Russia (disambiguation)

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossiya), also known as the Russian Federation, is the largest country in the world, located in northern Eurasia.

"Russia Proper" usually refers to:

• Central Federal District
• Central Russia

Russia may also refer to:

States

• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), largest of the fifteen Soviet republics of the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union (USSR), the socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991, of which RSFSR is a part
• Russian Democratic Federative Republic, a federal state which nominally existed for less than one day in 1918
• Russian Republic, the revolutionary state administered by the Russian Provisional Government for eight months in 1917
• Russian Empire, which existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917
• Tsardom of Russia, which existed from 1547 to 1721
• Kievan Rus', which existed from 882 to 1240

Places in the USA

• Russia, Ohio, a village in Shelby County
• Russia, New York, a town in Herkimer County
• Russia Township, Polk County, Minnesota

Other uses

• Russia (horse), an Australian racehorse
• Russia leather, a hard-wearing and water-resistant leather, where birch oil is worked into it after tanning
• Russia Tower, an unfinished skyscraper in Moscow, cancelled in 2009
• Russia! magazine, a quarterly English-language publication about Russia
• 232 Russia, a large main belt asteroid
• Team Russia, the 2008–2009 Volvo Ocean Race team

See also

• Great Russia
• Little Russia
• Novorossiya (New Russia)
• White Russia
• Black Ruthenia (Black Russia)
• Red Ruthenia
• New Russia (disambiguation)
• Rossiya (disambiguation)
• Russian (disambiguation)
• Rusia
• Nasha Russia
• Rus (disambiguation)