Russia

Russia

sovereign state, secular state, country, transcontinental country, federation, successor state

Part of	Post-Soviet states, European Union tax haven blacklist, Eastern Europe
Year dem found am	25 December 1991
Official name	Российская Федерация
Native label	Россия, Российская Федерация
Short name	🇷🇺, Россия, Росія
IPA transcription	rɐˈsʲijə
Official language	Russian
Anthem	State Anthem of the Russian Federation
Culture	culture of Russia
Motto text	Reveal your own Russia, Datgelwch eich Rwsia eich hun, Revela la teva pròpia Rússia
Continent	Europe
Country	Russia
Capital	Moscow
Located in time zone	UTC+02:00
Located in/on physical feature	Eurasia
Coordinate location	66°25′0″N 94°15′0″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	65°46′52″N 169°3′25″W
Coordinates of northernmost point	81°50′35″N 59°14′22″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	41°11′7″N 47°46′55″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	54°27′30″N 19°38′22″E
Highest point	Mount Elbrus
Lowest point	Caspian Sea
Government ein basic form	super-presidential republic
Office held by head of state	President of Russia
State ein head	Vladimir Putin
Office head of government hold	Prime Minister of Russia
Government ein head	Mikhail Mishustin
Executive body	Government of Russia
Legislative body	Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Highest judicial authority	Constitutional Court of Russia, Supreme Court of Russia
Central bank	Central Bank of Russia
Currency	Russian ruble
Driving side	right
Electrical plug type	Schuko, Europlug
Dey follow	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Dey replace	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Studied by	Russian studies
Dema official website	http://gov.ru/
Hashtag	russia, Russland, Россия
Top-level Internet domain	.ru, .рф, .рус, .su
Main regulatory text	Constitution of Russia
Flag	flag of Russia
Coat of arms	Coat of arms of Russia
Geography of topic	geography of Russia
Get characteristic	not-free country
History of topic	history of Russia
List of monuments	Russian cultural heritage register
Official religion	non-denominational
Patron saint	Andrew the Apostle
Dem separate from	Soviet Union
Railway traffic side	right
Open data portal	Open Data Portal Russia
Economy of topic	economy of Russia
Demographics of topic	demographics of Russia
Official observer status in organisation	CERN, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Gregorian calendar start date	14 February 1918
Mobile country code	250
Country calling code	+7
Trunk prefix	8
GS1 country code	460-469
Licence plate code	RUS
Maritime identification digits	273
Unicode character	🇷🇺
Category for honorary citizens of entity	Category:Honorary citizens from Russia by city
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Russia

Russia, anaa de Russian Federation, be a country wey dey span Eastern Europe den North Asia. E be de largest country insyd de world, wey e dey extend across eleven time zones; wey dey share land borders plus fourteen countries. Russia be de most populous country insyd Europe den de ninth-most populous country insyd de world. E be a highly urbanised country, wey sixteen of ein urban areas get more dan 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, de most populous metropolitan area insyd Europe,be de capital den largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg be ein second-largest city den cultural centre.

E be a permanent member of de United Nations Security Council; a member state of de G20, SCO, BRICS, APEC, OSCE, den WTO; den de leading member state of post-Soviet organisations such as CIS, CSTO, den EAEU. Russia be home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Demographics

Largest cities anaa towns insyd Russia 2025 estimate
Rank	Name	Federal subject	Pop.	Rank	Name	Federal subject	Pop.
1	Moscow	Moscow	13,274,285	11	Samara	Samara Oblast	1,154,223
2	Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	5,652,922	12	Rostov-on-Don	Rostov Oblast	1,143,123
3	Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk Oblast	1,637,266	13	Omsk	Omsk Oblast	1,101,367
4	Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk Oblast	1,548,187	14	Voronezh	Voronezh Oblast	1,041,722
5	Kazan	Tatarstan	1,329,825	15	Perm	Perm Krai	1,027,518
6	Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Krai	1,211,756	16	Volgograd	Volgograd Oblast	1,012,219
7	Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	1,198,245	17	Saratov	Saratov Oblast	886,165
8	Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk Oblast	1,176,770	18	Tyumen	Tyumen Oblast	872,077
9	Ufa	Bashkortostan	1,166,098	19	Tolyatti	Samara Oblast	662,683
10	Krasnodar	Krasnodar Krai	1,154,885	20	Makhachkala	Dagestan	625,322

Read further

• Bartlett, Roger P. A history of Russia (2005) online
• Breslauer, George W. and Colton, Timothy J. 2017. Russia Beyond Putin (Daedalus) online
• Brown, Archie, ed. The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1982) online
• Florinsky, Michael T. ed. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961).
• Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (2021) excerpt
• Greene, by Samuel A. and Graeme B. Robertson. Putin v. the People: the Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale UP, 2019) excerpt
• Hosking, Geoffrey A. Russia and the Russians: a history (2011) online
• Kort, Michael. A Brief History of Russia (2008) online
• Lowe, Norman. Mastering Twentieth Century Russian History (2002) excerpt
• Millar, James R. ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vol 2003). online
• Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (9th ed. 2018) 9th edition 1993 online
• Rosefielde, Steven. Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy (2020) excerpt
• Service, Robert. A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century (Harvard UP, 3rd ed., 2009) excerpt
• Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2014) excerpt; 800 pp covering art, literature, music, film, media, crime, politics, business, and economics.
• Walker, Shauin. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts Of the Past (2018, Oxford UP) excerpt

External links

Government

• Official Russian governmental portal
• Chief of State and Cabinet Members (archived 4 October 2013)

General information

• Geographic data related to Russia at OpenStreetMap
• Russia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
• Russia at UCB Libraries GovPubs (archived 22 October 2008)
• Russia from BBC News
• Russia at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Key Development Forecasts for Russia from International Futures

Other

• Post-Soviet Problems from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives (archived 15 December 2012