1117 Russian cities with geographic coordinates, identifiers and 2020 population estimate.

from pathlib import Path
import requests
import pandas as pd

url = ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/"
      "epogrebnyak/ru-cities/main/assets/towns.csv")

# save file locally
p = Path("towns.csv")
if not p.exists():
    content = requests.get(url).text
    p.write_text(content, encoding="utf-8")

# read as dataframe
df = pd.read_csv("towns.csv")
print(df.sample(5))

• towns.csv - city information
• regions.csv - list of Russian Federation regions
• alt_city_names.json - alternative city names

Basic info:

• city - city name (several cities have alternative names marked in alt_city_names.json)
• population - city population, thousand people, Rosstat estimate as of 1.1.2020
• lat,lon - city geographic coordinates

Region:

• region_name - subnational region name: oblast, republic, krai or one AO (Chukotka)
• region_name_ao - autonomous okrug (AO) name, if AO is a part of larger regions (applies to 3 AO)
• region_iso_code - ISO 3166 code, eg RU-VLD
• federal_district, eg Центральный

City codes:

• okato
• oktmo
• fias_id
• kladr_id

• City list and city population collected from Rosstat publication Регионы России. Основные социально-экономические показатели городов and parsed from publication Microsoft Word files.
• City list corresponds to this Wikipedia article.
• Alternative dataset is wiki-based Dadata city dataset (no population data).

There are four autonomous regions (AO) in Russia:

• Ненецкий автономный округ
• Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ - Югра
• Чукотский автономный округ
• Ямало-Ненецкий автономный округ

Ханты-Мансийский and Ямало-Ненецкий (AO) are inner parts of Тюменская область. Ненецкий autonomous regions (AO) is inner part of Архангельская область. AO names above are listed in region_name_ao for three AO.

Чукотский AO is a stand-alone region, it is not an inner part of any region. Чукотский автономный округ is listed in region_name only.

• Several notable towns are classified as administrative part of larger cities (Сестрорецк is a municpality at Saint-Petersburg, Щербинка is a part of larger Moscow). They are not reported in this dataset.

• Белоозерский not found in Rosstat publication, but should be considered a city as of January 1, 2020. We included it into dataset.

• Дмитриев and Дмитриев-Льговский are the same city.
• We suppressed letter "ё" city columns in towns.csv - we have Орел, but not Орёл. This affected, for example:
  • Белоозёрский
  • Королёв
  • Ликино-Дулёво
  • Озёры
  • Щёлково
  • Орёл

assets/alt_city_names.json contains the alternative name pairing.

poetry install
poetry run python -m pytest

Run:

• download data from Rosstat using rar/get.sh
• convert Саратовская область.doc to docx
• run make.py

Creates:

• _towns.csv
• assets/regions.csv

Note: do not attempt this stage if you do not have to - these scripts take a while and use third-party API access. You have the resulting files in repo, so probably you can skip running these scripts.

Run:

• cd geocoding
• run coord_dadata.py (needs token)
• run coord_osm.py

Creates:

• geocoding/coord_dadata.csv
• geocoding/coord_osm.csv

Run:

• run merge.py

Creates:

• assets/towns.csv