| MOSCOWNIGHTS | Enduring pop song about a Russian city |
| PATIENT | Enduring pop and heavy metal involving 7 tenor |
| KALININGRAD | A Russian city with a Brandenburg Gate |
| TOMSK | A Womble, or a Russian city (5) |
| ACROPOLIS | Ancient Greek equivalent of a kremlin in a Russian city |
| ANASTASIA | Animated feature about a Russian grand duchess (9) |
| TSAR | Star wanes about a Russian leader! (4) |
| SAMBO | Mobs, excited about a Russian martial art (5) |
| PNIN | Nabokov novel about a Russian literature teacher |
| NIKITA | Elton John single about a Russian girl (6) |
| SMOLENSK | Spy, new on board, ending in Murmansk, a Russian city (8) |
| KREMLIN | Citadel of a Russian city |
| SAINTPETERSBURG | Gutter press ban I devised for a Russian city (5,10) |
| MOSCOWCOWORKER | Office mate in a Russian city? |
| ASTRAKHAN | Fleecy fur named after a Russian city (9) |
| POTEMKIN | Battleship ___ , silent film directed by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein about a Russian naval mutiny (8) |
| REDDAWN | 1984 Charlie Sheen/Patrick Swayze movie about a Russian invasion of the US: 2 wds. |
| TAIL | 1986 Don Bluth animated film about a Russian mouse (2,8,4) |
| ANAMERICAN | 1986 Don Bluth animated film about a Russian mouse (2,8,4) |
| VLADIMIR | A Russian city; or, one of the characters in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot (8) |
