Administrative and territorial divisions[edit]

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Main article: Political divisions of Russia
With a few changes of status, most of the Soviet Union's administrative and territorial divisions of
the Russian Republic were retained in constituting the Russian Federation. As of 2014, there
were eighty-five administrative territorial divisions (called federal subjects): twenty-two republics,
nine krais (territories), forty-six oblasts (provinces), one autonomous oblast, four
autonomous okrugs, and three cities with federal status, namely the cities of Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, and Sevastopol.
The republics include a wide variety of peoples, including
northern Europeans, Tatars, Caucasus peoples, and indigenous Siberians. The largest federal
subjects are in Siberia. Located in east-central Siberia, the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is the
largest federal subject in the country (and the largest country subdivision in the world), twice the
size of Alaska. Second in size is Krasnoyarsk Krai, located west of Sakha in Siberia. Kaliningrad
Oblast, which is a noncontiguous constituent entity of Russia, is the smallest oblast.
The Republic of Ingushetia is both the smallest republic and the smallest federal subject of
Russia except for the three federal cities. The two most populous federal subjects, Moscow
Oblast (with Moscow) and Krasnodar Krai, are in European Russia.