English > Russian Federation: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state. |
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| Synonym | Russia |
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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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