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ID: 7002435
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002435
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  Russia (nation)

Coordinates:
Lat: 60 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 60.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 047 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 47.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Area was inhabited by many early cultures including Scythians (7th century BCE), Sarmatians, Goths (3rd century CE), Huns, Avars, Khazars, Bulgars, and Slavs; Varangians (Scandinavians) created Russian state in the 9th century; was core of large empire and Soviet Union (1922); official language is Russian.

Names:
Rossija (preferred,C,V,Russian (transliterated)-P,U)
Rossijskaja Federacija (C,V,O,Russian (transliterated),U,N)  ............ since 1991
Rossiya (C,V)
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya (C,V)  ............ since 1991
Rossiyskaya (C,V)
Russija (C,V,Russian (transliterated),U,N)
Russia (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Russian Federation (C,O,English,U,N)  ............ since 1991
Russie (C,O)
Fédération de Russie (C,O,French-P,U,N)
Federación de Rusia (C,O)
Russland (C,O)
Rusia (C,O)
Rusland (C,O)
Rússia (C,O)
Россия (C,V,Russian-P,U)  ............ National Official Russian short name
Российская Федерация (C,V,O,Russian,U)  ............ UN Official Russian short/formal name; National Official Russian formal name
俄罗斯联邦 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
الاتحاد ا رًوسي (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
RUS (C,O,ISO3L)
RU (C,O,ISO2L)
ISO643 (C,O,ISO3N)
RS00 (C,O,FIPS)
Russian (C,O)
רוסיה (C,U,Hebrew )
Rossijskaja Sovetskaja Federativnaja Socialističeskaja Respublika (H,V)
Rossiyskaya SFSR (H,V)  ............ 1917-1991
R. S. F. S. R. (H,V)  ............ 1917-1991
Russian SFSR (H,O)  ............ 1917-1991
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (H,O)  ............ 1917-1991

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Soviet Union (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Soviet Union (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ............  Russia (nation)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Eastern Europe (general region)  ........  Eastern Europe (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ............  Russia (nation) (P)

Place Types:
nation (preferred, C)  ............  united with varying boundaries since 9th cen., modern nation created when USSR was dissolved on December 26, 1991
primary political unit (C)
republic (C)

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  Moscow .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Asia, Russia, Moscow) [7012974]
member of ....  Commonwealth of Independent States .......... (association)
................  (World) [1000094]
member of ....  United Nations .......... (organization)
................  (World) [7029605]
................  joined organization in 1945

Sources and Contributors:
Россия..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 30 July 2013
Российская Федерация..........  [VP]
...................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 30 July 2013
俄罗斯联邦..........  [VP]
..............  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 30 July 2013
الاتحاد ا رًوسي..........  [VP]
.............................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 30 July 2013
רוסיה..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Federación de Rusia..........  [VP]
...................................  UNGEGN List of Country Names (2007) accessed 22 July 2009
Fédération de Russie..........  [VP]
...................................  ISO Newsletter (1992) 1992-06-15, III-29
ISO643..........  [VP]
.................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 19
Rossija..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 18 July 2013
Rossijskaja Federacija..........  [VP]
.........................................  UNGEGN List of Country Names (2007) accessed 22 July 2009
.........................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 30 July 2013
Rossijskaja Sovetskaja Federativnaja Socialističeskaja Respublika..........  [VP]
........................................................................................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-180
Rossiya..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1037
Rossiyskaya..........  [VP]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 547
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya..........  [VP]
.........................................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 700-701
.........................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8/01
Rossiyskaya SFSR..........  [FDA, VP]
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
RS00..........  [VP]
...........  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) 72
R. S. F. S. R...........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8/01
RU..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Country Codes (1996) 19
RUS..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Newsletter (1992) 1992-06-15, III-29
Rusia..........  [VP]
..............  Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) 526
Rusland..........  [VP]
.................  Engels Woordenboek (1987) I, 620
Russia..........  [BHA, FDA, IMJ Preferred, VP]
.................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 720-721
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:793-794
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
Rússia..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) 320
Russian..........  [VP]
.................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 17 January 2008
Russian Federation..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8/01
...................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...................................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
...................................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 38
...................................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 76
Russian SFSR..........  [FDA, VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic..........  [VP]
.......................................................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8/01
.......................................................................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 354
Russie..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) I, 663
Russija..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN List of Country Names (2007) accessed 22 July 2009
Russland..........  [VP]
.................  Cassell's German Dictionary (1982) 504
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 720-721
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 700-701
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 547
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 793-794; 2:793-794
..................  Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) I, 663
..................  Cassell's German Dictionary (1982) 504
..................  Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) 526
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8/01
..................  Engels Woordenboek (1987) I, 620
..................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 19
..................  ISO Newsletter (1992) 1992-06-15, III-29
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) 72
..................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 17 January 2008
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-180
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) 320
..................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 38
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 354
..................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 76
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1037
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

 

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