Light pollution in Russia

92 cities · estimated Bortle class at each city centre

12 of 92 cities read Bortle 8–9 · 78 of 92 cities read Bortle 7–8 · 2 of 92 cities read Bortle 6–7. The darkest city centre on the list is Biysk (Bortle 6–7).

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Cities, brightest first

#	City	Bortle (est.)	Brightness	2 classes darker
1	Moscow	8–9	255	~50 km NE
2	Khimki	8–9	255	~25 km NNW
3	Saint Petersburg	8–9	255	~25 km WNW
4	Novosibirsk	8–9	255	~25 km NW
5	Chelyabinsk	8–9	255	~25 km E
6	Kemerovo	8–9	255	~25 km ENE
7	Krasnodar	8–9	255	~25 km ESE
8	Yekaterinburg	8–9	255	~25 km WSW
9	Kazan	8–9	255	~25 km SW
10	Rostov-on-Don	8–9	255	~25 km NNW
11	Krasnoyarsk	8–9	249	~25 km S
12	Omsk	8–9	254	~25 km NE
13	Nizhniy Novgorod	7–8	253	~25 km NE
14	Zelenograd	7–8	255	~25 km N
15	Voronezh	7–8	255	~25 km NE
16	Tyumen	7–8	255	~25 km WSW
17	Perm	7–8	255	~25 km SE
18	Saratov	7–8	254	~25 km SSW
19	Tomsk	7–8	255	~25 km WNW
20	Irkutsk	7–8	243	~25 km SSE
21	Samara	7–8	252	~25 km W
22	Volgograd	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
23	Orenburg	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
24	Surgut	7–8	255	~25 km NNW
25	Penza	7–8	255	~25 km NE
26	Astrakhan	7–8	255	~25 km WSW
27	Khabarovsk	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
28	Yaroslavl	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
29	Grozny	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
30	Belgorod	7–8	255	~25 km E
31	Makhachkala	7–8	255	~25 km NE
32	Ufa	7–8	255	~25 km SW
33	Lipetsk	7–8	255	~25 km NE
34	Kaliningrad	7–8	255	~25 km WSW
35	Naberezhnyye Chelny	7–8	255	~25 km NE
36	Tolyatti	7–8	228	~25 km W
37	Izhevsk	7–8	255	~25 km N
38	Volzhsky	7–8	255	~25 km N
39	Ulan-Ude	7–8	255	~25 km NW
40	Magnitogorsk	7–8	245	~25 km NE
41	Yakutsk	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
42	Novokuznetsk	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
43	Kirov	7–8	255	~25 km NNE
44	Stavropol	7–8	255	~25 km S
45	Vladikavkaz	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
46	Murmansk	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
47	Barnaul	7–8	242	~25 km SSE
48	Ryazan’	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
49	Cheboksary	7–8	255	~25 km WNW
50	Tula	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
51	Tver	7–8	255	~25 km W
52	Nizhny Tagil	7–8	251	~25 km SE
53	Nizhnevartovsk	7–8	255	~25 km NNW
54	Saransk	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
55	Orsk	7–8	255	~25 km E
56	Kaluga	7–8	255	~25 km SSE
57	Novorossiysk	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
58	Ulyanovsk	7–8	255	~25 km NNE
59	Blagoveshchensk	7–8	255	~25 km W
60	Smolensk	7–8	255	~25 km N
61	Kursk	7–8	255	~25 km NW
62	Chita	7–8	253	~25 km E
63	Nizhnekamsk	7–8	255	~25 km WSW
64	Arkhangel’sk	7–8	255	~25 km WNW
65	Sochi	7–8	255	~25 km WSW
66	Ivanovo	7–8	255	~25 km SW
67	Shakhty	7–8	253	~25 km ENE
68	Vladivostok	7–8	216	~25 km S
69	Nalchik	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
70	Taganrog	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
71	Vologda	7–8	255	~25 km W
72	Sterlitamak	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
73	Dzerzhinsk	7–8	255	~25 km NW
74	Prokop’yevsk	7–8	179	~25 km SW
75	Kurgan	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
76	Kostroma	7–8	253	~25 km N
77	Cherepovets	7–8	255	~25 km S
78	Staryy Oskol	7–8	238	~25 km ENE
79	Orël	7–8	255	~25 km W
80	Syktyvkar	7–8	255	~25 km W
81	Bratsk	7–8	248	~25 km ESE
82	Vladimir	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
83	Angarsk	7–8	211	~25 km NNE
84	Petrozavodsk	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
85	Yoshkar-Ola	7–8	255	~25 km SW
86	Pskov	7–8	255	~25 km NW
87	Komsomolsk-on-Amur	7–8	255	~25 km NNE
88	Bryansk	7–8	200	~25 km NNW
89	Velikiy Novgorod	7–8	255	~25 km SSE
90	Tambov	7–8	210	~25 km NNE
91	Rybinsk	6–7	247	~25 km NNW
92	Biysk	6–7	179	~25 km WSW

Brightness is the NASA VIIRS Black Marble 2016 value at the city centre on a 0–255 scale; 255 is saturated. Cities are ordered by estimated sky brightness, which also counts the light within 30 km.