List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

Background

• a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia''' after the October Revolution of 1917
• more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons
• in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
• soon after the reconquest of Southern Sakhalin in 1945, Japanese placenames were replaced with Russian ones.
• Circa 1972-73, many Chinese or Chinese-sounding place names in the Russian Far East were replaced with Russian-sounding ones
• in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, renamings happened

  List

• Abinsky → Abinsk
• Adygeysk → Teuchezhsk → Adygeysk
• Aksayskaya → Aksay
• Alexandria → Dakhovsky → Dakhovsky Posad → Sochi
• Alexandrovsk → Polyarny
• Alexandrovskaya → Alexandrovka → Alexandrovsky → Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
• Alexandrovskoye → Alexandrovka → Krasnopartizansk → Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya → Belogorsk
• Alexeyevsk → Svobodny
• Almetyevo → Almetyevsk
• Antrea → Kamennogorsk
• Apsheronskaya → Apsheronsk
• Armyansky Aul → Armavir
• Arzamas-16 → Kremlyov → Sarov
• Astapovo → Lev Tolstoy
• Balanda → Kalininsk
• Bashanta → Gorodovikovsk
• Batalpashinkaya → Batalpashinsk → Sulimov → Yezhovo-Cherkessk → Cherkessk
• Beloozero → Belozersk
• Belorechenskaya → Belorechensk
• Beloretsk → Mezhgorye
• Belotsarsk → Khem-Beldyr → Kyzyl
• Bikinskaya → Bikin
• Biryuch → Budyonny → Krasnogvardeyskoye → Biryuch
• Bobriki → Donskoy
• Bobriki → Stalinogorsk → Novomoskovsk
• Bogdanovo → Spassk → Bednodemyanovsk → Spassk
• Bolokhovsky → Bolokhovo
• Bondyuzhsk → Mendeleyevsk
• Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor
• Beryozovskoye → Koivisto → Primorsk
• Chegem Pervy → Chegem
• Chembar → Belinsky
• Chertanla → Novyy Uzen' → Novouzensk
• Chesnokovka → Novoaltaysk
• Chelyabinsk-40 → Chelyabinsk-65 → Ozyorsk
• Chelyabinsk-70 → Snezhinsk
• Chibyu → Ukhta
• Chinnay → Krasnogorsk
• Cranz → Zelenogradsk
• Darkehmen → Angerapp → Ozyorsk
• Dmitriyev → Dmitriyev-na-Svape → Dmitriyev
• Dmitrovka → Dmitrovsk → Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky → Dmitrovsk
• Dokshukino → Nartkala
• Dolgoprudny → Dirizhablstroy → Dolgoprudny
• Dvigatelstroy → Kaspiysk
• Dzerzhinsky → Sorsk
• Elektroperedacha → Elektrogorsk
• Enso → Svetogorsk
• Esutoru → Uglegorsk
• Fischhausen → Primorsk
• Friedland → Pravdinsk
• Galkino-Vrasskoye → Ochiai → Dolinsk
• Goly Karamysh → Baltser → Krasnoarmeysk
• Gorodetsk → Bezhetsk
• Gorodok → Zakamensk
• Grushyovskaya → Gornoye Grushyovskoye → Alexandrovsk-Grushyovsky → Shakhty
• Gukovsky → Gukovo
• Gumbinnen → Gusev
• Gundorovka → Donetsk
• Gzhatsk → Gagarin
• Heiliegenbeil → Mamonovo
• Heinrichswalde → Slavsk
• Iletskaya Zashchita → Iletsk → Iletskoye → Iletskaya Zashchita → Sol-Iletsk
• Iman → Dalnerechensk
• Insterburg → Chernyakhovsk
• Ivanovo-Voznesensk → Ivanovo
• Izhevsky Zavod → Izhevsk → Ustinov → Izhevsk
• Izhma → Sosnogorsk
• Kainsk → Kuybyshev
• Kalata → Kirovgrad
• Kaliningrad → Korolyov
• Kamen → Kamen-na-Obi
• Kamenskaya → Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
• Kamensky Zavod → Kamensk-Uralsky
• Kamyshin → Dmitriyevsk → Kamyshin
• Kasivabora → Severo-Kurilsk
• Kaspiysky → Lagan
• Khabarovka → Khabarovsk
• Kharovsky → Kharovsk
• Khibinogorsk → Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
• Khlynov → Vyatka → Kirov
• Khonto → Nevelsk
• Khotchino → Gatchina → Trotsk → Krasnogvardeysk → Gatchina
• Khrushchyovskaya → Uzlovaya
• Kiyskoye → Mariinsk
• Kodinsky → Kodinsk
• Kolchugino → Lenino → Leninsk-Kuznetsky
• Komsomolsky → Yugorsk
• Korela → Keksgolm → Priozersk
• Korsakovsky Post → Otomari → Korsakov
• Kozlov → Michurinsk
• Königsberg → Kaliningrad
• Krasnaya Sloboda → Krasnoslobodsk
• Krasnoflotsky → Krasnoarmeysky → Krasnoarmeysk
• Krasnoyarsk-26 → Zheleznogorsk
• Kremlyov → Sarov
• Krestov Brod → Roshal
• Kseniyevsky → Asino
• Kudelka → Asbest
• Kukarka → Sovetsk
• Kurgannaya → Kurganinsk
• Kushvinsky Zavod → Kushva
• Kuznetsk → Novokuznetsk → Stalinsk → Novokuznetsk
• Kuznetsovo → Konakovo
• Labiau → Polessk
• Labinskaya → Labinsk
• Lakinsky → Lakinsk
• Laptevo → Yasnogorsk
• Lazdinay → Lazdenen → Krasnoznamensk
• Lermontovsky → Lermontov
• Likhvin → Chekalin
• Lopasnya → Chyornoye Ozero → Chekhov
• Losinaya Sloboda → Losino-Petrovsky
• Lyantorsky → Lyantor
• Lyutoga → Rudaka → Aniva
• Maoka → Kholmsk
• Mechetnaya → Nikolayevsk → Pugachyov
• Medvezhyya Gora → Medvezhyegorsk
• Melekess → Dimitrovgrad
• Mikhaylovskoye → Shpakovskoye → Mikhaylovsk
• Mikhaylovsky Zavod → Mikhaylovsk
• Mikoyan-Shakhar → Klukhori → Karachayevsk
• Mukhtuya → Lensk
• Muravlenkovsky → Muravlenko
• Mysovaya → Mysovsk → Babushkin
• Naberezhnye Chelny → Brezhnev → Naberezhnye Chelny
• Nadezhdinsk → Kabakovsk → Nadezhdinsk → Serov
• Naykhoro → Gornozavodsk
• Nazyvayevskaya → Nazyvayevka → Nazyvayevsk
• Neuhausen → Guryevsk
• Nevdubstroy → Kirovsk
• Nevyansky Zavod → Nevyansk
• Nezametny → Aldan
• Nikolayevsky → Nikolayevsk → Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
• Nikolo-Pestrovka → Nikolo-Pestrovsky → Nikolsk
• Nikolskoye → Nikolsk → Nikolsk-Ussuriysky → Voroshilov → Ussuriysk
• Nikolsky Khutor → Sursk
• Nizhnetagilsky Zavod → Nizhny Tagil
• Nizhnevartovsky → Nizhnevartovsk
• Nizhnevolzhsk → Narimanov
• Nizhny Novgorod → Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod
• Noda → Chekhov
• Nolinsk → Molotovsk → Nolinsk
• Novaya Derevnya → Alexandrovsky → Novonikolayevsky → Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
• Novaya Pokrovka → Svoboda → Liski → Georgiu-Dezh → Liski
• Novgorod → Veliky Novgorod
• Novo-Mariinsk → Anadyr
• Novoalexandrovskaya → Novoalexandrovsk
• Novokuybyshevsky → Novokuybyshevsk
• Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
• Novopavlovskaya → Novopavlovsk
• Novotroitsk → Baley
• Novovoronezhsky → Novovoronezh
• Novy Zay → Zainsk
• Novye Petushki → Petushki
• Nyakh → Nyagan
• Obdorsk → Salekhard
• Olensk → Vilyuysk
• Olkhovsky → Artyomovsk
• Olzheras → Mezhdurechensk
• Omutninsky Zavod → Omutninsk
• Oraniyenbaum → Lomonosov
• Orenburg → Chkalov → Orenburg
• Oreshek → Nöteborg → Shlisselburg → Petrokrepost → Shlisselburg
• Orlov → Khalturin → Orlov
• Osinovka → Osinniki
• Ostyako-Vogulsk → Khanty-Mansiysk
• Pavlovo → Pavlovsky Posad
• Pavlovsk → Slutsk → Pavlovsk
• Pechory → Petseri → Pechory
• Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky → Ryazan
• Perm → Molotov → Perm
• Permskoye → Komsomolsk-na-Amure
• Pervomaysky → Novodvinsk
• Pesochnya → Kirov
• Petergof → Petrodvorets → Petergof
• Petropavlovsky → Petropavlovsky Port → Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Petropavlovsky → Severouralsk
• Petrovskoye → Petrovsk-Port → Makhachkala
• Petrovskoye → Svetlograd
• Petrovsky Zavod → Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
• Pillau → Baltiysk
• Pokrovskaya → Pokrovsk → Engels
• Pokrovskoye → Pokrovsk
• Porechye → Demidov
• Poshekhonye → Poshekhonye-Volodarsk → Poshekhonye
• Prishib → Leninsk
• Protva → Zhukov
• Pryoysish-Elau → Bagrationovsk
• Pyora → Gondatti → Vladimiro-Shimanovsky → Shimanovsk
• Raduga → Vladimir-30 → Raduzhny
• Ragnit → Neman
• Ranenburg → Chaplygin
• Rastyapino → Dzerzhinsk
• Rauschen → Svetlogorsk
• Raychikha → Raychikhinsk
• Romanov-Borisoglebsk → Tutayev
• Romanov-na-Murmane → Murmansk
• Romanovsky → Kropotkin
• Saint Petersburg → Petrograd → Leningrad → Saint Petersburg
• Samara → Kuybyshev → Samara
• Selyutora → Siritoru → Makarov
• Semyonovka → Arsenyev
• Serdobol → Sortavala
• Sereda → Furmanov
• Sergiyev Posad → Sergiyev → Zagorsk → Sergiyev Posad
• Sergiyevskoye → Plavsk
• Shakhty → Gusinoozyorsk
• Sharypovskoye → Sharypovo → Chernenko → Sharypovo
• Shcheglovo → Shcheglovsk → Kemerovo
• Shikhrany → Kanash
• Shkotovo-17 → Tikhookeansky → Fokino
• Sieklakhti → Lakhdenpokhya
• Simbirsk → Ulyanovsk
• Skalisty → Gadzhiyevo
• Slavyanskaya → Slavyansk-na-Kubani
• Solnechnogorsky → Solnechnogorsk
• Sorochinskoye → Sorochinsk
• Spassk → Spassk-Tatarsky → Kuybyshev → Bolgar
• Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Dalny
• Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Ryazansky
• Stakhanovo → Zhukovsky
• Stallupönen → Nesterov
• Stary Rogozhsky Yam → Bogorodsk → Noginsk
• Stavropol → Togliatti
• Stavropol → Voroshilovsk → Stavropol
• Stupinskaya → Elektrovoz → Stupino
• Suchansky Rudnik → Suchan → Partizansk
• Sudostroy → Molotovsk → Severodvinsk
• Sundyr → Mariinsky Posad
• Suyetikha → Biryusinsk
• Sverdlovsk-45 → Lesnoy
• Svobodny → Cherepanovo
• Svyatoy Krest → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk
• Syana → Kurilsk
• Sysertsky Zavod → Sysert
• Taldom → Leninsk → Taldom
• Tapiau → Gvardeysk
• Tashino → Pervomaysk
• Temir-Khan-Shura → Buynaksk
• Terijoki → Zelenogorsk
• Tetyukhe → Dalnegorsk
• Tikhmenevsky → Sikuka → Poronaysk
• Tikhoretskaya → Tikhoretsk
• Tilsit → Sovetsk
• Tomarioru → Tomari
• Tomsk-7 → Seversk
• Toro → Shakhtyorsk
• Troitsa → Udomlya
• Troitsko-Zaozyornoye → Zaozyorny
• Troitskosavsk → Kyakhta
• Troitskoye → Troitsky → Troitsk
• Trongzund → Uuras → Trongzund → Vysotsk
• Trotsk → Chapayevsk
• Truyevo-Naryshkino → Kuznetsk
• Tsaritsyn → Stalingrad → Volgograd
• Tsarskoye Selo → Detskoye Selo → Pushkin
• Tsaryovokokshaysk → Krasnokokshaysk → Yoshkar-Ola
• Tsimlyanskaya → Tsimlyansk
• Turyinsky → Krasnoturyinsk
• Tver → Kalinin → Tver
• Tyndinsky → Tynda
• Udinsk → Verhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
• Ulala → Oyrot-Tura → Gorno-Altaysk
• Uralmedstroy → Krasnouralsk
• Usolye → Usolye-Sibirskoye
• Ust-Abakanskoye → Khakassk → Abakan
• Ust-Belokalitvenskaya → Belaya Kalitva
• Ust-Katavsky Zavod → Ust-Katav
• Ust-Medveditskaya → Serafimovich
• Ust-Sheksna → Rybansk → Rybnaya Sloboda → Rybnoy → Rybinsk → Shcherbakov → Rybinsk → Andropov → Rybinsk
• Ust Zeysky military post → Blagoveshchensk
• Vasilyovo → Chkalovsk
• Vayenga → Severomorsk
• Velikoknyazheskaya → Proletarskaya → Proletarsk
• Velyaminovsky → Tuapse
• Verkhneudinsky → Verkhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
• Vinodelnoye → Ipatovo
• Vladikavkaz → Ordzhonikidze → Dzaudzhikau → Ordzhonikidze → Vladikavkaz
• Vladimirovka → Toyokhara → Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
• Volkhovstroy → Volkhov
• Volodary → Volodarsk
• Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye → Sovetskoye → Zelenokumsk
• Voskresenskoye → Voskresensk → Istra
• Voznesenskaya → Vereshchagino
• Vyzhaikha → Krasnovishersk
• Yakovlevskoye → Privolzhsk
• Yama → Yamsky Gorodok → Yama → Yamburg → Kingisepp
• Yauntlatgale → Abrene → Pytalovo
• Yegorshino → Artyomovsky
• Yekaterinburg → Sverdlovsk → Yekaterinburg
• Yekaterinodar → Krasnodar
• Yekaterinenstadt → Marxstadt → Marks
• Yuryuzansky Zavod → Yuryuzan
• Zaozyorny-13 → Krasnoyarsk-45 → Zelenogorsk
• Zarinskaya → Zarinsk
• Zatishye → Elektrostal
• Zavolzhye → Zavolzhsk
• Zavoyko → Yelizovo
• Zernovoy → Zernograd
• Zeysky Sklad → Zeya-Pristan → Zeya
• Zhdanovsk → Zapolyarny
• Zheleznodorozhny → Yemva
• Zhirnoye → Zhirnovsky → Zhirnovsk
• Zimmerbude → Svetly
• Zlatoust-36 → Tryokhgorny
• Zmeiny → Never-1 → Rukhlovo → Skovorodino