COMMON WEEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS)

     Includes Russia and other 111 independent states.

     Headquarters: Minsk in Belarus (Europe).

RUSSIA

Area: 1, 70, 75,000sq.km (70% of the total area of former USSR)

Population: 147.2 million

Extent: East –West o over 9600 Km,

North –south – 4800 km.

Size: largest country iof the world, in area.

Capital: moocow (Europe).

Situation: lies in Europe as well as Asia, 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 borders of Turkey and Iran in the south. It touches fourteen other countries and crosses eight time zones. to the west of the Ural Mountains, is the European portion, Popularly known as Russia while the eastern Asiatic region is commonly called Siberia.

MOSCOW – GORKI REGION

    Oldest and the greatest of soviet industrial region in the European part of Russian.

MOSCOW

·         The capital of Russia is the nodal point of a radial pattern of rail communications as well as a large market.

·         Moscow – Tula region is noted for its low g rade lignite coalfields.

·         A port of five seas-the Baltic Seal, Lake Lodoga,the Arctic Ocean, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which are connected  to the city by rivers.