Meaning of russia
Definition of russia
(noun)
a
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 1991
formerly
the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying
eastern
Europe and
northern
Asia
a
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 1917
a
federation
in
northeastern
Europe and
northern
Asia;
formerly
Soviet Russia; since 1991 an
independent
state
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