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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, the upper house of the Russian parliament. However, they do differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. Most of the autonomous okrugs, while federal subjects in their own right, are at the same time part of other federal subjects (Chukotka is an exception).

Contents 1 Subjects of the Russian Federation 2 Administrative map of the Russian Federation 3 Mergers 4 See also 5 External link

[edit] Subjects of the Russian Federation

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Each subject of the federation belongs to one of the following categories:

	21 republics (республики, sing. республика; respubliki, sing. respublika)—nominally autonomous, 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)—essentially the same as oblasts. The title "territory" is historic, originally given because they were once considered frontier regions.
	1 autonomous oblast (autonomous province) (автономная область; avtonomnaya oblast)(The Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
	9 autonomous okrugs (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 Federation) (федеральные города, sing. федеральный город; federalnyye goroda, sing. federalny gorod)—major cities that function as separate regions.

[edit] Administrative map of the Russian Federation

[edit] Mergers

There are plans to merge many of these subjects into larger territories, starting in 2005.

Date of referendum	Date of merger	Merger
December 7, 2003	December 1, 2005	Perm Oblast + Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug → Perm Krai
April 17, 2005	January 1, 2007	Krasnoyarsk Krai + Evenk Autonomous Okrug + Taymyr Autonomous Okrug → Krasnoyarsk Krai
October 23, 2005	July 1, 2007	Kamchatka Oblast + Koryak Autonomous Okrug → Kamchatka Krai
April 16, 2006	January 1, 2008	Irkutsk Oblast + Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug → Irkutsk Oblast

Further proposals include:

• merging Tyumen Oblast, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug into Tyumen Krai;
• merging Chita Oblast with the Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug;
• 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 Nenets Autonomous Okrug into proposed Northern/Arctic Krai or a Republic of Pomor-Nenets.

[edit] 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
• List of heads of federal subjects of Russia

[edit] External link

• Russian Classifier of Municipal Entities Territories (OTKMO) (Russian)

Administrative divisions of Russia	Image:Flag of Russia.svg
Federal subjects
Republics Adygea | 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 | Tula | Tver | Tyumen | Ulyanovsk | Vladimir | Volgograd | Vologda | Voronezh | Yaroslavl Federal cities Moscow | St. Petersburg Autonomous oblast Jewish Autonomous okrugs Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia1 | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia3 | Nenetsia | Taymyria1 | Ust-Orda Buryatia2 | Yamalia
On January 1, 2007, Evenk and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai. On January 1, 2008, Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast. On July 1 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.
Federal districts
Central | Far Eastern | Northwestern | Siberian | Southern | Urals | Volga

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