Federal Subjects of Russia

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RUSSIAN FEDERAL SUBJECTS

Russia is divided into 83 Federal Subjects, which can be divided into different classes, such as Republics, Territoires, Provinces and more.

The two federal cities (Moscow and Saint Petersburg) are not listed here.

Republics

Republics are nominally autonomous; each is tasked with drafting its own constitution, direct-elected head of republic or a similar post, and parliament. Republics are allowed to establish their own official language alongside Russian but are represented by the federal government in international affairs. Republics are meant to be home to specific ethnic minorities.

1. Adygea
2. Altai Republic
3. Bashkortostan
4. Buryatia
5. Dagestan
6. Ingushetia
7. Kabardino-Balkaria
8. Kalmykia
   
9. Karachay-Cherkessia
10. Karelia
11. Komi
12. Mariy El
13. Mordovia
14. Sakha (Yakutia)
15. North Ossetia-Alania
16. Tatarstan
17. Tuva
18. Udmurtia
    
19. Khakassia
    
20. Chechnya
    
21. Chuvashia

Provinces (Oblasts)

Oblasts are provices with locally elected governor and legislature.

1. Amur Oblast
   
2. Arkhangelsk Oblast
   
3. Astrakhan Oblast
   
4. Belgorod Oblast
   
5. Bryansk Oblast
   
6. Chelyabinsk Oblast
   
7. Chita Oblast (former)
8. Irkutsk Oblast
   
9. Ivanovo Oblast
   
10. Kaliningrad Oblast
    
11. Kaluga Oblast
    
12. Kemerovo Oblast
    
13. Kirov Oblast
    
14. Kostroma Oblast
    
15. Kurgan Oblast
    
16. Kursk Oblast
    
17. Leningrad Oblast
    
18. Lipetsk Oblast
    
19. Magadan Oblast
    
20. Moscow Oblast
    
21. Murmansk Oblast
    
22. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
    
23. Novgorod Oblast
    
24. Novosibirsk Oblast
    
25. Omsk Oblast
    
26. Orenburg Oblast
    
27. Oryol Oblast
    
28. Penza Oblast
    
29. Pskov Oblast
    
30. Rostov Oblast
    
31. Ryazan Oblast
    
32. Sakhalin Oblast
    
33. Samara Oblast
    
34. Saratov Oblast
    
35. Smolensk Oblast
    
36. Sverdlovsk Oblast
    
37. Tambov Oblast
    
38. Tomsk Oblast
    
39. Tver Oblast
    
40. Tula Oblast
    
41. Tyumen Oblast
    
42. Ulyanovsk Oblast
    
43. Vladimir Oblast
    
44. Volgograd Oblast
    
45. Vologda Oblast
    
46. Voronezh Oblast
    
47. Yaroslavl Oblast
    

Territories (Krai)

Territories are basically oblasts. The "territory" designation is historic, originally given to frontier regions and later also to the administrative divisions that comprised autonomous okrugs or autonomous oblasts.

1. Altai Krai
2. Kamchatka Krai
3. Khabarovsk Krai
4. Krasnodar Krai
5. Krasnoyarsk Krai
6. Perm Krai
7. Primorsky Krai
8. Stavropol Krai
9. Zabaykalsky Krai

Autonomous province

1. Jewish Autonomous Region

Autonomous districts

These are originally autonomous entities within oblasts and krais created for ethnic minorities, their status was elevated to that of federal subjects in the 1990s. With the exception of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, all autonomous okrugs are still administratively subordinated to a krai or an oblast of which they are a part.

1. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
   
2. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
   
3. Nenets Autonomous Okrug
   
4. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Former Autonomous Districts

1. Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
2. Evenk Autonomous Okrug
3. Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
4. Koryak Autonomous Okrug
5. Taymyr Autonomous Okrug
6. Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

Historical/Obsolete republics, krai and oblasts

1. Ukhta (republic)
   
2. Caspian Sea Region (pre 1917)
   
3. Caucasus Region (pre 1917)
   
4. Tiblisi Region (19^th century)
   
5. Tobolsk Region (pre 1917)
   
6. Uralsk Region (19^th century)
   
7. Yakutsk Region (pre 1917)