russia

Noun
  1. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia;
    Established in 1922;
    Included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others);
    Officially dissolved 31 December 1991 (synset 109025654)
    domain member region:
    • february revolution, russian revolution - the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917
    • october revolution, russian revolution - the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
    • russian - the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia
    • razbliuto - the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do
    • pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki - small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried
    • kvass - fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley
    • kolkhoz - a collective farm owned by the communist state
    • steppe - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
    • tovarich, tovarisch - a comrade (especially in Russian communism)
    • isaac stern, stern - United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
    • balagan - a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
    • svoboda - (Russia) freedom
    is an instance of: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    has:
    is a part of: eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
    same as: soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr
  2. Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia (synset 109030093)
    domain member region: borodino - Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army
    is an instance of: soviet socialist republic - one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
    member holonym:
    • komi - a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia
    • cheremis, cheremiss, mari - a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
    • inger, ingerman, ingrian - a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built
    • mordva, mordvin, mordvinian - a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia
    • veps, vepse, vepsian - a member of a Finnish people of Russia
    • mansi, vogul - a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals
    • russian - a native or inhabitant of Russia
    is a part of:
    • russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
    • eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
    same as: russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia
  3. A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital;
    Powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital;
    Overthrown by revolution in 1917 (synset 109025184)
    domain member region:
    is an instance of: empire, imperium - the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
    has: muscovy - a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital
    is a part of: eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
  4. A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia;
    Formerly Soviet Russia;
    Since 1991 an independent state (synset 109028783)
    domain member region: foreign intelligence service, sluzhba vneshney razvedki, svr - Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime
    is an instance of: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    specific instances: asian russia - the Russia that is part of Asia
    belongs to: cis, commonwealth of independent states - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
    has:
    • karelia - a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea
    • capital of the russian federation, moscow, russian capital - a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation
    • astrakhan - a city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River
    • cherepovets - a city of east central Russia to the north of Moscow
    • chechen republic, chechenia, chechnya - an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic
    • grozny, groznyy - the capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia; center of extensive oil fields
    • kaluga - a city of central Russia to the south of Moscow
    • khabarovsk - an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia
    • kursk - a city of southwestern Russia
    • siberia - a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters
    • european russia - the part of Russia that is part of Europe
    • gorki, gorkiy, gorky, nizhni novgorod, nizhnyi novgorod - an industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky
    • kazan - an industrial city in the European part of Russia
    • leningrad, peterburg, petrograd, saint petersburg, st. petersburg - a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia
    • murmansk - a port city in northwestern Russia on the Kola Peninsula; the largest city to the north of the Arctic Circle; an important supply line to Russia in World War I and World War II
    • nalchik - a city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains; an industrial center and health resort
    • novgorod - a city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages
    • molotov, perm - a city in the European part of Russia
    • rostov, rostov na donu, rostov on don - a seaport on the Don River near the Sea of Azov in the European part of Russia
    • saratov - an industrial city in the European part of Russia
    • smolensk - a city in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in World War II
    • ufa - a city in the European part of Russia
    • stalingrad, tsaritsyn, volgograd - a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43
    • novosibirsk - a city in the Asian part of Russia on the Ob river; largest city in Siberia
    • chelyabinsk - a city in the Asian part of Russia
    • omsk - a city in the Asian part of Russia
    • vladivostok - a seaport in the Asian part of Russia
    • nova zembla, novaya zemlya - two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
    • kola peninsula - a peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea
    • amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang - an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk
    • dnieper, dnieper river - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
    • don, don river - a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov
    • ilmen, lake ilmen - a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga
    • ladoga, lake ladoga - a lake in northwestern Russia to the north of St. Petersburg; the largest lake in Europe; drains through the Neva River into the Gulf of Finland
    • lake onega, onega - lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe
    • neva, neva river - a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland
    • tien shan, tyan shan - a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles
    • ural mountains, urals - a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia
    • vetluga, vetluga river - a river in central Russia; flows generally southward into the Volga
    • volga, volga river - a Russian river; the longest river in Europe; flows into the Caspian Sea
    • volkhov, volkhov river - a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally north into Lake Ladoga
    is a part of: eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
    same as: russian federation

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