| VLADIMIR | Russian city on the Klyazma River east of Moscow housing a Dormition Cathedral |
| KREMLIN | Citadel of Moscow, housing the offices of the Russian government (7) |
| ZLATOUST | Russian city on the Ay River whose name is derived from the Russian translation of Chrysostom |
| NOVGOROD | Russian city on the Volkhov River destroyed by Ivan the Terrible in 1570 (8) |
| SMOLENSK | Russian city on the Dnieper River, near the Belarus border |
| STAROSTY | Don't go across river east of Berlin in noble estate |
| SOMERSET | Street location's place to a certain river's east (8) |
| ANDUIN | In J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the great river, east of the Misty Mountains, on whose west bank is the Elvish land of Lothlorien |
| PSKOV | Russian city on the River Velikaya, scene of the abdication in 1917 of Nicholas II (5) |
| FRANKFORT | State capital (since 1792), of Kentucky, on the Kentucky River east of Louisville (9) |
| ADANA | City in S Turkey on the Seyhan River east of Tarsus (5) |
| KALUGA | Russian city on the River Oka; or, a species of sturgeon (6) |
| ASTRAKHAN | Russian city on the delta of the River Volta (9) |
| TIGRE | River that joins the Amazon River east of Nauta, Peru (5) |
| OMSK | City 1,400 miles east of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway (4) |
| SOCHI | Russian city on the Black Sea that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics (5) |
| PERM | Russian city on the Kama River formerly called Molotov (4) |
| LINER | Ship in river east of the Equator |
| LONDON | Capital on river east of Bristol, ultimately (6) |
| BUDGERIGAR | Move by river east of capital to see bird (10) |
