Cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people. The list of the largest regions of Russia has been published. The largest cities in Russia

". The material provides an infographic of the change in the population of Russian cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people for five-year periods since 1970.

The sizes of the icons in the pictures correspond to the population of the city at the end of the period under review (500 thousand-1 million people and 1 million - 4 million people and more than 4 million people in order of increasing icon size). The color of the icon characterizes the change in population over the period. Cities with a population of less than 500,000 are not shown in the figures. But tables 1 and 2 reflect the change in the population of all cities that have ever reached 500 thousand people from 1970 to 2015.

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Data taken from the collections "Russian Statistical Yearbook" and " National economy RSFSR".

Table 1 - Change in the population of cities with more than 500,000 people. in any year in 1970-2015, thousand people

	City

	St. Petersburg
	Novosibirsk
	Yekaterinburg
	Nizhny Novgorod

	Chelyabinsk


	Rostov-on-Don

	Krasnoyarsk


	Volgograd
	Krasnodar


	Tolyatti



	Ulyanovsk
	Khabarovsk
	Vladivostok
	Yaroslavl
	Makhachkala

	Orenburg
	Kemerovo
	Novokuznetsk

	Astrakhan
	Naberezhnye Chelny



	City population 500,000+, total

Table 2 - Change in the population of cities with more than 500,000 people. in any year in 1970-2015, %.

City	1970- 1975	1975- 1980	1980- 1985	1985- 1990	1990- 1995	1995- 2000	2000- 2005	2005- 2010	2010- 2015

St. Petersburg
Novosibirsk
Yekaterinburg
Nizhny Novgorod

Chelyabinsk


Rostov-on-Don

Krasnoyarsk


Volgograd
Krasnodar


Tolyatti



Ulyanovsk
Khabarovsk
Vladivostok
Yaroslavl
Makhachkala

Orenburg
Kemerovo

Every year the population of Russian cities is increasing. Demography is one of the main economic indicators of urban development, so it is important to track the dynamics of population changes. INNOV has prepared a list of the largest cities in Russia. The population of cities was used as the main indicator.

According to Rosstat, in Russia big cities can be divided into several groups according to population size. Among them are cities with a population of 1.5 million to 500 thousand inhabitants (15 cities), 43 cities with a population of 500 thousand to 250 thousand inhabitants, and 90 cities with a population of 250 thousand to 100 thousand people.

The largest cities are Moscow and St. Petersburg. INNOV about this earlier.

The largest cities in Russia

			Dynamics
	12 330 126	12 197 596	132 530	1.09	Moscow
St. Petersburg	5 225 690	5 191 690	34 000	0.65	Saint Petersburg
Novosibirsk	1 584 138	1 567 087	17 051	1.09	Novosibirsk region
Yekaterinburg	1 444 439	1 428 042	16 397	1.15	Sverdlovsk region
Nizhny Novgorod	1 266 871	1 267 760	- 889	-0.07	Nizhny Novgorod Region
	1 216 965	1 205 651	11 314	0.94	Republic of Tatarstan
Chelyabinsk	1 191 994	1 183 387	8 607	0.73	Chelyabinsk region
	1 178 079	1 173 854	4 225	0.36	Omsk region
	1 170 910	1 171 820	- 910	-0.08	Samara Region
Rostov-on-Don	1 119 875	1 114 806	5 069	0.45	Rostov region
	1 110 976	1 105 667	5 309	0.48	Rep. Bashkortostan
Krasnoyarsk	1 066 934	1 052 218	14 716	1.40	Krasnoyarsk region
	1 041 876	1 036 469	5 407	0.52	Perm region
	1 032 382	1 023 570	8 812	0.86	Voronezh region
Volgograd	1 016 137	1 017 451	- 1 314	-0.13	Volgograd region

Cities with a population of 500 thousand to 1 million people

				Dynamics		Subject of the Russian Federation, which includes the city
16	Krasnodar	853 848	829 677	24 171	2.91	Krasnodar region
17		843 460	842 097	1 363	0.16	Saratov region
18		720 575	697 037	23 538	3.38	Tyumen region
19	Tolyatti	712 619	719 646	- 7 027	-0.98	Samara Region
20		643 496	642 024	1 472	0.23	Udmurt republic
21		635 585	635 530	55	0.01	Altai region
22		623 424	620 099	3 325	0.54	Irkutsk region
23	Ulyanovsk	621 514	619 492	2 022	0.33	Ulyanovsk region
24	Khabarovsk	611 160	607 216	3 944	0.65	Khabarovsk region
25	Yaroslavl	606 703	603 961	2 742	0.45	Yaroslavskaya oblast
26	Vladivostok	606 653	604 602	2 051	0.34	Primorsky Krai
27	Makhachkala	587 876	583 233	4 643	0.8	The Republic of Dagestan
28		569 293	564 910	4 383	0.78	Tomsk region
29	Orenburg	562 569	561 279	1 290	0.23	Orenburg region
30	Kemerovo	553 076	549 159	3 917	0.71	Kemerovo region
31	Novokuznetsk	551 253	550 127	1 126	0.2	Kemerovo region
32		534 762	532 772	1 990	0.37	Ryazan Oblast
33	Astrakhan	531 719	532 699	- 980	-0.18	Astrakhan region
34	Naberezhnye Chelny	526 750	524 444	2 306	0.44	Republic of Tatarstan
35		524 632	522 823	1 809	0.35	Penza region
36		510 020	510 152	- 132	-0.03	Lipetsk region

Cities with a population of 250 thousand to 500 thousand people

						Kirov region
						Tula region
	Cheboksary					Chuvash Republic
	Kaliningrad					Kaliningrad region
						Kursk region
	Ulan - Ude					The Republic of Buryatia
	Stavropol					Stavropol region
	Balashikha					Moscow region
	Magnitogorsk					Chelyabinsk region
						Tver region
	Sevastopol					City f.z. Sevastopol
						Ivanovo region
						Bryansk region
						Krasnodar region
	Belgorod					Belgorod region
	Nizhny Tagil					Sverdlovsk region
	Vladimir					Vladimir region
	Arkhangelsk					Arhangelsk region
						Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
						Zabaykalsky Krai
						Kaluga region
	Simferopol					Republic of Crimea
	Smolensk					Smolensk region
	Volzhsky					Volgograd region
						Kurgan region
						Oryol Region
	Cherepovets					Vologda Region
						Vologda Region
						The Republic of Mordovia
	Vladikavkaz					Rep. North Ossetia Alania
						Rep. Sakha (Yakutia)
	Murmansk					Murmansk region
	Podolsk					Moscow region
						Tambov Region
						Chechen Republic
	Sterlitamak					Rep. Bashkortostan
	Petrozavodsk					Republic of Karelia
	Kostroma					Kostroma region
	Nizhnevartovsk					Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
	Novorossiysk					Krasnodar region
	Yoshkar-Ola					Mari El Republic
	Komsomolsk-on-Amur					Khabarovsk region
	Taganrog					Rostov region

Cities with a population of 100,000 to 250,000

	Syktyvkar					Komi Republic
						Moscow region
						Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
						Rostov region
	Nizhnekamsk					Republic of Tatarstan
						Irkutsk region
	Dzerzhinsk					Nizhny Novgorod Region
						Orenburg region
						Irkutsk region
	Blagoveshchensk					Amurskaya Oblast
						Saratov region
	Stary Oskol					Belgorod region
	Velikiy Novgorod					Novgorod region
						Moscow region
						Pskov region
						Altai region
						Moscow region
	Prokopyevsk					Kemerovo region
	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk					Sakhalin region
	Balakovo					Saratov region
						Yaroslavskaya oblast
	Armavir					Krasnodar region
						Moscow region
	Severodvinsk					Arhangelsk region
	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky					Kamchatka Krai
						The Republic of Khakassia
	Norilsk					Krasnoyarsk region
						Samara Region
	Volgodonsk					Rostov region
	Novocherkassk					Rostov region
	Kamensk-Uralsky					Sverdlovsk region
	Chrysostom					Chelyabinsk region
	Ussuriysk					Primorsky Krai
	Elektrostal					Moscow region
						Republic of Bashkortostan
						Primorsky Krai
	Almetyevsk					Republic of Tatarstan
						Chelyabinsk region
						Republic of Crimea
	Berezniki					Perm region
	Rubtsovsk					Altai region
						Chelyabinsk region
	Pyatigorsk					Stavropol region
	Krasnogorsk					Moscow region
						Republic of Adygea
						Moscow region
	Odintsovo					Moscow region
						Vladimir region
	Khasavyurt					The Republic of Dagestan
	Kislovodsk					Stavropol region
	Serpukhov					Moscow region
	Novomoskovsk					Tula region
	Neftekamsk					Rep. Bashkortostan
	Novocheboksarsk					Chuvash Republic
	Nefteyugansk					Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
	Pervouralsk					Sverdlovsk region
	Shchyolkovo					Moscow region
	Cherkessk					Karachay-Cherkess Republic
						The Republic of Dagestan
						Rostov region
	Orekhovo-Zuevo					Moscow region
	Nevinnomyssk					Stavropol region
	Domodedovo					Moscow region
	Dimitrovgrad					Ulyanovsk region
						Tyva Republic
	Oktyabrsky					Rep. Bashkortostan
						The Republic of Ingushetia
						Volgograd region
						Kaluga region
	New Urengoy					Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
	Kaspiysk					The Republic of Dagestan
						Vladimir region
	Ramenskoye					Moscow region
	Novoshakhtinsk					Rostov region
	Zhukovsky					Moscow region
						Tomsk region
						Moscow region
	Noyabrsk					Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
	Evpatoria					Republic of Crimea
	Essentuki					Stavropol region
						Lipetsk region
						Krasnoyarsk region
						Primorsky Krai
	Sergiev Posad					Moscow region
						Nizhny Novgorod Region
						Republic of Kalmykia
	Novokuibyshevsk					Samara Region
						Novosibirsk region
						Moscow region
	Dolgoprudny					Moscow

1 - Northwestern 1 - Northern - - Volga region 3 6 North Caucasian 1 2 Ural 4 2 West Siberian 2 5 East Siberian 1 1 Far Eastern - 2 Cities of Russia with a population of more than 500 thousand inhabitants
by federal districts of Russia

federal district	Millionaire cities	Half million cities
Central	2	3
Northwestern	1	-
Volga	5	7
Southern	2	2
North Caucasian	-	1
Ural	2	1
Siberian	3	5
Far Eastern	-	2
Crimean	-	-

Map of the largest cities

Cities with population:

Population

This table shows the data:

- according to the census on February 9
- according to the census on December 17
- on
- on
- according to the census on January 15
- according to the census on January 17
- according to the census on January 12
- according to the census on October 9
- according to the census on October 14
- according to current data as of January 1

The centers of the federal districts of the Russian Federation are highlighted in color.
Bold centers of subjects of the Russian Federation.

Cities of Russia with a population of more than 500 thousand people
(population according to the All-Russian population censuses of 1897-2002 according to the "Russian Statistical Yearbook" - edition of 2011, for 2010 according to the final data of the All-Russian Population Census of 2010, vol. 1., for 2013, the estimate of the Federal State Statistics Service as of January 1 )

№	city	1897	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2002	2010	2013	2014	2015	2016
1	Moscow	1039 1039	2080	4609	6133	7194	8057	8878	10126	11504	11980	12108	12198	12330
2	St. Petersburg	1265 1265	1737	3431	3390	4033	4569	4989	4661	4880	5028	5131	5192	5226
3	Novosibirsk	8	120	404	885	1161	1309	1420	1426	1474	1524	1547	1567	1584
4	Yekaterinburg	0043 43	140	423	779	1025	1210	1296	1294	1350	1396	1412	1428	1444
5	Nizhny Novgorod	0090 90	222	644	941	1170	1342	1400	1311	1251	1259	1263	1268
6	Kazan	0130 130	179	406	667	869	989	1085	1105	1144	1176	1190	1206	1217
7	Chelyabinsk	0020 20	59	273	689	875	1030	1107	1077	1130	1156	1169	1183	1192
8	Omsk	0037 37	162	289	581	821	1016	1149	1134	1154	1161	1166	1174	1178
9	Samara	0090 90	176	390	806	1027	1192	1222	1158	1165	1171	1172	1172	1171
10	Rostov-on-Don	0119 119	308	510	600	789	925	1008	1068	1089	1104	1109	1115	1120
11	Ufa	0049 49	99	258	547	780	977	1080	1042	1062	1078	1096	1106
12	Krasnoyarsk	0027 27	72	190	412	648	795	869	909	974	1016	1035	1052	1067
13	Permian	0045 45	121	306	629	850	998	1041	1002	991	1014	1026	1036	1042
14	Voronezh	0081 81	122	344	447	660	781	882	849	890	1004	1014	1024	1032
15	Volgograd	0055 55	151	445	591	815	926	999	1011	1021	1019	1017	1017	1016
16	Krasnodar	0066 66	163	193	313	460	557	619	646	745	784	805	830	854
17	Saratov	0137 137	220	372	579	757	854	902	873	838	839	840	842	843
18	Tyumen	0030 30	50	79	150	269	356	476	511	582	634	679	697	720
19	Tolyatti	0006 6	6	9	72	251	505	629	703	720	719	718	720	713
20	Izhevsk	22	63	176	285	422	551	635	632	628	633	637	642	644
21	Barnaul	0021 21	74	148	303	439	534	599	601	612	630	633	636	636
22	Irkutsk	0051 51	108	250	366	451	547	573	594	588	606	612	620	623
23	Ulyanovsk	0042 42	66	98	206	351	462	624	636	615	615	616	619	622
24	Khabarovsk	0015 15	52	207	323	436	526	598	583	577	594	601	607	611
25	Vladivostok	0029 29	108	206	291	441	549	631	595	592	600	603	605	607
26	Yaroslavl	0072 72	116	309	407	517	595	629	613	591	599	602	604	607
27	Makhachkala	0010 10	34	87	119	178	247	302	462	572	576	578	583	588
28	Tomsk	0052 52	92	145	249	338	423	473	488	525	548	557	564	569
29	Orenburg	0072 72	123	172	267	344	458	517	549	548	556	560	561	563
30	Kemerovo	…	22	137	289	374	461	509	485	533	540	544	549	553
31	Novokuznetsk	3	4	166	382	496	544	583	550	548	549	550	550	551
32	Ryazan	0046 46	51	95	214	350	450	512	522	525	528	530	533	535
33	Astrakhan	0113 113	184	259	305	410	458	478	505	520	527	530	530
34	Naberezhnye Chelny	1	4	9	16	38	305	505	510	513	519	522	524	527
35	Penza	0060 60	92	160	255	374	482	522	518	517	520	521	523	524
36	Lipetsk	0021 21	21	67	157	289	394	481	506	508	509	509	510	510

The total population of these cities is about 44 million people - 30.8% of the total population of Russia and 41.8% of the total urban population of Russia. 30,189 thousand people live in 14 million-plus cities - 21.1% of the total population of Russia and 28.7% of the total urban population of Russia.

The last cities to reach half a million status since the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries were Lipetsk, Kemerovo and Astrakhan (again after the mid-1980s - mid-1990s), Tomsk (again after the late 1980s - early 1990s), Makhachkala. Previously, for a long time (mid-1970s - early 2000s and late 2000s) it was a half-millionaire city, but by now Tula has dropped out of their number. There are plans to achieve the status of a half-millionaire by the cities of Cheboksary, Kirov and Stavropol by annexing the satellite cities of Novocheboksarsk (after a negative referendum in 2008, the issue was postponed); Kirovo-Chepetsk, Slobodskoy; and Mikhailovsk, respectively. At the same time, Kirov already has more than 500,000 urban districts.

In the current 10th anniversary, due to natural growth, subject to the preservation of the migration indicator, the cities of Kaliningrad, Kirov, Stavropol, Ulan-Ude and Cheboksary can become 500,000.

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And the owner of the manly voice, apparently an infantry officer, laughed.
“But you’re still afraid,” continued the first familiar voice. You're afraid of the unknown, that's what. No matter how you say that the soul will go to heaven... after all, we know that there is no sky, but there is only one sphere.
Again the courageous voice interrupted the gunner.
“Well, treat yourself to your herbalist, Tushin,” he said.
“Ah, this is the same captain who stood at the sutler without boots,” thought Prince Andrei, recognizing with pleasure the pleasant philosophizing voice.
“You can get a herbalist,” said Tushin, “but still comprehend the future life ...
He did not agree. At this time, a whistle was heard in the air; closer, closer, faster and more audible, more audible and faster, and the core, as if not having finished everything that was needed, exploding spray with inhuman force, plopped into the ground not far from the booth. The earth seemed to gasp from a terrible blow.
At the same instant, little Tushin jumped out of the booth, first of all, with his pipe bitten on his side; his kind, intelligent face was somewhat pale. Behind him came the owner of a courageous voice, a dashing infantry officer, and ran to his company, buttoning up as he ran.

Prince Andrei stopped on horseback on the battery, looking at the smoke of the gun from which the cannonball flew out. His eyes darted across the vast expanse. He only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French were swaying, and that there really was a battery to the left. It hasn't blown smoke yet. Two French cavalry, probably adjutants, galloped up the mountain. Downhill, probably to strengthen the chain, a clearly visible small column of the enemy was moving. The smoke of the first shot had not yet dissipated, when another smoke and a shot appeared. The battle has begun. Prince Andrei turned his horse around and galloped back to Grunt to look for Prince Bagration. Behind him he heard the cannonade becoming more frequent and louder. Apparently, ours began to respond. Below, in the place where the parliamentarians were passing, rifle shots were heard.
Lemarrois (Le Marierois) with a formidable letter from Bonaparte had just galloped to Murat, and the ashamed Murat, wanting to make amends for his mistake, immediately moved his troops to the center and bypassing both flanks, hoping even before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to crush the insignificant one standing in front of him, squad.
"Began! Here it is!" thought Prince Andrei, feeling how the blood began to rush to his heart more often. “But where? How will my Toulon be expressed? he thought.
Passing between the same companies that ate porridge and drank vodka a quarter of an hour ago, he everywhere saw the same quick movements of soldiers lining up and dismantling their guns, and on all faces he recognized the feeling of animation that was in his heart. "Began! Here it is! Scary and fun! spoke the face of every soldier and officer.
Before he even reached the fortification under construction, he saw in the evening light of a cloudy autumn day horsemen advancing towards him. The front man, in a cloak and cap with fur coats, rode a white horse. It was Prince Bagration. Prince Andrei stopped, waiting for him. Prince Bagration stopped his horse and, recognizing Prince Andrei, nodded his head to him. He continued to look ahead while Prince Andrei told him what he had seen.
Expression: "It has begun! here it is!" it was even on the strong brown face of Prince Bagration with half-closed, cloudy, as if sleepy eyes. Prince Andrei peered into this motionless face with restless curiosity, and he wanted to know whether he was thinking and feeling, and what he thought, what this man felt at that moment? "Is there anything at all behind that motionless face?" Prince Andrei asked himself, looking at him. Prince Bagration bowed his head, in agreement with the words of Prince Andrei, and said: “Good,” with such an expression as if everything that happened and that he was told was exactly what he had already foreseen. Prince Andrei, shoved from the speed of the ride, spoke quickly. Prince Bagration uttered the words with his oriental accent especially slowly, as if suggesting that there was nowhere to hurry. However, he trotted his horse in the direction of Tushin's battery. Prince Andrei, together with his retinue, went after him. Prince Bagration was followed by: an officer of the retinue, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly, an officer on duty on a beautiful english horse, and a state official, an auditor, who, out of curiosity, asked to go to battle. The auditor, a stout man with a full face, looked around with a naive smile of joy, shaking on his horse, imagining a strange sight in his camlot overcoat on a furshtat saddle among hussars, Cossacks and adjutants.
“He wants to see the battle,” Zherkov said to Bolkonsky, pointing to the auditor, “but it hurt in the pit of the stomach.
“Well, that’s enough for you,” said the auditor, with a radiant, naive, and at the same time sly smile, as if he were flattered that he was the subject of Zherkov’s jokes, and as if he deliberately tried to appear more stupid than he really was.
- Tres drole, mon monsieur prince, [Very funny, my lord prince,] - said the officer on duty. (He remembered that in French the title prince is somehow especially pronounced, and he could not fix it in any way.)
At this time, they were all already approaching Tushin's battery, and a cannonball hit ahead of them.
- What did it fall? the auditor asked with a naive smile.
“French cakes,” said Zherkov.
- This is what they beat, then? the auditor asked. - What a passion!
And he seemed to be full of pleasure. As soon as he finished, an unexpectedly terrible whistle was heard again, suddenly ending with a blow to something liquid, and sh sh sh slap - a Cossack, riding a little to the right and behind the auditor, with his horse collapsed to the ground. Zherkov and the officer on duty crouched down in their saddles and turned the horses away. The auditor stopped in front of the Cossack, examining him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, the horse was still beating.
Prince Bagration, screwing up his eyes, looked around and, seeing the reason for the confusion that had occurred, turned away indifferently, as if saying: is it worth doing stupid things! He stopped the horse, with the reception of a good rider, leaned over a little and straightened the sword caught on the cloak. The sword was an old one, not like the one worn now. Prince Andrei recalled the story of how Suvorov in Italy presented his sword to Bagration, and at that moment this memory was especially pleasant to him. They drove up to the very battery at which Bolkonsky stood when he was examining the battlefield.
- Whose company? - Prince Bagration asked the fireworks, standing by the boxes.
He asked: whose company? but in essence he was asking: are you not timid here? And the fireworker figured it out.
“Captain Tushin, Your Excellency,” shouted a red-haired fireworker with a freckled face, stretching out in a cheerful voice.
- So, so, - said Bagration, thinking something, and drove past the limbers to the extreme gun.
While he was driving up, a shot rang out from this cannon, deafening him and his retinue, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the cannon, artillerymen were visible, grabbing the cannon and, hastily straining, rolling it back to its original place. A broad-shouldered, huge soldier of the 1st with a banner, legs wide apart, jumped back to the wheel. The 2nd, with a trembling hand, put a charge into the muzzle. A small, round-shouldered man, officer Tushin, stumbled on his trunk and ran forward without noticing the general and looking out from under his small hand.
“Add two more lines, that’s exactly what will happen,” he shouted in a thin voice, to which he tried to give a youthfulness that did not suit his figure. - Second! he squeaked. - Crush, Medvedev!
Bagration called out to the officer, and Tushin, with a timid and awkward movement, not at all like the military salute, but like the priests bless, putting three fingers to the visor, approached the general. Although Tushin's guns were assigned to bombard the hollow, he fired fire-brandskugels at the village of Shengraben, visible ahead, in front of which large masses of the French advanced.
No one ordered Tushin where and with what to shoot, and he, after consulting with his sergeant major Zakharchenko, for whom he had great respect, decided that it would be good to set fire to the village. "Good!" Bagration said to the report of the officer and began to look around the entire battlefield that opened before him, as if thinking something. On the right side, the French came closest. Below the height on which the Kyiv regiment stood, in the hollow of the river, the erratic rumble of guns was heard, and much to the right, behind the dragoons, the retinue officer pointed out to the prince at the French column that was bypassing our flank. To the left the horizon was limited to a close forest. Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to go for reinforcements to the right. The retinue officer dared to remark to the prince that after the departure of these battalions, the guns would be left without cover. Prince Bagration turned to the retinue officer and looked at him with dull eyes in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrei that the remark of the retinue officer was just and that there really was nothing to say. But at that time an adjutant galloped up from the regimental commander, who was in the hollow, with the news that huge masses of the French were coming down, that the regiment was upset and was retreating to the Kyiv grenadiers. Prince Bagration bowed his head in agreement and approval. He walked at a pace to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French. But the adjutant sent there arrived half an hour later with the news that the dragoon regimental commander had already retreated beyond the ravine, for strong fire had been directed against him, and he was wasting people in vain and therefore hurried shooters into the forest.
- Good! Bagration said.
While he was driving away from the battery, shots were also heard to the left in the forest, and since it was too far to the left flank to have time to arrive on time himself, Prince Bagration sent Zherkov there to tell the senior general, the same one who represented the regiment to Kutuzov in Braunau, so that he retreats as quickly as possible behind the ravine, because the right flank will probably not be able to hold the enemy for a long time. About Tushin, and the battalion that covered him, was forgotten. Prince Andrei carefully listened to the conversations of Prince Bagration with the chiefs and to the orders he gave, and to his surprise he noticed that no orders were given, and that Prince Bagration only tried to pretend that everything that was done out of necessity, chance and the will of private chiefs, that all this was done, if not by his order, but according to his intentions. Thanks to the tact shown by Prince Bagration, Prince Andrei noticed that, despite this randomness of events and their independence from the will of the chief, his presence did an extremely great deal. The commanders, who drove up to Prince Bagration with upset faces, became calm, the soldiers and officers greeted him cheerfully and became livelier in his presence and, apparently, flaunted their courage in front of him.

Prince Bagration, riding out to the highest point of our right flank, began to descend, where erratic shooting was heard and nothing was visible from the powder smoke. The closer they descended to the hollow, the less they could see, but the more sensitive became the proximity of the real battlefield itself. They began to meet the wounded. One with a bloody head, without a hat, was dragged by two soldiers by the arms. He wheezed and spat. The bullet hit, apparently, in the mouth or throat. Another, whom he met, was walking briskly alone, without a gun, groaning loudly and waving his hand in fresh pain, from which blood was pouring, like from a glass, onto his overcoat. His face looked more frightened than hurt. He was wounded a minute ago. Having crossed the road, they began to descend steeply and on the descent they saw several people who were lying; they met a crowd of soldiers, some of whom were not wounded. The soldiers walked uphill, breathing heavily, and, despite the appearance of the general, they talked loudly and waved their hands. Ahead, in the smoke, rows of gray overcoats were already visible, and the officer, seeing Bagration, ran screaming after the soldiers marching in a crowd, demanding that they return. Bagration rode up to the ranks, along which here and there shots quickly clicked, drowning out the conversation and shouts of command. All the air was saturated with gunpowder smoke. The faces of the soldiers were all smoked with gunpowder and animated. Others beat them with ramrods, others sprinkled them on the shelves, took out charges from their bags, and still others fired. But whom they were shooting at, this was not visible from the powder smoke, which was not blown away by the wind. Quite often, pleasant sounds of buzzing and whistling were heard. "What it is? - thought Prince Andrei, driving up to this crowd of soldiers. “It can't be an attack because they don't move; there can't be carre: they don't cost that much."
A thin, weak-looking old man, a regimental commander, with a pleasant smile, with eyelids that more than half covered his senile eyes, giving him a meek air, rode up to Prince Bagration and received him as the host of a dear guest. He reported to Prince Bagration that there was a French cavalry attack against his regiment, but that, although this attack was repulsed, the regiment lost more than half of its people. The regimental commander said that the attack was repulsed, giving this military name to what was happening in his regiment; but he really did not himself know what was happening in those half an hour in the troops entrusted to him, and could not say with certainty whether the attack was repulsed or his regiment was defeated by the attack. At the beginning of the actions, he only knew that cores and grenades began to fly all over his regiment and beat people, that then someone shouted: “cavalry”, and ours began to shoot. And so far they have been shooting not at the cavalry, which disappeared, but at the French foot soldiers, who appeared in the hollow and fired at ours. Prince Bagration bowed his head as a sign that all this was exactly as he wished and assumed. Turning to the adjutant, he ordered him to bring two battalions of the 6th Chasseurs from the mountain, past which they had now passed. Prince Andrei was struck at that moment by the change that had taken place in the face of Prince Bagration. His face expressed that concentrated and happy determination that a person has when he is ready to throw himself into the water on a hot day and takes the last run. There were no sleepy dull eyes, no feigned thoughtful look: round, hard, hawk-like eyes looked ahead enthusiastically and somewhat contemptuously, obviously not stopping at anything, although his former slowness and measuredness remained in his movements.
The regimental commander turned to Prince Bagration, begging him to drive back, as it was too dangerous here. "Have mercy, your Excellency, for God's sake!" he said, looking for confirmation at the retinue officer, who was turning away from him. "Here, if you please, see!" He let them see the bullets, which incessantly squealed, sang and whistled around them. He spoke in such a tone of request and reproach, with which a carpenter says to a master holding an ax: “Our business is familiar, but you will get your hands wet.” He spoke as if he himself could not be killed by these bullets, and his half-closed eyes made his words even more convincing. The staff officer joined in the exhortations of the regimental commander; but Prince Bagration did not answer them and only ordered them to stop firing and line up in such a way as to make room for the two battalions that were approaching. While he was speaking, as if with an invisible hand stretched from right to left, from the rising wind, the canopy of smoke that hid the hollow, and the opposite mountain with the French moving along it, opened up before them. All eyes were involuntarily fixed on this French column, moving towards us and meandering along the ledges of the terrain. The furry hats of the soldiers were already visible; it was already possible to distinguish officers from privates; one could see how their banner fluttered on the staff.

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