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|regional_languages = {{wpl|Kabardian|Abzahn | |regional_languages = {{wpl|Kabardian|Abzahn}}, {{wp|Fino-Ungric Languages|Losh}}, {{wpl|West Slavic languages|Nasjzky}}, {{wpl|Kyrgyz language|Oshi}}, {{wpl|Romanian language|Tolyk}}, {{wpl|Ukrainian language|Yakast}}, {{wpl|Croatian language|Zvečajian}} | ||
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|ethnic_groups = 84.2% Seredyan<br>3.1% [[Uluujol]]-originating peoples<br>3% Zvečajian<br> 2.5% Yakast<br> 1.7% Abzahn<br> 1.6% {{wpl|Jewish}} <br>1.3% Tolyk<br> | |ethnic_groups = 84.2% Seredyan<br>3.1% [[Uluujol]]-originating peoples<br>3% Zvečajian<br> 2.5% Yakast<br> 1.7% Abzahn<br> 1.6% {{wpl|Jewish}} <br>1.3% Tolyk<br> 2.5% Other<br> | ||
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|demonym = Seredyan<br>Seredinian | |demonym = Seredyan<br>Seredinian | ||
|government_type = {{wp|Federal state|Federal}} {{wp|Parliamentary system|parliamentary}} {{wp|republic}} | |government_type = {{wp|Federal state|Federal}} {{wp|Parliamentary system|parliamentary}} {{wp|republic}} | ||
|leader_title1 =[[President of Seredinia]] | |leader_title1 =[[President of Seredinia|President]] | ||
|leader_name1 =[[Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin|Anatole Apraxin]] | |leader_name1 =[[Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin|Anatole Apraxin]] | ||
|leader_title2 =[[ | |leader_title2 =[[Ispolnitel of Seredinia|Ispolnitel]] | ||
|leader_name2 =[[Nadezhda Alexandrovna Vyrubova|Nadezhda Vyrubova]] | |leader_name2 =[[Nadezhda Alexandrovna Vyrubova|Nadezhda Vyrubova]] | ||
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| established_event12 = Seredinian Federation proclaimed | | established_event12 = Seredinian Federation proclaimed | ||
| established_date12 = 13 October 1952 CE | | established_date12 = 13 October 1952 CE | ||
|area_rank = | |area_rank = 1st | ||
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|area_km2 = | |area_km2 = 14,572,864 | ||
|area_sq_mi = | |area_sq_mi = 5,626,614 | ||
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|population_census = 125,776,238 | |population_census = 125,776,238 | ||
|population_census_year = 2014 | |population_census_year = 2014 | ||
|population_density_km2 = | |population_density_km2 = 8.7 | ||
|population_density_sq_mi = | |population_density_sq_mi = 22.5 | ||
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|GDP_PPP =$3.805,55 billion | |GDP_PPP =$3.805,55 billion | ||
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|GDP_nominal =$3.634,51 billion | |GDP_nominal =$3.634,51 billion | ||
|GDP_nominal_rank = | |GDP_nominal_rank = 5th | ||
|GDP_nominal_year = | |GDP_nominal_year = 2019 | ||
|GDP_nominal_per_capita = $28.654,00 | |GDP_nominal_per_capita = $28.654,00 | ||
|GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = | |GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 17th | ||
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'''Seredinia''' (<small>{{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}:</small> Серединська, {{wpl|Romanization of Russian|tr.}} ''Seredinska''), officially the '''Seredinian Federation''' (<small>{{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}:</small> Серединская Федерация, {{wpl|Romanization of Russian|tr.}} ''Seredinskaya Federatsiya'') is a {{wp|List of transcontinental countries|transcontinental}} {{wp|sovereign}} {{wp|Federal state|federal}} {{wp|Parliamentary system|parliamentary}} {{wp|republic}}. It spans east-central [[Ajax#Continents|Belisaria]] and [[Ajax#Continents|Ochran]], a geographic makeup from which it gets its name meaning ''the middle'' in {{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}. The largest nation in the world by land area, it is also the | '''Seredinia''' (<small>{{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}:</small> Серединська, {{wpl|Romanization of Russian|tr.}} ''Seredinska''), officially the '''Seredinian Federation''' (<small>{{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}:</small> Серединская Федерация, {{wpl|Romanization of Russian|tr.}} ''Seredinskaya Federatsiya'') is a {{wp|List of transcontinental countries|transcontinental}} {{wp|sovereign}} {{wp|Federal state|federal}} {{wp|Parliamentary system|parliamentary}} {{wp|republic}}. It spans east-central [[Ajax#Continents|Belisaria]] and [[Ajax#Continents|Ochran]], a geographic makeup from which it gets its name meaning ''the middle'' in {{wpl|Russian|Seredyan}}. The largest nation in the world by land area, it is also the fourth largest nation by population with nearly 127 million residents. The majority of its population live in the western area of the country, near the [[Periclean Sea]], and in metropolitian areas such as [[Belogorodka]] and [[Zolodolina]], the first and second largest cities in the nation respectively. Other major cities include the coastal centers of [[Elektrostal]] and [[Tambov]], as well as the far-eastern city of [[Dominigrad]] and the steppe city of [[Voroshilovka]]. Spanning a wide swathe of the northern hemisphere, Seredinia shares land borders with [[Drevstran]], [[Velikograd]], [[Tsensurii]], and [[Uluujol]] as well as a maritime border with [[Tarsas]]. Historically and in contemporary ages, it has served as a gateway between the eastern and western powers of Ochran and Belisaria. | ||
The ethnic group known as {{wp|East Slavs|Seredyans}} first emerged across Belisaria and Ochran in the early centuries CE, and were initially ruled by various disparate {{wpl|Knyaz|knyazes}} over the course of the 6th through the 10th centuries. By 970 CE a majority of the country was under the nominal control of the [[Bayarid Empire]]. Its domination over Seredya would last until just before the disestablishment of the Bayarids in 1147, with a transition to the Zhuzh system of decentralized rulership taking hold until the late 13th century. It was during this time that various religions began to spread across Seredya, including {{wpl|Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy}} and {{wpl|Catholic Church|Fabrian Catholicism}}. While none would take root across the entire nation, each would ingrain itself into Seredyan culture, eventually forming what is now known as the [[Evangelical Orthodox Church of All Seredyans]] by the 16th century. After the deposition of the last Zhuzh in Seredya-majority areas in 1318, power began coalescing around the Christian Principalities of Zolodolina and Belogorodka. Proclaimed a united {{wp|Grand prince|Grand Principality}} in 1366 through various intermarriages, the Princes of the Golden Valley would begin expanding across what is now western and central Seredinia throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the conquests of [[Vsevolod IV of Zolodolina|Vsevolod IV]] from 1454-1468. By the seventeenth century, the lands were essentially united and expanded by conquest, annexation, and expeditions in the far east to roughly the modern extent of the Seredinian Federation, termed ''The Middle Lands'' -- inhabited by the ''People of the Middle Lands'', or Seredyans -- by its {{wp| | The ethnic group known as {{wp|East Slavs|Seredyans}} first emerged across Belisaria and Ochran in the early centuries CE, and were initially ruled by various disparate {{wpl|Knyaz|knyazes}} over the course of the 6th through the 10th centuries. By 970 CE a majority of the country was under the nominal control of the [[Bayarid Empire]]. Its domination over Seredya would last until just before the disestablishment of the Bayarids in 1147, with a transition to the Zhuzh system of decentralized rulership taking hold until the late 13th century. It was during this time that various religions began to spread across Seredya, including {{wpl|Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy}} and {{wpl|Catholic Church|Fabrian Catholicism}}. While none would take root across the entire nation, each would ingrain itself into Seredyan culture, eventually forming what is now known as the [[Evangelical Orthodox Church of All Seredyans]] by the 16th century. After the deposition of the last Zhuzh in Seredya-majority areas in 1318, power began coalescing around the Christian Principalities of Zolodolina and Belogorodka. Proclaimed a united {{wp|Grand prince|Grand Principality}} in 1366 through various intermarriages, the Princes of the Golden Valley would begin expanding across what is now western and central Seredinia throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the conquests of [[Vsevolod IV of Zolodolina|Vsevolod IV]] from 1454-1468. By the seventeenth century, the lands were essentially united and expanded by conquest, annexation, and expeditions in the far east to roughly the modern extent of the Seredinian Federation, termed ''The Middle Lands'' -- inhabited by the ''People of the Middle Lands'', or Seredyans -- by its {{wp|Vozhd}} and {{wp|Autocracy|Samoderzec}}, or Autocrat. | ||
Seredya under the | Seredya under the Vozhd would collapse after the [[Christmas Revolution (Seredinia)|Christmas Revolution]] of 1878 and capture of [[Anatole I of Seredya|Anatole I]], leading to a decade-long [[Seredinian Civil War|civil war]] and the emergence of [[Seredinian Socialist Authority|socialist and communist ideologies]] across the nation. The conflict would see the deaths by starvation and war of millions of citizens across the country, and the secession of [[Tsensurii]] as well as other small regions of the country. At its end, propagated by the unification of liberal [[Constitutional Democratic Party (Seredinia)|Kadet]] factions with the moderate wing of the [[Seredinian Socialist Authority|Socialist Authority]], the Velikaya Respublika, or Grand Republic, was declared; and while it underwent significant amendment and change during the early-1950s era known as the [[Time of Troubles (Seredinia)|Time of Troubles]], it is one of the longest-standing {{wp|constitutional republic|republics}} in the world. It maintains consistently peaceful transfers of power and only a single instance of near-usurpation of its {{wp|democracy}}, undertaken during the 1950 to 1954 period of instability, known as the [[Knyazitsyn Putsch]] and ended decisively by Ispolnitel and later President [[Laurentiy Verizov]]. The reformation of the nation into the Seredinian Federation was overseen by Verizov, and his reforms and constitutional document are termed the [[Verizov Documents]]. | ||
[[Economy of Seredinia|Seredinia's economy]] ranks within the top five of the world by nominal [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], and it is a major producer of raw materials as well as finished products. Governmentally, Seredinia maintains an indirectly-elected [[President of Seredinia|President]] serves as the official {{wpl|head of state}} and guarantor of the Seredinian Constitution who appoints a {{wpl|prime minister}} from among the leaders of the [[Federal Assembly of Seredinia|Zemsky Sobor]] to serve as | [[Economy of Seredinia|Seredinia's economy]] ranks within the top five of the world by nominal [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], and it is a major producer of raw materials as well as finished products. Governmentally, Seredinia maintains an indirectly-elected [[President of Seredinia|President]] who serves as the official {{wpl|head of state}} and guarantor of the Seredinian Constitution, and who appoints a {{wpl|prime minister|Ispolnitel}}, or Prime Minister, from among the leaders of the [[Federal Assembly of Seredinia|Zemsky Sobor]] to serve as {{wpl|head of government}}. The President's powers and the procedures by which he executes them are maintained according to the various so-called constitutions, though each successive document is actually a set of amendments to the official [[Constitution of 1878 (Seredinia)|1878 Constitution]]. The current President is [[Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin|Anatole Apraxin]], serving his second term since 2010, and the current [[Ispolnitel of Seredinia|Ispolnitel]] is [[Nadezhda Alexandrovna Vyrubova|Nadezhda Vyrubova]] since 2015. The government is based primarily in the {{wpl|capital city}} of [[Zolodolina]]. | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
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Citizens of Seredinia are still primarily referred to normally by the ancient name as "Seredyans" ({{wpl|Russian language|Seredyan}}": ''Середян''). Due to the nation's size and periodic expansion over time, other words are used to specify citizens of specific regions of the modern nation. "Velikoseredya", or Great Seredya; "Maloseredya", or Small Seredya; "Novoseredya", or New Seredya; and "Vostoseredya", or East Seredya, are all regions of the nation which have specific demonyms. | Citizens of Seredinia are still primarily referred to normally by the ancient name as "Seredyans" ({{wpl|Russian language|Seredyan}}": ''Середян''). Due to the nation's size and periodic expansion over time, other words are used to specify citizens of specific regions of the modern nation. "Velikoseredya", or Great Seredya; "Maloseredya", or Small Seredya; "Novoseredya", or New Seredya; and "Vostoseredya", or East Seredya, are all regions of the nation which have specific demonyms. | ||
The regional demonyms have evolved over time, and the {{wp|political correctness|social acceptability}} of some -- especially Maloseredy -- have come into question in recent years. Proponents of the disuse of these demonyms include | The regional demonyms have evolved over time, and the {{wp|political correctness|social acceptability}} of some -- especially Maloseredy -- have come into question in recent years. Proponents of the disuse of these demonyms include Ispolnitel (and Vostoseredyan) [[Nadezhda Alexandrovna Vyrubova|Nadezhda Vyrubova]], while supporters of their traditional use continuing include former Ispolnitels (and Velikoseredyans) [[Mikhail Nikolaevich Luzhkov|Mikhail Luzhkov]] and [[Adrian Denisovich Dityatev|Adrian Dityatev]] | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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{{Largest cities | {{Largest cities | ||
| name = Largest cities in Seredinia | | name = Largest cities in Seredinia | ||
| country = | | country = Seredinia | ||
| stat_ref = Department of Population, Ministry of the Interior | | stat_ref = Department of Population, Ministry of the Interior | ||
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The Seredinian Federation Серединская Федерация Seredinskaya Federatsiya | |
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 Flag
 Coat of Arms
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| Motto: Здесь безопасно пребывает "Zdes' bezopasno prebyvayet" "Here we stay in peace" | |
| Anthem: Прощание Середянки "Proshchaniye Seredyanki" "Farewell of Seredyanka"  | |
 Political map of the Seredinian Federation | |
| Capital | Zolodolina |
| Largest | Belogorodka |
| Official languages | Seredyan |
| Recognised regional languages | Abzahn, Losh, Nasjzky, Oshi, Tolyk, Yakast, Zvečajian |
| Ethnic groups | 84.2% Seredyan 3.1% Uluujol-originating peoples 3% Zvečajian 2.5% Yakast 1.7% Abzahn 1.6% Jewish 1.3% Tolyk 2.5% Other |
| Demonym(s) | Seredyan Seredinian |
| Government | Federal parliamentary republic |
| Anatole Apraxin | |
| Nadezhda Vyrubova | |
| Legislature | Federal Assembly of Seredinia |
| Formation | |
• Conquests of the Bayarid Empire | 970 CE |
• Principality of Zolodolina established | 1047 CE |
• Deposition of the last Zhuzhes | 1318 CE |
• Grand Principality of Zolodolina proclaimed | 13 October 1366 CE |
• Conquests of Vsevolod IV begin across modern Seredinia | 10 March 1454 CE |
• Grand State of Seredya proclaimed | 11 December 1676 CE |
• Deposition of the Seredyan Autocracy in the Christmas Revolution | 27 December 1878 CE |
• Beginning of the Civil War | 29 January 1879 CE |
• End of the Civil War | 8 May 1891 CE |
• Grand Republic of Seredinia proclaimed | 2 January 1895 CE |
• Verizov Constitution ratified | 23 September 1952 CE |
• Seredinian Federation proclaimed | 13 October 1952 CE |
| Area | |
• | 14,572,864 km2 (5,626,614 sq mi) (1st) |
| Population | |
• 2017 estimate | 126,841,466 |
• 2014 census | 125,776,238 |
• Density | 8.7/km2 (22.5/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $3.805,55 billion |
• Per capita | $30.002,44 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $3.634,51 billion (5th) |
• Per capita | $28.654,00 (17th) |
| Gini | 34.3 medium |
| HDI | 0.888 very high |
| Currency | tochka (₸) |
| Date format | dd.mm.yyyy |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +7 |
| ISO 3166 code | SF |
| Internet TLD | .sf |
Seredinia (Seredyan: Серединська, tr. Seredinska), officially the Seredinian Federation (Seredyan: Серединская Федерация, tr. Seredinskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental sovereign federal parliamentary republic. It spans east-central Belisaria and Ochran, a geographic makeup from which it gets its name meaning the middle in Seredyan. The largest nation in the world by land area, it is also the fourth largest nation by population with nearly 127 million residents. The majority of its population live in the western area of the country, near the Periclean Sea, and in metropolitian areas such as Belogorodka and Zolodolina, the first and second largest cities in the nation respectively. Other major cities include the coastal centers of Elektrostal and Tambov, as well as the far-eastern city of Dominigrad and the steppe city of Voroshilovka. Spanning a wide swathe of the northern hemisphere, Seredinia shares land borders with Drevstran, Velikograd, Tsensurii, and Uluujol as well as a maritime border with Tarsas. Historically and in contemporary ages, it has served as a gateway between the eastern and western powers of Ochran and Belisaria.
The ethnic group known as Seredyans first emerged across Belisaria and Ochran in the early centuries CE, and were initially ruled by various disparate knyazes over the course of the 6th through the 10th centuries. By 970 CE a majority of the country was under the nominal control of the Bayarid Empire. Its domination over Seredya would last until just before the disestablishment of the Bayarids in 1147, with a transition to the Zhuzh system of decentralized rulership taking hold until the late 13th century. It was during this time that various religions began to spread across Seredya, including Eastern Orthodoxy and Fabrian Catholicism. While none would take root across the entire nation, each would ingrain itself into Seredyan culture, eventually forming what is now known as the Evangelical Orthodox Church of All Seredyans by the 16th century. After the deposition of the last Zhuzh in Seredya-majority areas in 1318, power began coalescing around the Christian Principalities of Zolodolina and Belogorodka. Proclaimed a united Grand Principality in 1366 through various intermarriages, the Princes of the Golden Valley would begin expanding across what is now western and central Seredinia throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the conquests of Vsevolod IV from 1454-1468. By the seventeenth century, the lands were essentially united and expanded by conquest, annexation, and expeditions in the far east to roughly the modern extent of the Seredinian Federation, termed The Middle Lands -- inhabited by the People of the Middle Lands, or Seredyans -- by its Vozhd and Samoderzec, or Autocrat.
Seredya under the Vozhd would collapse after the Christmas Revolution of 1878 and capture of Anatole I, leading to a decade-long civil war and the emergence of socialist and communist ideologies across the nation. The conflict would see the deaths by starvation and war of millions of citizens across the country, and the secession of Tsensurii as well as other small regions of the country. At its end, propagated by the unification of liberal Kadet factions with the moderate wing of the Socialist Authority, the Velikaya Respublika, or Grand Republic, was declared; and while it underwent significant amendment and change during the early-1950s era known as the Time of Troubles, it is one of the longest-standing republics in the world. It maintains consistently peaceful transfers of power and only a single instance of near-usurpation of its democracy, undertaken during the 1950 to 1954 period of instability, known as the Knyazitsyn Putsch and ended decisively by Ispolnitel and later President Laurentiy Verizov. The reformation of the nation into the Seredinian Federation was overseen by Verizov, and his reforms and constitutional document are termed the Verizov Documents.
Seredinia's economy ranks within the top five of the world by nominal GDP, and it is a major producer of raw materials as well as finished products. Governmentally, Seredinia maintains an indirectly-elected President who serves as the official head of state and guarantor of the Seredinian Constitution, and who appoints a Ispolnitel, or Prime Minister, from among the leaders of the Zemsky Sobor to serve as head of government. The President's powers and the procedures by which he executes them are maintained according to the various so-called constitutions, though each successive document is actually a set of amendments to the official 1878 Constitution. The current President is Anatole Apraxin, serving his second term since 2010, and the current Ispolnitel is Nadezhda Vyrubova since 2015. The government is based primarily in the capital city of Zolodolina.
Etymology
The name Seredinia is derived from the Seredyan word середи́на (tr. Seredina), meaning "centre" or "midpoint". This name was only used after the establishment of the Velikaya Respublika in 1895, as previously references the state was referred to as the "Середская Земля" (tr. Seredskaya Zemlya) which can be translated as "Seredyan Land" or "Land of the Seredyans". The state which developed into Seredinia is commonly referred to as the Grand Principality of Zolodolina, and its people as Zolodolinans, until the proclamation of the Grand State of Seredya in the 17th century.
Citizens of Seredinia are still primarily referred to normally by the ancient name as "Seredyans" (Seredyan": Середян). Due to the nation's size and periodic expansion over time, other words are used to specify citizens of specific regions of the modern nation. "Velikoseredya", or Great Seredya; "Maloseredya", or Small Seredya; "Novoseredya", or New Seredya; and "Vostoseredya", or East Seredya, are all regions of the nation which have specific demonyms.
The regional demonyms have evolved over time, and the social acceptability of some -- especially Maloseredy -- have come into question in recent years. Proponents of the disuse of these demonyms include Ispolnitel (and Vostoseredyan) Nadezhda Vyrubova, while supporters of their traditional use continuing include former Ispolnitels (and Velikoseredyans) Mikhail Luzhkov and Adrian Dityatev
History
Early History
The Bayarid Empire
Seredyan Principalities
Grand Principality of Zolodolina
Acquisitions of Central and Eastern Seredinia
Grand Principality of Seredya
Christmas Revolution and Civil War
The Grand Republic (1878-1952)
The Seredinian Federation (1952-Present)
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Largest Cities
Largest cities or towns in Seredinia
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| Rank | Province | Pop. | Rank | Province | Pop. | ||||
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1 | Belogorodka | Pirovskiy | 13,997,264 | 11 | Sosnovoborsk | Chelyabinsk-Shishmarevo | 710,642 |  Galkino-Vraskoye  Tambov |
| 2 | Zolodolina | Zolodolina Zone | 10,922,491 | 12 | Nizhniy Kalmiya | Lensk | 600,852 | ||
| 3 | Galkino-Vraskoye | Chelyabinsk-Shishmarevo | 5,762,842 | 13 | Kamenskaya | Strezhevoy | 573,783 | ||
| 4 | Tambov | Kaselia | 2,232,408 | 14 | Pryvitne-Pristan | Zharkhan | 543,844 | ||
| 5 | Dominigrad | Strezhevoy | 1,802,000 | 15 | Staryye Zyattsy | Arylakh | 490,529 | ||
| 6 | Voroshilovka | Kaselia | 1,461,536 | 16 | Berkino | Arylakh | 427,452 | ||
| 7 | Arkhangelskoye | Mayskoye-Nazarovo | 1,201,332 | 17 | Voskresenskoye | Kaselia | 370,324 | ||
| 8 | Iletskaya-Zashchita | Vikhorevka | 1,049,091 | 18 | Svyatoy Krest | Podvoloshino | 337,345 | ||
| 9 | Naruksovo | Kaselia | 870,551 | 19 | Krasnoye Selo | Taseyevo | 310,281 | ||
| 10 | Zvečaj | Zvečaj | 832,708 | 20 | Yekateringrad | Palochka | 298,034 | ||