General
Profile
Location: Northern Asia (that part west
of the Urals is included with Europe), bordering the
Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific
Ocean. Area: total: 17,075,200 sq km land: 16,995,800 sq
km water: 79,400 sq km Climate: Ranges from steppes in
the south through humid continental in much of European
Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the
polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea
coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in
the steppes to cool along Arctic coast Terrain: braod
plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous
forest and trunda in Siberia; uplands and mountains
along southern border regionals Capital: Moscow
Administrative divisions: 49 oblasts (oblastey), 21
republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 10
autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular -
avtonomnyy okrug), 6 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2
federal cities (singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous
oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') : oblasts: Amur
(Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Belgorod,
Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Ivanovo,
Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kamchatka
(Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma,
Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow,
Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk,
Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Perm', Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan',
Sakhalin (Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov,
Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk,
Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd,
Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' : republics: Adygeya
(Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa),
Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chuvashiya
(Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya
(Magas),Kabardino-Balkariya(Nal'chik),
Kalmykiya(Elista), Karachayevo- Cherkesiya (Cherkessk),
Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Khakasiya (Abakan), Komi
(Syktyvkar), Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya
(Saransk), Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), North Ossetia
(Vladikavkaz), Tatarstan (Kazan'), Tyva (Kyzyl),
Udmurtiya (Izhevsk) : autonomous okrugs: Aga Buryat
(Aginskoye), Chukotka (Anadyr'), Evenk (Tura),
Khanty-Mansi, Komi-Permyak (Kudymkar), Koryak (Palana),
Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar), Taymyr [Dolgano-Nenets] (Dudinka),
Ust'-Orda Buryat (Ust'- Ordynskiy), Yamalo-Nenets
(Salekhard) : krays: Altay (Barnaul), Khabarovsk,
Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Primorskiy (Vladivostok),
Stavropol' : federal cities: Moscow (Moskva), Saint
Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) : autonomous oblast: Yevrey
[Jewish] (Birobidzhan) Population: 143,420,309 (2005
est.) Ethnic groups: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%,
Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other 12.1%
(2002 census) Nationality: noun: Russian(s) adjective:
Russian Languages: Russian, many minority languages
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other Literacy:
99.6% |
Economical
Profile
Currency (code): Russian ruble (RUR)
GDP: $1.535 trillion (2005 est.) GDP per capita: $10,700
(2005 est.) Exports - commodities: Petroleum and
petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products,
metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and
military manufactures Exports - partners: Netherlands ,
Germany , Ukraine , Italy , China , US , Switzerland ,
Turkey Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment,
consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar, semifinished
metal products Imports - partners: Germany , Ukraine ,
China , Japan , Kazakhstan , US , Italy , France
Ariculture - products: grain, sugar beets, sunflowers
seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk Industries:
complete range of mining and extractive industries
producing coal, oil, gas chemicals, and methals; all
forms of machine building from rolling mills to high
performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense
industries including rada, missile production, and
advanced electronic components, ship building; road and
rail transportation equipment; communications equipment;
agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction
equipment; electric power generation and, transmitting
equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer
durables, foodstuffs, handicraft Source: The World Fact
Book 2005 (www.cia.gov) |