Russian Demographics

Largest Russian Citiies

Moscow  is the largest city in Russia with a population of 11.5 million people, which also makes it the sixth largest city in the world. Saint Petersburg is the second largest Russian city, with 4.8 million people, making it the 40th largest city in the world.

Interestingly, Russia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, in part due to its harsh climate. The country has a population density of just 8.4 people per square kilometer (22 per square mile), but the population is most dense in the European are aof the country around Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Russia is mostly an urban country; according to the census results, 74% of Russians live in urban areas -- either towns or cities. Ten other Russian cities have a population of more than a million people. You can see the full list below.

Rank	City Name	Population
1	Moscow	11,514,330
2	Saint Petersburg	4,848,742
3	Novosibirsk	1,473,737
4	Yekaterinburg	1,350,136
5	Nizhny Novgorod	1,250,615
6	Samara	1,164,896
7	Omsk	1,153,971
8	Kazan	1,143,546
9	Chelyabinsk	1,130,273
10	Rostov-on-Don	1,089,851
11	Ufa	1,062,300
12	Volgograd	1,021,244

First of all Georgia had a war with Russia and that had consequences... and no Marshall Plan to re-build it. Now the comment on our drunken sailor and resident knuckle-head: Keffler. There is a long multi-decade if not multi-century demographic trend for rural area to loose population to urban areas and this has been a pronounce trend here in the USA. As well as emigration from depressed (the MacKefflers or the O'Kefflers probably emigrated a long time ago to the USA and changed their name to Keffler); So there nothing strange here in that Strategy Page article or our own Keffler's citation that has not happened before say with Scotland or Ireland. The real problem with rural area is capital... agriculture is capital intensive and you typically need government action in the form of subsidies as well as low interest loans, crop insurance, etc... which I am sure the Russians do not do.

As inept as the Ukrainians are the Russians must be just as bad because they are struggling with them... but the point here is that they are up-setting the international order. they are better off skipping the arms-race and trying to "buy" what ever they feel they need in the Commercial Market that is there and to which they enjoy access... or used to enjoy access prior to this idiotic invasion. As far as the USA's Congress and its military officers... barring another 9/11 event that will send public paranoia soaring the potential of another invasion of any country is nil and that includes China and Russia. There are other ways of dealing with them.