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Fun fact: Yaroslavl is one of the smartest cities in Russia even right now: https://www.unz.com/akarlin/yaroslavl-brights-buryat-patriots/

FWIW, I have also considered Perm, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk here--not to mention Russian cities that are more distant such as Omsk and Novosibirsk, but the same issue would apply to all of them as with Samara--specifically that there isn't all that much settled territory immediately...

To elaborate on what I mean here: Samara (Kuybyshev in Soviet times) doesn't have much population immediately to the south of it, unlike Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky in Soviet times), and Kazan: https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/biggest-soviet-cities/ https://archive.ph/HevDD The main...

No problem! :) There's also this book in regards to 1991 US and Soviet statistics: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1991/demo/ussr.html But Russia's statistics would have of course been different on various regards had it completely avoided decades of Communist rule.

Interesting. Yeah, makes sense. I guess that the main drawback to Kazan would be its distance from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Nizhny Novgorod is at least much closer to St. Petersburg and especially to Moscow. It would have been really cool to have two giant cities (10+ million people by the...

I considered Kazan but wondered if it might be too ethnic due to the fact that a large part of its population is Muslim, albeit of a more secular kind of Muslims. Russia traditionally portrayed itself as a multiethnic and multireligious but primarily Eastern Orthodox country, so I don't know if...

What is the best location for an alternate capital for the Russian Empire? Let's say that Russian Tsar Nicholas II decides to move the Russian capital to a city other than either Moscow or St. Petersburg around 1900, as well as to subsequently avoid Russian participation in both the...