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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, 22 of them being (autonomous) republics: ► Adygea, ► Altai, ► Bashkortostan, ► Buryatia, ► Chechnya, ► Chuvashia, ► Crimea, ► 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, earlier statehood since 882, re-established in the 14th century, 1917 and 1922. Modern state founded in December 1991. Permanent Member of the UN Security Council.
Location	Eastern Europe and North Asia
Capital	Москва^[2] (Moscow)
Population	143,120,000 inhabitants
Area	17,075,400 km²
Major languages	Russian (official); 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

Topographic map

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Federal subjects of theRussian Federation

Federal districts of the Russian Federation

Economic regions of the Russian Federation

Military districts of the Russian Federation

Republics of Russia

Republics of the Russian Federation

Map of Adygea(Республика Адыгея / Адыгэ Республик)
Altai
Map of Bashkortostan
Map of Buryatia
Map of Buryatia
Map of Chechnya
Map of Chuvashia (Чувашская Республика/Чăваш Республики)
Crimea
Crimea
Crimea
Map of Dagestan (Республика Дагестан)
Map of Ingushetia (Республика Ингушетия/ГIалгIай Мохк)
Map of Kabardino-Balkaria (Кабардино-Балкарская Республика/Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Республикэ/Къабарты-Малкъар Республика
Map of Kabardino-Balkaria (Кабардино-Балкарская Республика/Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Республикэ/Къабарты-Малкъар Республика
Map of Kalmykia (Республика Калмыкия/Хальмг Таңһч}
Map of Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесская Республика/Къарачай-Черкес Республика/Къэрэшей-Шэрджэс Республикэ)
Map of Karelia
Map of Karelia (Республика Карелия/Karjalan Tazavalla)
Map of Karelia
Map of Karelia
Khakassia
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 North Ossetia-Alania
Map of North Ossetia-Alania and wider Ossetia region
Sakha (Yakutia)
Map of Tatarstan (Республика Татарстан/Татарстан Республикасы )
Tuva
Map of Udmurtia (Удмуртская республика/Удмурт Элькун}
Map of Northern Caucasus
Map of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria

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

Autonomous Okrugs of Russia

Autonomuc Okrugs of the Russian Federation

Chukotka
Chukotka
Khantia-Mansia
Khantia-Mansia
Nenetsia
Nenetsia
Yamalia
Yamalia

Krais of Russia

Krais of the Russian Federation

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

Oblasts of Russia

Русский: Области России

English: Oblasts of the Russian Federation

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

Autonomous oblast of Russia

Autonomous oblast of the Russian Federation

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.

General history

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

Map of Scythia 100 BC

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

State of the Antes in the 6th century (around 560), according to the book of Francis Dvornik

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

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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)

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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

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Volga Bulgaria between 7th and 13th century

Development of Muscovy (in German)

Development of Muscovy (in Russian)

Russia 1598-1682 (Russian)

Russia 1682-1762 (Russian)

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.

Lokot Autonomy (Lokot Republic) map, 1941-1943

Kuril Islands conflict

Kuril Islands

Former autonomous subdivisions of Russia

Volga German ASSR, 1924-1941
Permyakia (Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug) until 2005
Aga Buryatia
Aga Buryatia
Koryakia
Koryakia
Ust-Orda Buryatia
Ust-Orda Buryatia

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.

European Russia (in German)

European Russia (in Russian)

Ethnic map of European Russia (in French)

Asiatic Russia (in Russian)

Other maps

Russian language

Indigenous peoples (in French)

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.