Russia (disambiguation)
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Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossiya), also known as the Russian Federation, is the largest country in the world, located in northern Eurasia.
"Russia Proper" usually refers to:
Russia may also refer to:
States
- 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
- Russia, Ohio, a village in Shelby County
- Russia, New York, a town in Herkimer County
- Russia Township, Polk County, Minnesota
Other uses
- 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
- 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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