Largest Cities
Largest cities of the Empire according to the census:
- Saint-Petersburg – 1,264,900
- Moscow – 1,038,600
- Warsaw – 626,000
- Odessa – 403,800
- Łódź – 314,000
- Riga – 282,200
- Kiev – 247,700
- Kharkov – 174,000
- Tiflis (Tbilisi) – 159,600
- Wilno (Vilnius) – 154,500
- Saratov – 137,100
- Kazan – 130,000
- Rostov-on-Don – 119,500
- Tula – 114,700
- Astrakhan – 112,900
- Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) – 112,800
- Baku – 111,900
- Kishinev (Chişinău) – 108,500
- Helsinki – 93,000
- Nikolayev – 92,000
- Minsk – 90,900
- Nizhny Novgorod – 90,100
- Samara – 90,000
- Orenburg – 72,400
- Yaroslavl – 71,600
- Dvinsk (Daugavpils) – 69,675
- Vitebsk – 65,900
- Reval (Tallinn) – 64 572
- Libava (Liepāja) – 64,489
- Yekaterinodar (Krasnodar) – 65,600
- Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) – 55,200
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