| City | Nominee(s) | Nominator(s) | Universities |
| Moscow | 100 | 43 | 7 |
| St Petersburg | 70 | 47 | 6 |
| Voronezh | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Leningrad (now St Petersburg) | 30 | 40 | 8 |
| Lemberg (now Lviv) | 3 | 16 | 2 |
| Petrograd (now St Petersburg) | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Kazan | 2 | 17 | 1 |
| Saratov | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Odessa (Odesa) | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Domodedovo | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Dubna | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Stalyno Donbass | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Wilno | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Kaunas | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Charkov (Kharkiv) | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kaliningrad | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Omsk | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Minsk | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Kharkov (Kharkiv) | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kiev | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Gorkij | 0 | 2 | 0 |