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."Энциклопедический словарь конституционного права". Статья "Административно-территориальное устройство". Сост. А. А. Избранов. — Мн.: Изд. В.М. Суров, 2001. 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 in the Republic of Kalmykia republic City the Republics of Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Khakassia republic City of republic significance the Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Buryatia, Chechen Republic, Chuvash Republic, Republic of Crimea,The Republic of Crimea is a federal subject of Russia established on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, which is disputed between Russia and Ukraine 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 the Sakha Republic and North Ossetia-Alania republic City under republic jurisdiction (urban okrug) the Tuva Republic republic Closed administrative-territorial formation the Republic of Bashkortostan republic Republican urban okrug the Republic of Adygea republic Urban okrug the Altai Republic republic City Krasnodar Krai krai City of krai significance Altai, Khabarovsk, Perm, and Stavropol Krais krai City under krai jurisdiction Kamchatka and Primorsky Krais krai Closed administrative-territorial formation Altai, Krasnoyarsk, and Perm Krais krai Krai city Krasnoyarsk Krai krai City Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kirov, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Vladimir Oblasts oblast City of oblast significance 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 Kemerovo, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Moscow, Tomsk, and Tula Oblasts oblast City with the jurisdictional territory Murmansk Oblast oblast Closed administrative-territorial formation Astrakhan, Kirov, Moscow, Murmansk, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, and Vladimir Oblasts oblast Municipal formation with urban okrug status Leningrad Oblast oblast Okrug Tver Oblast oblast Urban administrative okrug/city of oblast significance Bryansk Oblast oblast Urban-type settlement of oblast significance Chelyabinsk and Kaliningrad Oblasts oblast Urban-type settlement under oblast jurisdiction Kemerovo Oblast oblast Urban okrug Amur, Rostov, Smolensk, and Voronezh Oblast oblast City of okrug significance Chukotka, Khanty-Mansi, Nenets, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs autonomous okrugs City of oblast significance Jewish Autonomous Oblast autonomous oblast

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