# City of federal subject significance

City of federal subject significance is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.

## Description

According to the 1993 Constitution of Russia, the administrative-territorial structure of the federal subjects is not identified as the responsibility of the federal government or as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the federal subjects. This state of the matters is traditionally interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions are the sole responsibility of the federal subjects themselves. As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another; that includes the manner in which the cities of federal subject significance are organized and the choice of a term to refer to such entities. In the federal subjects which have closed administrative-territorial formations, those are often given a similar status. Occasionally, this status is also given to the areas organized around the inhabited localities which are not cities, but smaller urban-type settlements.

## List of designations

As of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized:
| English designation | Russian designation | Entity in which it exists | Type of higher level entity |
| Administrative-territorial formation with special status | административно-территориальное образование с особым статусом | in the Republic of Kalmykia | republic |
| City | город | the Republics of Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Khakassia | republic |
| City of republic significance | город республиканского значения | the Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Buryatia, Chechen Republic, Chuvash Republic, Republic of Crimea, Republic of Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Karachay–Cherkess Republic, Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Mari El Republic, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, and Udmurt Republic | republic |
| City under republic jurisdiction | город республиканского подчинения | the Sakha Republic and North Ossetia-Alania | republic |
| City under republic jurisdiction (urban okrug) | город республиканского подчинения (городской округ) | the Tuva Republic | republic |
| Closed administrative-territorial formation | закрытое административно-территориальное образование | the Republic of Bashkortostan | republic |
| Republican urban okrug | республиканский городской округ | the Republic of Adygea | republic |
| Urban okrug | городской округ | the Altai Republic | republic |
| City | город | Krasnodar Krai | krai |
| City of krai significance | город краевого значения | Altai, Khabarovsk, Perm, and Stavropol Krais | krai |
| City under krai jurisdiction | город краевого подчинения | Kamchatka and Primorsky Krais | krai |
| Closed administrative-territorial formation | закрытое административно-территориальное образование | Altai, Krasnoyarsk, and Perm Krais | krai |
| Krai city | краевой город | Krasnoyarsk Krai | krai |
| City | город | Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kirov, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Vladimir Oblasts | oblast |
| City of oblast significance | город областного значения | Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kostroma, Kursk, Magadan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Omsk, Oryol, Penza, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblasts | oblast |
| City under oblast jurisdiction | город областного подчинения | Kemerovo, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Moscow, Tomsk, and Tula Oblasts | oblast |
| City with the jurisdictional territory | город с подведомственной территорией | Murmansk Oblast | oblast |
| Closed administrative-territorial formation | закрытое административно-территориальное образование | Astrakhan, Kirov, Moscow, Murmansk, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, and Vladimir Oblasts | oblast |
| Municipal formation with urban okrug status | муниципальное образование со статусом городского округа | Leningrad Oblast | oblast |
| Okrug | округ | Tver Oblast | oblast |
| Urban administrative okrug/city of oblast significance | городской административный округ/город областного значения | Bryansk Oblast | oblast |
| Urban-type settlement of oblast significance | посёлок городского типа областного значения | Chelyabinsk and Kaliningrad Oblasts | oblast |
| Urban-type settlement under oblast jurisdiction | посёлок городского типа областного подчинения | Kemerovo Oblast | oblast |
| Urban okrug | городской округ | Amur, Rostov, Smolensk, and Voronezh Oblast | oblast |
| City of okrug significance | город окружного значения | Chukotka, Khanty-Mansi, Nenets, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs | autonomous okrugs |
| City of oblast significance | город областного значения | Jewish Autonomous Oblast | autonomous oblast |