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Noun russia has 4 senses
- Soviet Union, Russia, 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 an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
--1 is a kind of country, state, land
--1 is a part of Eurasia
--1 has parts:
- Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
--2 is a kind of Soviet Socialist Republic
--2 is a part of
--2 has members:
- Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in 17-18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
--3 is a kind of empire
--3 is a part of Eurasia
--3 has part: Muscovy
- Russia, Russian Federation - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
--4 is a kind of country, state, land
--4 is a part of Eurasia
--4 is a member of Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS
--4 has parts: | Karelia; Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, Russian capital; Astrakhan; Cherepovets; Chechnya, Chechenia, Chechen Republic; Grozny, Groznyy; Kaluga; Khabarovsk; Kursk; Siberia; Nizhnyi Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Gorki, Gorky, Gorkiy; Kazan; St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg; Murmansk; Nalchik; Novgorod; Perm, Molotov; Saratov; Smolensk; Ufa; Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn; Novosibirsk; Chelyabinsk; Omsk; Vladivostok; Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla; Kola Peninsula; Amur, Amur River, Heilong Jiang; Dnieper, Dnieper River; Don, Don River; Lake Ilmen, Ilmen; Lake Ladoga, Ladoga; Lake Onega, Onega; Neva, Neva River; Tien Shan, Tyan Shan; Urals, Ural Mountains; Volga, Volga River; Volkhov, Volkhov River |
--4 has particulars: European Russia; Asian Russia
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