 Minsk Minsk is the capital and a major city of Belarus with a population of 1,780,000 ( in 2006 ). Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States. As a capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is also the capital of Minsk voblast (province) and Minsk raion. Minsk is situated by the Svislach and Niamiha rivers. Minsk's area is 266,8 sq km; highest point i ... Date added: 22 April '06 |  Yekaterinoburg Yekaterinoburg is a major city in the central part of Russian Federation, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range.
Yekaterinoburg is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District. Its population of 1,293,537 (2002 Census) makes it Russia's fifth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as Sver ... Date added: 26 April '06 |  Omsk Omsk is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. The population in Omsk rose from 31,000 in 1881 and 53,050 in 1900 to 1,134,016 according to the 2002 population census. It is the second-largest city in the Siberian Federal District. The distance from Omsk to Moscow is 2,700 km.
Omsk was the seat of the Governor General of Western Siberia, and later of th ... Date added: 26 April '06 |  Sofia Sofia is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with a population of 1,376,742 (15 February 2006 calculations). It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of the country.
The history of Sofia dates back to the 7th century BC, when Thracians established a settlement there. It has had ... Date added: 26 April '06 |  Perm Perm is a city in and administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia. It is situated on the banks of the Kama River, at the foot of the Ural Mountains.
Perm population is 1,001,653 (2002 Census).
Perm was populated by pagan Finno-Ugric tribes who lived to the southeast of the legendary Bjarmaland and northeast of Volga Bulgaria. Between the 13th and 14th centuries, Russian fur traders and Christ ... Date added: 27 April '06 |  Volgograd Volgograd is a city in and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is situated on the west bank of the Volga River. Volgograd population in 2002 was 1,011,417 .
Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga rivers. The fortress, which took its name from the local name Sary Su (Yellow Water\River in Tat ... Date added: 09 July '06 |  Khabarovsk Khabarovsk is the administrative center and the largest city of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some 30 km from the Chinese border.
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Khabarovsk, a city of more than 600,000 people, is second only to Vladivostok in size in the Russian Far East. While winter is only beginning to loosen its hold on Magadan, to the north, spring had clearly arrived in Khabarovsk ... Date added: 07 July '06 |  Vladivostok Vladivostok is the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated close to the Russo-Chinese border and North Korea. It is the home port of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet. The city's name means "rule the East" in Russian; in the Chinese language, the city is known as "Sea Cucumber Marsh".
Demographics:
- The city's population was 594,701 as of the 2002 Census.
- From 1958 to 19 ... Date added: 07 July '06 |
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