List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

This is a list of Russian towns and cities that were renamed. == Background == Historical reasons behind geographical renaming were a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia soon after the reconquest of Southern Sakhalin in 1945, Japanese placenames were replaced with Russian ones.

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