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Moscow [a] is the capital and largest city of Russia.The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [6] over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, [7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [14]
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At the start of Ivan's reign, Moscow was already the political and religious center of Russia, but Ivan vastly expanded the domain of the grand prince with the "gathering of the Russian lands". [146] After Novgorod's boyar class turned to Lithuania for support, Ivan's army defeated the Novgorodian army in 1471, after which Ivan took an oath of ...
Russia is a member of the G20, the OSCE, and the APEC. It is also the leading member of organisations such as the CIS, [301] the EAEU, [302] the CSTO, [303] the SCO, [304] and BRICS. [305] Russia maintains close relations with neighbouring Belarus, which is a part of the Union State, a supranational confederation of the two states. [306]
The first railway in Russia was constructed in the Moscow Oblast in 1851, connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and in 1862 the line to Nizhny Novgorod was opened. In the Russian SFSR , Central Industrial Oblast was established on January 14, 1929. [ 10 ]
The Moscow Metro [a] is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union .
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ang.wikipedia.org Moscow; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org موسكو; Usage on arz.wikipedia.org موسكو
Moscow - Tula - Orel - Kursk - Belgorod to the border with Ukraine: 720 km (450 mi) Moscow - Kaluga - Bryansk to the border with Ukraine 490 km (300 mi) Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don - Krasnodar - Novorossiysk: 1,513 km (940 mi) One of three fully-fledged nationwide motorways in Russia alongside M11 and M12 (all three are toll roads)