English > Russia: 4 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991. |
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| Synonyms | Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR |
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| Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Part of | Eurasia | The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia |
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| Parts | Caspian, Caspian Sea | A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River |
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| Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Soviet Socialist Republic | One of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) |
| Region of | Russian | The Slavic language that is the official language of Russia |
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| Russian Revolution, February Revolution | The revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication / abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917 |
| Russian Revolution, October Revolution | The coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922 |
| Stern, Isaac Stern | United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) |
| balagan | A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) |
| kolkhoz | A collective farm owned by the communist state |
| kvass | fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley |
| pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki | small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried |
| razbliuto | The sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do |
| steppe | extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) |
| svoboda | (Russia) freedom |
| tovarich, tovarisch | A comrade (especially in Russian communism) |
| Spanish | Rusia, Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, Unión Soviética, URSS |
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| Catalan | Rússia, Unió Soviètica, URSS |
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| Adjectives | Russian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language |
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English > Russia: 4 senses > noun 2, location| Meaning | formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia. |
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| Synonyms | Soviet Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic |
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| Instance of | Soviet Socialist Republic | One of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) |
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| Members | Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari | A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia |
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| Ingrian, Inger, Ingerman | A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built |
| Komi | A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia |
| Mordva, Mordvin, Mordvinian | A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia |
| Russian | A native or inhabitant of Russia |
| Veps, Vepse, Vepsian | A member of a Finnish people of Russia |
| Vogul, Mansi | A member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals |
| Part of | Eurasia | The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia |
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| Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR | A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Region of | Borodino | Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened / weakened his army |
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| Spanish | Rusia, Rusia soviética |
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| Catalan | Rússia |
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English > Russia: 4 senses > noun 3, location| Meaning | A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917. |
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| Instance of | empire, imperium | The domain ruled by an emperor or empress |
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| Part of | Eurasia | The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia |
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| Parts | Muscovy | A Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries |
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| Region of | Alexander I, Czar Alexander I, Aleksandr Pavlovich | The czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825) |
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| Alexander II, Czar Alexander II, Alexander the Liberator | The son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881) |
| Alexander III, Czar Alexander III | son of Alexander II who was czar of Russia (1845-1894) |
| Nicholas I, Czar Nicholas I | czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855) |
| czar, tsar, tzar | A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) |
| Spanish | Rusia |
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| Catalan | Rússia |
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| Adjectives | Russian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language |
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English > Russia: 4 senses > noun 4, location| Meaning | A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state. |
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| Synonym | Russian Federation |
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| Instances | Asian Russia | The Russia that is part of Asia |
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| Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Member of | Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS | An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 |
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| Part of | Eurasia | The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia |
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| Parts | Amur, Amur River, Heilong Jiang, Heilong | An Asian river between China and Russia |
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| Astrakhan | A city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River |
| Chechnya, Chechenia, Chechen Republic | An autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia |
| Chelyabinsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia |
| Cherepovets | A city of east central Russia to the north of Moscow |
| Dnieper, Dnieper River | A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea |
| Don, Don River | A European river in southwestern Russia |
| European Russia | The part of Russia that is part of Europe |
| Grozny, Groznyy | The capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia |
| Kaluga | A city of central Russia to the south of Moscow |
| Karelia | A region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea |
| Kazan | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Khabarovsk | An administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia |
| Kola Peninsula | A peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea |
| Kursk | A city of southwestern Russia |
| Lake Ilmen, Ilmen | A lake in northwestern Russia |
| Lake Ladoga, Ladoga | A lake in northwestern Russia to the north of St. Petersburg |
| Lake Onega, Onega | lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland |
| Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, Russian capital | A city of central European Russia |
| Murmansk | A port city in northwestern Russia on the Kola Peninsula |
| Nalchik | A city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains |
| Neva, Neva River | A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland |
| Nizhnyi Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Gorki, Gorky, Gorkiy | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla | Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia |
| Novgorod | A city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River |
| Novosibirsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia on the Ob river |
| Omsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia |
| Perm, Molotov | A city in the European part of Russia |
| Rostov, Rostov on Don, Rostov na Donu | A seaport on the Don River near the Sea of Azov in the European part of Russia |
| Saratov | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Siberia | A vast Asian region of Russia |
| Smolensk | A city in western Russia on the Dnieper River |
| St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg | A city in the European part of Russia |
| Tien Shan, Tyan Shan | A major mountain range of central Asia |
| Ufa | A city in the European part of Russia |
| Urals, Ural Mountains | A mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea |
| Vetluga, Vetluga River | A river in central Russia |
| Vladivostok | A seaport in the Asian part of Russia |
| Volga, Volga River | A Russian river |
| Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn | A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga |
| Volkhov, Volkhov River | A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally north into Lake Ladoga |
| Region of | Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, SVR | Russia's intelligence service responsible / responsible for foreign / foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information |
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| Spanish | Federación Rusa, Rusia, Russia |
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| Catalan | Rusia, Rússia |
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| Adjectives | Russian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language |
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