City of federal subject significance


City of federal subject significance is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.

Description

According to the 1993 Constitution of Russia, the administrative-territorial structure of the federal subjects is not identified as the responsibility of the federal government or as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the federal subjects. This state of the matters is traditionally interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions are the sole responsibility of the federal subjects themselves. As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another; that includes the manner in which the cities of federal subject significance are organized and the choice of a term to refer to such entities. In the federal subjects which have closed administrative-territorial formations, those are often given a similar status. Occasionally, this status is also given to the areas organized around the inhabited localities which are not cities, but smaller urban-type settlements.

List of designations

As of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized:
English designationRussian designationEntity in which it existsType of higher level entity
Administrative-territorial formation with special statusадминистративно-территориальное образование с особым статусомin the Republic of Kalmykiarepublic
Cityгородthe Republics of Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Khakassiarepublic
City of republic significanceгород республиканского значенияthe Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Buryatia, Chechen Republic, Chuvash Republic, Republic of Crimea, Republic of Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Karachay–Cherkess Republic, Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Mari El Republic, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, and Udmurt Republicrepublic
City under republic jurisdictionгород республиканского подчиненияthe Sakha Republic and North Ossetia-Alaniarepublic
City under republic jurisdiction город республиканского подчинения the Tuva Republicrepublic
Closed administrative-territorial formationзакрытое административно-территориальное образованиеthe Republic of Bashkortostanrepublic
Republican urban okrugреспубликанский городской округthe Republic of Adygearepublic
Urban okrugгородской округthe Altai Republicrepublic
CityгородKrasnodar Kraikrai
City of krai significanceгород краевого значенияAltai, Khabarovsk, Perm, and Stavropol Kraiskrai
City under krai jurisdictionгород краевого подчиненияKamchatka and Primorsky Kraiskrai
Closed administrative-territorial formationзакрытое административно-территориальное образованиеAltai, Krasnoyarsk, and Perm Kraiskrai
Krai cityкраевой городKrasnoyarsk Kraikrai
CityгородChelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kirov, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Vladimir Oblastsoblast
City of oblast significanceгород областного значенияArkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kostroma, Kursk, Magadan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Omsk, Oryol, Penza, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblastsoblast
City under oblast jurisdictionгород областного подчиненияKemerovo, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Moscow, Tomsk, and Tula Oblastsoblast
City with the jurisdictional territoryгород с подведомственной территориейMurmansk Oblastoblast
Closed administrative-territorial formationзакрытое административно-территориальное образованиеAstrakhan, Kirov, Moscow, Murmansk, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, and Vladimir Oblastsoblast
Municipal formation with urban okrug statusмуниципальное образование со статусом городского округаLeningrad Oblastoblast
OkrugокругTver Oblastoblast
Urban administrative okrug/city of oblast significanceгородской административный округ/город областного значенияBryansk Oblastoblast
Urban-type settlement of oblast significanceпосёлок городского типа областного значенияChelyabinsk and Kaliningrad Oblastsoblast
Urban-type settlement under oblast jurisdictionпосёлок городского типа областного подчиненияKemerovo Oblastoblast
Urban okrugгородской округAmur, Rostov, Smolensk, and Voronezh Oblastoblast
City of okrug significanceгород окружного значенияChukotka, Khanty-Mansi, Nenets, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugsautonomous okrugs
City of oblast significanceгород областного значенияJewish Autonomous Oblastautonomous oblast