Talk:List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

Comments
This list appears to cover only Russia and its predecessor the Russian SFSR, as there is no mention of renamed cities in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan or Ukraine. //Big Adamsky 01:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not sure who moved the article to its new name (yeah, I could have checked history, but...). I certainly only intended to list Russian cities.  You are, of course, welcome to add sections for other post-Soviet countries, although I suspect that the list will become too long and will have to be split anyway.&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 13:10, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Proposed split
Would anyone object if this article is split, so each country would get its own article? The article as it exists is a tad too long, and is only bound to grow. This is an informal request, but please voice your objections here if you have any.&mdash;Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree, it would be better with it split. —dima/s-ko/ 20:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems a good proposal to me. The article started from Russian cities only, and the CIS sections started to grow later. Goudzovski 06:52, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The split is complete. Information on city name changes in other countries of the former Soviet Union was moved to "List of renamed cities in XXX", where "XXX" is the name of the country&mdash;e.g., List of renamed cities in Ukraine.&mdash;Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Minor renamings
Currently, the list contains a multitude of cases when the name of a settlement was changed in a minor way, e.g. switched from neutral or feminine gender to masculine, following promotion from the village status to town: selo Troitskoye → gorod Troitsk. Maybe we should exclude them and focus rather on semantical renaming? 94.29.51.78 (talk) 18:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't go as far as to exclude them, but it may make sense to move them into a separate section. In support of this approach, I should point out that under existing Russian laws even the change of adjective's gender (e.g., from Troitsky to Troitskaya) is considered a name change that requires approval on the federal level.  If my memory serves me right, this was also the case during the Soviet times.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:32, March 9, 2009 (UTC)