Outline of Russia

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 is a transcontinental country extending across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe; it spans 11 time zones and incorporates a great range of environments and landforms. With 143 million people, Russia is the eighth most populated country. Russia has the world's largest mineral and energy resources, has the world's largest forest reserves, and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the Earth's fresh liquid water.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Russia:

General reference

• Pronunciation:
• Common English country name: Russia
• Official English country name: The Russian Federation
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Russian
• Demonym(s):
• Etymology: Name of Russia
• International rankings of Russia
• ISO country codes: RU, RUS, 643
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:RU
• Internet country code top-level domain: .ru, .su and .рф

Geography of Russia

• Russia is: a country
• Location: transcontinental (lies in both Europe and Asia)
  • Eastern Hemisphere
  • Northern Hemisphere
    • Eurasia
      • Europe
        • Eastern Europe
      • Asia
        • North Asia
  • Time zones:
    • Kaliningrad Time – UTC+03
    • Moscow Time – UTC+04
    • Samara Time – UTC+05
    • Yekaterinburg Time – UTC+06
    • Omsk Time – UTC+07
    • Krasnoyarsk Time – UTC+08
    • Irkutsk Time – UTC+09
    • Yakutsk Time – UTC+10
    • Vladivostok Time – UTC+11
    • Magadan Time – UTC+12
    • Kamchatka Time – UTC+13
  • Extreme points of Russia
    • High: Mount Elbrus 5,642 m (18,510 ft) – highest point in Europe
    • Low: Caspian Sea −28 m (−92 ft) – lowest point in Europe
  • Land boundaries: 20,242 km^[2]

 Kazakhstan 6,846 km

 China 3,645 km

 Mongolia 3,441 km

 Ukraine 1,576 km

 Finland 1,313 km

 Belarus 959 km

 Georgia 723 km, including:

 Abkhazia 255 km^[2]

 South Ossetia 70 km^[2]

 Poland 432 km

 Latvia 292 km

 Estonia 290 km

 Azerbaijan 284 km

 Lithuania 227 km

 Norway 196 km

 North Korea 18 km

• Coastline: 37,653 km^[3]

• Population of Russia: 142,942,000 people (2010 census) - 8th most populous country
• Area of Russia: 17,075,400 km² (6,592,800 sq mi) - 1st largest country
• Atlas of Russia

Environment of Russia

• Climate of Russia
• Environmental issues in Russia
• Ecoregions in Russia
• Renewable energy in Russia
• Geology of Russia
• National parks of Russia
• Protected areas of Russia
• Wildlife of Russia
  • Flora of Russia
  • Fauna of Russia
    • Birds of Russia
    • Mammals of Russia

Geographic features of Russia

• Glaciers of Russia
• Islands of Russia
• Lakes of Russia
  • Caspian Sea (lake with 1.3% salinity, about a third the salinity of seawater. Compare with Great Salt Lake.)
• Mountains of Russia
  • Caucasus Mountains
  • Ural Mountains
  • Volcanoes in Russia
• Plains of Russia
  • West Siberian Plain
• Rivers of Russia
  • Waterfalls of Russia
• Valleys of Russia
• World Heritage Sites in Russia

Regions of Russia

• Central Russia
• North Caucasus
• Siberia
• Russian Far East
• Economic regions of Russia

Ecoregions of Russia

Subdivisions of Russia

• Federal subjects of Russia (83)
  • Republics of Russia (21)
  • Oblasts of Russia (46)
  • Krais of Russia (9)
  • Autonomous oblasts of Russia (1)
  • Autonomous okrugs of Russia (4)
  • Federal cities of Russia (2)
• Types of inhabited localities in Russia
  • List of cities and towns in Russia

Republics of Russia

Republic of Adygea Altai Republic Republic of Bashkortostan Buryat Republic Republic of Dagestan Republic of Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkar Republic	8. Republic of Kalmykia 9. Karachay-Cherkess Republic 10. Republic of Karelia 11. Komi Republic 12. Mari El Republic 13. Republic of Mordovia 14. Sakha (Yakutia) Republic	15. Republic of North Ossetia-Alania 16. Republic of Tatarstan 17. Tuva Republic 18. Udmurt Republic 19. Republic of Khakassia 20. Chechen Republic 21. Chuvash Republic

Oblasts of Russia

1. Amur Oblast 2. Arkhangelsk Oblast 3. Astrakhan Oblast 4. Belgorod Oblast 5. Bryansk Oblast 6. Chelyabinsk Oblast 7. Chita Oblast 8. Irkutsk Oblast 9. Ivanovo Oblast 10. Kaliningrad Oblast

11. Kaluga Oblast 12. Kemerovo Oblast 13. Kirov Oblast 14. Kostroma Oblast 15. Kurgan Oblast 16. Kursk Oblast 17. Leningrad Oblast 18. Lipetsk Oblast 19. Magadan Oblast 20. Moscow Oblast

21. Murmansk Oblast 22. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 23. Novgorod Oblast 24. Novosibirsk Oblast 25. Omsk Oblast 26. Orenburg Oblast 27. Oryol Oblast 28. Penza Oblast 29. Pskov Oblast 30. Rostov Oblast

31. Ryazan Oblast 32. Sakhalin Oblast 33. Samara Oblast 34. Saratov Oblast 35. Smolensk Oblast 36. Sverdlovsk Oblast 37. Tambov Oblast 38. Tomsk 39. Tver Oblast 40. Tula Oblast

41. Tyumen Oblast 42. Ulyanovsk Oblast 43. Vladimir Oblast 44. Volgograd Oblast 45. Vologda Oblast 46. Voronezh Oblast 47. Yaroslavl Oblast

Krais of Russia

1.Altai Krai 2.Kamchatka Krai 3.Khabarovsk Krai

4.Krasnodar Krai 5.Krasnoyarsk Krai 6.Perm Krai

7.Primorsky Krai 8.Stavropol Krai 9.Zabaykalsky Krai

Autonomous oblasts of Russia

Russia has one autonomous oblast (autonomous province), the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (shaded dark blue).

Autonomous okrugs of Russia

1. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 2. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 3. Nenets Autonomous Okrug 4. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Federal cities of Russia

Moscow Saint Petersburg

Municipalities of Russia

Demographics of Russia

• 2002 Census

Government and politics of Russia

Main article: Government of Russia and Politics of Russia

• Form of government: federal presidential republic
• Capital of Russia: Moscow

• Elections in Russia
  • (specific elections)
• Political parties in Russia
• Political scandals of Russia
• Taxation in Russia

Branches of the government of Russia

Executive branch of the government of Russia

• Head of state: President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev
  • State Council of the Russian Federation (advisory board to the Head of State)
  • Presidential Administration of Russia (President's support staff)
• Head of government: Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin
  • Public Chamber of Russia
  • 17 Ministries
  • 7 Federal Services
  • 30+ Federal Agencies

Legislative branch of the government of Russia

• Federal Assembly of Russia (bicameral parliament)
  • Upper house: Federation Council of Russia
  • Lower house: State Duma

Judicial branch of the government of Russia

• Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
• Supreme Court of Russia

Foreign relations of Russia

• Diplomatic missions of Russia
• Diplomatic missions in Russia

International organization membership

The Russian Federation is a member of:^[1]

Arctic Council Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (dialogue partner) Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum (ARF) Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone (BSEC) Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Europe (CE) Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (observer) General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU) Group of Eight (G8) Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) International Criminal Court (ICCt) (signatory) International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) International Development Association (IDA) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS) International Finance Corporation (IFC) International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) International Labour Organization (ILO) International Maritime Organization (IMO) International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) International Monetary Fund (IMF) International Olympic Committee (IOC) International Organization for Migration (IOM) (observer) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) International Telecommunication Union (ITU) International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Latin American Integration Association (LAIA) (observer) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Nonaligned Movement (NAM) (guest) Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) (observer) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (accession state) Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Organization of American States (OAS) (observer) Paris Club Partnership for Peace (PFP) Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) United Nations (UN) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) United Nations Security Council (permanent member) United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Universal Postal Union (UPU) World Customs Organization (WCO) World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) World Health Organization (WHO) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) World Trade Organization (WTO) (observer) Zangger Committee (ZC)

Law and order in Russia

Main article: Law of Russia

• Capital punishment in Russia
• Constitution of Russia
• Crime in Russia
• Human rights in Russia
  • Racism in Russia
  • LGBT rights in Russia
  • Freedom of religion in Russia
• Law enforcement in Russia
• Media freedom in Russia

Military of Russia

Main article: Military of Russia

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief:
    • Ministry of Defence of Russia
• Forces
  • Army of Russia
  • Navy of Russia
  • Russian Air Force
  • Special forces of Russia (Spetsnaz)
• Military history of Russia
• Military ranks of Russia

Local government in Russia

History of Russia

Main articles: History of Russia, Timeline of Russian history, and Current events of Russia

Ancient Russia Proto-Indo-Europeans Scythians Bosporan Kingdom Khazaria Early East Slavs East Slavs Rus' Khaganate Kievan Rus' Mongol invasion of Rus

Tatar invasions Volga Bulgaria Golden Horde Grand Duchy of Moscow Tsardom of Russia Russian Empire World War I Russian Revolution of 1917 Russian Civil War

Soviet Union Russian SFSR World War II Cold War Soviet war in Afghanistan Russian Federation Military history Postal French invasion of Russia

Culture of Russia

Main article: Russian culture and Russians

• Architecture of Russia
• Cuisine of Russia
• Ethnic minorities in Russia
• Festivals in Russia
• Humor in Russia
• Languages of Russia
  • Russian language
• Material culture in Russia
• Media in Russia
• National symbols of Russia
  • Coat of arms of Russia
  • Flag of Russia
  • List of Russian flags
  • National anthem of Russia
• People of Russia
  • Famous Russians
• Prostitution in Russia
• Public holidays in Russia
• Records of Russia
• Religion in Russia
  • Buddhism in Russia
  • Christianity in Russia
  • Hinduism in Russia
  • Islam in Russia
  • Judaism in Russia
  • Sikhism in Russia
• Russian folklore
• Russian martial arts
• World Heritage Sites in Russia

Art in Russia

Russian architecture Art in Russia Russian avant-garde Ballet in Russia

Cinema of Russia Literature of Russia Music of Russia

Television in Russia Theatre in Russia Opera in Russia

Sports in Russia

Main article: Sports in Russia

• Football in Russia

Economy and infrastructure of Russia

Main article: Economy of Russia

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2008): 8th (eighth)
• Agriculture in Russia
• Banking in Russia
  • Central Bank of Russia
• Communications in Russia
  • Internet in Russia
  • List of Russian-language television channels
• Companies of Russia
• Currency of Russia: Ruble
  • ISO 4217: RUB
• Defense industry of Russia
• Economic history of Russia
• Energy in Russia
  • Energy policy of Russia
  • Oil industry in Russia
• Health care in Russia
• Mining in Russia
• Russia Stock Exchange
• Tourism in Russia
• Transport in Russia
  • Airports in Russia
  • Rail transport in Russia
  • Roads in Russia
• Water supply and sanitation in Russia

Education in Russia

Main article: Education in Russia

See also

• Index of Russia-related articles
• List of international rankings
• List of Russia-related topics
• Member state of the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
• Member state of the United Nations
• Outline of Asia
• Outline of Europe
• Outline of geography

References

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Russia

• Interfax.com—News agency based in Moscow
• Russia Profile English-language information service
• RussGUS Bibliographic database of German publications on Russia (about 175 000 positions)

Government resources

• Russian News Agency Ria Novosti
• Duma—Official site of the parliamentary lower house (Russian)
• Federative Council—Official site of the parliamentary upper house
• Kremlin—Official presidential site
• Gov.ru—Official governmental portal (Russian)
• Russian Federation Today—Official issue of the Federal Assembly (Russian)
• Ministry of Foreign affairs
• Russian Federal Customs Service
• Central Bank of Russia

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