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.[1] 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.[1] 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.
English designation | Russian designation | Entity in which it exists | Type of higher level entity | Administrative-territorial formation with special status | ru|административно-территориальное образование с особым статусом}} | in the Republic of Kalmykia | republic |
City | ru|город}} | the Republics of Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Khakassia | republic |
City of republic significance | ru|город республиканского значения}} | the Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Buryatia, Chechen Republic, Chuvash Republic, Republic of Crimea,[2] 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 Republic | republic |
City under republic jurisdiction | ru|город республиканского подчинения}} | the Sakha Republic and North Ossetia-Alania | republic |
City under republic jurisdiction (urban okrug) | ru|город республиканского подчинения (городской округ)}} | the Tuva Republic | republic |
Closed administrative-territorial formation | ru|закрытое административно-территориальное образование}} | the Republic of Bashkortostan | republic |
Republican urban okrug | ru|республиканский городской округ}} | the Republic of Adygea | republic |
Urban okrug | ru|городской округ}} | the Altai Republic | republic |
City | ru|город}} | Krasnodar Krai | krai |
City of krai significance | ru|город краевого значения}} | Altai, Khabarovsk, Perm, and Stavropol Krais | krai |
City under krai jurisdiction | ru|город краевого подчинения}} | Kamchatka and Primorsky Krais | krai |
Closed administrative-territorial formation | ru|закрытое административно-территориальное образование}} | Altai, Krasnoyarsk, and Perm Krais | krai |
Krai city | ru|краевой город}} | Krasnoyarsk Krai | krai |
City | ru|город}} | Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kirov, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Vladimir Oblasts | oblast |
City of oblast significance | ru|город областного значения}} | Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kostroma, Kursk, Magadan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Omsk, Oryol, Penza, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblasts | oblast |
City under oblast jurisdiction | ru|город областного подчинения}} | Kemerovo, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Moscow, Tomsk, and Tula Oblasts | oblast |
City with the jurisdictional territory | ru|город с подведомственной территорией}} | Murmansk Oblast | oblast |
Closed administrative-territorial formation | ru|закрытое административно-территориальное образование}} | Astrakhan, Kirov, Moscow, Murmansk, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, and Vladimir Oblasts | oblast |
Municipal formation with urban okrug status | ru|муниципальное образование со статусом городского округа}} | Leningrad Oblast | oblast |
Okrug | ru|округ}} | Tver Oblast | oblast |
Urban administrative okrug/city of oblast significance | ru|городской административный округ/город областного значения}} | Bryansk Oblast | oblast |
Urban-type settlement of oblast significance | ru|посёлок городского типа областного значения}} | Chelyabinsk and Kaliningrad Oblasts | oblast |
Urban-type settlement under oblast jurisdiction | ru|посёлок городского типа областного подчинения}} | Kemerovo Oblast | oblast |
Urban okrug | ru|городской округ}} | Amur, Rostov, Smolensk, and Voronezh Oblast | oblast |
City of okrug significance | ru|город окружного значения}} | Chukotka, Khanty-Mansi, Nenets, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs | autonomous okrugs |
City of oblast significance | ru|город областного значения}} | Jewish Autonomous Oblast | autonomous oblast |
1. ^1 "Энциклопедический словарь конституционного права". Статья "Административно-территориальное устройство". Сост. А. А. Избранов. — Мн.: Изд. В.М. Суров, 2001.
2. ^The Republic of Crimea is a federal subject of Russia established on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, which is disputed between Russia and Ukraine
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