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Russia

	Россия

Русский	Россия - Российская Федерация^[1] Российская Федерация (Россия) — государство, занимающее основную часть Восточной Европы и северную часть Азии. Россия является самым большим государством в Европе и в мире, её площадь составляет 17,075 млн км², что почти вдвое больше, чем у занимающей второе место Канады.
English	Russia - Russian Federation The Russian Federation is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia. With an area of 17,075,400 square kilometres, Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass, and covers almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada. It has the world's eighth largest population. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from NW to SE): ► Norway, ► Finland, ► Estonia, ► Latvia, ► Lithuania, ► Poland, ► Belarus, ► Ukraine, ► Georgia (with ► Abkhazia and ► South Ossetia), ► Azerbaijan, ► Kazakhstan, ► China (with ► Xinjiang), ► Mongolia, and ► North Korea. It is also close to the ► United States and ► Japan across relatively small stretches of water. The Russian Federation is divided into federal subjects, 21 of them being (autonomous) republics: ► Adygea, ► Altai, ► Bashkortostan, ► Buryatia, ► Chechnya, ► Chuvashia, ► Dagestan, ► Ingushetia, ► Kabardino-Balkaria, ► Kalmykia, ► Karachay-Cherkessia, ► Karelia, ► Khakassia, ► Komi, ► Mari El, ► Mordovia, ► Sakha, ► North Ossetia-Alania, ► Tatarstan, ► Tuva, and ► Udmurtia

Short name	Russia
Official name	Russian Federation
Status	Independent country since 1991, earlier statehood between 14th century and 1922
Location	Eastern Europe and North Asia
Capital	Москва^[2] (Moscow)
Population	142,400,000 inhabitants
Area	17,075,400 km²
Major languages	Russian; 30 others co-official in particular regions
Major religions	Russian Orthodoxy
More information	Russia, Geography of Russia, History of Russia and Politics of Russia
More images	Russia - Russia (Category).

General maps

Russia

Map of Russia

Blank SVG map

SVG map in french

Economic regions of the Russian Federation

Topographic map

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Blank map of Federal Subjects as of 2008.03.01

Map of Federal Subjects

Map of Federal subjects

Map of Federal Subjects

Map of Federal Subjects

Map of Russian subjects, that have or will merge

Republics of Russia

Map of Adygea(Республика Адыгея / Адыгэ Республик)	Map of Chechnya (Чеченская республика/Нохчийн Республика}	Map of Chechnya	Map of Chuvashia (Чувашская Республика/Чăваш Республики)
Map of Dagestan (Республика Дагестан)	Map of Ingushetia (Республика Ингушетия/ГIалгIай Мохк)	Map of Kalmykia (Республика Калмыкия/Хальмг Таңһч}	Map of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria
Map of Kabardino-Balkaria (Кабардино-Балкарская Республика/Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Республикэ/Къабарты-Малкъар Республика	Map of Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесская Республика/Къарачай-Черкес Республика/Къэрэшей-Шэрджэс Республикэ)	Map of Karelia (Республика Карелия/Karjalan Tazavalla)	Map of Karelia
Map of Karelia	Map of Komi (Республика Коми/Коми Республика}	Map of Mari El (Республика Марий Эл/Марий Эл Республика}	Map of Mordovia (Республика Мордовия/Мордовскяй Республикась)
Map of North Ossetia-Alania (Республика Северная Осетия-Алания/Цӕгат Ирыстоны Аланийы Республикӕ)	Map of Ossetia	Map of Northern Caucasus	Map of Tatarstan (Республика Татарстан/Татарстан Республикасы )
Map of Udmurtia (Удмуртская республика/Удмурт Элькун}

Adygea	Altai	Bashkortostan	Buryatia
Chechnya	Chuvashia	Dagestan	Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkaria	Kalmykia	Karachay-Cherkessia	Karelia
Khakassia	Komi	Mari El	Mordovia
North Ossetia-Alania	North Ossetia-Alania	Sakha	Tatarstan
Tuva	Udmurtia

Autonomous Okrugs of Russia

Aga Buryatia	Chukotka	Khantia-Mansia	Koryakia
Nenetsia	Ust-Orda Buryatia	Yamalia

Krais of Russia

Altai Krai	Khabarovsk Krai	Krasnodar Krai	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Perm Krai	Primorsky Krai	Stavropol Krai

Oblasts of Russia

Русский: Области России

English: Oblasts of Russia

Русский: Амурская область English: Amur Oblast	Русский: Архангельская область English: Arkhangelsk Oblast	Русский: Астраханская область English: Astrakhan Oblast	Русский: Белгородская область English: Belgorod Oblast
Русский: Брянская область English: Bryansk Oblast	Русский: Челябинская область English: Chelyabinsk Oblast	Русский: Читинская область English: Chita oblast	Русский: Иркутская область English: Irkutsk Oblast
Русский: Ивановская область English: Ivanovo Oblast	Русский: Калининградская область English: Kaliningrad Oblast	Русский: Калужская область English: Kaluga Oblast	Русский: Камчатская область English: Kamchatka Oblast
Русский: Кемеровская область English: Kemerovo Oblast	Русский: Кировская область English: Kirov Oblast	Русский: Костромская область English: Kostroma Oblast	Русский: Курганская область English: Kurgan Oblast
Русский: Курская область English: Kursk Oblast	Русский: Ленингра?дская о?бласть English: Leningrad Oblast	Русский: Липецкая область English: Lipetsk Oblast	Русский: Магаданская область English: Magadan Oblast
Русский: Московская область English: Moscow Oblast	Русский: Мурманская область English: Murmansk Oblast	Русский: Нижегородская область English: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Русский: Новгородская область English: Novgorod Oblast
Русский: Новосибирская область English: Novosibirsk Oblast	Русский: Омская область English: Omsk Oblast	Русский: Оренбургская область English: Orenburg Oblast	Русский: Орловская область English: Oryol Oblast
Русский: Пензенская область English: Penza Oblast	Русский: Псковская область English: Pskov Oblast	Русский: Ростовская область English: Rostov Oblast	Русский: Рязанская область English: Ryazan Oblast
Русский: Сахалинская область English: Sakhalin Oblast	Русский: Самарская область English: Samara Oblast	Русский: Саратовская область English: Saratov Oblast	Русский: Смоленская область English: Smolensk Oblast
Русский: Свердловская область English: Sverdlovsk Oblast	Русский: Тамбовская область English: Tambov Oblast	Русский: Томская область English: Tomsk Oblast	Русский: Тверская область English: Tver Oblast
Русский: Тульская область English: Tula Oblast	Русский: Тюменская область English: Tyumen Oblast Esperanto: Tjumenja provinco	Русский: Ульяновская область English: Ulyanovsk Oblast	Русский: Владимирская область English: Vladimir Oblast
Русский: Волгоградская область English: Volgograd Oblast	Русский: Вологодская область English: Vologda Oblast	Русский: Воронежская область English: Voronezh Oblast	Русский: Ярославская область English: Yaroslavl Oblast
Русский: Еврейская автономная область English: Jewish Autonomous Oblast	Map of Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Raions of Russia

Русский: Респу́блика Адыге́я район

English: Administrative divisions of Adygea

Русский: Бря́нская о́бласть район

English: Administrative divisions of Bryansk Oblast

Русский: Смол́енская о́бласть район

English: Administrative divisions of Smolensk Oblast

Русский: Белгоро́дская о́бласть район

English: Administrative divisions of Belgorod Oblast

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Russia, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Russia.

Kurgan hypothesis: South Russia and Eastern Ukraine as the urheimat of Indo-Europeans|Indo-European peoples

Map of Scythia 100 BC

An approximative map of the cultures in European Russia at the arrival of the Varangians

Map of the Western (purple) and Eastern (blue) Gokturk khaganates at their height, c. 600 CE. Lighter areas show direct rule; darker areas show spheres of influence.

Development of Khazaria

Fall of Khazaria and rise of Kievan Rus

Map showing Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) and eleventh (yellow) centuries. Areas denoted in green are those affected by frequent viking incursions but with little or no Scandinavian settlement.

Russia 9th-14th Century (Russian)

Kievan Rus' was formed around 884 in an area that comprises now parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

Early Rus'

Varangian routes

Kievan Rus 9th Century

Kievan Rus 11th Century

Kievan Rus 1015-1113(in Russian)

Kievan Rus 1113-1194 (in Russian)

Empire of Genghis Khan at his death in 1227

Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)

Mongol Empire

By 1294 the empire had split into:

Golden Horde

Chagatai Khanate

Ilkhanate

Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)

Various states in Russia (in Russian)

Various states in Russia around 1250

Volga Bulgaria between 7th and 13th century

Khanate of Kazan 1438-1552

Khanate of Kazan

Astrakhan Khanate in 1466-1556

Development of Muscovy (in German)

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Development of Muscovy 1300-1796

Development of Muscovy (in Russian)

Russia 1598-1682 (Russian)

Russia 1682-1762 (Russian)

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A map of Russian expansion from 1533 to 1896

The Russian Empire in 1866 (including Alaska)

The Russian Empire in 1914

History of the Russian Empire (in German)

Russian Civil War

Polish-Bolshevik War March 1919

December 1919

June 1920

August 1920

Borders after treaty of Riga

After the Russian Revolution, the former Russian Empire was continued by the Soviet Union. For more maps, see Atlas of the Soviet Union. Russia becomes a separate country again in 1990.

Kuril Islands conflict

Kuril Islands

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.

European Russia (in German)

European Russia (in Russian)

Ethnic map of European Russia (in French)

Asiatic Russia (in Russian)

Other maps

Russian language

Time zones

Russian licence plates

Trans-Siberian railway

Map of Russia in the colors of the Flag of Russia.

Moscow - Central Okrug districts	Moscow - Eastern Okrug districts	Moscow - Northern Okrug districts	Moscow - North Eastern Okrug districts
Moscow - North Western Okrug districts	Moscow - Southern Okrug districts	Moscow - South Eastern Okrug districts	Moscow - South Western Okrug districts
Moscow - Western Okrug districts	City of Zelenograd districts

Notes and references

General remarks:

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↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Rossiya - Rossiyskaya Federatsiya. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.
↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Moskva. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.