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Novosibirsk is the third - most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St . Petersburg . It is the most populous city in Asian Russia , with a population of ___MASK2___ , 473 , 754 as of the 2010 Census . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District . The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley , near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant , and occupies an area of . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over ___MASK71___ million people at the end of March ___MASK43___ . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Syktyvkar is the capital city of the Komi Republic , Russia . Population : Russia is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion ( almost ___MASK79___ %) of the country that is considered part of Europe , and the larger eastern portion ( more than 75 %) that is part of Asia . European Russia contains about 77 % of the country ' s population ( 110 , 000 , 000 people out of about 144 , 000 , 000 ) in an area comprising almost ___MASK37___ million km ( 1 . 54 million mi ); an average of 27 . ___MASK21___ persons per km ( 70 per mi ). This territory makes up 38 % of Europe . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south , it is defined by the border with Kazakhstan . This area includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg , the two largest cities in Russia . Yekaterinburg , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of Europe and Asia . At the ___MASK77___ Census , it had a population of ___MASK2___ , 349 , 772 . Mikun ( Russian :    ; Komi :  ) is a town in Ust - Vymsky District of the Komi Republic , Russia , located 96 kilometers ( 60 mi ) north of Syktyvkar . Population : 10 , 730 ( ___MASK77___ Census ) ; ___MASK5___ , 680 ( 2002 Census ) ; 12 , 507 ( 1989 Census ) . A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in ___MASK30___ and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . Ust - Vymsky District is an administrative district ( raion ), one of the twelve in the Komi Republic , Russia . It is located in the southwest of the republic . The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality ( a " selo ") of Aykino . As of the ___MASK77___ Census , the total population of the district was ___MASK51___ , 474 , with the population of Aykino accounting for ___MASK5___ . 4 % of that number . Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District in Russia . From ___MASK1___ to ___MASK84___ , it was known as Gorky , after the writer Maxim Gorky , who was born there . The city is an important economic , transportation , scientific , educational and cultural center in Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main center of river tourism in Russia . In the historical part of the city there are a large number of universities , theaters , museums and churches . Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 km east of Moscow , where the Oka empties into the Volga . Population : The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia ( a republic ). Its capital is the city of Syktyvkar . Population : ___MASK26___ , 189 ( 2010 Census ). Saint Petersburg is Russia ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in ___MASK74___ , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . Moscow ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of Russia , with ___MASK60___ . 2 million residents within the city limits and ___MASK55___ . 8 million within the urban area . Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city .