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| Capital (and largest city) |
Moscow | |||||
| Other Cities | Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Jaroslavl' | |||||
| Language Official |
Russian | |||||
| Others | Chuvash (in Chuvashia), Komi (in the Komi Republic), Mari (in Mari El), Mordvin (in Mordovia), Udmurt (in Udmurtia) | |||||
| Religion | Orthodoxy | |||||
Great Russia (Russian: Великороссия Velikorossiya) is a district of Russia. It borders Ural and Idel-Ural to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland-Lithuania and Little Russia to the west, and Cossackia to the south. The resgion is the historical heartland of the Russian Empire, and today it is still the most populated and developed portion of the country. Geographically, it extends over a vast, forested plain irrigated by the rivers Oka, Volga and Don.
Moscow, the capital of Great Russia, was seat of the Grand Dukes of Muscovy, which would unify the smaller Russian states and principalities into the Tsardom of Russia. As the homeland of the Russian nation, it gave birth to most of its great personalities, including writers such as F. Dostoevsky and L. Tolstoy. It is also well developed and much more industrialized than the rest of the Russian Empire. The Russian imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, is also geographically located in Great Russia, but is administratively ruled as a separate entity. The district is made up of 21 governatorates and 5 republics:
- Chuvashia
- Komi Republic
- Mari El
- Mordovia
- Udmurtia