The Russian Federation, or Russia, is the largest state in terms of its territory, not only in Europe and Asia, but also the largest on the entire planet. At the beginning of this year, over 143.5 million people lived on 17, 125 million square kilometers of the country.
The device of the Russian Federation
Russia is a federal state. The country includes 85 subjects.
Of which 22 republics - Adygea with the capital in Maikop; Altai and Gorno-Altaysk; Bashkortostan and Ufa; Buryatia and Ulan-Ude, Dagestan and Makhachkala; Ingushetia and Magas; The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic with its capital in Nalchik; Kalmykia and Elista; Karachay-Cherkessia and Cherkessk; Karelia and Petrozavodsk; Komi and Syktyvkar; Republic of Mari-El with its capital in Yoshkar-Ola; Mordovia and Saransk; Sakha (Yakutia) with the capital in Yakutsk; North Ossetia-Alania and Vladikavkaz; Tatarstan with its capital in Kazan; Tyva and Kyzyl; Udmurt Republic and Izhevsk; Khakassia and Abakan; The Chechen Republic and the city of Grozny; The Chuvash Republic with its capital in Cheboksary, as well as the recently annexed Republic of Crimea with Simferopol.
Nine regions (for the first time this term appeared in the everyday life of Russians in the 30s of the 19th century) - Altai with its capital in Barnaul; Kamchatsky (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky); Khabarovsk Territory with the capital in Khabarovsk; Krasnodar Territory and Krasnodar; Krasnoyarsk Territory and Krasnoyarsk; Perm Territory with the capital in Perm; Primorsky Territory and Vladivostok; Stavropol Territory with the capital in Stavropol and Trans-Baikal Territory (Chita).
The Russian Federation also includes three federal cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg and Stavropol. The difference between such entities from other entities lies in the organization of local self-government in them.
There is only one autonomous region - Jewish, formed on May 7, 1934 and bordering China, the Amur region and the Khabarovsk Territory.
Autonomous regions of Russia are the Nenets Autonomous Okrug with the center in Naryan-Mar; Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug with Khanty-Mansiysk; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and the city of Anadyr, as well as Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Salekhard.
But most of all there are regions in the Russian Federation.
46 regions of Russia
Among these subjects of the Russian Federation, which in their legal status are no different from the regions, include Amur, Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovskaya Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kirovskaya, Kostromskaya, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningradskaya, Lipetsk, Magadanskaya, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Oryol, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk, Tambov, Tomsk, Tverskaya, Tula Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh and Yaroslavl regions.
A major transformation of the regions of Russia took place in the 2000s, when major changes were introduced into the federal structure of the country. Then many regions were subjected to the so-called consolidation.
The regions, like the rest of the subjects, are united into the Federal Districts of Russia.
