| City | Nominee(s) | Nominator(s) | Universities |
| Moscow | 163 | 36 | 11 |
| Kiev | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| St Petersburg | 37 | 9 | 3 |
| Riga | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Warsaw | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Kazan | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Leningrad (now St Petersburg) | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Dubna | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Kharkov (Kharkiv) | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sverdlovsk | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Novosibirsk | 0 | 1 | 0 |