Russia's territory covers the whole of North Asia and most parts of Eastern Europe, spanning 1 1 time zone, with wide environmental and topographic coverage. It has the largest forest reserves and lakes in the world and about a quarter of the fresh water in the world. Russia has fourteen land neighbors (counterclockwise from the northwest): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea (Lithuania and Poland only border on Kaliningrad, an enclave outside Russia), and two non-United Nations Member States, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are only recognized by Russia.
At the same time, Russia faces Japan, the United States, Canada, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Sweden and Turkey across the sea. The northern and eastern parts of Russia are surrounded by the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean respectively, and the northwest and southwest parts can reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea respectively.
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19 17 After the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic became the first socialist country in the constitutional sense in the world and became the main body and the largest participant in the later Soviet Socialist Union. During World War II, the Soviet Union played a decisive role in the victory of the allied forces. After the war, it rose to become a recognized superpower and competed with the United States during the Cold War.
The Soviet period produced many of the most important scientific and technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first man-made earth satellite and the first time to send humans into space. 1990, the Soviet Union was the second largest economy in the world, with the largest number of standing armies and the largest stocks of weapons of mass destruction.
199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, 15 republics, including Russia, became independent from the former Soviet Union; As the largest country that joined the former Soviet Union, Russia was transformed into the Russian Federation through constitutional amendment, becoming the only legal successor country of the former Soviet Union, and its political system adopted federalism, democracy and semi-presidential system.