Russian Federation travel information

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of and threatens to destabilize the North Caucasus region. Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress has been made on the economic front, recent years have seen a recentralization of power under Vladimir PUTIN and an erosion in nascent democratic institutions. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya and threatens to destabilize the North Caucasus region.

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Cities

Abakan Khabarovsk Noril'sk Stavropol'
Adler Kogalym Novokuznetsk Surgut
Amderma Komsomol'sk-na-Amure Novosibirsk Syktyvkar
Anadyr' Kotlas Novyy Urengoy Tomsk
Anapa Krasnodar Noyabr'sk Tyumen'
Arkhangel'sk Krasnoyarsk Nyagan' Ufa
Astrakhan' Kursk Okhotsk Ukhta
Barnaul Leshukonskoye Omsk Ulan-Ude
Belgorod Magadan Orenburg Ul'yanovsk
Blagoveshchensk Magnitogorsk Orsk Uray
Bratsk Makhachkala Pechora Usinsk
Cheboksary Mineralnye Vody Penza Vladikavkaz
Chelyabinsk Mirnyy Perm' Vladivostok
Cherepovets Moscow Moscow Moscow Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Volgograd
Chita Murmansk Petrozavodsk Vorkuta
Grozny Nadym Polyarnyj Voronezh
Igarka Nal'chik Rostov Yakutsk
Irkutsk Naryan-Mar Saint Petersburg Yekaterinburg
Kaliningrad Neryungri Salekhard Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Kazan' Nizhnevartovsk Samara
Kemerovo Nizhniy Novgorod Saratov

Local currency is the Russian Ruble

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