This is a list of places in Russia which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
A Aleksin
Saky, Ukraine Salihorsk, Belarus Serpukhov, Russia Tivat, Montenegro Veľký Krtíš, Slovakia Yevpatoria, Ukraine
Arkhangelsk
Ashdod, Israel Emden, Germany Jermuk, Armenia Oulu, Finland Portland, United States Sukhumi, Georgia Vardø, Norway
Apatity
Alta, Norway Boden, Sweden Keminmaa, Finland
Armavir
Armavir, Armenia Feodosia, Ukraine Gomel, Belarus
Astrakhan
Ahmedabad, India Brest, Belarus Grand-Popo, Benin Mogilev, Belarus Pembroke Pines, United States Rasht, Iran Sari, Iran Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan Vitebsk, Belarus
Azov
Aglandjia, Cyprus
Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina Chillicothe, United States Courbevoie, France Feodosia, Ukraine Pylos-Nestor, Greece Sečanj, Serbia
B Balakovo
Cherepovets, Russia Trnava, Slovakia
Balashikha
Martin, Slovakia Mogilev, Belarus Pernik, Bulgaria Yangzhou, China
Barnaul
Baicheng, China Changji, China
Oskemen, Kazakhstan Shumen, Bulgaria
Belgorod
Herne, Germany Niš, Serbia Pryluky, Ukraine Sevastopol, Ukraine Yevpatoria, Ukraine
Birobidzhan
Beaverton, United States Hegang, China Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Israel Niigata, Japan Nof HaGalil, Israel Yichun, China
Borisoglebsk Delmenhorst, Germany
Bryansk
Comrat, Moldavia Dupnitsa, Bulgaria Gomel, Belarus Karlovo, Bulgaria
C Cheboksary
Afyonkarahisar, Turkey Anqing, China Eger, Hungary Grodno, Belarus Rundu, Namibia Santa Clara, Cuba
Chelyabinsk
Columbia, United States Mogilev, Belarus Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Ürümqi, China
Cherepovets
Aiud, Romania Balakovo, Russia Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria Liaoyuan, China Maladzyechna, Belarus Montclair, United States
Chernyakhovsk
Kirchheimbolanden, Germany Salihorsk, Belarus
Chita
Choibalsan, Mongolia Hailar (Hulunbuir), China Hulunbuir, China Manzhouli, China Ulan-Ude, Russia
D Derbent
Ganja, Azerbaijan Hadera, Israel Yakima, United States
Dimitrovgrad
Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria Guliston, Tajikistan Lida, Belarus
Dmitrov
Flevoland, Netherlands Osimo, Italy
Pitsunda, Georgia Puchavichy District, Belarus Rems-Murr (district), Germany Rēzekne, Latvia Rîbnița, Moldova
Dubna
Alushta, Ukraine Giv'at Shmuel, Israel
Kurchatov, Kazakhstan La Crosse, United States Lincang, China Nová Dubnica, Slovakia
Dzerzhinsk
Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany
Grodno, Belarus
E Elista
Aktau, Kazakhstan Khoni, Georgia Kyzyl, Russia Lhasa, China Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Ulan-Ude, Russia
G Gagarin
Barysaw, Belarus Krupki, Belarus Orsha, Belarus Ratingen, Germany
Gatchina
Ettlingen, Germany
Gatchinsky District
Lichuan County, China Nyasvizh, Belarus
Gelendzhik
Angoulême, France Ayia Napa, Cyprus Hildesheim, Germany Kallithea, Greece Netanya, Israel Vitebsk, Belarus
Grozny
Ardahan, Turkey Babruysk, Belarus Mogilev, Belarus Ulan-Ude, Russia Yalta, Ukraine
Guryevsk
Chachersk, Belarus Jonkowo, Poland Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland Olsztyn County, Poland Ostaszewo, Poland Shchuchyn, Belarus
I Irkutsk
Eugene, United States Gangneung, South Korea Haute-Savoie, France Kanazawa, Japan
Pforzheim, Germany Pordenone Province, Italy Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia Shenyang, China Strömsund, Sweden Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Vitebsk, Belarus
Istra
Bad Orb, Germany Bečej, Serbia Dyurtyuli, Russia
Loreto, Italy Petrich, Bulgaria Pinsk, Belarus
Ivanovo
Ayia Napa, Cyprus
Kraljevo, Serbia Mladenovac (Belgrade), Serbia Orsha, Belarus
Izhevsk
Brest, Belarus Córdoba, Argentina Maracay, Venezuela Salt Lake City, United States Tatabánya, Hungary Wuhan, China Xining, China Yambol, Bulgaria
K Kaliningrad
Baranavichy, Belarus Bremerhaven, Germany Brest, Belarus Cagliari, Italy Catania, Italy Forlì, Italy Gomel, Belarus Groningen, Netherlands Kętrzyn County, Poland Kiel, Germany Norfolk, United States Zeitz, Germany
Kaluga
Binzhou, China
Minsk, Belarus Niš, Serbia Panorama, Greece Suhl, Germany Tiraspol, Moldova Yalta, Ukraine
Kandalaksha
Kemijärvi, Finland Piteå, Sweden
Kansk Polotsk, Belarus
Kazan
Ankara, Turkey Antalya, Turkey Arkadag, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan Braunschweig, Germany Donetsk, Ukraine Eskişehir, Turkey Guangzhou, China Hangzhou, China Harare, Zimbabwe Isfahan, Iran Istanbul, Turkey Monufia, Egypt Qalyubiyya, Egypt
Tabriz, Iran
Kemerovo Salgótarján, Hungary
Khabarovsk
Bucheon, South Korea Harbin, China Mogilev, Belarus Niigata, Japan Portland, United States Sanya, China
Khimki Grodno, Belarus
Kineshma
Baranavichy, Belarus Gudauta, Georgia
Kingisepp
Jõhvi, Estonia Narvik, Norway Pitsunda, Georgia Raisio, Finland Renhuai, China Sassnitz, Germany Svietlahorsk, Belarus
Klin
Byerazino, Belarus Krychaw, Belarus Lappeenranta, Finland Meishan, China Orly, France
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Jiamusi, China Kamo, Japan Weinan, China
Kostroma
Babruysk, Belarus Bari, Italy Bat Yam, Israel Cetinje, Montenegro Ceadîr-Lunga, Moldavia Danilov, Russia Dole, France
Ijevan, Armenia Ochamchire, Georgia Oral, Kazakhstan
Samokov, Bulgaria Sanmenxia, China Soroca, Moldavia Vrbas, Serbia
Kotelniki
Rahachow, Belarus
Sudak, Ukraine
Kotlas
Waterville, United States
Krasnodar
Burgas, Bulgaria Ferrara, Italy Harbin, China Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Karlsruhe, Germany Nancy, France Sukhumi, Georgia
Wels, Austria
Krasnogorsk
Antibes, France Goirle, Netherlands Höchstadt an der Aisch, Germany Karelichy, Belarus
Slivnitsa, Bulgaria Tukums, Latvia Wągrowiec, Poland
Krasnoyarsk
Changchun, China Cremona, Italy Heihe, China Istaravshan, Tajikistan Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan Kokshetau, Kazakhstan Manzhouli, China Oneonta, United States Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Kronstadt
Annapolis, United States Asipovichy, Belarus Changli County, China Dax, France Demre, Turkey Feodosia, Ukraine Ii, Finland Lushan, China Marostica, Italy Messina, Italy Mühlhausen, Germany Nafplio, Greece Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia Nordborg (Sønderborg), Denmark Oulu, Finland Oxelösund, Sweden
Pinghu, China Põhja-Tallinn (Tallinn), Estonia Pudasjärvi, Finland Sumoto, Japan Toulon, France Zhongshan County, China
Kursk
Bar, Montenegro Donetsk, Ukraine Feodosia, Ukraine Gomel, Belarus Niš, Serbia Novopolotsk, Belarus Polotsk, Belarus Primorsko, Bulgaria Speyer, Germany Sukhumi, Georgia Tiraspol, Moldova Užice, Serbia Witten, Germany
L Lipetsk
Anshan, China Cottbus, Germany Fabriano, Italy Vitebsk, Belarus
Lomonosov
Anacortes, United States Framingham, United States Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland Oberursel, Germany
M Magadan
Anchorage, United States Baranavichy, Belarus
Shuangyashan, China Tonghua, China Zlatitsa, Bulgaria
Magnitogorsk
Atyrau, Kazakhstan Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany Gomel, Belarus Huai'an, China
Makhachkala
Biskra, Algeria Hatten, Germany Ndola, Zambia Oldenburg, Germany Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Yalova, Turkey
Maloyaroslavets
Barysaw, Belarus Holíč, Slovakia Serpukhov, Russia
Michurinsk
Munster, Germany Smolyan, Bulgaria
Mikhaylovsk
Jurong, China Zhenjiang, China
Moscow
Almaty, Kazakhstan Ankara, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Baku, Azerbaijan Bangkok, Thailand Beijing, China Bucharest, Romania Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cusco, Peru Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ganja, Azerbaijan Hanoi, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Jakarta, Indonesia Ljubljana, Slovenia London, England, United Kingdom Manila, Philippines New Delhi, India La Paz, Bolivia Pyongyang, North Korea Rasht, Iran Seoul, South Korea Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tehran, Iran Tokyo, Japan Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Mtsensk Kubrat, Bulgaria
Murmansk
Alanya, Turkey Groningen, Netherlands Harbin, China Jacksonville, United States Minsk, Belarus Vadsø, Norway
Mytishchi
Angarsk, Russia Bakhchysarai, Ukraine Baranavichy, Belarus Barysaw, Belarus Düren (district), Germany Gabrovo, Bulgaria Lecco, Italy Smalyavichy, Belarus Zhodzina, Belarus
N Nakhodka
Bellingham, United States Donghae, South Korea Jilin City, China Maizuru, Japan Oakland, United States Otaru, Japan Phuket, Thailand Tsuruga, Japan
Naro-Fominsk
Babruysk, Belarus Daugavpils, Latvia Elin Pelin, Bulgaria
Nizhny Novgorod
Bălți, Moldova Dobrich, Bulgaria Essen, Germany Győr, Hungary Hefei, China Heraklion, Greece Jinan, China
Linz, Austria Matanzas, Cuba Minsk, Belarus Novi Sad, Serbia Philadelphia, United States Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain Sukhumi, Georgia Suwon, South Korea
Nizhny Tagil
Brest, Belarus
Novokuznetsk, Russia Yevpatoria, Ukraine
Novocherkassk
Iserlohn, Germany Levski, Bulgaria Novi Bečej, Serbia La Valette-du-Var, France
Novorossiysk
Brest, Belarus
Gainesville, United States Gavar, Armenia Gijón, Spain Heilbronn, Germany Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Livorno, Italy
Pula, Croatia Qingdao, China Samsun, Turkey Tyre, Lebanon Valparaíso, Chile Varna, Bulgaria
Novosibirsk
Daejeon, South Korea
Mianyang, China Minneapolis, United States Minsk, Belarus Osh, Kyrgyzstan Saint Paul, United States Sapporo, Japan Sevastopol, Ukraine Shenyang, China Tiraspol, Moldova Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Varna, Bulgaria Yerevan, Armenia
O Obninsk
Astravyets, Belarus Belene, Bulgaria Frascati, Italy
Mianyang, China Montpellier, France Oak Ridge, United States
Odintsovo
Kruševac, Serbia Novopolotsk, Belarus Wittmund, Germany
Omsk
Antalya, Turkey Fuzhou, China Gomel, Belarus Kaifeng, China Manzhouli, China Mogilev, Belarus Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Petropavl, Kazakhstan Púchov, Slovakia Ürümqi, China
Orenburg
Aktobe, Kazakhstan Khujand, Tajikistan Oral, Kazakhstan
Oryol
Krychaw district, Belarus Mary, Turkmenistan Offenbach am Main, Germany Zhodzina, Belarus
P Penza
Lanzhou, China Mogilev, Belarus Ramat Gan, Israel
Perm
Agrigento, Italy Amnéville, France Duisburg, Germany
Qingdao, China
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Kushiro, Japan Unalaska, United States
Petrozavodsk
Brest, Belarus Duluth, United States Joensuu, Finland Neubrandenburg, Germany La Rochelle, France Tübingen, Germany Vagharshapat, Armenia Varkaus, Finland
Podolsk
Bălți, Moldova Barysaw, Belarus Hengyang, China Kavarna, Bulgaria Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France Shumen, Bulgaria Vanadzor, Armenia
Protvino
Antony, France Bowling Green, United States Gomel, Belarus Lahoysk, Belarus Milan, United States Somero, Finland
Pskov
Arles, France Daugavpils, Latvia Gera, Germany Neuss, Germany Nijmegen, Netherlands Rēzekne, Latvia Vitebsk, Belarus
Pushkin
Bălți, Moldova Cambrai, France Kalamazoo, United States Mantua, Italy Nassau County, United States Neukölln (Berlin), Germany Novopolotsk, Belarus Semey, Kazakhstan Valence, France Veria, Greece Worcester, United States Zerbst, Germany
Pyatigorsk
Dilijan, Armenia
Hévíz, Hungary Kochi, India Panagyurishte, Bulgaria Schwerte, Germany Trikala, Greece
R Rostov-on-Don
Antalya, Turkey
Dortmund, Germany Gera, Germany
Kajaani, Finland Le Mans, France Minsk, Belarus
Pleven, Bulgaria Seville, Spain Volos, Greece
Yerevan, Armenia
Ryazan
Alessandria, Italy Bressuire, France Brest, Belarus Genoa, Italy Lovech, Bulgaria Münster, Germany New Athos, Georgia
Xuzhou, China
S Saint Petersburg
Alexandria, Egypt Almaty, Kazakhstan Antwerp, Belgium Aqaba, Jordan Astana, Kazakhstan Baku, Azerbaijan Bangkok, Thailand Barcelona, Spain Bethlehem, Palestine Bordeaux, France Busan, South Korea Cape Town, South Africa Colombo, Sri Lanka Daegu, South Korea Daugavpils, Latvia Debrecen, Hungary Dresden, Germany Dushanbe, Tajikistan