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The Russian Far East (Russian: Дальний Восток России, IPA: [ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ]) is a region in North Asia.It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Eastern Federal District, which encompasses the area between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean.
Russia: Area • Total. 6,952,600 km 2 (2,684,400 sq mi) Population ... The Far Eastern Economic Region [a] is one of twelve economic regions of Russia.
According to a 2012 survey [11] 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.0% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.4% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian ...
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 ...
Most of Russia consists of two plains (the East European Plain and the West Siberian Plain), two lowlands (the North Siberian and the Kolyma, in far northeastern Siberia), two plateaus (the Central Siberian Plateau and the Lena Plateau to its east), and a series of mountainous areas mainly concentrated in the extreme northeast or extending ...
The military districts in Russia serve as administrative divisions for the Russian Armed Forces. Each has a headquarters administering the military formations within the Russian federal subjects that it includes. As of March 2024, there are five military districts in Russia: Leningrad, Moscow, Central, Eastern, and Southern.
The term oblast can be translated into English as "province" or "region", and there are currently 46 oblasts, the most common type of the 85 federal subjects in Russia. [1] The majority of oblasts are named after their administrative center, the official term for a capital city in an oblast, which is generally the largest city.
In 1860, a Primorsky (Maritime) Region was established [citation needed] and Kamchatka was placed under its jurisdiction. In 1875, Russia ceded the Kuril Islands to Japan in return for Russian sovereignty over Sakhalin island. The Russian population of Kamchatka stayed at around 2,500 until the turn of the century, while the native population ...