Dictionary entry details
• RUSSIAN FEDERATION (noun)
Meaning:
A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Russian Federation; Russia
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Russian Federation"):
Volkhov; Volkhov River (a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally north into Lake Ladoga)
Amur; Amur River; Heilong; Heilong Jiang (an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk)
Kola Peninsula (a peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea)
Nova Zembla; Novaya Zemlya (two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads)
Vladivostok (a seaport in the Asian part of Russia)
Omsk; Chelyabinsk (a city in the Asian part of Russia)
Novosibirsk (a city in the Asian part of Russia on the Ob river; largest city in Siberia)
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)
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)
Volga; Volga River (a Russian river; the longest river in Europe; flows into the Caspian Sea)
Vetluga; Vetluga River (a river in central Russia; flows generally southward into the Volga)
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)
Tien Shan; Tyan Shan (a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles)
Neva; Neva River (a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland)
Lake Onega; Onega (lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe)
Ladoga; Lake Ladoga (a lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg; the largest lake in Europe; drains through the Neva River into the Gulf of Finland)
Ilmen; Lake Ilmen (a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga)
Ufa (a 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)
Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)
Kaluga (a city of central Russia south of Moscow)
Grozny; Groznyy (the capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia; center of extensive oil fields)
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)
Cherepovets (a city of east central Russia north of Moscow)
Astrakhan (a city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River)
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)
Karelia (a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea)
Kursk (a city of southwestern Russia)
Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)
Saratov (an industrial city in the European part of Russia)
Molotov; Perm (a city in the European part of Russia)
Novgorod (a city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages)
Nalchik (a city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains; an industrial center and health resort)
Murmansk (a port city in northwestern Russia on the Kola Peninsula; the largest city north of the Arctic Circle; an important supply line to Russia in World War I and World War II)
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)
Kazan (an industrial city in the European part of Russia)
Gorki; Gorkiy; Gorky; Nizhni Novgorod; Nizhnyi Novgorod (an industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky)
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)
Instance hyponyms:
European Russia (the Russia that is part of Europe)
Asian Russia (the Russia that is part of Asia)
Holonyms ("Russian Federation" is a part of...):
Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)
Holonyms ("Russian Federation" is a member of...):
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)
