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The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR (1994). Medvedev, Andrei. Economic Geography of the Russian Federation (2000) Parker, William Henry. An historical geography of Russia (University of London Press, 1968) Shaw, Denis J.B. Russia in the modern world: A new geography (Blackwell, 1998)
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the world, covering 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), more than an eighth of the Earth's land area. [1]
Russia geography stubs (12 C, 142 P) Pages in category "Geography of Russia" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
The Great Russian Regions are eight geomorphological regions of the Russian Federation displaying characteristic forms of relief. Seven of them are parts of Siberia , located east of the Ural Mountains .
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.
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The Russian Empire [d] [e] ... particularly geography and geology, trade, and industry, [31] including shipbuilding, as well as the growth of the educational system ...