Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red.

Moscow

46 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast'), 21 republics* (respublik, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs** (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays*** (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod)****, and 1 autonomous oblast*****(avtonomnaya oblast'):
Adygeya (Maykop)*, Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)*, Altayskiy (Barnaul)***, Amurskaya (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'skaya, Astrakhanskaya, Bashkortostan (Ufa)*, Belgorodskaya, Bryanskaya, Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)*, Chechnya (Groznyy)*, Chelyabinskaya, Chukotskiy (Anadyr')**, Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)*, Dagestan (Makhachkala)*, Ingushetiya (Nazran')*, Irkutskaya, Ivanovskaya, Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)*, Kaliningradskaya, Kalmykiya (Elista)*, Kaluzhskaya, Kamchatka*** (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)*, Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)*, Kemerovskaya, Khabarovskiy***, Khakasiya (Abakan)*, Khanty-Mansiyskiy (Khanty-Mansiysk)**, Kirovskaya, Komi (Syktyvkar)*, Kostromskaya, Krasnodarskiy***, Krasnoyarskiy***, Kurganskaya, Kurskaya, Leningradskaya, Lipetskaya, Magadanskaya, Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)*, Mordoviya (Saransk)*, Moskovskaya, Moskva (Moscow)****, Murmanskaya, Nenetskiy (Nar'yan-Mar)**, Nizhegorodskaya, Novgorodskaya, Novosibirskaya, Omskaya, Orenburgskaya, Orlovskaya (Orel), Penzenskaya, Permskiy***, Primorskiy (Vladivostok)***, Pskovskaya, Rostovskaya, Ryazanskaya, Sakha (Yakutiya)*, Sakhalinskaya (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samarskaya, Sankt-Petersburg (Saint Petersburg)****, Saratovskaya, Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya [North Ossetia] (Vladikavkaz)*, Smolenskaya, Stavropol'skiy***, Sverdlovskaya (Yekaterinburg), Tambovskaya, Tatarstan (Kazan')*, Taymyrskiy (Dudinka)**, Tomskaya, Tul'skaya, Tverskaya, Tyumenskaya, Tyva (Kyzyl)*, Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)*, Ul'yanovskaya, Vladimirskaya, Volgogradskaya, Vologodskaya, Voronezhskaya, Yamalo-Nenetskiy (Salekhard)**, Yaroslavskaya, Yevreyskaya*****, and Zabaykal'skiy (Chita)***.
Administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses), when using a place name with an adjectival ending 'skaya' or 'skiy', the word Oblast' or Avtonomnyy Okrug or Kray should be added to the place name.

For DXCC purposes Russia is divided into 2 Entities: Asiatic Russia and European Russia.

144,978,600
A 108,734,000
E 32,244,600

Russian, other

60° 00' N, 100° 00' E

17,075,200 sq. km
A 13,119,300
E 3,955,900

16,995,800 sq. km

79,400 sq. km

19,990 km

Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km, China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 294 km, Finland 1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,485 km, Norway 196 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576 km

37,653 km

Caspian Sea -28 m - Gora El'brus 5,633 m

.ru

Russian ruble (RUR)

Russian Federation

Russia

Rossiyskaya Federatsiya

Rossiya

Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist

24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)

adopted 12 December 1993

federation

Russia Day, 12 June (1990)