Federal subjects of Russia

The Television & Movie Wiki: for TV, celebrities, and movies.

Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: субъе́кт(ы); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. subyekt). These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament). However, they do differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. Each subject of the federation belongs to one of the following categories:

Contents 1 Subjects of the Russian Federation 2 Administrative map of the Russian Federation 3 Mergers 4 See also

Subjects of the Russian Federation

Image:Federal subjects of Russia (by type).png

	21 republics (республики, sing. республика; respubliki, sing. respublika)—nominally autonomous with supposed right to secede, each has its own constitution, president and parliament; is represented by the federal government in international affairs; and is supposedly home to a specific ethnic minority.
	48 oblasts (provinces) (области, sing. область; oblasti, sing. oblast)—most common, regular administrative units with federally appointed governor and locally elected legislature. Commonly named after the oblast center—the largest city in the oblast, its administrative center.
	7 krais (territories) (края, sing. край; kraya, sing. krai or kray, the latter being less common)—similar to oblasts but usually more peripheral.
	1 autonomous oblast (автономная область; avtonomnaya oblast).
	9 autonomous districts (автономные округа, sing. автономный округ; avtonomnyye okruga, sing. avtonomny okrug)—more autonomous than oblasts but less than republics; usually with substantial or predominant ethnic minority.
	2 federal cities (cities under direct jurisdiction of the Federaton) (федеральные города, sing. федеральный город; federalnyye goroda, sing. federalny gorod)—major cities that function as separate regions.

Administrative map of the Russian Federation

Image:Federal subjects of Russia (by number).png

Image:Russia-Subdivisions.png

Mergers

There are plans to merge many of these subjects into larger territories, starting in 2005. The first new one formed was Perm Krai, comprising former Perm Oblast and the Autonomous District of the Komi-Permyaks. The merger was approved by referendum on December 7, 2003, and the new territory appeared on the map on December 1, 2005.

The second one will be a merger of the Autonomous districts of the Evenks and the Taymyrs and the Krasnoyarsk Krai, incorporating the two former into the latter. This decision was approved by referendum on April 17, 2005, and the merger is to take place on January 1, 2007.

On October 23, 2005, a referendum was held on the merger of the Kamchatka Oblast and the Autonomous District of Koryakia, with the majority approving the merger.

Other proposals include:

• merging Irkutsk Oblast with the Autonomous District of the Ust-Ordinsk Buryats into Irkutsk Krai;
• merging Tyumen Oblast with the Yamal Nenetses into Tyumen Krai;
• merging Chita Oblast with the Autonomous District of the Aga Buryats;
• merging the federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg with the oblasts surrounding them (Moscow and Leningrad Oblast, respectively);
• merging Arkhangelsk and Murmansk Oblasts, the Komi Republic, and the Autonomous District of the Nenetses into proposed Northern/Arctic Krai or a Republic of Pomor-Nenetses.

See also

• History of the administrative division of Russia
• Subdivisions of Russia
• Federal districts of Russia
• Economic regions of Russia
• Flags of Federal subjects of Russia

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 | Tver | Tula | 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
On January 1, 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai. A referendum is to be held on April 16, 2006 on the merger of Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryatia. On October 23, 2005, a referendum was held on the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia to form Kamchatka Krai. The result was in favour; the merger will occur some time in 2007 (no official date has been set yet).
Federal districts
Central | Southern | Northwestern | Far East | Siberian | Urals | Privolzhsky (Volga)

ar:كيانات فدرالية روسية

bg:Административно деление на Русия cs:Subjekty Ruské federace de:Verwaltungsgliederung Russlands et:Venemaa haldusjaotus es:Organización político-administrativa de Rusia fr:Sujets fédéraux de Russie hr:Ruski federalni subjekti ja:ロシア連邦の地方区分 nl:Deelgebieden van Rusland nn:Russiske føderale subjekt pl:Podział terytorialny Rosji ru:Список субъектов Российской Федерации