и в среднем за 2013 год (Estimated population of Russia on 1 January 2014 and the average for 2013)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ^
a
b
"A General data of the region". Sevastopol City State Administration. Archived from
the original on February 11, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
|
---|
|
Internal additional non-constitutional divisions by different institutions | |
|