Central Russian Upland — is an area of approximately 200,000 miles² (500,000 km²) in Southern European Russia and Northeast of Ukraine, located inside East European Plain … Wikipedia
List of Russian explorers — The Russian Empire at its peak in 1866, including the spheres of influence; this territorial expansion largely corresponds to the extent of contiguous exploration by Russians. This is a list of explorers from the Russian Federation, Soviet Union … Wikipedia
List of Russian people — The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod, featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history … Wikipedia
List of Russian Earth scientists — Vasily Dokuchaev, the founder of soil science This list of Russian Earth scientists includes the famous geographers, geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, ecologists and other representatives of Earth sciences from the Russian Federation,… … Wikipedia
Volga Upland — The Volga Upland or Volga Uplands (Russian Privolzhskaya Vozvyshennost ) is a vast region of uplands in western Russia that lie west of the Volga River and east of the Central Russian Upland. The uplands run for approximately 500 miles (804 km)… … Wikipedia
Central heating — unit A central heating system provides warmth to the whole interior of a building (or portion of a building) from one point to multiple rooms. When combined with other systems in order to control the building climate, the whole system may be a… … Wikipedia
Central Siberian Plateau — ▪ plateau, Russia Russian Srednesibirskoye Ploskogorye vast upland area, north central Siberia, Russia. The plateau occupies an area of 600,000 square miles (1,500,000 square km). It is situated in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), Sakha, and… … Universalium
Dnieper River — Russian Dnepr ancient Borysthenes. River, eastern central Europe. One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises west of Moscow and flows south through Belarus and Ukraine, emptying into the Black Sea after a course of 1,420 mi (2,285 km). More… … Universalium
Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… … Universalium
Moscow — /mos koh/ or, for 1, 2, / kow/, n. 1. Russian, Moskva. a city in and the capital of the Russian Federation, in the W part: capital of the former Soviet Union. 8,967,000. 2. Also called Grand Duchy of Moscow. Muscovy (def. 1). 3. a city in W Idaho … Universalium
