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Country Profile of Russia |
Official Name: Russian Federation
Capital: Moscow
Area: 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,849 square miles)
Major cities (Population)
Moscow 8,800,000 (1995 estimate)
Saint Petersburg 4,436,700 (1992 estimate)
Novosibirsk 1,469,000 (1995 estimate)
Nizhniy Novgorod 1,454,000 (1995 estimate)
Yekaterinburg 1,413,000 (1995 estimate)
Samara 1,260,000 (1995 estimate)
Omsk 1,199,000 (1995 estimate)
Chelyabinsk 1,175,000 (1995 estimate)
Kazan 1,128,000 (1995 estimate)
Perm 1,112,000 (1995 estimate)
Ufa 1,126,000 (1995 estimate)
Rostov 1,043,000 (1995 estimate)
Volgograd 1,017,000 (1995 estimate)
Population 147,000,000 (1995 estimate)
Type of government: Federation
Independence: 24 August 1991 (from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR])
Constitution: Adopted 12 December 1993
Voting Rights: Universal at age 18
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