Ranking is developed in cooperation with The Union of Architects of Russia
Rating position | Year | Federal subject, which includes the city | Population (thousands of people), according to 2011 Census | Result, points |
1 | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 763 899 | 68,4 |
2 | Ufa | Republic of Bashkortostan | 1 072 291 | 65,1 |
3 | Surgut | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra | 316 624 | 64,0 |
4 | Tyumen | Tyumen Oblast | 632 587 | 63,8 |
5 | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | Sakhalin Oblast | 186 267 | 62,9 |
6 | Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk oblast | 1 498 921 | 62,0 |
7 | Moscow | 11 612 943 | 61,9 | |
8 | Murmansk | Murmansk oblast | 305 034 | 60,0 |
9 | Yekaterinburg | Sverdlov Oblast | 1 411 137 | 59,8 |
10 | Saint-Petersburg | 4 953 219 | 59,4 | |
11 | Chelyabinsk | Chelyabinsk Oblast | 1 143 458 | 59,3 |
12 | Kaliningrad | Kaliningrad Oblast | 433 532 | 58,9 |
13 | Magnitogorsk | Chelyabinsk Oblast | 409 593 | 57,4 |
14 | Samara | Samara Oblast | 1 169 284 | 57,3 |
15 | Tomsk | Tomsk Oblast | 560 537 | 57,2 |
16 | Grozny | Chechen Republic | 275 627 | 57,2 |
17 | Angarsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 232 535 | 56,7 |
18 | Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 998 082 | 56,3 |
19 | Kemerovo | Kemerovo Oblast | 536 270 | 56,2 |
20 | Kazan | Republic of Tatarstan | 1 161 308 | 56,1 |
21 | Sochi | Krasnodar Krai | 360 324 | 55,8 |
22 | Yaroslavl | Yaroslavl Oblast | 595 155 | 55,4 |
23 | Irkutsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 597 846 | 55,4 |
24 | Omsk | Omsk Oblast | 1 156 583 | 55,2 |
25 | Nizhnevartovsk | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra | 258 780 | 55,1 |
26 | Nizhny Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 1 263 621 | 55,1 |
27 | Tver | Tver Oblast | 406 918 | 54,8 |
28 | Novokuznetsk | Kemerovo Oblast | 549 589 | 54,5 |
29 | Rostov-on-Don | Rostov Oblast | 1 096 448 | 54,4 |
30 | Lipetsk | Lipetsk Oblast | 508 066 | 54,4 |
31 | Belgorod | Belgorod oblast | 366 110 | 54,1 |
32 | Voronezh | Voronezh Oblast | 991 269 | 54,0 |
33 | Vladimir | Vladimir Oblast | 348 520 | 54,0 |
34 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | Kamchatka Krai | 179 784 | 53,9 |
35 | Saratov | Saratov Oblast | 836 892 | 53,9 |
36 | Astrakhan | Astrakhan Oblast | 525 387 | 53,2 |
37 | Veliky Novgorod | Novgorod Oblast | 219 947 | 53,0 |
38 | Petrozavodsk | Republic of Karelia | 265 263 | 52,9 |
39 | Balakovo | Saratov Oblast | 197 583 | 52,4 |
40 | Tula | Tula Oblast | 499 511 | 52,2 |
41 | Ryazan | Ryazan Oblast | 525 929 | 52,0 |
42 | Yakutsk | Sakha (Yakutia) Republic | 270 452 | 51,8 |
43 | Tolyatti | Samara Ovlast | 719 596 | 51,6 |
44 | Ulyanovsk | Ulyanovsk Oblast | 637 200 | 51,5 |
45 | Blagoveshchensk | Amur Oblast | 221 136 | 51,3 |
46 | Kaluga | Kaluga Oblast | 342 388 | 50,9 |
47 | Kursk | Kursk Oblast | 423 181 | 50,8 |
48 | Makhachkala | Republic of Dagestan | 574 277 | 50,6 |
49 | Orel | Orel Oblast | 319 100 | 50,5 |
50 | Stavropol | Stavropol Krai | 404 606 | 50,4 |
51 | Prokopyevsk | Kemerovo Oblast | 207 104 | 50,3 |
52 | Volgograd | Volgograd Oblast | 1 018 739 | 50,3 |
53 | Bratsk | Irkutsk Oblast | 243 926 | 50,2 |
54 | Kamensk-Uralsky | Sverdlov Oblast | 174 998 | 50,2 |
55 | Izhevsk | Udmurt Republic | 629 455 | 50,1 |
56 | Bryansk | Bryansk Oblast | 432 033 | 49,9 |
57 | Kirov | Kirov Oblast | 502 597 | 49,9 |
58 | Khabarovsk | Khabarovsk Krai | 585 556 | 49,9 |
59 | Stary Oskol | Belgorod Oblast | 256 523 | 49,7 |
60 | Zlatoust | Chelyabinsk Oblast | 175 829 | 49,7 |
61 | Orenburg | Orenburg Oblast | 570 329 | 49,5 |
62 | Rybinsk | Yaroslavl Oblast | 198 132 | 49,0 |
63 | Cherepovets | Vologda Oblast | 314 646 | 49,0 |
64 | Vladivostok | Primorsky Krai | 622 693 | 48,9 |
65 | Engels | Saratov Oblast | 209 103 | 48,8 |
66 | Cheboksary | Chuvash Republic | 470 896 | 48,6 |
67 | Penza | Penza Oblast | 519 992 | 48,5 |
68 | Pskov | Pskov Oblast | 203 974 | 48,3 |
69 | Tambov | Tambov Oblast | 280 856 | 48,3 |
70 | Vologda | Vologda Oblast | 312 419 | 48,3 |
71 | Saransk | Republic of Mordovia | 297 924 | 48,2 |
72 | Taganrog | Rostov Oblast | 256 565 | 48,1 |
73 | Arkhangelsk | Arkhangelsk Oblast | 356 523 | 48,1 |
74 | Kostroma | Kostroma Oblast | 269 262 | 47,8 |
75 | Naberezhnye Chelny | Republic of Tatarstan | 516 637 | 47,7 |
76 | Orsk | Orenburg Oblast | 242 170 | 47,7 |
77 | Nizhny Tagil | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 362 489 | 47,7 |
78 | Novorossiysk | Krasnodar Krai | 239 007 | 47,7 |
79 | Smolensk | Smolensk Oblast | 329 944 | 47,4 |
80 | Sterlitamak | Republic of Bashkortostan | 274 382 | 47,4 |
81 | Dzerzhinsk | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 249 297 | 47,1 |
82 | Ivanovo | Ivanovo Oblast | 408 826 | 47,1 |
83 | Chita | Zabaykalsky Krai | 327 909 | 47,0 |
84 | Vladikavkaz | Republic of North Ossetia–Alania | 328 381 | 47,0 |
85 | Ulan-Ude | Republic of Buryatia | 411 646 | 46,9 |
86 | Perm | Perm Krai | 1 000 672 | 46,8 |
87 | Yoshkar-Ola | Mari El Republic | 263 506 | 46,6 |
88 | Kurgan | Kurgan Oblast | 327 898 | 46,3 |
89 | Volzhsky | Volgograd Oblast | 327 563 | 46,2 |
90 | Severodvinsk | Arkhangelsk Oblast | 191 307 | 46,0 |
91 | Syzran | Samara Oblast | 178 711 | 45,7 |
92 | Barnaul | Altai Krai | 681 463 | 45,7 |
93 | Shakhty | Rostov Oblast | 238 486 | 45,5 |
94 | Nalchik | Kabardino-Balkar Republic | 265 266 | 45,1 |
95 | Syktyvkar | Komi Republic | 254 489 | 44,7 |
96 | Volgodonsk | Rostov Oblast | 170 244 | 44,5 |
97 | Armavir | Krasnodar Krai | 188 966 | 43,6 |
98 | Nizhnekamsk | Republic of Tatarstan | 234 928 | 43,0 |
99 | Biysk | Altai Krai | 216 745 | 42,3 |
100 | Komsomolsk-on-Amur | Khabarovsk Krai | 260 257 | 39,0 |
Object and methodology of research
The aim of the ranking is to define the city which is the most favorable in terms of living from 2 points:
Cost of living
Quality of living
This Ranking is a first try to estimate the city as a good or a service for all dwellers. It also gives the possibility to estimate the efficiency of the city policy as focused on increasing citizen appeal.
The unique features of the ranking are as follows:
Complexity – the ranking includes data describing (reflecting) all basic needs of citizens.
Representativeness – ranking operates only with issues that are common for citizens of the time, such as: housing issues, security, transport, food expenses, housing, and public utilities expenses.
Objectiveness – the ranking doesn’t use expert opinions, it operates only with shared statistics including census data (2010), real estate developers data, and common climatic and environmental assessments.
Methodology of the ranking:
This ranking includes the 100 largest Russian cities. Two groups of indicators were formed:
Indicators of the level of the urban environment
Cost of living in the city
Most of indicators used in the ranking are aggregated indicators – they are calculated on the base of 25 statistical factors. At first, cities were ranked by each particular indicator and afterwards the final ranking was calculated.
Ranking data in the context of each of the 14 indicators are rated separately and are available in open sources. This allows one to clearly identify the “strong” and “weak” points of every city involved in the ranking.
There are 5 cities that have been excluded from the “Top-100″ ranking due to following reasons:
The Moscow suburb cities of Balashiha, Khimki, Podolsk, and Korolev were excluded because of economic and territorial points that they are playing a role within Moscow districts. If they had not been excluded from the ranking, they might have been in some of the top 10 positions within the ranking.
Norilsk was excluded due to the peculiarity of it’s climate, specifically, the social and business environment.