Fast Facts – Russia

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What is the complete name of Russia?
Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya)

What type of government does Russia have?
Federal semi-presidential Republic

Who is Russia’s current president?
Vladmir Putin

Who is Russia’s current prime minister?
Dmitry Medvedev

What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow

What oceans and seas border Russia?

• Arctic Ocean
• North Atlantic Ocean
• Black Sea
• Caspian Sea

What countries share borders with Russia?

• Norway
• Finland
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Poland
• Belarus
• Ukraine
• Georgia
• Azerbaijan
• Kazakhstan
• People’s Republic of China
• Mongolia
• North Korea

Maritime borders:

• Japan (by the Sea of Okhotsk)
• United States (by the Bering Strait)

How big is Russia?
17,098,242 square kilometers
Russia is the largest country in the world at almost 2x the size of the United States, and 1/8 of the Earth’s inhabited land

What are Russia’s administrative divisions?
Russia contains 83 federal subjects which have equal representation, but vary in levels of autonomy.

The types of divisions are: oblasts (provinces), republics, krais (territories), autonomous okrugs (autonomous districts), autonomous oblast, and federal cities.

Oblasts (provinces) – 46

• Amur
• Arkhangelsk
• Astrakhan
• Belgorod
• Bryansk
• Chelyabinsk
• Irkutsk
• Ivanovo
• Kaliningrad
• Kaluga
• Kemerovo
• Kirov
• Kostroma
• Kurgan
• Kursk
• Leningrad
• Lipetsk
• Magadan
• Moscow
• Murmansk
• Nizhny Novgorod
• Novgorod
• Novosibirsk
• Omsk
• Orenburg
• Oryol
• Penza
• Pskov
• Rostov
• Ryazan
• Sakhalin
• Samara
• Saratov
• Smolensk
• Sverdlovsk
• Tambov
• Tomsk
• Tver
• Tula
• Tyumen
• Ulyanovsk
• Vladmir
• Volgograd
• Vologda
• Voronezh
• Yaroslavl

Republics – 21
Somewhat autonomous areas of non-Russian ethnicity, have the right to establish an official language and constitution

• Adygea
• Altai
• Bashkortostan
• Buryatia
• Chechnya
• Chuvashia
• Dagestan
• Ingushetia
• Kabardino-Balkaria
• Kalmykia
• Karachay-Cherkessia
• Karelia
• Khakassia
• Komi
• Mari El
• Mordovia
• North Ossetia-Alania
• Sakha (Yakutia)
• Tatarstand
• Tuva
• Udmurtia

Krais (territories) – 9
Similar to oblasts, but different designation for historical reasons

• Altai
• Kamchatka
• Khabarovsk
• Krasnodar
• Krasnoyarsk
• Perm
• Primorsky
• Stavropol
• Zabaykalsky

Autonomous orkrugs (districts) – 4
Mostly a subordinate part of a krai or oblast

• Chukotka
• Khanty-Mansi
• Nenets
• Yamalo-Nenets

Autonomous oblast – 1

• Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Federal cities – 2

• Moscow
• St. Petersburg

How many time zones does Russia span?
Nine.

What is the official language of Russia?
Russian is the official language of Russia, but some regions of Russia have an additional official language. Russian is also one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations

Other official languages in Russia:

• Abaza
• Adyghe
• Altay
• Avar
• Bashkir
• Buryat
• Chechen
• Chuvash
• Erzya
• Ingush
• Kabardian
• Kalmyk
• Karachay-Balkar
• Khakas
• Komi-Zyrian
• Mansi
• Mari
• Moksha
• Nogai
• Ossetic
• Tatar
• Tuvan
• Udmurt
• Yakut
• Yiddish

What alphabet does Russia use?
The Russian alphabet, which is modified Cyrillic and has 33 letters

What are the 5 largest cities in Russia?

• Moscow
• Saint Petersburg
• Samara
• Kazan
• Novosibirsk

What modern-day countries were in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)?
The area included in the USSR is now divided into 15 independent countries.

Republics of the Soviet Union:

• Russia
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
• Kazakhstan
• Belarus
• Azerbaijan
• Georgia
• Tajikistan
• Moldova
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lithuania
• Turkmenistan
• Armenia
• Latvia
• Estonia

All of the former Soviet Union countries except the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Georgia are now part of the regional organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Ref : Russia Map

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