Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1967 book by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn The Peasants of Central Russia [1] defines the area as the territory from Novgorod Oblast to the north to the border with Ukraine in the south and from Smolensk Oblast to the west and Volga to the east. A review of the book clarifies that this concept is treated in the book as the historical and ...
Geographically, the district is situated in the extreme west of present-day Russia; although it can be considered as the central region of European Russia. The district covers an area of 650,200 square kilometers (251,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] and recorded a population of 40,334,532 (82.1% urban) in the 2021 Census . [ 6 ]
This category is about historical and cultural regions of Russia. For official political and administrative subdivisions see Federal subjects of Russia and Category:Federal subjects of Russia . Subcategories
An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia from Russian to English uses the term "constituent entities of the Russian Federation". For example, Article 5 reads: "The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian ...
Federal district [2] [3] Date established Area [4] (km 2) 2021 census HDI (2021) [5] GRDP (2022) [6] Federal subjects Administrative centre Map Population per km 2 Total Per capita North Caucasian: 19 January 2010 170,400 10,171,000 60 0.793 ₽3.111 trillion ($45 billion) ₽305,334 ($4458) 7 Pyatigorsk: Southern [a] 13 May 2000 427,800 ...
Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since Typical border marker of Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as two narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan.
In the course of the Russian municipal reform of 2004–2005, all federal subjects of Russia were to streamline the structures of local self-government, which is guaranteed by the Constitution of Russia. The reform mandated that each federal subject was to have a unified structure of municipal government bodies by 1 January 2005, and a law ...
A krai (Russian: край, romanized: kray, IPA:, lit. 'region, edge') is a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation.The country is divided into 85 federal subjects, of which nine are krais. [2]