GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Ingushetia, Chechnya
23 Dec 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Soviet planners had created a highly complex administrative structure for their russian soviet. Federative socialist republic, and russia"s post-communist leaders have been forced to utilize this framework to make their country function. Figure 2b-2 reflects this complex russian administrative system that dates back to soviet times. There are now 83 entities in all: 2. Autonomous federal cities (moscow and st. petersburg), 21 republics, 46 provinces (oblasts), 9 territories (krays), 4 autonomous regions (okrugs), and 1 autonomous oblast. These administrative units operate with varying degrees of power and autonomy from the federal government. The 21 republics, established and recognized in order to accommodate substantial ethnic minorities, include a cluster in the far south, another lying to the east of moscow, and a third which lies in the mongolia border zone. When russia"s post 1991 government took over, it faced complicated administrative problems.
