Capital city - Moscow
Russia covers Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
Territory - 17075.4 thou. sq .km
(13 per cent of cultivated land, 51 per cent of forest land,
13 per cent of surface water, including swamps) 1)
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1) Data of the Federal Land Cadastre Services of the Russian Federation, as of January 1, 2001.
Resident population:
143954,5 thou. persons (as of January 1, 2002)
Density of population: 8.4 person per 1 sq.km
Maximum stretch, thou.km:
longitudinal 4
latitudinal 9
Russia is bounded by:
Arctic Ocean seas:
(Barents, White, Karsk, Laptev,
Eastern Siberian, Tchukotka seas)
Pacific Ocean seas:
(Bering, 0khotsk, Japanese seas)
Atlantic ocean seas: (Baltic, Black, Azov seas)
The largest islands, thou.sq.km:
Archipelago New Land |
82.6 |
State borders
At North West with Norway and Finland
At West with Poland, Estonia, Latvia,Lithuania and Belarus
At South West with Ukraine
At South with Georgia, Azerbajan and Kazakhstan
At South East with China, Mongolia and the Korean People's
Democratic Republic
At East (sea) with USA and Japan
The longest rivers, km:
Lena |
4400 |
The largest lakes, thou.sq.km :
Baikal |
31.5 |
The highest mountain
Elbrus 5642 m
Average temperatures
January 0° C - minus 5° C (Northern Caucasus), minus 40 - 50° C (East of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); the lowest temperatures reach in this region minus 65 - 70° C)
July 1° C (Northern coast of Siberia), 24 - 25° C (Kaspian plain)
The Russian Federation spans eleven time zones - from the 2nd to the 12th inclusive.
As for its territory, the Russian Federation occupies the first place in the world, as for its population - the sixth place.
MAJOR CITIES OF RUSSIA
(at the end of 2000)
|
Resident population, |
Distance from Moscow, km |
Moscow |
8305 |
|
St.Petersburg |
4628 |
651 |
Novosibirsk |
1393 |
3191 |
Nizhny Novgorod |
1343 |
439 |
Yekaterinburg |
1257 |
1667 |
Samara |
1146 |
1098 |
Omsk |
1138 |
2555 |
Kazan |
1090 |
797 |
Ufa |
1089 |
1519 |
Chelyabinsk |
1081 |
1919 |
Perm |
1005 |
1386 |
The largest and the best equipped sea trade ports of Russia are: St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Vyborg, Vysotsk, Novorossiisk, Tuapse, Vostochny, Vanino, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Kholmsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
STATE SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
According to the Constitution, the Russian Federation - Russia is a democratic legally-based federal state with a republican form of government (Article 1).
The state power in the Russian Federation is vested in the President of the Russian Federation, Federal Assembly (the Council of the Federation and the State Duma), the Government of the Russian Federation, courts of the Russian Federation (Article 11).
President of the Russian Federation is the Head of State and is elected for the term of four years by the voters of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot (Articles 80, 81).
Federal Assembly, the Parliament of the Russian Federation is a representative and legislative body of the Russian Federation and is composed of two Houses - the Council of the Federation and the State Duma. The Council of the Federation comprises two representatives of each subject of the Russian Federation from the representative and executive bodies. The State Duma consists of 450 deputies and is elected for the term of four years (Articles 94, 95).
DEPUTIES OF THE STATE DUMA, 2000-2003 convocation
(as of January 16, 2002)
|
Deputies, |
including by sex |
|
males |
females |
||
Total |
445 |
409 |
36 |
including: |
|
|
|
factions |
|
|
|
"Communist Party of the Russian Federation" |
84 |
75 |
9 |
"Yedinstvo" |
82 |
75 |
7 |
"Otechestvo - All Russia" |
50 |
44 |
6 |
"Right Wing Union" ("Sojuz Pravykh Sil") |
36 |
32 |
4 |
"Yabloko" |
17 |
16 |
1 |
"Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR)" |
12 |
12 |
- |
deputy groups |
|
|
|
"People's Deputy" |
57 |
56 |
1 |
"Russian Regions (Union of independent deputies)" |
47 |
44 |
3 |
Agrarian-Industrial |
43 |
40 |
3 |
deputies outside factions |
17 |
15 |
2 |
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
January 1 and 2 |
New Year |
January 7 |
Orthodox Christmas Day |
February 23 |
Day of the Fatherland Defender |
March 8 |
International Women's Day |
May 1 and 2 |
Spring and Labour Day |
May 9 |
Victory Day |
June 12 |
Day of Russia |
November 7 |
Anniversary of the October Revolution. Consent and Reconciliation Day |
December 12 |
Constitution Day of the Russian Federation |
NUMBER OF REGISTERED PUBLIC AMALGAMATIONS in 20001)
By the Ministry of Justice |
By the local bodies of justice |
|
Total number of public service unions 2) |
139 |
19724 |
of which: |
|
|
public service institutions |
70 |
17675 |
among them: |
|
|
political parties |
5 |
7433) |
trade unions |
5 |
7577 |
public service movements |
15 |
664 |
public service foundations |
8 |
1164 |
among them charitable funds |
1 |
472 |
public service establishments |
- |
127 |
amateur public service bodies |
- |
26 |
national-cultural autonomies |
2 |
64 |
other public service unions |
44 |
291 |
among them associations |
44 |
76 |
1).Data of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2) Unions with diversified activities can be registered more than once
3) Including local offices of the parties having All-Russian status.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
as of January 1, 2002
Republics |
21 |
Territories (krais) |
6 |
Regions (oblasts) |
49 |
Autonomous region (oblast) |
1 |
Autonomous areas (okrugs) |
10 |
Districts |
1864 |
Cities and towns |
1098 |
Urban districts and areas |
333 |
Urban settlements |
1850 |
Rural administrations |
243261) |
1) Including rural Soviets, volosts, rural areas (okrugs) and local self-governing authorities.
