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It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and Kaliningrad). [citation needed] 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 ...
The Central Economic Region [a] is one of twelve economic regions of Russia. Central Economic Region is located in the central portion of the European part of Russia. A great number of automobile and railroads intersect on the territory of this region. This flat, rolling country, with Moscow as its center
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]
An economic region or its parts can belong to more than one economic zone. Establishment and abolition of economic regions and economic zones or any changes in their composition are decided upon by the federal government of Russia. This division into economic regions is different from the division into federal districts. The former are solely ...
The federal districts of Russia were established by a decree issued by President Vladimir Putin on 13 May 2000 to facilitate the federal government's control of the then 89 federal subjects across the country. [9] [10] On 19 January 2010, the new North Caucasian Federal District split from the Southern Federal District. [8]
It covers an area of over 3,969,100 square kilometres (1,532,500 sq mi), with a population of nearly 110 million—making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe, surpassing second-place Germany. [4] [b] European Russia is the most densely populated region of Russia, with a population density of 27.5 people per km 2 (70 per sq mi ...
The Central Black Earth Region or the Central-Chernozem Region [a] is a segment of the Eurasian Black Earth belt that lies within Central Russia and comprises Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Oryol Oblast and Kursk Oblast. Between 1928 and 1934, these regions briefly united as the Central Black Earth Oblast, with ...
The Central Agricultural Zone is a traditional region of Russia. Historically it was the centre of agriculture and colonisation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was one the most densely populated area of the Russian Empire .