Russia Guide

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Russia – country information

Country name	Mask
Official name	Russian federation
Capital	Moscow
continent	Asia, Europe
Area	17,098,200 km
Population	143 700 000 (2014)
Foundation of a state	24. 8. 1991
The highest mountains	Elbrus 5,633 m, Belucha 4,506 m
Longest rivers	Amur 4416 km, Lena 4400 km, Ob-Katun’ 4620 km, Genesis 4092 km
The largest lakes	Baikal 31,500 km ²
State system	a federal pluralist republic of the presidential type with a bicameral parliament
The biggest cities	Moscow (capital) 8,675,000, Saint Petersburg 4,825,000, Nizhny Novgorod 1,405,000, Novosibirsk 1,400,000, Yekaterinburg 1,330,000, Samara 1,210,000
Official language	Russian
Ethnicity/National Composition	Russians 82.6%, Tatars 3.6%, Ukrainians 2.7%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkirs 0.9%, Belarusians 0.7%, Mordvins 0.7%, Chechens 0.6%, others 7 %
Religious affiliation	predominantly Orthodox, minorities of Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Old Believers and Jews
Currency	1 ruble (Rub) = 100 kopecks
gross domestic product (GDP)	US$17,518 (2012)
Average life expectancy of the population	67.08 let (2006)
Structure of GDP	agriculture, forestry and fishing 15%, mining and industry 36%, construction 6%, services 43%

Russia – neighboring states

State	Capital	Area	Populace
Azerbaijan	Baku	86,600 km	9 477 100
Belarus	Minsk	207,600 km	9 468 100
China	Peking	9,640,820 km	1 363 350 000
Estonia	Stable	45 100 km	1 311 870
Finland	Helsinki	338 145 km	5 452 821
Georgia	Tbilisi	69,700 km	4 483 800
Kazakhstan	Astana	2,724,900 km	17 186 000
Lithuania	Vilnius	65 300 km	2 941 953
Latvia	Riga	64,600 km	2 003 900
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,120 km	2 931 300
Norway	Oslo	385 155 km	5 109 056
Poland	Warsaw	312,685 km²	38 502 396
North Korea	Pyongyang	120,538 km	24 895 000
Ukraine	Kiev	603 700 km	45 426 200

Country overview

According to Abbreviationfinder, Russia is the largest country in the world, occupying almost 12% of the world’s land area. Most of the territory lies in areas extremely unfavorable for life and is therefore very sparsely populated. Russia borders Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Belarus to the west. It has a long border in the south with Ukraine, then with Georgia and Azerbaijan. The longest is with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, only a few kilometers with North Korea. It is surrounded in the north by the peripheral seas of the Arctic Ocean – the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea, in the east by the Pacific Ocean with the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, and in the southeast by the Sea of Japan. In shorter stretches, Russia has access to the Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finland) in the west, the Azov and Black Seas in the southwest, and the inland Caspian Sea in the south.

Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was its power base. The disintegration of communist structures left an unfortunate legacy of political instability, fueled by the power, economic, regional and national interests of a rapidly differentiating Russian society.

Country data

Location: North Asia

Time zone: from CET + 2 (in the west) to CET + 12 (in the east)

Total area: 17,098,242 km²

Land area: 16,377,742 km²

Water area: 720,500 km²

Length of the state border: 22,407 km

Bordering countries:
Azerbaijan: 338 km
Belarus / Belarus: 1,312 km
China: 4,179 km
Estonia: 324 km
Finland: 1,309 km
Georgia: 894 km
Kazakhstan: 7,644 km
North Korea: 18 km
Latvia: 332 km
Lithuania: 261 km
Mongolia: 3.452 km
Norway: 191 km
Poland: 209 km
Ukraine: 1,944 km

Coastline: 37,653 km

Capital: Moscow

Republic: 83
Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Barnaul), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel’sk, Astrakhan, Bashkortostan (Ufa), Belgorod, Bryansk, Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chelyabinsk, Chukotka (Anadyr), Chuvashiya (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya (Magas), Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal’chik), Kaliningrad, Kalmykiya (Elista), Kaluga, Kamchatskiychatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk), Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Khakasiya (Abakan), Khanty-Mansi (Khanty-Mansiysk), Kirov, Komi (Syktyvkar), Kostroma, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kuringrad, Kurs, Magadan, Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya (Saransk), Moscow, Moscow [Moskva], Murmansk, Nenets (Nar’yan-Mar), Nizhniy Novgorod, North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz), Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orel,Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok), Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg], Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Stavropol, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tatarstan (Kazan), Tomsk, Tula, Tver, Tyumen, Tyva (Kyzyl), Udmurtiya (Izhevsk), Ul’yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard), Yaroslavl, Yevrey, Zabaykal’sk (Chita)Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard), Yaroslavl, Yevrey, Zabaykal’sk (Chita)Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard), Yaroslavl, Yevrey, Zabaykal’sk (Chita)

Electric current: 220 V / 50 Hz

Telephone code: 00 7 (Source: Allcitycodes)

Highest point: Gora Elbrus 5,633 m

Population

Population: approx. 142 million residents (Countryaah, 2021)

Population growth: 0% per year

Population density (residents per km²): 8

Life expectancy: 64 (male), 76 (female)

Official language: Russian

Religions:

15-20% Russian Orthodox
10-15% Muslim

approx. 70% other

Climate

Eastern part of the country:

Summer is similar to that in Central Europe
dry and cold winter months
Winter frost down to -25 ° C

Southern part of the country:

Summer months with around 20 ° C
cool winter months, but mostly above 0 ° C

Western part of the country:

- Summer temperatures down to 0 ° C
- Very long winters (up to 7 months)
- Winter temperatures from -10 to -50 ° C

Currency / finance

Currency unit: Russian ruble (RUB)

Classification: 1 ruble = 100 kopecks

ATMs: They are available, but should not be used as they are very often manipulated for credit card fraud.

International credit cards: These are accepted in larger hotels and shops.

Regulations: The local currency may be imported and exported up to an equivalent value of approx. 3,000 US dollars. In addition, only with a corresponding declaration.

There is no limit to the amount of foreign currencies that can be imported. The export is permitted in the amount of the declared import. There is an obligation to declare.

The exchange of money should only be done at approved banks and exchange offices and must be entered in the declaration form.

Customs regulations

The following may be carried duty-free:

200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 g of tobacco
1.5 liters of alcoholic beverages

(Information applies to people aged 18 and over)

Tourists and people in transit can bring items of personal use with them duty-free.

The customs form received upon entry must be kept until departure. In this all things carried are listed.

Travel advice

Traveling to the following areas is not advisable due to the risk situation there:

Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
Chechnya

Since there have been repeated terrorist attacks, you should avoid staying in large crowds.

Behavioral advice

Photographing military objects and people is prohibited and should also be avoided.

Economy

After the transition to a market economy, industry is only slowly gaining momentum. Exports in particular are stagnating in many sectors.

The Russian Federation has a lot of natural resources and other resources.

Due to the sanctions of western countries, economic development is stagnating.

Due to the drop in the price of oil and the resulting reduced foreign exchange income, the state had to cut its expenditure massively and release part of its financial reserves.

Industries: building materials, mining, chemistry, electronics, power generation, mechanical engineering, vehicle manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, food manufacturing, textiles, transportation, tourism

Natural resources: There are many different natural resources in large quantities.

Land use:

Usable land: 8%
Grain cultivation: 0%
Pasture area: 4%
Forests: 46%
other: 42%

Plants

In the ice deserts of the north there are only a few green areas overgrown with moss and simple grasses.

The largest forest area still in existence on earth stretches from the center of the country to the south. There are mainly spruce, pine and fir trees.

In the south of the country there are huge steppe landscapes that are used for agriculture, because the soil is very fertile.