nnoun.locationa former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991Synset:Russia Soviet Union USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Part Holonyms:Eurasia
Instance Hypernyms:country land state
Inherited Hypernyms:soviet unioncountryadministrative districtdistrictregionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
Part Meronyms:Caspian Caspian Sea Russia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Soviet Russia Soviet Socialist Republic
nnoun.locationformerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern AsiaSynset:Russia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
Part Holonyms:Eurasia Russia Soviet Union USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Instance Hypernyms:Soviet Socialist Republic
Inherited Hypernyms:soviet russiasoviet socialist republicstateadministrative districtdistrictregionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
Member Meronyms:Cheremis Cheremiss Mari Inger Ingerman Ingrian Komi Mordva Mordvin Mordvinian Russian Veps Vepse Vepsian Mansi Vogul
nnoun.locationa former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917Derivationally Related Form:Russian
Part Holonyms:Eurasia
Instance Hypernyms:empire imperium
Inherited Hypernyms:russiaempiredomainregionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
Part Meronyms:Muscovy
nnoun.locationa federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent stateSynset:Russia Russian Federation
Derivationally Related Form:Russian
Member Holonyms:CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
Part Holonyms:Eurasia
Instance Hypernyms:country land state
Inherited Hypernyms:russiacountryadministrative districtdistrictregionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
Instance Hyponyms:Asian Russia
Part Meronyms:Amur Amur River Heilong Heilong Jiang Astrakhan Chechen Republic Chechenia Chechnya Chelyabinsk Cherepovets Dnieper Dnieper River Don Don River European Russia Grozny Groznyy Kaluga Karelia Kazan Khabarovsk Kola Peninsula Kursk Ilmen Lake Ilmen Ladoga Lake Ladoga Lake Onega Onega Moscow Russian capital capital of the Russian Federation Murmansk Nalchik Neva Neva River Gorki Gorkiy Gorky Nizhni Novgorod Nizhnyi Novgorod Nova Zembla Novaya Zemlya Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Molotov Perm Rostov Rostov na Donu Rostov on Don Saratov Siberia Smolensk Leningrad Peterburg Petrograd Saint Petersburg St. Petersburg Tien Shan Tyan Shan Ufa Ural Mountains Urals Vetluga Vetluga River Vladivostok Volga Volga River Stalingrad Tsaritsyn Volgograd Volkhov Volkhov River