The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries.
Vyborg, a town (gorod) in the Leningrad Oblast
Ferapontovo, a village (selo) in the Vologda Oblast
Stanitsa
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A stanitsa or stanitza, also spelled stanytsia or stanitsa, was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.
Market in Tsimlyanskaya stanitsa, Don Host Oblast (near present day Tsimlyansk), 1875-76
Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Yorck