russia
noun
Simple meaning
A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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noun
A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.
A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.
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A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
A former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries.….
RSFSR (the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) (1917–1991), largest republic of the USSR.
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A smooth leather tanned with willow, birch, or oak, and scented on the flesh side with birch oil.
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Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language.
A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia.
Monetary unit in Russia.
An independent church with its own Patriarch.
Twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers.
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