russia

Noun russia has 4 senses

• russia(n = noun.location) soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr - 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;
is a kind of country, land, state
has parts: soviet socialist republic, russia, russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia, caspian, caspian sea
is a part of eurasia

• russia(n = noun.location) russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia;
is a part of russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr, eurasia
is a kind of soviet socialist republic

• russia(n = noun.location) - 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;
is a kind of empire, imperium
has parts: muscovy
is a part of eurasia
Derived form adjective russian₁

• russia(n = noun.location) russian federation - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state;
is a member of cis, commonwealth of independent states
is a kind of country, land, state
has parts: karelia, capital of the russian federation, moscow, russian capital, astrakhan, cherepovets, chechen republic, chechenia, chechnya, grozny, groznyy, kaluga, khabarovsk, kursk, siberia, european russia, gorki, gorkiy, gorky, nizhni novgorod, nizhnyi novgorod, kazan, leningrad, peterburg, petrograd, saint petersburg, st. petersburg, murmansk, nalchik, novgorod, molotov, perm, rostov, rostov na donu, rostov on don, saratov, smolensk, ufa, stalingrad, tsaritsyn, volgograd, novosibirsk, chelyabinsk, omsk, vladivostok, nova zembla, novaya zemlya, kola peninsula, amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang, dnieper, dnieper river, don, don river, ilmen, lake ilmen, ladoga, lake ladoga, lake onega, onega, neva, neva river, tien shan, tyan shan, ural mountains, urals, vetluga, vetluga river, volga, volga river, volkhov, volkhov river
has particulars: asian russia
is a part of eurasia
Derived form adjective russian₁