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The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862) Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow Expansion and territorial evolution of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire between the 14th and 20th centuries Location of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union in 1956–1991
Mongol Empire. Kievan Rus', [ a ][ b ] also known as Kyivan Rus', [ 6 ][ 7 ] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [ 8 ] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [ 9 ][ 10 ] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [ 11 ][ 12 ] and Finnic, it was ruled by ...
In the Late Middle Ages, Tibetan Buddhism spread into the areas south of Lake Baikal. During the Russian Empire, Siberia was chiefly developed as an agricultural province. The government also used it as a place of exile, sending Avvakum, Dostoevsky, and the Decemberists, among others, to work camps in the region.
20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi) Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations.
The geology of Russia, the world's largest country, which extends over much of northern Eurasia, consists of several stable cratons and sedimentary platforms bounded by orogenic (mountain) belts. European Russia is on the East European craton , at the heart of which is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks dating back to the Precambrian .
Imperialist ideologies, in Russia and more widely, discouraged research emphasising an ancient or distinctive history for Inner Eurasian peoples. [82] Arabic sources portray Rus ' people fairly clearly as a raiding and trading diaspora , or as mercenaries, under the Volga Bulghars or the Khazars, rather than taking a role in state formation.
East Siberian Mountains, view of Bilibino. North Siberian Lowland, tundra and snowfield in Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets District. South Siberian Mountains, Kuznetsk Alatau. West Siberian Lowland, the Ob by Novosibirsk. Map naming the seven geomorphological regions of the Russian Federation that are located east of the Urals. (In German)