Cities of the USSR

The Soviet Union was a huge country with many cities. The largest were: (with a population of over 1 million people) Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tashkent, Baku, Kharkov, Minsk, Gorky, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Tbilisi, Kuibyshev, Dnepropetrovsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Yerevan, Odessa, Donetsk, Kazan, Perm, Ufa, Alma-Ata and Rostov-on-Don;

The most significant ones:

1. Moscow is the capital of the USSR, the largest city in the country and a cultural center.
2. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is the second most important city in the USSR, a major industrial and cultural center.
3. Kyiv is a major city of the USSR and the cultural center of Ukraine.
4. Minsk is the capital of Belarus and one of the largest cities in the USSR.
5. Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia and a typical example of a beautiful city of the USSR.
6. Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) is an important industrial center and the largest city in the Ural region of the USSR.
7. Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia and one of the largest industrial centers of the USSR.
8. Rostov-on-Don is an important transport hub in the south of the USSR.
9. Baku is a major city on the Caspian Sea and the center of the oil industry in the USSR.
10. Vladivostok is the main port of the Far East, which played an important role in protecting the country’s northern borders.