Russia (disambiguation)
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, Rossiya), also known as the Russian Federation, is the largest country in the world, located in northern Eurasia. When referring to "Russia Proper", the contemporary political equivalents are the Russian Central Federal District and Central Russia.
Russia may also refer to:
States[edit]
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), largest of the fifteen Soviet republics of the Soviet Union
- Soviet Union (USSR), the socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991, of which RSFSR is a part
- Russian Democratic Federative Republic, a federal state which nominally existed for less than one day in 1918
- Russian Republic, the revolutionary state administered by the Russian Provisional Government for eight months in 1917
- Russian Empire, which existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917
- Tsardom of Russia, which existed from 1547 to 1721
- Kievan Rus', which existed from 882 to 1240
Places in the USA[edit]
- Russia, Ohio, a village in Shelby County
- Russia, New York, a town in Herkimer County
- Russia Township, Polk County, Minnesota
Other uses[edit]
- Russia (horse), an Australian racehorse
- Russia leather, a hard-wearing and water-resistant leather, where birch oil is worked into it after tanning
- Russia Tower, an unfinished skyscraper in Moscow, cancelled in 2009
- Russia! magazine, a quarterly English-language publication about Russia
- 232 Russia, a large main belt asteroid
- Team Russia, the 2008–2009 Volvo Ocean Race team
See also[edit]
- Great Russia
- Little Russia
- Novorossiya (New Russia)
- White Russia
- Black Ruthenia (Black Russia)
- Red Ruthenia
- New Russia (disambiguation)
- Rossiya (disambiguation)
- Russian (disambiguation)
- Rusia
- Nasha Russia
- Rus (disambiguation)
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