Economic regions of Russia

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Russia is divided into eleven economic regions (Russian: экономические районы, sing. экономический район; English transliteration: ekonomicheskiye rayony, sing. ekonomichesky rayon). This division is different from the division into federal districts; it is done only for economic and statistical purposes.

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  1. Central (Russian: Центральный; English transliteration: Tsentralny)
  2. Central-Chernozem (Russian: Центрально-чернозёмный; English transliteration: Tsentralno-Chernozyomny), named after Chernozem
  3. East Siberia (Russian: Восточная Сибирь; English transliteration: Vostochnaya Sibir)
  4. Far East (Russian: Дальний Восток; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok)
  5. North (Russian: Северный; English transliteration: Severny)
  6. North Caucasus (Russian: Северный Кавказ; English transliteration: Severny Kavkaz)
  7. Northwest (Russian: Северо-западный; English transliteration: Severo-Zapadny)
  8. Povolzhye (Russian: Поволжье; English transliteration: Povolzhye), named indirectly after the Volga River
  9. Urals (Russian: Урал; English transliteration: Ural)
  10. Volga-Vyatka (Russian: Волго-Вятский; English transliteration: Volgo-Vyatsky)
  11. West Siberia (Russian: Западная Сибирь; English transliteration: Zapadnaya Sibir)


Administrative subdivisions of Russia Image:Flag of Russia.svg
Federal subjects
Republics Adygeya | Altai | Bashkortostan | Buryatia | Chechnya | Chuvashia | Dagestan | Ingushetia | Kabardino-Balkaria | Karelia | Khakassia | Komi | Kalmykia | Karachay-Cherkessia | Mari El | Mordovia | North Ossetia-Alania | Sakha | Tatarstan | Tuva | Udmurtia
Krais Altai | Khabarovsk | Krasnodar | Krasnoyarsk1 | Perm | Primorsky | Stavropol
Oblasts Amur | Arkhangelsk | Astrakhan | Belgorod | Bryansk | Chelyabinsk | Chita | Irkutsk2 | Ivanovo | Kaliningrad | Kaluga | Kamchatka3 | Kemerovo | Kirov | Kostroma | Kurgan | Kursk | Leningrad | Lipetsk | Magadan | Moscow | Murmansk | Nizhny Novgorod | Novgorod | Novosibirsk | Omsk | Orenburg | Oryol | Penza | Pskov | Rostov | Ryazan | Sakhalin | Samara | Saratov | Smolensk | Sverdlovsk | Tambov | Tomsk | Tula | Tver | Tyumen | Ulyanovsk | Vladimir | Volgograd | Vologda | Voronezh | Yaroslavl
Federal cities Moscow | St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast Jewish
Autonomous districts Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia1 | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia3 | Nenetsia | Taymyria1 | Ust-Orda Buryatia2 | Yamalia
  1. On 1 January 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  2. On 1 January 2008, Ust-Orda Buryatia will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast.
  3. On 1 July 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.
Federal districts
Central | Far Eastern | Northwestern | Siberian | Southern | Urals | Volga
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