Russia is 0.76 times as big as Soviet Union. Russia. Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.

Maps of Russia and the Soviet Union: Revolution and the First World War Collapse of Russia, 1917. Illustration from A Sketch-map History of the Great War and After, 1914-1939, by Irene Richards, J.B. Goodson and J.A. Morris (George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 3rd edition, 1953). Revolutions in Russia, 1917. Illustration from A ...

07/08/2017 · Soviet Union pictorial zoogeographic map (1928) The Growth of the Russian Bear (1941) Because the attention of the world is focused on the titanic conflict in Russia. The News takes the occasion to revise and reprint this шар which originally appeared here on March 17, 1940. The map traces the history of Russia from its humble beginning as a ...

About the Soviet Union. Map is showing the Soviet Union, the former country, partly in eastern Europe and northern Asia, was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. With an area of 22,402,200 km² it was the largest country on Earth. The Russian Federation, the new name of the country of what was left of the Soviet Union, after the breakaway ...

In December of 1991 the Soviet Union (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R.) was officially dissolved. From it emerged Russia (the Russian Federation) and a number of independent countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe (shown in greens in the map).