Russia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Russia Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Russia. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Russia - Address Format

An address format in Russia contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Suburb Name (if exists in the area)
City Name
Country – Russia
Postal Code (6 digits)

John Smith
Tsvetochnaya Ulitsa 16
St Petersburg
Russia
196084

Russia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Pushechnaya Ulitsa 7/5 с2
Moscow
Russia
101000

Example 2:

Russia Post Office
Prospekt Udarnikov 20б
St Petersburg
Russia
195279

Postal and Country Information for Russia

Country/territory name	Russia
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: RU ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: RUS ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 643
Administrative area count	90
Administration area names and abbreviations	Moscow Saint Petersburg Amur Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast Astrakhan Oblast Belgorod Oblast Bryansk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast Ivanovo Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast Kaluga Oblast Kemerovo Oblast - Kuzbass Kirov Oblast Kostroma Oblast Kurgan Oblast Kursk Oblast Leningrad Oblast Lipetsk Oblast Magadan Oblast Moscow Oblast Murmansk Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Novgorod Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast Omsk Oblast Orenburg Oblast Oryol Oblast Penza Oblast Pskov Oblast Rostov Oblast Ryazan Oblast Sakhalin Oblast Samara Oblast Saratov Oblast Smolensk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast Tambov Oblast Tomsk Oblast Tula Oblast Tver Oblast Tyumen Oblast Ulyanovsk Oblast Vladimir Oblast Volgograd Oblast Vologda Oblast Voronezh Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast Altai Republic Chechen Republic Chuvash Republic Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Karachay-Cherkess Republic Mari El Republic Republic of Adygea Republic of Bashkortostan Republic of Buryatia Republic of Dagestan Republic of Ingushetia Republic of Kalmykia Republic of Karelia Republic of Khakassia Republic of Komi Republic of Mordovia Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Tatarstan Republic of Tuva Udmurt Republic Altai Krai Kamchatka Krai Khabarovsk Krai Krasnodar Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai Perm Krai Primorsky Krai Stavropol Krai Zabaykalsky Krai Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Jewish Autonomous Oblast	MOW SPE AMU ARK AST BEL BRY CHE IRK IVA KGD KLU KEM KIR KOS KGN KRS LEN LIP MAG MOS MUR NIZ NGR NVS OMS ORE ORL PNZ PSK ROS RYA SAK SAM SAR SMO SVE TAM TOM TUL TVE TYU ULY VLA VGG VLG VOR YAR AL CE CU KB KC ME AD BA BU DA IN KL KR KK KO MO SE SA TA TY UD ALT KAM KHA KDA KYA PER PRI STA ZAB CHU KHM NEN YAN YEV
Term to describe postal codes	Почтовый индекс
Postal code format	999999
Population	143 435 865
Total land area	16 950 700km²

How to Validate Addresses for Russia Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Russia addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Russia, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Suburbs, Cities and Postal Codes in Russia
Postal Database if you only need to validate Suburbs, Cities and Postal Codes in Russia
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Russia segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Russia using:

Street column to validate Street names
Suburb column to validate Suburbs (when applicable)
Locality column to validate Cities
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Russia address database.

Our location dataset for Russia

Russia ZIP Codes

The Russian postal code system uses a six-digit numeric format, for example, 999999, without any letters or separators. The local term for ‘postal code’ in Russia is Почтовый индекс. In comparison to numeric US ZIP codes, Russia’s postal codes are also purely numeric but consist of six digits, whereas US ZIP codes typically have five digits. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Russia has 53,323 postal codes covering 18,073 regions and 164,478 towns.

Russia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Russia administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Russia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Russia’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.