In the Russian Federation, city of federal importance (Russian: город федерального значения, tr. gorod federalnogo znacheniya), or federal city, is a city that has a status of both an inhabited locality and a constituent federal subject.There are three federal cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Sevastopol.Two of them are the largest cities in the country: Moscow is ...

Terminology. An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia in Article 5 states: "1. The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian Federation.". Another translation of the Constitution of Russia gives for …