This is a list of Russian towns and cities that were renamed. Background Historical reasons behind geographical renaming were a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia''' after the October Revolution of 1917 more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia soon after the reconquest of Southern Sakhalin in 1945, Japanese placenames were replaced with Russian ones. Circa 1972-73, many Chinese or Chinese-sounding place names in the Russian Far East were replaced with Russian-sounding ones. in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, renamings (often for restoration of original names) happened, although infrequently. List In the list below sometimes the year of renaming appears in brackets after the new name. Abinsky → Abinsk (1963) Adygeysk (1969) → Teuchezhsk (1976) → Adygeysk (1992) Aksayskaya → Aksay (1957) Alexandria (1838) → Dakhovsky (1864) → Dakhovsky Posad (1874) → Sochi (1896) Alexandrovsk (1896) → Polyarny (1939) Alexandrovskaya → Alexandrovka → Alexandrovsky (1917) → Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (1926) Alexandrovskoye (1860) → Alexandrovka (1926) → Krasnopartizansk (1931) → Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya (1936) → Belogorsk (1957) Alexeyevsk (1912) → Svobodny (1917) Almetyevo → Almetyevsk Antrea → Kamennogorsk (1948) Apsheronskaya (1863) → Apsheronsk (1947) Armyansky Aul (1839) → Armavir (1848) Arzamas-16 (1946) → Kremlyov (1991) → Sarov (1995) Astapovo → Lev Tolstoy (1918) Balanda → Kalininsk (1962) Bashanta → Gorodovikovsk (1971) Batalpashinkaya (1804) → Batalpashinsk (1931) → Sulimov (1934) → Yezhovo-Cherkessk (1937) → Cherkessk (1939) Beloozero (862) → Belozersk (1777) Belorechenskaya (1863) → Belorechensk (1958) Beloretsk → Mezhgorye (1995) Belotsarsk (1914) → Khem-Beldyr (1918) → Kyzyl (1926) Bikinskaya → Bikin Biryuch (1905) → Budyonny (1919) → Krasnogvardeyskoye (1958) → Biryuch (2007) Bobriki → Donskoy Bobriki → Stalinogorsk (1934) → Novomoskovsk (1961) Bogdanovo → Spassk → Bednodemyanovsk (1925) → Spassk (2005) Bolokhovsky → Bolokhovo Bondyuzhsk (1885) → Bondyuzhsky (1928) → Mendeleyevsk (1967) Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor (1938) Beryozovskoye (Björkö) → Koivisto → Primorsk (1948) Chegem Pervy → Chegem Chembar → Belinsky (1948) Chertanla → Novyy Uzen' (1835) → Novouzensk Chesnokovka → Novoaltaysk (1962) Chelyabinsk-40 (1945) → Chelyabinsk-65 → Ozyorsk (1994) Chelyabinsk-70 → Snezhinsk (1991) Chibyu (1929) → Ukhta (1939) Chinnay → Krasnogorsk Cranz → Zelenogradsk (1945) Dalles (1924) → Lesozavodsk (1932) Darkehmen → Angerapp (1938) → Ozyorsk (1945) Derbinskoye (1880) → Tymovskoye (1945) Dmitriyev → Dmitriyev-na-Svape → Dmitriyev