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Russia



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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
Republics of Russia

Autonomous Okrugs of Russia

Krais of Russia

Oblasts of Russia
Русский: Области России
English: Oblasts of Russia

Raions of Russia

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:

   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)
[[|border|250x400px]] Development of Muscovy 1300-1796
Development of Muscovy (in Russian)
Russia 1598-1682 (Russian)
Russia 1682-1762 (Russian)
File:1533-1896.jpg.gif 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.

Notes and references

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

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