The longest city in Russia. TOP 10 of the longest cities in the country

The longest city in the world is considered the Japanese capital of Tokyo, in Europe - the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih. What about our country? What is the longest city in Russia? Let's try to answer this question.

The longest city in Russia: several applicants

In Russia, as in any other country in the world, there are record cities. For instance:

• Moscow is the largest city (both in terms of area and population);
• Derbent - the oldest (over 2500 years old);
• Magas is the smallest and youngest;
• Tyrnyauz is the “highest” (located at an altitude of 1100 meters above sea level).

But to name the longest city in Russia, it turns out, is not so simple. In different sources you can find conflicting data. But most of them indicate that the longest city in Russia is Sochi.

True, if you look at the satellite map, you can see that Sochi is, in fact, a series of separate resort villages. They stretched along the Black Sea coast for 145 kilometers. That is why some experts say, not without reason, that the longest city in Russia is Volgograd. Its total length is almost 100 kilometers. Proponents of this version hint that Volgograd is distinguished by continuous urban development (without territorial gaps, as in Sochi).

One way or another, the list of the longest cities in Russia may look like this:

• Sochi
• Volgograd.
• New Urengoy.
• Vladivostok.
• Ufa

It is worth noting that determining the length of a city is a rather difficult task. After all, there are several completely different ways and approaches to measuring this parameter.

The longest cities in Russia: TOP-10

Several years ago, the specialists of 2 GIS compiled their rating of the longest cities in the country. The main criterion for evaluating their analysis was chosen by cartographers as follows: the shortest route along which you can drive through the entire city. Moreover, this route should be laid exclusively along the streets.

It is worth noting that for their analysis, specialists chose only million-plus cities. According to the “2 GIS” version, the TOP-10 of the longest cities of Russia looks like this (the length of the route in km is indicated in brackets):

1. Moscow (112.0).
2. St. Petersburg (102.1).
3. Samara (69.3).
4. Volgograd (64.5).
5. Ufa (54.3).
6. Perm (48.8).
7. Omsk (48.2).
8. Novosibirsk (46.2).
9. Yekaterinburg (45.6).
10. Kazan (44.5).

The main resort of the country

Sochi is not only a long city, but also very happy. After all, there is so much sea, sun and beautiful scenery!

The city is rightly called the "summer capital of Russia." The resort has a whole list of favorable climatic factors: it is a warm sea, beautiful beaches, mild climate, clean mountain air, as well as the presence of healing mineral springs and healing mud.

The main wealth of the resort city of Sochi is the sea and a unique climate. The latter was formed not without the help of the mountains of the Caucasus Range. They protected a narrow strip of the coast from cyclones and anticyclones with a powerful wall. The average annual temperature in Sochi is +14.2 degrees. Here, even the most insignificant frosts in winter are considered abnormal.

Administratively, the city of Sochi is divided into four districts: Central, Lazarevsky, Khostinsky and Adler, bordering the unrecognized state - Abkhazia. The main Russian resort has ten sister cities abroad. Among them is California Long Beach.

Ancient and heroic Volgograd

Volgograd is a large city in Russia, which emerged as a fortress in 1589. First of all, it is interesting for its many historical and architectural monuments. Many foreign tourists who are interested in Russia include this city in their travel itinerary.

Volgograd (aka Stalingrad) is a city with a heroic past. History remembers at least four great battles for this place on the map: in 1670, 1708, 1774 and 1942. The last battle for Volgograd, which was fought between the Soviet and fascist troops, was the bloodiest and most fierce. During the Battle of Stalingrad , at least two million people were killed! About a million bombs were dropped on the city itself. But he, like a Phoenix, rose from the ashes ...

Today Volgograd is the largest industrial, transport and cultural center of Russia. In addition, he is much in what is the first and most-most. For example, in Volgograd :

• the largest hydroelectric power station in Europe;
• the largest monument in Russia was erected;
• the oldest Paleolithic site in the world was found;
• the first organ in Russia was established.