russia
1. [ noun ] (government,geography) a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
Synonyms: Soviet_Union USSR Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics
Related terms: country Eurasia Moscow Soviet_Russia Russian_Revolution Amur Caspian_Sea Russian_Revolution Soviet_Socialist_Republic caspian Russian steppe balagan isaac_stern kvass czar kolkhoz pirogi
2. [ noun ] (government,geography) formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
Synonyms: Russian_Soviet_Federated_Socialist_Republic Soviet_Russia
Related terms: Soviet_Socialist_Republic Russian Ingrian Vogul Veps Komi Cheremis Mordva Soviet_Union Eurasia Muscovy Borodino
3. [ noun ] (geography) a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia; powerful in 17-18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great; overthrown by revolution in 1917
Related terms: empire Eurasia Muscovy aleksandr_pavlovich alexander_ii alexander_iii nicholas_i
4. [ noun ] (government,geography) a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
Synonyms: russian_federation
Related terms: country asian_russia european_russia Commonwealth_of_Independent_States Eurasia Moscow Siberia Vladivostok Urals Perm Saratov Ufa St._Petersburg Karelia smolensk Tien_Shan ilmen Amur Don Volga grozny astrakhan cherepovets kaluga kursk Novosibirsk Volgograd gorki murmansk Chelyabinsk nalchik nova_zembla kola_peninsula dnieper novgorod ladoga lake_onega neva Omsk volkhov chechen_republic khabarovsk Kazan Gorki foreign_intelligence_service
Similar spelling:   Russi
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