Azerbaijan As of 2011, there were 256 urban-type settlements in
Azerbaijan.
Belarus According to a 1998 law of
Belarus, there are three categories of urban-type settlement in the country: •
Urban settlements: with population over 2,000, industrial enterprises and developed residential infrastructure. •
Resort settlements: with population of at least 2,000, sanatoriums, resorts or other health recuperation establishments, and developed residential infrastructure. •
Worker settlements: with population at least 500, servicing industrial enterprises, construction sites, railroad stations, electric stations, or other industrial objects.
Georgia As of 2014, there were 47 urban-type settlements in
Georgia. Eight of them are located on the territory of the partially recognized states of
Abkhazia and
South Ossetia and are de facto not under the control of the Georgian government.
Kazakhstan As of 2019, there were 48 urban-type settlements in
Kazakhstan.
Kyrgyzstan In accordance with the 2008 Law on Administrative and Territorial Subdivision of
Kyrgyzstan, urban-type settlements are those that comprise economically significant facilities such as industrial plants, railway stations, construction sites, etc., as well as settlements with a recreational potential with population of at least 2,000. In exceptional cases, administrative, economic and cultural centers with a potential of economical development and population growth can be classified as urban-type settlements.
Russia Inhabited localities In modern
Russia, the task of deciding whether an inhabited locality meets the criteria of urban-type settlements is delegated to the
federal subjects. In most cases, the federal subject's legislative body is responsible for all administrative and territorial changes, including granting and revoking of the urban-type settlement and town status.
Administrative divisions Apart from being used to refer to a
type of inhabited locality, the term "urban-type settlement" and its variations is also used to refer to a division of an
administrative district, and sometimes to a division administratively subordinated to a
city district of a
city of federal subject significance. This kind of administrative division is equal in status to the
towns of district significance and
selsoviets, and is normally centered on an inhabited locality with urban-type settlement status. As of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized: •
Resort settlement (): in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast •
Settlement (): in the
Republic of Dagestan and the
Sakha Republic; in
Krasnoyarsk and
Stavropol Krais •
Settlement administration (): in
Altai Krai •
Settlement administrative okrug (): in
Bryansk Oblast •
Settlement council (): in the
Republic of Bashkortostan and the
Udmurt Republic; in Altai Krai; in
Tambov Oblast •
Settlement municipal formation (): in
Leningrad Oblast •
Settlement okrug (): in
Krasnodar Krai; in
Belgorod and
Ulyanovsk Oblasts •
Suburban settlement (): in
Moscow and
Omsk Oblasts •
Urban settlement (): in the
Chuvash Republic; in
Amur,
Rostov,
Smolensk,
Tver, and
Voronezh Oblasts •
Urban settlement (urban-type settlement) (): in
Kostroma Oblast •
Urban-type settlement (): in the
Republic of Buryatia, the
Chechen Republic, the
Mari El Republic, and the
Republic of Tatarstan; in
Astrakhan,
Kemerovo,
Kirov,
Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod,
Oryol,
Sakhalin,
Tula,
Volgograd, and
Vologda Oblasts •
Urban-type settlement administrative territory (): in the
Komi Republic •
Urban-type settlement of district significance (): in
Kaliningrad Oblast and
Nenets Autonomous Okrug •
Urban-type settlement (settlement council) (): in the
Republic of Khakassia •
Urban-type settlement under district jurisdiction (): in
Kurgan Oblast •
Urban-type settlement (urban settlement) (): in the
Tuva Republic •
Urban-type settlement with jurisdictional territory (): in
Arkhangelsk Oblast •
Work settlement (): in the
Republic of Mordovia; in Krasnoyarsk Krai; in Belgorod,
Chelyabinsk,
Kursk,
Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod,
Novosibirsk,
Omsk,
Penza,
Ryazan, and
Yaroslavl Oblasts
Tajikistan As of January 1, 2018, there were 57 urban-type settlements in
Tajikistan.
Turkmenistan As of February 1, 2016, there were 76 urban-type settlements in
Turkmenistan.
Uzbekistan As of January 1, 2011, 1,065 settlements have urban-type settlement status in
Uzbekistan. == Former usage ==