Russia's predecessor was the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
After the disintegration, the present Russia was formed.
199 1 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, the largest member of the Soviet Union, inherited most of its military strength, ranking second in the world in military strength and possessing the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
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Russian nation
Russia has more than 150 ethnic groups. The main ethnic groups are Tatars, Ukrainians, Chuwashi, Bashkir, Belarusians, Moldovans, Germans, Udmurt, Armenians, Avars, Malians, Kazakhs, Ossetians, Buryats, Yakutia, Kabardino, Judaism, Komi, Lezgen and Kumek.
Geographical environment:
Located in eastern Europe and northern Asia, most of its European territory is the Eastern Europe Plain. It spans Eurasia, borders the Pacific Ocean in the east and the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea in the west, with the longest length of 9,000 kilometers from east to west and the widest width of 4,000 kilometers from north to south, with a land area of about1707,540 square kilometers (accounting for 76% of the land area of the Soviet Union), making it the largest country in the world.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Russia
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Russia