We need a base of all settlements of the CIS and neighboring countries in Russian. Where to find?
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I have this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8dR-tk8KTN2WWFSVDVjanlHWU0/edit?usp=sharing All CIS countries, Crimea id Russian)
You can take a database of postal codes postal Russia. This database is updated regularly, but ITC Mail Registration gives it only as a text file. How to work with base, there is a good article on Habré .
Another official source is the Federal Information Address System and the associated address classifier ( KLADR ), which is supported by the tax service.
In addition, the GIS-Lab community maintains a database of place names based on the American VMap0 map.
The choice depends on how complete the base you are looking for, how important its constant updating is.
I don’t know in the finished form, but if I had to, I would try to dig in the direction of requests to GoogleMep using a script and save to the database