Russia: Central European Area
Central European Area
This flat, rolling country, with Moscow as its center, forms a major industrial region. Besides Moscow, major cities include Nizhniy Novgorod (formerly Gorky), Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Tula, Dzerzhinsk, and Rybinsk. Trucks, ships, railway rolling stock, machine tools, electronic equipment, cotton and woolen textiles, and chemicals are the principal industrial products. The Volga and Oka rivers are the major water routes, and the Moscow-Volga and Don-Volga canals link Moscow with the Caspian and Baltic seas. Many rail lines serve the area.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Post-Soviet Russia
- War and Revolution
- Reaction, Reform, and RevolutionExpansion
- Empire and European Eminence
- Consolidation of the Russian State
- Early Russia
- History
- Government
- Russian Far East
- Northern and Northeastern Siberia
- Eastern Siberia
- Western Siberia
- Ural Area
- North Caucasus
- Volga
- North and Northwest European Area
- Central European Area
- General
- Religion and Education
- Political Subdivisions and Major Cities
- Population and Ethnic Groups
- Major Geographic Features
- Bibliography
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