Russia 1940 - MNH - USSR Soldier Military 4 Stamps

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Buy with confidence-we are professional, full-time dealers in business for many years online on StampLake.com website. We pack and ship your purchases with care and consideration in a timely manner. With us, you can expect First-Class service and helpful consultation at no extra charge. PRODUCT INFORMATION 1940 soviet soldier of the red army - perforation 10 x 15 почтовая марка зеленая советский солдат красной армии - перфорация 10 х 15 Scarce USSR stamp in RARE Mint Never Hinged Fully Gummed condition! Depicts a proud Soviet Russian soldier, a member of the Red Army that heroically repulsed Hitler's troops and victoriously swept all the way to Berlin where it met U.S. Army troops, after a loss of some 6 million Russian lives! Russia did the bulk of the fighting on the Allied side from 1939-45 (the U.S. did not directly confront the Nazis until D-Day 1944), so we have to thank soldiers like this one that we don't live in world portrayed in "The Man in the High Castle". Pristine WW2 era Communist Russia stamp! The history of the Russian post has more than a thousand years. Russian post is one of the oldest in Europe. Birch bark letter (XII century) Birch bark letter (XII century) Content 1 Post in Russia 2 Russian Empire 2.1 In the 18th century 2.2 In the 19th century 2.3 Zemstvo post 2.4 Russian post abroad 3 Soviet period 4 Russian Federation 5 Gallery 6 See also 7 Notes 8 Literature 9 Links Post in Russia The beginning and development of postal business in Russia dates back to the time of natural postal duty, which consisted in giving the princely messenger a horse and feed. In Kievan Rus, already in the 10th century, there was a “cart” - the duty of the population to provide horses “from camp to camp” for princely messengers and servants. The subsequent history of Russian mail is connected with pits - postal stations established in the 13th century, during the Golden Horde period, for quick communication with its outskirts. Yamskaya duty was served by the entire surrounding population, which was obliged to deliver horses with guides to certain points. In the period after the Golden Horde, the pit service was further developed on Russian soil. By the XV-XVI centuries, postal communication was established throughout the country [2]. The distance between the stations was 40-100 miles. For peasants and townspeople there was a draft duty to carry messengers and messengers. Under Ivan III (1462-1505), the device of the yamskaya chase was under the personal control of the Moscow prince, who signed travel letters for the right to use the means of communication. The direction, the number of carts, horses and food were indicated in the travellers. For example, for a boyar’s trip on official business from Moscow to Novgorod, in each pit yard, he was provided with 13 carts, “a lamb carcass, and the skin back, three chickens and bread.” In the 16th century, royal letters, orders, and sometimes private letters were carried from one point to another by messengers - courier. They were entrusted with the delivery of usually one letter or one letter. Coachmen transported both letters and luggage and people. At the same time, the Yamskaya Prikaz was established to oversee the coachmen and deliver state papers (since 1516). Early history of Russian mail on stamps of the USSR Russian equestrian messenger, 1988 (CFA [Marka JSC] No. 6013) Russian equestrian messenger, 1988 (CFA [Marka JSC] No. 6013) Princely scribe of the 15th century, 1958 (TSFA [Marka JSC] No. 2203) Princely scribe of the 15th century, 1958 (TSFA [Marka JSC] No. 2203) Messenger of the 16th century, 1958 (CFA [Marka JSC] No. 2204) Messenger of the 16th century, 1958 (CFA [Marka JSC] No. 2204) At the beginning of the 17th century, under Boris Godunov, all cases of yamskaya persecution were concentrated in the Yamsky order. In those days, under favorable conditions, mail traveled from Moscow to the Swedish border within three weeks, but during the spring thaw it took much longer. On May 18, 1665, between the order of Secret Affairs (the body that dealt with issues that were of interest to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich personally) and the Dutchman Jan van Sweden, an agreement was concluded on the organization of mail. Van Sveden undertook to bring to the Secret Order "messages of all sorts of Caesar, Spanish, French, Polish, Svei, Datsk, Aglian, Italian, Galan and Nederlyan lands ...". For expenses, he was allocated 500 rubles in money and 500 rubles of sable skins. In reality, van Sveden brought European newspapers, on the basis of which press reviews (chimes) were prepared for the tsar and the Boyar Duma [4]. In addition, the Dutch entrepreneur received the right to send foreign merchants' diplomas abroad and keep the payment for them. The first postal line connected Moscow with Riga. The difference between the mail and the Yamskaya chase was that the Yamskaya chase could quickly deliver one important dispatch to a specific address. European mail, on the other hand, went more slowly, but regularly; before sending it, it was possible to collect a large number of letters and send each of them at a strictly defined time to any point along the postal line. The European experience was needed when the needs of the Russian Foreign Ministry made it necessary to raise information exchange to a new level. In the vast majority of areas, the Russian authorities continued to use the Yamskaya chase for many decades. The post office turned out to be a very profitable enterprise. In 1668, van Sveden learned that a foreigner, Leonty Marselis, whose family was patronized by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin, was claiming the right to maintain mail. A bargaining was arranged between Marselis and van Sweden, as a result of which Marselis won, pledging to supply “all kinds of genuine statements” for the needs of the Russian government free of charge if the correspondence was carried by state coachmen obeying the Yamsky order[6]. Marselis' first post was “released” from Moscow to Riga on September 17, 1668, and on March 1, 1669, a postal line between Moscow and Vilna started operating[7]. Marselis paid back his expenses due to the fact that, relying on the support of A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin, he achieved a ban on foreign merchants to send letters otherwise than through his mail. At the same time, shipping costs have increased. The hard work of the coachmen of that time is evidenced by a letter to the Novgorod governor boyar Prince Urusov (1684): ... Our Great Sovereigns have sent a letter to you, ordered the coachmen, who drive baggy and blundering with the mail, to inflict punishment, beat the boats mercilessly, and continue to order them to drive from pit to pit with mail with great haste day and night, on good horses, and they would stand in the pit at the indicated hours and the drivers themselves would drive along the queues that were selected for that chase, and they would send their workers, and they wouldn’t hire anyone, but they wouldn’t stand anywhere and didn’t linger in the pits. And they were ordered to drive in the summer at an hour for seven miles, and in autumn and winter for five miles, and in that postmen are disobedient, they don’t drive at night. Russian empire In the 18th century Title page of the postal map of European Russia in 1842 Title page of the postal map of European Russia in 1842 During the time of Peter I, there was a further development of the postal service. In 1693, a postal line to Arkhangelsk appeared, and in 1689-1698 a postal connection was established between Moscow and Siberian cities. Since 1716, the postal line Moscow - St. Petersburg began to work. Under Peter I, the first post offices were established in Moscow (1711[10]), Riga (1712?), St. Petersburg (1714), post offices appeared in many cities. To serve the army in 1712-1716, a military field post was created. In 1721, Peter I introduced the post of general post director (general postmaster), to whom he subordinated the post office and the post office, but only in 1782 the "German" and post offices were finally merged into a single organization. As a result of this reform, postal institutions acquired a clear hierarchical structure. Post offices were the highest bodies, provincial postmasters were subordinate to them, and county postmasters were subordinate to provincial postmasters. Postal stations became the lowest level of local postal administration. In 1723, the Yamskaya Prikaz was renamed the Yamskaya Chancellery. By 1725, the total length of postal routes was 10,677 miles. Starting from the first quarter of the 18th century, new post branches began to be established more and more often. However, the establishment of regular postal communications, even with large cities, dragged on for decades: only by decree of 1740 did post offices appear in all the main cities of provinces and counties [9]. The Marquis de la Chétardie wrote about mail in Russia in 1740 that, apart from mail from St. Petersburg and Moscow abroad, there were no other posts in Russia. All orders and other correspondence abroad and other places where the troops are located are sent by courier, for the most part from non-commissioned officers. As for internal relations among themselves, the Russian merchants carry out their trading operations for the most part in the winter; the convenience of the sledge-way afforded them the means of traveling at very little cost, on their own horses, and almost as soon as by mail. According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, in 1781, in addition to letters and parcels, they began to send money by mail and the delivery of correspondence by postmen was introduced. In the 19th century In the 1820s, the first post stagecoaches appeared in Russia. In 1840, a "department of postal coaches and a brick" was opened in St. Petersburg. Only competition from the railroad gradually brought to naught the transportation of passengers by postal transport[9]. In 1831, the Regulations on the Establishment of Free Post Offices in Russia were published. On January 17, 1833, the first intracity post office in Russia was opened in St. Petersburg, which was reported on January 29, 1833 in the St. Petersburg Vedomosti. The city was divided into 17 postal districts. There were 45 points for receiving letters. Correspondence was picked up 3 times a day, delivered to the post office, sorted and delivered to the recipients. The uniform of the postman of the Russian Empire and his bag (number 60 is indicated on the cap) The uniform of the postman of the Russian Empire and his bag (number 60 is indicated on the cap) In the 19th century there was a rapid growth in the number of postal institutions. If by the beginning of the century in Russia there were about 460 postal institutions with 5 thousand employees, then as of 1896 there were over 33.8 thousand people in the postal and telegraph department. In 1843, a single postal rate was introduced for sending correspondence (except international) regardless of distance, which made it possible to significantly simplify postage and collection of correspondence[9]. The implementation of the postal reform of 1843 and the establishment from January 1, 1844 of payment for letters only by weight, regardless of distance, created the prerequisites for the use of postage signs in Russia. On January 1, 1845, stamped envelopes (“couverts”) were introduced on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Finland. From December 1 of the same year, similar envelopes were introduced for the city mail of St. Petersburg, and from February 27, 1846 - in Moscow. Since 1848, stamped envelopes issued by the Postal Department began to be used everywhere in Russia. Until the end of the 1840s, letters from the population were accepted only at post offices. Later, correspondence began to be accepted in small shops, and then, after the appearance of postage stamps in 1857, and simply through mailboxes. By 1896, the number of mailboxes exceeded 15.2 thousand pieces. For a long time, the main volume of mail forwarding was government (official) correspondence. It was not until the reform years of the 1860s that private shipping began to predominate over the state. This had a positive effect on financial performance: if back in 1884 the post office brought the treasury 1 million rubles. loss, then in 1896 the net total income from the post and telegraph exceeded 12.7 million rubles. Since 1864, obligatory payment for foreign correspondence with postage stamps has been introduced in Russia. In 1874, the Russian Empire was among the first states to sign the Universal Postal Convention and became a member of the Universal Postal Union. In 1878, the principles adopted unanimously at the Paris World Postal Congress by all European governments began to be used in the Russian postal system. Zemstvo post Main article: Zemstvo post On January 1, 1864, zemstvos were formed in Russia - local self-government bodies. In 1865, the zemstvos were allowed to establish a post office with their own rules and taxes, and to have their own postage stamps. Zemstvo mail existed in almost all counties. At the same time as stamps, stamped envelopes were issued in some places. Russian post abroad Main article: Russian post abroad In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to ensure communication between various Russian public and private organizations and individuals outside the Russian Empire, in regions where official or local mail was considered unreliable, the Russian government began to create its own post offices. For the needs of these offices, ordinary Russian stamps were used or special postage stamps and whole things were issued by the EZGB (and sometimes locally), and stamps were made. The denominations of postal payment signs were indicated in Russian or local currency, and the cost of sending correspondence, as a rule, corresponded to the tariffs in force in Russia during this period. Soviet period Postal block "One Hundred Years of the Russian Postage Stamp" (USSR, 1958), illustrating the development of post in the Soviet era. On the field of the block - the Moscow Kremlin Postal block "One Hundred Years of the Russian Postage Stamp" (USSR, 1958), illustrating the development of post in the Soviet era. On the field of the block - the Moscow Kremlin The Decree of October 26, 1917 on the formation of the Workers' and Peasants' Government, issued among the first decrees of the Soviet government, provided for the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs (Narkompostel) as part of the Soviet government[16]. In 1918, a civil war began on the territory of the RSFSR. Despite this, the postal service functioned, interrupted and restored depending on the course of hostilities. On April 16, 1918, in order to centralize the activities of the post office, as well as in order to combat the boycott by the telegraph and postal employees of the previous regime, a Decree was issued on organizing the management of the postal and telegraph business. This Decree abolished the old postal positions of the head of the postal and telegraph district, the postal director, the head of the telegraph department, the head of the mail transportation department by rail, their assistants and chief mechanics. To manage each postal and telegraph district, a collegium was introduced, headed by a commissar, who was approved by the people's commissar from among the candidates presented by the regional or provincial body of Soviet power. The decree specifically forbade all Soviet authorities to interfere in the affairs of the post office (any wishes had to be submitted to the People's Commissariat for Postal Service)[17]. From January 1, 1919 to August 15, 1921, free forwarding of ordinary letters and postcards was introduced in the RSFSR. During the years of World War I and then the Civil War, the country's postal economy fell into decay, but with the end of the Civil War, postal routes were restored, and international postal exchange with countries that were members of the Universal Postal Union resumed. Russian Federation See also: Russian Post In Soviet times, postal and telecommunication enterprises were united, existing first as part of the regional and republican communications departments, and then as part of state communications and informatics enterprises; at the head of the hierarchy of communication institutions was the Ministry of Communications of the USSR[18]. After the collapse of the USSR, it was decided to separate the postal service into an independent industry: on November 16, 1992, the Federal Postal Administration under the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation was formed[19]. By order of the Ministry of Communications, from January 1, 1993, territorial (regional, regional, republican) departments of the federal postal service (UFPS) and postal institutions of Moscow and St. Petersburg were formed as part of the Federal Postal Administration. The same order approved the list of works on the separation of postal and electrical communication structures and the principles of separation of postal and electrical communications. In 1994, a professional holiday for postal workers, Russian Post Day, was established[21]. In addition, in 1997, in order to restore the heraldic traditions of the Russian post and increase its authority, the flag and emblem of the organizations of the federal postal service of the Russian Federation were established. On October 17, 1995, the Federal Postal Administration was reorganized into the Federal Postal Service of the Russian Federation (FSPS of Russia)[23]. On August 14, 1996, the Federal Postal Service was abolished, and its functions were transferred to the Russian Ministry of Communications. In 1996, the Ministry of Communications of Russia, for the first time in the centuries-old history of the existence of Russian mail, decided to break the state postal monopoly on certain postal services, as a result of which commercial postal companies appeared in Russia. The services of the new companies included courier delivery of postal items, pensions and benefits, parcel forwarding, distribution of periodicals. Another presidential decree in 1997 restored the heraldic traditions of the Russian mail - the emblem and the flag. In 1998, the country's postal network included 149 post offices, 28 mail transportation offices at railway stations and airports, and 43,000 post offices. The gross income of the state postal service in 1997 amounted to 9 billion rubles[25]. On June 28, 2002, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the concept of restructuring the organizations of the federal postal service. Since September of the same year, the unification of all existing federal postal organizations and their transformation into the federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE) Russian Post began [27]. The merger process was completed in 2009, when the postal service of the Republic of Tatarstan - "Tatarstan pochtasy" (the last of the independent regional postal services) became part of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise [28]. In 2016, together with VTB 24, on the basis of Postal Finance and Leto-bank, the Post Bank enterprise was formed (in 2017, the 50th in the rating of banks with assets of 122.6 billion rubles and deposits of citizens of 34 billion rubles .). On June 28, 2002, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the concept of restructuring the organizations of the federal postal service. Since September of the same year, the unification of all existing federal postal organizations and their transformation into the federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE) Russian Post began [27]. The merger process was completed in 2009, when the postal service of the Republic of Tatarstan - "Tatarstan pochtasy" (the last of the independent regional postal services) became part of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise [28]. In 2016, together with VTB 24, on the basis of Postal Finance and Leto-bank, the Post Bank enterprise was formed (in 2017, the 50th in the rating of banks with assets of 122.6 billion rubles and deposits of citizens of 34 billion rubles .). As of 2017, the FSUE Russian Post includes 80 regional branches, the Main Center for Mainline Mail Transportation, the express delivery service EMS Russian Post, and others. The number of employees was about 351,000 people. Income from financial services amounted to RUB 46.5 billion, and retail press sales amounted to RUB 4.6 billion. On October 1, 2019, FSUE Russian Post was reorganized into Russian Post JSC. LITERATURE INFO Boltikov V. For official use: field mail: information without the stamp "Secret" // Brother: journal. - M .: LLC "Vityaz-Brother", 2010. - No. 11. - ISSN 9771607677001. Archived on March 3, 2011. (Accessed: March 5, 2016) Vigilev A. N. History of domestic mail: At 2 hours - M .: Svyaz, 1977, 1979. - 160 + 160 p. [2nd ed., 1990.] (Accessed: April 20, 2011) Vitashevskaya M. N. Old Russian mail. — M.: Svyazizdat, 1962. — 80 p. From the history of St. Petersburg Post. 1703-1914 / Comp. M. A. Dobin and L. G. Ratner. - St. Petersburg: Standard Collection, 2004. - 352 p. - ISBN 978-5-902275-07-7. (In Russian and English.) (Date of access: April 20, 2011) (unavailable link) Retrieved September 2018. Karnovich E.P. Russian mail in the 17th and early 18th centuries // Historical Bulletin: journal. - St. Petersburg: Type. A. S. Suvorin, 1884. - T. XV. - S. 615-625. Kozlovsky I.P. The first post offices and the first postmasters in the Moscow state. - Warsaw: Type. Warsaw educational district, 1913. Volume I (study text). — 536 p. Volume II (appendices to the study). — 523, II, 69, III p. Russian postal history - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. (Accessed: June 19, 2011) Mail // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. Postal signs // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. Guide to all postal routes of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland: in 5 parts / comp. in the Military Topographic Survey. Depot. - St. Petersburg, 1829. - 188 p. Russia // Big Philatelic Dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas ... [and others]; under total ed. N. I. Vladints and V. A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communication, 1988. - S. 244-245. - 40,000 copies. — ISBN 5-256-00175-2. Russia / Economic Department / Post, telegraph, telephone // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. Communication // Moscow Central Archives. Foundation Guide: Vol. 4. - M .: Publishing house of the association "Mosgorarkhiv", 2000. (Accessed: December 8, 2008) Semyonova E. A real martyr of the 14th grade // Nezavisimaya gazeta. - 2006. - No. 6 (3686). - January 17. (Accessed: December 8, 2008) Sorkin E. B. Mail hurries to people. - M .: Knowledge, 1977. - 128 p. (Accessed: June 15, 2011) Russian Post // Philatelic Dictionary / Comp. O. Ya. Basin. - M .: Communication, 1968. - 164 p. (Accessed: November 24, 2017) Tyukov V. M. Russian stamps and signs of postage. Big encyclopedia. - M .: EKSMO, Our word, 2011. - S. 5-146. - ISBN 978-5-699-47412-7. Khrushchov I.P. Essay on Yamsk and postal institutions from ancient times to the reign of Catherine II. - St. Petersburg: Type. A. S. Suvorin, 1884. - X, 87 p. Shamin S. M. Letters, letters, chimes. The first regular mail in Russia // Motherland. - 2001. - No. 12. - S. 10-15. Prigara S. V. The Russian Post in the Empire, Turkey, China, and the Post in the Kingdom of Poland. - N. Y., NY, USA: Rossica Society of Russian Philately [en], 1981. - 196 p. (English) (Date of access: September 10, 2015) Archived copy. Retrieved September 10, 2015. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Links Russian Postal History: Books on Wikibooks Media files at Wikimedia Commons Page "History of the Company" on the official website of the company "Russian Post" (Date of access: December 8, 2008) [www.philately.h14.ru/post-ru.html "Russian Post"] - e-book by N. I. Vladints on the site "Philately Literature, Geography"] (Accessed: December 8, 2008) Subsection “2.2. Russian Empire → 2.2.2. History of Russian Post” of the Information Center “Russia and the World”. Russia (English). Stamp Atlas. Sandafayre Stamp Auctions. Retrieved April 13, 2009. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. History of postal service on the Belpochta website (Date of access: December 8, 2008) The history of Russian mail on the portal "Philatelist.ru" Archival copy dated September 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Date of access: December 8, 2008) Gorlov Boris (X-TEAM.Ru). The history of the development of mail and stamps in Russia (inaccessible link - history). Hobby. Collections. Earticle.ru Online Library of Articles (January 23, 2007). Retrieved: 20 October 2009. "History of the Moscow Post" (inaccessible link). Retrieved December 9, 2008. Archived from the original on January 5, 2012. - an article on the official website of the Federal Post Office of the City of Moscow - a branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post (Date of access: December 8, 2008) (inaccessible link) Retrieved September 2018. "History of the Smolensk Post" - an e-book by Viktor Gurov on the website of the Union of Philatelists of Russia (Accessed: December 8, 2008) "History of the Crimean Post" - information on the website of the Crimean Directorate of UGPPS "Ukrposhta" (Date of access: December 8, 2008) Arch OTHER INFO ABOUT THE PRODUCT Russian Federation Army Man wit Equipment Sowjetischer Kollektivbauer Briefmarke grün Soviet collective farmerGreen woman 15 kopeck - kopecks - Kopeker 1/6.7 Roubles - Rouble - Rubl USSR stamp - marka marki sssrРосси́йская Федерaция (Russian) Rossiyskaya Federatsiya Flag of Russia Flag Coat of arms of Russia Coat of arms Anthem: "Gosudarstvenny gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Slav'sya otechestvo, nashe svobodnoye Bratsih narodov, soyuz vekovoy) " (transliteration) "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" Location of Russia (green) Russian-administered Crimea (disputed; light green)a Location of Russia (green) Russian-administered Crimea (disputed; light green)a Capital and largest city Moscow 55°45′N 37°37′E Official languages Russian Recognised national languages See Languages of Russia Ethnic groups (2010[1]) 81.0% Russian 3.7% Tatar 1.4% Ukrainian 1.1% Bashkir 1.0% Chuvash 0.8% Chechen 11.0% others / unspecified Religion See Religion in Russia Demonym Russian Government Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic[2] • President Vladimir Putin • Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev • Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko • Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin Legislature Federal Assembly • Upper house Federation Council • Lower house State Duma Formation • Arrival of Rurik[3] 862 • Kievan Rus' 882 • Grand Duchy of Moscow 1283 • Tsardom 16 January 1547 • Empire 22 October 1721 • Republic 14 September 1917 • Russian State 23 September 1918 • Russian SFSR 7 November (25 October, OS), 1917 • Soviet Union 30 December 1922 • Sovereignty Declaration 12 June 1990 • CIS Declaration 8 December 1991b • Russian SFSR renamed into the Russian Federation 25 December 1991b • Current constitution 12 December 1993 Area • Total 17,075,200[4] km2 (6,592,800 sq mi) (1st) • Water (%) 13[5] (including swamps) Population • 2018 estimate 144,526,636 Increase[6] (without Crimea)[7] (9th) • Density 8.4/km2 (21.8/sq mi) (225th) GDP (PPP) 2018 estimate • Total $4.152 trillion[8] (6th) • Per capita $28,918[8] (49th) GDP (nominal) 2018 estimate • Total $1.522 trillion[8] (12th) • Per capita $10,630[8] (67th) Gini (2015) Positive decrease 37.7[9] medium · 98 HDI (2015) Increase 0.804[10] very high · 49th Currency Russian ruble (₽) (RUB) Time zone (UTC+2 to +12) Date format dd.mm.yyyy Drives on the right Calling code +7 ISO 3166 code RU Internet TLD .ru .su .рф The Crimean Peninsula is recognized as territory of Ukraine by a majority of UN member nations, but is de facto administered by Russia.[11] The Belavezha Accords was signed in Brest, Belarus on December 8, creating the Commonwealth of Independent States in which the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR ratified the accords on December 12, denouncing the 1922 treaty. On December 25, Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation and the following the day on December 26, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ratified the accords, effectively dissolving the Soviet Union. Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), also officially known as the Russian Federation[12] (Russian: Росси́йская Федерaция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a sovereign country in Eurasia.[13] At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi),[14] Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area,[15][16][17] and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people at the end of December 2017.[6] About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD.[18] Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire,[19] beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium.[19] Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century.[20] The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde, and came to dominate the cultural and political legacy of Kievan Rus'. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.[21][22] Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state.[23] The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II,[24][25] and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.[26][27][28] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and sole successor state of the Soviet Union.[29] It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015.[30] Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world,[31] making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally.[32][33] The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.[34] Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as well as a member of the G20, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. 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Officially the Republic of China, participates as "Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu", and "Chinese Taipei" in short. he Soviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr. Sovétsky Soyúz, IPA: [sɐˈvʲɛt͡skʲɪj sɐˈjus] (About this sound listen)), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik, IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] (About this sound listen)), abbreviated as the USSR (Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics,[a] its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Tashkent and Novosibirsk. The Soviet Union was one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possessed the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.[7] It was a founding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as well as a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the leading member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, after a civil war, the Soviet Union was formed with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union transitioned from a market economy into a centrally planned economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. As industrial production skyrocketed, the Soviet Union achieved full employment, implemented a universal healthcare system, sharply reduced illiteracy, and provided guarantees of paid vacations, rest homes, and recreational clubs. This period of industrialization was a time of enormous improvements in the standard of living for millions of people in the country, starkly contrasting with the situations of other countries during the Great Depression, but was also a time characterized by major institutional shortcomings and failures. In the 1930s, with the rise of fascism in Europe, the Communist Party pursued aggressive campaigns to suppress potential counter-revolution, fermenting political paranoia which culminated in the Great Purge in which extrajudicial arrests and executions of suspected counter-revolutionaries led to an estimated 600,000 deaths. As a result of these mass arrests, penal labor through the Gulag system was used to construct infrastructure projects, though this consistently proved to be an inefficient system throughout its existence.[8] Increased demand for agricultural products to pay for industrialization combined with a relatively low harvest yield led to the famine of 1932–33 in which an estimated 2.4 to 4 million people died in the country's agricultural centers of Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan.[9][10] After the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, Stalin tried repeatedly to form an anti-fascist alliance with other European countries. However, finding no support, shortly before World War II, the Soviet Union became the last major country to sign a treaty with Germany with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, after which the two countries invaded Poland in September 1939. In June 1941, the pact collapsed as Germany invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk. The territories overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Soviet Union; the postwar division of Europe into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the West, led by the United States. The Cold War emerged by 1947, as the Eastern Bloc, united under the Warsaw Pact in 1955, confronted the Western Bloc, united under NATO in 1949. On 5 March 1953, Stalin died and was quickly succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1956 denounced Stalin and began the De-Stalinization of Soviet society through the Khrushchev Thaw. The Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race, with the first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight. Khrushchev was removed from power by his colleagues in 1964 and was succeeded as head of state by Leonid Brezhnev. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, but tensions resumed with the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost (government transparency) and perestroika (openness, restructuring). Under Gorbachev, the role of the Communist Party in governing the state was removed from the constitution, causing a surge of severe political instability to set in. The Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989, Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist governments. With the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the union republics, Gorbachev tried to avert a dissolution of the Soviet Union in the post-Cold War era. A March 1991 referendum, boycotted by some republics, resulted in a majority of participating citizens voting in favor of preserving the union as a renewed federation. Gorbachev's power was greatly diminished after Russian President Boris Yeltsin played a high-profile role in facing down an abortive August 1991 coup d'état attempted by Communist Party hardliners. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation—formerly the Russian SFSR—assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognized as the successor state of the Soviet Union.[11][12][13] In summing up the international ramifications of these events, Vladislav Zubok stated: "The collapse of the Soviet empire was an event of epochal geopolitical, military, ideological and economic significance. 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The Soviet Union officially recognized their independence on September 6, 1991, prior to its final dissolution three months later. 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