Since March 2008, the number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation is 83. The state includes republics, regions, regions, cities endowed with federal significance, an autonomous oblast and districts.
Each constituent entity of the Russian Federation is an integral part of the state. All parts are with the country in the state-legal membership.
The Constitution (in Article 65, part one) indicatesby name all the subjects of the Russian Federation. So, the state includes the republics: Adygea, Bashkortostan, Altai, Kabardino-Balkaria, Buryatia, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kalmykia and others. The state includes: Altai, Primorsky, Krasnoyarsk, Stavropol, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar Territory. The subjects of the Russian Federation are also: Arkhangelsk, Amur, Belgorod, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Magadan, Omsk and other regions. The cities with federal significance are St. Petersburg and Moscow. As part of Russia is one autonomous region - the Jewish. The state also includes the following autonomous regions: Aginsky Buryat, Koryak, Komi-Permyak, Taimyr, Khanty-Mansi and others.
The subjects of the Russian Federation are endowed withindividual names. The names are based either on political will or tradition. It should be noted that such a diversity of groups, in which all the subjects of the Russian Federation are united, is not found in any other state of the world. In other countries, all components belong to the same category. For example, in the US - it's states, in Germany - land, in Switzerland - cantons.
Some subjects of the Russian Federation haveThe names, based on the ethnic factor. In accordance with this, they are often represented as national state formations. In fact, all subjects of Russia at their own level reproduce ethno-demographic pictures that characterize the whole state as a whole.
All components of the state differ in terms ofthe area of the territory, the number of people living on it, the population density. So, in accordance with the territorial sign, Moscow is considered the smallest entity. The largest element of the state is Sakha (Yakutia). In accordance with the sign, reflecting the number of people, the most sparsely populated is the Evenk AO, the largest is Moscow.
The subjects differ in their levelits socio-economic development. So, for example, some receive subsidies, while others allocate them. In some regions, not only industry, but also other economic branches are developing well, while in others, one single direction of the economy (or the industry or the agricultural complex) is more developed.
A significant difference between subjects is notedand in the technological order. For example, Moscow is practically a postindustrial region. In some subjects, for example, in the remote regions of the Far North, even the industrial age has not yet come.
A distinctive feature of the subject structure of Russiais the accession of one / several entities to another region. To date, the Chukotka Autonomous District is the only autonomous region that is directly part of the state. All the other nine districts are located within the boundaries of areas or edges. For example, both the Yamalo-Nenets and the Khanty-Mansiysk District are included in the Tyumen Region. The Krasnoyarsk Territory includes the Taimyr and Evenki Districts.
It should be noted that in some countriesthere are also so-called "non-subjects". In Russia there are no such formations. Otherwise, the rather complicated subject system would become even more complicated.
