A very large number of cities were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution. More renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union, due to political reasons. Still more renamings (often for restoration of original names) happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• Abinsky > Abinsk
• Adygeysk > Teuchezhsk > Adygeysk
• Aksayskaya > Aksaysk
• Alexandrovsk > Polyarny
• Alexandrovskaya > Alexandrovsky > Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
• Alexandrovskoye > Alexandrovka > Krasnopartizansk > Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya > Belogorsk
• Alexeyevsk > Svobodny
• Almetyevo > Almetyevsk
• Antrea > Kamennogorsk
• Apsheronskaya > Apsheronsk
• Armyansky Aul > Armavir
• Arzamas-16 > Kremlyov > Sarov
• Balanda > Kalininsk
• Bashanta > Gorodovikovsk
• Batalpashinkaya > Batalpashinsk > Sulimov > Yezhovo-Cherkessk > Cherkessk
• Beloozero > Belozersk
• Belorechenskaya > Belorechensk
• Beloretsk > Mezhgorye
• Belotsarsk > Khem-Beldyr > Kyzyl
• Bikinskaya > Bikin
• Bobriki > Donskoy
• Bobriki > Stalinogorsk > Novomoskovsk
• Bogdanovo > Spassk > Bednodemyanovsk
• Bolokhovsky > Bolokhovo
• Bondyuzhsk > Mendeleyevsk
• Borovskaya Sloboda > Bor
• Byorkyo > Koyvisto > Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
• Chegem Pervy > Chegem
• Chembar > Belinsky
• Chertanla > Novouzensk
• Chesnokovka > Novoaltaysk
• Chelyabinsk-40 > Ozyorsk
• Chelyabinsk-70 > Snezhinsk
• Chibyu > Ukhta
• Chinnay > Krasnogorsk
• Cranz > Zelenogradsk
• Dakhovsky > Dakhovsky Posad > Sochi
• Darkehmen > Ozyorsk
• Dmitriyev > Dmitriyev-na-Svape > Dmitriyev-Lgovsky
• Dmitrovka > Dmitrovsk > Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky
• Dokshukino > Nartkala
• Dolgoprudny > Dirizhablestroy > Dolgoprudny
• Dvigatelstroy > Kaspiysk
• Dzerzhinsky > Sorsk
• Elektroperedacha > Elektrogorsk
• Enso > Svetogorsk
• Esutoru > Uglegorsk
• Fischhausen > Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
• Friedland > Pravdinsk
• Galkino-Vrasskoye > Ochiai > Dolinsk
• Gatchina > Trotsk > Krasnogvardeysk > Gatchina
• Goly Karamysh > Baltser > Krasnoarmeysk
• Gorodetsk > Bezhetsk
• Gorodok > Zakamensk
• Grushyovskaya > Gornoye Grushyovskoye > Alexandrovsk-Grushyovsky > Shakhty
• Gukovsky > Gukovo
• Gumbinnen > Gusev
• Gundorovka > Donetsk
• Gzhatsk > Gagarin
• Heiliegenbeil > Mamonovo
• Heinrichswalde > Slavsk
• Iletskaya Zashchita > Iletsk > Iletskoye > Iletskaya Zashchita > Sol-Iletsk
• Iman > Dalnerechensk
• Insterburg > Chernyakhovsk
• Ivanovo-Voznesensk > Ivanovo
• Izhevsky Zavod > Izhevsk > Ustinov > Izhevsk
• Izhma > Sosnogorsk
• Kainsk > Kuybyshev
• Kalata > Kirovgrad
• Kaliningrad > Korolyov
• Kamen > Kamen-na-Obi
• Kamenskaya > Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
• Kamensky Zavod > Kamensk-Uralsky
• Kamyshin > Dmitriyevsk > Kamyshin
• Kasivabora > Severo-Kurilsk
• Kaspiysky > Lagan
• Khabarovka > Khabarovsk
• Kharovsky > Kharovsk
• Khibinogorsk > Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
• Khlynov > Vyatka > Kirov
• Khonto > Nevelsk
• Khrushchyovskaya > Uzlovaya
• Kiyskoye > Mariinsk
• Kodinsky > Kodinsk
• Kolchugino > Lenino > Leninsk-Kuznetsky
• Komsomolsky > Yugorsk
• Korela > Keksgolm > Priozyorsk
• Korsakovsky Post > Otomari > Korsakov
• Kozlov > Michurinsk
• Königsberg > Kaliningrad
• Krasnaya Sloboda > Krasnoslobodsk
• Krasnoflotsky > Krasnoarmeysky > Krasnoarmeysk
• Krasnoyarsk-26 > Zheleznogorsk
• Krasnoyarsk-45 > Zelenogorsk
• Kremlyov > Sarov
• Krestov Brod > Roshal
• Kryukovo > Zelenograd
• Kseniyevsky > Asino
• Kudelka > Asbest
• Kukarka > Sovetsk
• Kurgannaya > Kurganinsk
• Kushvinsky Zavod > Kushva
• Kuznetsk > Novokuznetsk > Stalinsk > Novokuznetsk
• Kuznetsovo > Konakovo
• Labiau > Polessk
• Labinskaya > Labinsk
• Lakinsky > Lakinsk
• Laptevo > Yasnogorsk
• Lazdinay > Lazdenen > Krasnoznamensk
• Lermontovsky > Lermontov
• Likhvin > Chekalin
• Lopasnya > Chyornoye Ozero > Chekhov
• Losinaya Sloboda > Losino-Petrovsky
• Lyantorsky > Lyantor
• Lyutoga > Rudaka > Aniva
• Maoka (Mauka) > Kholmsk
• Mechetnaya > Nikolayevsk > Pugachyov
• Medvezhyya Gora > Medvezhyegorsk
• Melekess > Dimitrovograd
• Mikhaylovskoye > Shpakovskoye > Mikhaylovsk, Stavropol Krai
• Mikhaylovsky Zavod > Mikhaylovsk
• Mikoyan-Shakhar > Klukhori > Karachayevsk
• Mukhtuya > Lensk
• Muravlenkovsky > Muravlenko
• Mysovaya > Mysovsk > Babushkin
• Naberezhnye Chelny > Brezhnev > Naberezhnye Chelny
• Nadezhdinsk > Kabakovsk > Nadezhdinsk > Serov
• Naykhoro > Gornozavodsk
• Nazyvayevskaya > Nazyvayevka > Nazyvayevsk
• Neuhausen > Guryevsk
• Nevdubstroy > Kirovsk
• Nevyansky Zavod > Nevyansk
• Nezametny > Aldan
• Nikolayevsky > Nikolayevsk > Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
• Nikolo-Pestrovka > Nikolo-Pestrovsky > Nikolsk
• Nikolskoye > Nikolsk > Nikolsk-Ussuriysky > Voroshilov > Ussuriysk
• Nikolsky Khutor > Sursk
• Nizhnetagilsky Zavod > Nizhny Tagil
• Nizhnevartovsky > Nizhnevartovsk
• Nizhnevolzhsk > Narimanov
• Nizhny Novgorod > Gorky > Nizhny Novgorod
• Noda > Chekhov
• Nolinsk > Molotovsk > Nolinsk
• Novaya Derevnya > Alexandrovsky > Novonikolayevsky > Novonikolayevsk > Novosibirsk
• Novaya Pokrovka > Svoboda > Liski > Georgiu-Dezh > Liski
• Novgorod > Veliky Novgorod
• Novo-Mariinsk > Anadyr
• Novoalexandrovskaya > Novoalexandrovsk
• Novokuybyshevsky > Novokuybyshevsk
• Novonikolayevsk > Novosibirsk
• Novopavlovskaya > Novopavlovsk
• Novotroitsk > Baley
• Novovoronezhsky > Novovoronezh
• Novy Zay > Zainsk
• Novyye Petushki > Petushki
• Nyakh > Nyagan
• Obdorsk > Salekhard
• Olensk > Vilyuysk
• Olkhovsky > Artyomovsk
• Olzheras > Mezhdurechensk
• Omutninsky Zavod > Omutninsk
• Oraniyenbaum > Lomonosov
• Orenburg > Chkalov > Orenburg
• Orlov > Khalturin > Orlov
• Osinovka > Osinniki
• Ostyako-Vogulsk > Khanty-Mansiysk
• Pavlovo > Pavlovsky Posad
• Pavlovsk > Slutsk > Pavlovsk
• Pechory > Petseri > Pechory
• Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky > Ryazan
• Perm > Molotov > Perm
• Permskoye > Komsomolsk-na-Amure
• Pervomaysky > Novodvinsk
• Pesochnya > Kirov
• Peterhof > Petrodvorets > Peterhof
• Petropavlovsky > Petropavlovsky Port > Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Petropavlovsky > Severouralsk
• Petrovskoye > Petrovsk-Port > Makhachkala
• Petrovskoye > Svetlograd
• Petrovsky Zavod > Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
• Pillau > Baltiysk
• Pokrovskaya > Pokrovsk > Engels
• Pokrovskoye > Pokrovsk
• Porechye > Demidov
• Poshekhonye > Poshekhonye-Volodarsk > Poshekhonye
• Prishib > Leninsk
• Pryoysish-Elau > Bagrationovsk
• Pyora > Gondatti > Vladimiro-Shimanovsky > Shimanovsk
• Raduga > Vladimir-30 > Raduzhny
• Ragnit > Neman
• Ranenburg > Chaplygin
• Rastyapino > Dzerzhinsk
• Rauschen > Svetlogorsk
• Raychikha > Raychikhinsk
• Romanov-Borisoglebsk > Tutayev
• Romanov-na-Murmane > Murmansk
• Romanovsky > Kropotkin
• Saint Petersburg > Petrograd > Leningrad > Saint Petersburg
• Samara > Kuybyshev > Samara
• Selyutora > Siritoru > Makarov
• Semyonovka > Arsenyev
• Serdobol > Sortavala
• Sereda > Furmanov
• Sergiyev Posad > Sergiyev > Zagorsk > Sergiyev Posad
• Sergiyevskoye > Plavsk
• Shakhty > Gusinoozyorsk
• Sharypovskoye > Sharypovo > Chernenko > Sharypovo
• Shcheglovo > Shcheglovsk > Kemerovo
• Shikhrany > Kanash
• Shkotovo-17 > Fokino
• Shlisselburg > Petrokrepost > Shlisselburg
• Sieklakhti > Lakhdenpokhya
• Sikuka > Poronaysk
• Simbirsk > Ulyanovsk
• Skalisty > Gadzhiyevo
• Slavyanskaya > Slavyansk-na-Kubani
• Solnechnogorsky > Solnechnogorsk
• Sorochinskoye > Sorochinsk
• Spassk > Spassk-Tatarsky > Kuybyshev > Bolgar, Russia
• Spasskoye > Spassk > Spassk-Dalny
• Spasskoye > Spassk > Spassk-Ryazansky
• Stakhanovo > Zhukovsky
• Stallupoenen > Nesterov
• Stary Rogozhsky Yam > Bogorodsk > Noginsk
• Stavropol > Togliatti
• Stavropol > Voroshilovsk > Stavropol
• Stupinskaya > Elektrovoz > Stupino
• Suchansky Rudnik > Suchan > Partizansk
• Sudostroy > Molotovsk > Severodvinsk
• Sundyr > Mariinsky Posad
• Suyetikha > Biryusinsk
• Sverdlovsk-45 > Lesnoy
• Svoboda > Liski > Georgiu-Dey > Liski
• Svobodny > Cherepanovo
• Svyatoy Krest > Prikumsk > Budyonnovsk > Prikumsk > Budyonnovsk
• Syana > Kurilsk
• Sysertsky Zavod > Sysert
• Taldom > Leninsk > Taldom
• Tapiau > Gvardeysk
• Tashino > Pervomaysk
• Temir-Khan-Shura > Buynaksk
• Terioki > Zelenogorsk
• Tetyukhe > Dalnegorsk
• Tikhoretskaya > Tikhoretsk
• Tilsit > Sovetsk
• Tomarioru > Tomari
• Tomsk-7 > Seversk
• Toro > Shakhtyorsk
• Troitsa > Udomlya
• Troitsko-Zaozyornoye > Zaozyorny
• Troitskoye > Troitsky > Troitsk
• Trongzund > Uuras > Trongzund > Vysotsk
• Trotsk > Chapayevsk
• Truyevo-Naryshkino > Kuznetsk
• Tsaritsyn > Stalingrad > Volgograd
• Tsarskoye Selo > Detskoye Selo > Pushkin
• Tsaryovokokshaysk > Krasnokokshaysk > Yoshkar-Ola
• Tsimlyanskaya > Tsimlyansk
• Turyinsky > Krasnoturyinsk
• Tver > Kalinin > Tver
• Tyndinsky > Tynda
• Udinsk > Verhneudinsk > Ulan-Ude
• Ugodsky Zavod > Zhukovo > Zhukov
• Ulala > Oyrot-Tura > Gorno-Altaysk
• Uralmedstroy > Krasnouralsk
• Usolye > Usolye-Sibirskoye
• Ust-Abakanskoye > Khakassk > Abakan
• Ust-Belokalitvenskaya > Belaya Kalitva
• Ust-Katavsky Zavod > Ust-Katav
• Ust-Medveditskaya > Serafimovich
• Ust-Sheksna > Rybansk > Rybnaya Sloboda > Rybnoy > Rybinsk > Shcherbakov > Rybinsk > Andropov > Rybinsk
• Ust Zeysky military post > Blagoveshchensk
• Vasilyovo > Chkalovsk
• Vayenga > Severomorsk
• Velikoknyazheskaya > Proletarskaya > Proletarsk
• Velyaminovsky > Tuapse
• Verkhneudinsky > Verkhneudinsk > Ulan-Ude
• Vinodelnoye > Ipatovo
• Vladikavkaz > Ordzhonikidze > Dzaudzhikau > Ordzhonikidze > Vladikavkaz
• Vladimirovka > Toyokhara > Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
• Volkhovstroy > Volkhov
• Volodary > Volodarsk
• Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye > Sovetskoye > Zelenokumsk
• Voskresenskoye > Voskresensk > Istra
• Voznesenskaya > Vereshchagino
• Vyborg > Viipuri > Vyborg
• Vyzhaikha > Krasnovishersk
• Yakovlevskoye > Privolzhsk
• Yam > Yamburg > Kingisepp
• Yauntlatgale > Abrene > Pytalovo
• Yegorshino > Artyomovsky
• Yekaterinburg > Sverdlovsk > Yekaterinburg
• Yekaterinodar > Krasnodar
• Yekaterinenstadt (Baronsk) > Marxstadt > Marx
• Yuryuzansky Zavod > Yuryuzan
• Zarinskaya > Zarinsk
• Zatishye > Elektrostal
• Zavolzhye > Zavolzhsk
• Zavoyko > Yelizovo
• Zernovoy > Zernograd
• Zeysky Sklad > Zeya-Pristan > Zeya
• Zlatoust-36 > Tryokhgorny
• Zhdanovsk > Zapolyarny
• Zheleznodorozhny > Yemva
• Zhirnoye > Zhirnovsky > Zhirnovsk
• Zimmerbude > Svetly
• Zmeiny > Never-1 > Rukhlovo > Skovorodino

See also

• List of cities of Kaliningrad Oblast, with former names from East Prussia
• List of places named after Lenin
• List of places named after Stalin