Every Cultural Region Of Russia Explained
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Russia is a large country with a diverse landscape of cultures, economics, politics, and geographies, much like the United States, but while we know that America has the South, the Midwest, and New England, what would a map of Russia's regions look like? What are the regions of Russia? And what makes each of these Russian regions so unique? This is every region of Russia explained.
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Super interesting! I’d love more videos like this, maybe about some other countries? Learning about America is great but I also love to learn about others
indonesia and india. two of the most diverse country on earth.
India. Let me know how I can help you
Papua New Guinea maybe
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 india would probably take a super long video
I would like to see one on china perhaps brazil as well
Bro put Crimea but forgot about Kaliningrad 💀
And Sakhalin
he didnt forget he says they arent pictured and mentions them anyway?
Should've put Belarus and Cuba on their side instead
Lol.
And new land island!?!
As a Russian and someone who majored in Geography,, I swear to you this is the most unusual subdivision I've ever seen! I'm having a hard time figuring out the criterion that could underlay this zoning. I understand you meant it was culture but even from the cultural perspective seeing Kirov and Krasnodar, or Murmansk and Bryansk in the same region, whereas Kirov and Vologda in different regions, is fascinating. Thank you for your work, I love riddles!
It's just a superficial and subjective division of somebody who decided to make pop youtube videos instead of studying
and in general, some Russian regions should be divided. For example, the Komi Republic is two very different regions. The south, centered in Syktyvkar, is the unconditional northwest with industry and some agriculture, and the north is one big oil and coal watch
I think the only real criteria he follows are industry makeup and population density. And if some region has very distinct ethnic minorities he may make them a sub-region. He is American after all.
@@xSkyWeix No the aren't. Compare the industry makeup and population density of Arhangelskaya oblast and Moskovskaja oblast. The correct economic zoning of Russia has been known for decades and it's totally different
@@ilyalyutoev Komi is entirely in the Northern economic macroregion. Vorkuta, Inta, Usinsk etc. belong to the Timano-Pechorskiy TPK (territorial-industrial complex) which is inside the macroregion.
As a person from Novosibirsk region, we as well as Omsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions view ourselves as "Siberia" rather than "South Ural". Novosibirsk is commonly labelled as the "Capital of Siberia" in particular. The map you presented attaches all of us to the "South Urals" which is not really accurate.
But economically Ural+South Central Siberia are practically one region. Big cities with very heavy industries and big empty undeveloped lands in between
@mastersafari5349 doesn't matter, this is a cultural map
@@mastersafari5349 Firstly, there are significant culture differences. Ural was colonised way earlier, while Southern Siberia became industrialised and urbanized only after TransSiberian railline was built. Before that, trade routs were in north. So Southern Siberia has much more cosmopolitan outlook with lots of setters moving in 19-20 centuries, while Urals residents lived there for centuries and have distinct spirit. SouthSib is kinda of melting pot, you have a lot of Ukrainians, Germans (resettled during Stalin time), many other minorities who moved in.
Also, Southern Siberia climate is different. Area is mostly flat, taiga forests are starting to change into steppes on the border with Central Asia.
Novosibirsk can even be called the diamond of siberia
@@mastersafari5349 total bullshit.
Извини друг, но ты вообще не понял деление России на регионы. Мимо.
Можно выделить несколько регионов: Центр, Юг, Кавказ, Северо-запад, Поволжье-Урал, Западная Сибирь, Алтай, Восточная Сибирь, Дальний Восток.
Твое деление это какая то фантазия на тему.
Друг, а почему Алтай отдельно от Сибири?
That's a very weird division of Russia that misses a lot of actual cultural regions and invents new ones.
Can you provide some examples?
Proofs?
@InsertNameHereBoi Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo think of themselves as a part of Siberia rather than the urals
@InsertNameHereBoi I can name one - the south. Cuban', Rostov and Crimea are far from Volgograd culturally.
@@skrips_ but this region is inherently little different from the southern Urals. The same huge enterprises, and very large cities. For example, there is a lot of fairly technological industry in Novosibirsk, and Tomsk is generally called Siberian Athens for the presence of good universities in it
For American Understanding:
Moscovia = Northeast Usa, Greater Volga = midwest usa, North Ural and Siberia = West usa, Yakutsa and Chukdta = Alaska, East Moscovia = northwest usa, South Ural = Southwest (with muslims instead of hispanics)
You missed Karellia = Yoopers/ Boundry Waters area, but Z missed that cultural group as well so it's understandable.
I can already smell the "Crimea is 🇺🇦 Ukraine" comments
Crimea is Norwegian 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
It's Ottoman!
@@AverageDoomFan7804 nice try propagandist but Crimea is 🇻🇳 Vietnamese
@@AverageDoomFan7804good point but honestly I think crimea should go to Ulm.
I am from Andromeda galaxy. Crimea is ours.
I hope this becomes an ongoing series. Might I suggest the regions of China next.
Freedom to Xinjiang!
@@TurtleChad1Free Tibet
You mean Taiwan and West Taiwan? 😂
_These replies have no chill and I love'em._ 😂
Search "Chinese historical geography" There's a great channel specifically for that
Что за east moscovia? Впервые слышу чтобы дальний восток так называли
Чел, который видос сделал, не претендует на какую то объективность. Он просто переложил российскую географию на американский манер, чтобы американцам проще понять было. Поэтому для нас тут все криво и непонятно
@@phillantrop9637 make a an accurate video please many non Russian are interested to learn also
Приморие
Да это пиздец... Где Урал, где дальний восток? Это не Сибирь.
@@coupeproductions4388))) ваш контент его не поддержит. Вы всё равно не увидите его видео, даже если он найдет на это время
I love it, finally this is being done with other contries and not just the US
Long over due, I'd say.
Do south and central America next !!!
@@MonsieurDean Perhaps a detailed map of the ethno-cultural regions of Rhode Island.
@@Norg1that would be the final boss of this series
I'm also like it
"There's no life beyond MKAD"
-native moscovians
MKAD - a road around Moscow
Funnily, many Londeners, Parisians and Amsterdammers think exactly the same of the M25, Peripherique and A10 respectively.
Perhaps it's capital city elitism?
@@rey_nemaattori Partially. But largely also due to the fact that the difference between financial injections into Moscow and other regions is colossal.
About the same as between the USA and, for example, some African country.
@@ViktorAl-o9z Speaking honestly, the coefficient of income inequality in Russia is not that big
@@gfff-fd1uh Oh, I didn’t mean income inequality, but the difference in the financial security of the regions.
Moscow receives much more budget funds than other regions, this is what I was talking about
@@ViktorAl-o9zThe cities like Yekaterinburg or Kazan are defenitely not on par with African countries, what are you talking about
As a longterm inhabitant of the Pacific Northwest, aka Cascadia, I resonated with your description of the Russian far east as similar to our region. That has been my impression. Forests, salmon runs, volcanic chains, connections to Pacific nations. And both are far away from the national centers, developing their own cultural sense. I would like to visit Vladivostok and Kamchatka someday.
Thank you, Monsieur Z for your hearted. I appreciate your work.
They were also colonized around the same time and both have significant East Asian populations and influence.
Portland: 1845 (8.5% Asian)
Seattle: 1851 (16.3% Asian)
Khabarovsk: 1858 (1.7% East Asian)
Vladivostok: 1860 (1.3% East Asian)
Vancouver, BC: 1870 (29.26% East Asian)
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 1882 (12% Korean)
Each region also has a large mighty river (well I guess 2 for the PNW)
Amur River: 11,526 m^3/s
Columbia River: 7,407 m^3/s
Fraser River: 3,944 m^3/s
Indeed. King County, where Seattle is located, is one of the few places in the US where Asians are the largest non-white group. And that is true of Portland as well. Also both regions still have significant populations of the native peoples.
@@patrickmazza7055 interestingly the Nivkh language spoken around the mouth of the Amur River is a language isolate, and in 2015 Russian linguist Sergei Nikolaev proposed that the Nivkh language is distantly related to the Algic languages of the east coast/Canada as well as the Wakshan languages of coastal BC and WA. The Nivkh people are/were semi-sedentary with seasonal villages consisting of on average 4 clans/housholds. In summer they would go inland to hunt and gather and in winter live along the banks of the rivers to catch the salmon spawn and hunker down for the brutal winter.
@@greasher926 There is a noted similarity between tales of Raven as creator between tribes of Kamchatka and the Northwest coast. Increasingly, archaeological evidence shows native presence in North America before the ice-free corridor from the Bering land bridge to the center of the continent opened up. It evident that tribes from Northeast Asia came by a coastal route, using water craft. So there definitely seems to be a connection between the original peoples on both sides of the Pacific.
You should make this a series, maybe make one about China or Europe as a whole
We don't call it "East Moscovia", we call it "Far East"
I think Mr Z used that term to make westerners like me, able to relate to the social make up of the region. Meaning Russian far east is most like the area around Moscow than it is the other regions.
If you think respecting endonyms to show cultural sensitivity is going to happen, you've come to the wrong channel.
Calling Russia Muscovy is as illiterate as calling Great Britain Mercia. It simply shows that you are do not know topic and follow political fashion rather then history.
The sun never sets on the Mercian enpire
Enpire, huh? Has it ever exist? xD @@epiccrusadr8583
Nobody uses moskovia termin in Russia.
Depends... Some people in the regions who hate Moscow might use it to describe Russia pejoratively.
Okay, name "east Moscovia" is absolutely disgusting, I'm saying it as a Blagoveschensk resident.
Да этот педрило всех дальневосточников оскорбил. По морде можно реально двинуть за такое «сравнение».
"Southern Ural" would be better called "West Siberia", because it includes cities like Novosibirsk and Omsk (and also some ural cities like Tobolsk try to.claim thw title "Capital of Siberia")
There I'd like to subdivide the Siberia-Ural region into much more balkanized regions:
Kuzbass-Khakkassia - Coal Miners regions, based on extracting resources.
Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk would be better unified as "Cental Sineria", being most scientifically developped regions of Siberia.
And as the ossopite - The Ural (which will include the regions Southern of Sverdlovsk region and the Yekaterinburg itself) - one of the most "liberal", yet industrialized region and the regions in-between aa buffer between Central Siberia and Ural. This is necause the regions of Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg are in kind of a rivalry (like netween Texas and Oklahoma)
And Irkutsk and Buryatia would be their own region "Pribaikalye"z distributing the "frontier" of Siberian cilture from Novosibirsk, but sharing some common inbetween the Buryats about the Lake.
The Far East would he better plased as "Primorye", "Northern Far east" and Yakutia. Yakutia is their own cultural region, no need to explain why. And the division between "Primorye" and Northern is because South is usually about "colonizing" the, much like the Oregon during the XIXth century, when Northern region is dealing with resource extracting and has some similarities with Alaska.
I generally agree, but I don’t understand what you all mean when you talk about more “liberal” regions. The reality in the Russian Federation at the moment is that such a plane as “Liberalism-Conservatism” in fact does not exist.
Yeah lumping the whole Sea of okhotsk in one area felt weird. Kamchatka feels like a different region from Outer Manchuria/Primorye/Amur
@@I-Nexit absolutely does exist, and because liberals have failed, the regular everyday folk have joined the conservatives to put a kabosh on them. Considering the harm the libs are doing in US, I don't blame the people.
@@I-Nex I mean that the Sverdlovsk Region is a home to a liberal-thinking russian establishment and has most liberal young people who have a lot of a sympathy towards Yeltsin as the first president of Russia (because he was from his region). The politicians and russian youth, whereas other regions (especially in Novosibirsk) are in the opposition, having more conservative/communist
And I'd like to say as russian myself, that Russia has no strict political ideology as some American/European countries have. There are some "yankee-dixie" rivalry in society (whites vs reds), but most people of Russia is other non-political or having a whole ideological mess. This even happens inside of a Federal Establishment, where the communists sre supporting church and anti-communist rightists are talking about nationalization and returning to soviet democracy (with workers councils in power).
Russia is quite different from other states. After ideological breakdown of the 90's, lots of the people in my country lost their ideals (would they be liberal/monarchist/nationalist or communists, so the common ideas, besides supporting the free market (and yet there are some strong influence of a liberal economic thoughts, because we live in a typical capitalism), will be nothing more than trying to combine some sorts of ideas from all ideologies in a populist way, but not just to be a populist, but to find another Great idea to follow.
And there is some competitions inside of a regional povers, instead of focusing on choosing the head of a state (who in our thoughts is just a facade of the state or unifying icon), the political parties and forces are sompeting inside of a regions, taking the positions inside of a system, trying to reform Russia from the inside, instead of just removing the head of it.
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Sorry for my English, despite finishing a language school, I wasn't practicing enough to write properly.
Tobolsk was capital of siberian tsardom
As a Russian citizen, I can say, that your division and naming of the regions is terrible. Idk how you were able to ignore basically all of possible geographical, historical and economic divisions of our country and do something in-between. Where is the Caucasus region? What the hell is greater Volgograd? It’s just one of the various Russian cites upon the Volga river. Why you have mixed Urals and Siberia? 😂
So the map is showing your personal perceptions
1. Siberia has some strong-populated cities like Novosibirsk where’re located some of top russian’s tech-universities and institutes, medical centres, etc.
2. Ural region is industrial core with big and beatiful cities like Yekaterinburg (which is I think capital of liberalism in country) and Kazan.
3. Far East is no way “eastern Moscowia”. It’s fully original formation of regions that close to Japan, China and Korea with special mix of these countries attributes. Economics are gas/oil extraction, fishing, mining, logging and it’s a russain trade center with Asia. Ppl of Far East drive a lot of right-wheel cars imported from Japan.
Culturally, the Russian Far East is closer to Moscow, we listen to the same songs, dress in the same clothes, have blood ties, and all our heroes come from central Russia.
Kazan is far from the Urals, it's Povolzhie
Man do you even live in Russia? Kazan is in Ural region, seriously?
Several years ago I have red an a research of one of Russian far east university that culturally unites the population of Russian far east as a TEEKHOROSS or Pacific russians
I would disagree with name of "East Moscovia". We in the Far East don't use it, nor do we any rationale behind it
he just meant that it was more urban and economically developed then the regions in between, therefore has a resemblance to it
@@kirillholt2329it's the same, maybe even less populated than Siberia, also if you consider size lf urban centers. Russia is getting less and less populated and developed if you move from west to east. Far East is the least developed region.
It's same people as Moscovia, only that it's in the far east.
There is no such thing as "Muscovy". "Muscovy" is a derogatory nickname for the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the Poles, which has become popular in the West. Stop spreading these false names.
@@aultain Название "Московия" это оскорбительный термин придуманный поляками. Существовало Княжество Московское.
The term Moscovia - Initially, it was the Latin name for Moscow (for comparison: Latin Varsovia, Kiovia) and the Moscow Principality, later in a number of states of Western and Central Europe it was transferred to the unified Russian state, formed around Moscow under Ivan III.
Various researchers believe that the use of this name was facilitated by Polish-Lithuanian propaganda, which deliberately preserved the terminology of feudal fragmentation, denying the legitimacy of the struggle of Ivan III and his successors for the reunification of the lands of Rus'. The Latinism Muscovy was not used as a self-name, having entered the Russian language no earlier than the 18th century.
@@александрморозов-ж1б ок
As Sakha (that's how we Yakutians call ourselves) myself, this is by far the greatest summary of a sociopolitical situation of a far eastern side of Russia in an English 10 minutes long video
and you don't even care that ural is 3 times smaller than on the map? A pice of the krasnoyarsk's krai is considered the urals zabaikalsky krai is shown as coastal lands, that russia is called "heavily orthodox" when literally no one is a christian etc?
@@asbest2092 Ахахаха, никто не христианин? Ты вообще из России? Даже среди молодёжи в России досточно много верующих.
@@asbest2092 Keep in mind that this video doesn't consider Federal districts division of Russia. It's more about economic and cultural division.
@@mastersafari5349 and the video failed it. Questions?
@@DbInyaMauk В россии абсолютно нет верующих христиан. Кто из так называемых христиан в россии читал библию? Кто ходит в церковь? Кто соблюдает пост? Кто не то что соблюдает, а хотя бы просто знает заповеди? Кто хотя бы знает что исус это бог? Всё это чуждо любому русскому (исключения лишь подтверждают правило). Не так что ли? Вот недавно рождество было, кто его в принципе праздновал? *Буквально* никто.
Hello from Rostov on Don! Wanted to say my position about some names used in this video. "Greater Dagestan" should be better named as "North caucasus" due to a big national minorities in this region. So as with "Moscovia" and "Great Volga". There are some better names such as "Central Russia" and "South Russia" or "Chernozem'ye" (literally black soil region). And "Promorye" (translation: "Near sea land") instead of "East Moscovia" These names could better represent regions and would help remember them easier!
freedom to the North Caucasus freedom to Dagestan
I was there a lot of times so it just make me laugh when you think of separatism in here xd@@qeqer8505
LDPR - is an ultranationalist party? Where you got this information from? Heart of iron 4 - Millennium Dawn mod?
The LDPR is indeed a nationalist party founded by the late Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, as the first party of the USSR (after the CPSU). despite the fact that he said about his nationality, "my mother is Russian, and my father is a lawyer (Jew)," he raised the Russian question, that is, the question of the oppression of Russians in the country. In many ways, he planned to borrow from the Russian Empire, Russia's most scandalous and ridiculous politician. As he himself said, he named the LDPR party because people wanted liberalism and democracy, but due to the complete absence of these aspects in their ideology, the name of the party does not decipher.
@@АнатолийПедченко-э9ф Really? Do you have any proofs? Maybe this party have a political programme, where you can find all this nationalism? Or all you have is just shallow statements?
and why don't you believe in my story, there doesn't seem to be anything unusual in it?@@kanhaz8461
@@kanhaz8461LDPR always was a populist right-wing party. It is not bad, it is a fact
@@KarpovNikita No one argues the fact that it is a populist party. But i do say that it is not a nationalist party. If you disagree, provide proofs. For example, something nationalystic from their polytical programm.
This was awesome. I hope you do this stuff for other countries as well. France and England are interesting since they have some Celtic regions.
Suggestion: What if Alexander II survived and made russia into a constintutinal monarchy?
Also: What if Alexander III survived as well?
Might have caused an earlier revolution. Russia really wasn't ready for democratization.
@@MonsieurDean really hope the monarchy survives
He never had any plans to, apostolic majesty did a really good video on it.
@danielsantiagourtado3430 putin could be..
Incorrect mostly but as a russian I appreciate the attempt. I'd say you can't really do this type of content until you live in the place and personally understand its cultural contexts
True I don’t get why people are hating on him so much as if they deeply understand the cultural contexts of every reason of extremely large countries, of course an outsider has some misunderstandings
I don't know, Brazil was fairly good description, except from south Brazil, which is by far the most developed region in terms HDI and GDP per Capita
Let me know what you think of each of these regions. Naturally, I'm not from Russia, so this had to be based on an outsider's perspective. If there's anything you think should be changed, do let me know. As well as if you have additional insight on the cultures of these regions. Also, hey, happy Valentines Day, folks.
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Can you make a video talking about Russian political parties and movements? Examples: The "Liberal Democratic" Party and the National Bolsheviks. Great video 👍
Not bad from an outsider perspective.
Although I may add that my home city of Yekaterinburg is often considered a "layer" of liberalism due to hosting Yeltsin-center as one of the main source of liberal propaganda this side of the Urals.
PS "Towering" Ural mountains? lol xD
There should be separate southern region (Rostov, Krasnodar, Crimea , Stavropol + Caucasus) they are more agrarian, than Volga regions and are extremely conservative (both ethnic Russians and people of Caucasus), while Volga is much more industrialised.
European north is its own region centred around Saint-Petersburg and is much poorer and less populated (except Kaliningrad and Petersburg).
Central European Russia is centred around Moscow metropolitan area , and has its own old cities , that are not so important anymore, but have cultural significance and their own charm ( can imagine it as New England and New York (Moscow).
Urals has Ekaterinburg and it is one of or the most liberal city in the country.
For Siberia and Far East it is quite accurate.
@@crusader2112 It is hard to do. Movements that can be interesting are extremely fringe and unpopular, while real parties are more or less continuations of United Russia with their own flavour. Most of politics is done inside United Russian party and it is hard to classify what kind of factions they have , because officially there are none , but they certainly exist (like more nationalist orientated , religious , minority groups e.t.c). So extremely hard to execute , without a deep dive into subject.
@@ОлегГлуховский-у9м Okay thanks for the information. 👍
do u have a video on america in the same sense? or other western countries?
Perhaps I will make one.
@@MonsieurDean you should it be very interesting
The term Moscovia - Initially, it was the Latin name for Moscow (for comparison: Latin Varsovia, Kiovia) and the Moscow Principality, later in a number of states of Western and Central Europe it was transferred to the unified Russian state, formed around Moscow under Ivan III.
Various researchers believe that the use of this name was facilitated by Polish-Lithuanian propaganda, which deliberately preserved the terminology of feudal fragmentation, denying the legitimacy of the struggle of Ivan III and his successors for the reunification of the lands of Rus'. The Latinism Muscovy was not used as a self-name, having entered the Russian language no earlier than the 18th century.
This is rather pathetic... Moskov is a word derived from protoslavic Mosky which means Swamp.... Such as the land was a swamp...
It has nothing to do with Latin and the Latin part is adopted from the Slavic name for the place. Not some P-L propaganda...
@@tomasvrabec1845брат, он не про слово москва, а именно про слово московия, которое у нас действительно до 18-го века не использовалось, докозательством тому являются летописи и другие исторические источники того времени и ни в одном из них мы себя московией не называли
East Moscovia wtf? 🤡🤡🤡
7:22 East Moscovia???
It's impossible to come up with a more infuriating name.
Far East, and that's it!
Ive met plenty of Russians, worked with a few too. We're really not all that different as people and its sad to see the US and Russia at each others throats
Cuz the politicians have the maturity of goddamned toddlers! 🤣🤣🤣
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Ну и херь, какие-то московии, нац республики случайным образом какие-то есть, каких-то нет, границы наобум начерчены) Надеюсь видео удалится со стыда
Этого придурка небось пригласят на CNN в качестве «иксперта» .
Это ужасный анализ. Географические, экономические и политические регионы соединены бог пойми как. Все смешано в кучу. Север и псковщина в одном ряду с Москвой и Питером. Бедная буддисткая Калмыкия у Каспия вместе с богатым и модернизированным Татарстаном на Волге. Западная Сибирь убежала в "Южный Урал". Русское ядро разделено надвое и ее южная половина объединяет такие абсолютно разные регионы как северокавзские республики и русские центральные области. Как будто ИИ делал мод на Хойку или что-то типа того.
I'd say diminishing several national republics like that is wrong. North Caucasus is most definitely a subregion of Russia on its own, not just a part of Southwest Russia. Tatarstan and Bashkortostan (not Bashkiriya, btw) should very much be grouped together. They are VERY similar culturally and very similar demographically and economically. Tyva also deserved its own grouping, I think - it became a part of Russia MUCH later than any other region and outside of Chechnya and maybe Ingushetia is the only republic where Russian is not the most spoken language. Buryatia is most certainly a part of Siberia and not the Far East, as it has absolutely nothing to do with the Pacific.
А о Башкирия, это вам не Сирия,
Это вам Башкирия, самогонный край…
Ох, ух, не надо надо объединения с Татарстаном ._ .
Tatars and Bashkirs would absolutely hate your suggestion.
@@cat-mk2996 ну то есть вы реально считаете, что у вас с какой-нибудь Челябинской областью больше общего, чем с Татарстаном?
@thecandlemaker1329 I don't care, it's just objective reality.
As a Siberian Russian myself… thanks for cool video! Really nice job you did. For westerners you could use arrows to point at sub-regions you were talking about (for example Tuva) because a lot of people don’t get it I guess, and you could tell more about Caucasus subregion, because it has its own sub-sub-regions lol. But anyway, thanks for your work, nice!
Slava ukraini
@@rafanadir6958 V sostave Rossii
@@rafanadir6958 omagah😨
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As a russian, I think you did a good job breaking it down into distinct regions. Nice work!
Mate, please, for notice, please don't name Far East as "East Moscovia". I know, it's easier for you to put it like that, but we have A LOT of dislike towards Moscovians, and calling us "East Moscovia" feels like an insult.
Some inaccuracies here and there, but overall, as a first video of this format I have ever seen, it's decent :>
How much is a lot?
Are you going to become the next separatist shit-show that then builds a fake identity based on the personality cult of a Hitler collaborator or something?
We in St. Petersburg don't like Moscow either, but we don't go full Ukraine. Never go full Ukraine.
TL;DR: The location of the Russian cultural regions seems a bit like an inverted America. Both sought to, and successfully, expand into the Pacific Ocean. Americans had a Wild West, and Russians had a Wild East to deal with.
Our New England is located in the northeastern US, but Moscovia is in the northwest. Our Midwest is located to the west and southwest,but Greater Volga is south and southeast of Moscovia.
Appalachia is further southwest, but the South Ural is only to the east of Greater Volga, which mirrors more closely our Eastern Midwest + Pennsylvania & Upstate New York, especially based on latitude.
Our Pacific Northwest is also an exclave of New England, one of the original regional cultures of America, for it was settled by New Englanders brave enough to sail around the Americas. Even today it’s culturally similar.
Could it be that something similar happened in East Moscovia, whereby it’s a cultural exclave of Moscovia because it was settled by Northern Russians? If yes, then it’s also another way in which the Russian cultural regions are an inverted America.
From experience of dealing with people from certain regions of Russia and US both (in work situations), i can tell that similarities are uncanny.
Russian south as well as american are relaxed and sorta scummy in like half of cases. Hard to get to them about your deadlines and so on
Siberian/ural people and midwesterners are a staple of what a human interaction should look like, not overly formal, a bit lax, but precise.
Tbh havent had a lot of experience with russian east, as well as american west, but they seem similar to me in the way both are forming their own sub cultures.
Moscow and northeast are very similar in the sense that people are always overly busy and unempathetic, i'd say. Very competent though
Im western siberian myself
Cossacks and cowboys of all countries - unite! 😊
Yes, to an appropriate approximation.
Indeed, the Far East is inhabited by people from the western and northwestern territories who still consider themselves Europeans.
And the southern regions even received a derogatory name - Kubanoids (Kuban region).
@@adahnyemeth6317One day I’d love to explore the different regions of Russia
@@hugomartinez692 i would suggest you look into some of the Bald and Bankrupt videos, those are genuine. Russia is probably not something you expect, in both the good and the bad ways. While viewing it, its people and history, you should first look for intent and the context, rather then the form and actuality. Thats about all i can advice
I didn’t know that the Novosibirsk region where I live is located in the “Urals”. The map is drawn up extremely poorly. Better open Wikipedia and look at what regions Russia is divided into.
Moscow and Snt Petersburg have separate identities and accents.
So do New York and Philly and Boston, but I’d still consider them all to be part of the Mid Atlantic region.
Согласен, мы не мос**ли
True, the Saint Petersburg/Novgorod baltic region, or Severoslavia as I've seen referred to as once, is culturally and geographically distince from Muscovy, enough to consider the two as distinct cultural regions
@@MonsieurDean there's obviously a lot of cultural tension between Moscow and St Petersburg due to their history, but these days I think the NY, Boston, Philly comparison is apt. In other times it would not have been.
@@justian1772of course st.petersburg used to be the old capital
Easy muscovia isn't a good name unless you're on grugs. It already has a name of far east
A a Russian man who was born in the South of the country but now moved to near Moscow I hate to see how you glanced over so much about the south of Russia.
Barely talked about the Caucasus region, which is the most culturally diverse part of the country. So many ethnicities and languages concentrated in a small space. Dagestan alone has like 100 unique languages. Not to mention Chechnya, which is basically a monoethnic 99,9% muslim country inside a country. Technically they are a part of Russia, but they live under they own rules, a right they have proven with 2 recent wars.
Yes, the South is mostly agricultutal, but you didn't mention Sochi and other seaside towns and cities or Crimea which are about holiday hospitality and entertainment. The South produces is also the poorest of all regions.
And I can tell you with all certanty, Moscow and Saint Petersburg are not the same. Moscow region is far more advanced in all aspects: transportation, infrostructure, factories and plants. Greater Moskow and Moskov Oblast is rapidly being developed with factories, appartment blocks and job opportunities popping up everywhere. While Saint Peterburg is not much more than an open air museum.
Man, a few words and a more in-depth look could heve gone a long way, such a missed opportunity
North America it's India 🇮🇳
From a Russian-American. Great video! I personally would have had Crimea as its separate region rather connected to the South, other than that it all checks out!
Perhaps as a subregion of the South?
@@MonsieurDeanPerhaps the southern region of Ukraine?
@@Strettger Perhaps recognize the political reality that Crimea is assimilated into the Russian Federation and the people don't want to be Ukrainian anyway?
@@greenmountainbrownie6473
Perhaps we should understand that Crimea is recognised as occupied territory by the Russian invaders on Ukranian soil?
@@greenmountainbrownie6473 Assimilated or not, it is different due to its unique history and only recent integration with Russia.
Facepalm... I've never seen that Novosibirsk was marked as South Ural. It is much more correct to mark as South of West Siberia.
Also, Moskovia is the name that is used by.... nobody. Really nobody call these lands as Moskovia in Russia.
Much better comparison would de (I guess): Muscovia - New England, Volgograd - South, South Ural - Midwest, North Ural - Rocky Mountains, Siberia - Alaska, Pacific Coast - West Coast
Siberia is not equivalent to Alaska at all it’s way more populated. The city of Krasnoyarsk alone has 1.2 million people and greater Irkutsk has 1.0 million people. And if you also count western Siberia it is home to Russia’s third largest city Novosibirsk with 1.6 million people. Siberian Federal district has 16.6 million people. Not sure what it would be equivalent to, perhaps Alberta? But not even then as the Urals are better analog. The pair of Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk along the Urals are a good analog for Edmonton and Calgary along the Rockies, both regions heavily relying on oil industry.
Russia’s version of Alaska would be Kamchatka+Chukotka+Magadan.
Moscovia appears too big for New England, maybe if it's the whole Northeast including the midatlantic then maybe
Novorossiya (4 new regions) is our Deep South. People in Novorossiya and Malorussia (former southwestern Krai of Russian empire) are more religious, i.e. actually attend lithurgies in church
Would chechnia be Utah? Especially since chechnia and Utah follows a pedophile con man.
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As a Russian:
1. South-West being the best in terms of GDP. Not exactly true, regions with the minimal income are located in the same area
2. Borders of the Ural region are SUPER INCORRECT. I am from Urals. Urals region goes from south to the north, not from west to east. What you mentioned as a western Urals region are closer culturally and economically to the Southern region you've mentioned earlier. Urals region consists of three main staples: Permskiy Kray, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Chelyabinskaya Oblast'. Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Kurgan and Tyumen are considered something like "before-Urals" and "behind-Urals" and considered as a part of Urals region too. Also, Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk are much more "Westernized" than any of the Southern cities so you're completely incorrect there too. It may be wild for a foreigner but a fact that southern and nothern parts of some region has different climates doesn't mean much in Urals and Siberia.
3. Depiction of Far East is incorrect too. Kamchatka peninsula is almost empty and there are only 2-3 cities in the whole region. Southern Siberia is far more urbanized.
Love your content man! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊❤❤❤
I always appreciate the support, pal!
@@MonsieurDean Always
Ironic channel name when talking about Russia haha
Siberia actually would be somewhat between Tobolsk and Irkutsk. Altai Krai is not culturaly distinct as on your map - it's fully part of Siberia (South Siberia to be precise). Altai Republic though is indeed cultury distinct.
Some evidence - both Ural and Siberia sometimes seek more autonomy but always independently from each other.
As Russian citizen I can see here many, many mistakes starting with borders of Siberia and Europe, naming South-West Siberia "South Ural" and ending that Zabaikalye (Chita region) is Far East. Sorry, but I have to give this video a dislike.
Очень странное видео. Много ошибок и неверных представлений о том, что происходит в РФ. И в целом не понятно, что этим видео хочет объяснить автор
Да, у меня возникло такое же впечатление от видео. 😅😅
Зато любопытно посмотреть, как они представляют нашу страну со стороны) Как будто кто то из 26-того века пытается рассказать о реалиях 21-вого. Называя совершенно неправильные названия регионов, неправильно их деля и упуская важные детали.
as residents of the so-called eastern Muscovy, I can say that the influence of Asian countries is very minimal, and the territories bordering China teach Russians the language and not Chinese. And the cultural difference between Russians and Koreans and Japanese is huge.
And cultural influence, as well as family ties, are too close to be culturally separated from Moscow
Какая ещё нафиг «восточная московия»? Какая нафиг семейная связь с Москвой?
Не с ДВ что-ли? Или из Москвы приехали и считайте, что можно связать ДВ с ультралиберальной столицей страны? Мало общего между ними. А с Азией у нас торговля, что определенно экономически связывает регион с Китаем, Японией и Кореей.
@@SerpMolot я родился на дальнем востоке во Владивостоке. И тупо отрицать, что все родственники, есть живут в центральной России, так как из этих районов заселились эти земли в 20 веке. Общего много и это тоже отрицать тупо, один язык, один стиль одежды, история, музыка и культура. А так же у нас экономические связи с европейской часть РФ, Восточный порт делают компании из Москвы, Мурманска и Санкт-Петербурга. Так же и еда и прочее идёт из центральной России.
@@SerpMolot восточная московия это термин их этого видео, если вы даже не смотрели видео то зачем вообще пришли в комментарии? Я по работе перемещаюсь из Владивостока в Санкт Петербург через Москву раз в год и поэтому пишу о том, что не вижу разницы между центральной Россией и ДВ.
@@sergiusdekhovich7269 это у вас родня с Москвы. У большинства же дальневосточников она с Юга России и Украины. Любой житель Владивостока это знает, так что предполагаю, что родились во Владике, но сами москвич.
@@SerpMolot я русский, что родился во Владивостоке, а свой бред можете оставить при себе, так как по всем переписям с царских времён до развала ссср, русских всегда было больше 60 процентов, а украинцев максимум 25 процентов.
Well, that was a decent try.
Your video has some flaws regarding politics and religion. But it is obviously a complex topic for a foreigner. The role of Moscow and St Petersburg should be mentioned a bit more. As well as the fact that the regions have mixed feelings for them.
The major cities position and the structure of transportation on the map would add a lot, too.
Anyway you've done a good job, considering there were not much information, I suppose.
我認為俄國可以大致分成以下區域:
北方地區: 中心城市聖彼得堡
中央地區: 中心城市莫斯科
南方地區: 中心城市頓河畔羅斯托夫
高加索地區: 中心城市弗拉季高加索
伏爾加地區: 中心城市喀山
烏拉爾地區: 中心城市葉卡捷琳堡
西伯利亞地區: 中心城市新西伯利亞
遠東地區: 中心城市符拉迪沃斯托克
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You right my Friend, hello from Russia.
FINALLY , ANOTHER MONSTOR Z VIDEO . I LOVE YOU MONSTOR Z .
You're the light of my life too, pal. Happy Valentines Day.
@@MonsieurDean Aww they are a couple.. So cute☺️
I'm big confused
no. just - no. we don`t have such structure
You miss the new Russian territories of Novarossyia
You forgot Nothern Russian cultural region, consisting of Murmansk, Archangelsk, Vologda oblasts and Komi and Karelia republics
Eh, it was interesting to see an American view of the Russian cultural regions. But I have to point out some things. Firstly the line between European Russia and so called Siberia is wrong, it's drawn too west. Also you mistakenly counted Omsk and Novosibirsk regions as Urals, while in reality they belong to Siberia.
Greater Volgograd and East Moscovia are incredibly unserious names no one ever uses. The most east region already has its name - Russian Far East, why come up with new silly name for that?
The thing about Ural mostly supporting ruling party is also wrong. Yekaterinburg, the biggest city in the Urals, is probably the most protest and free-thinking city of all Russia.
Mr. Z, Respectfully, its Appalachia(Apple-atchya)
Right back atchya!
As an Appalachian trust me I have informed him, but also I understand most of the country uses the other word and so don’t judge. It’s like saying Sodium instead of Salt, less people will understand you even if the first one is correct.
Surprisingly decent, not 100% correct, but good enough for short 9-min video.
Also, might I suggest you to visit our country and experience it first-hand?)
Perhaps in the future!
Хрюкни
When Ukraine is not throwing terrorists attacks left and right and when any American is not seen as a potential spy.
Что курил автор составляя эту карту?
Зачем
@@reallymentalpig1173 всмысле зачем?
@@VainerMK Я имею в виду, почему ты это говоришь? объяснять.
@@reallymentalpig1173 это и так понятно, карта составлена очень к примеру- москва находится в центральной России,а на севере особым городом является Питер, ещё зачем-то он дал Волге Кавказ и дон, почему Урал съел сибирские регионы?
@@reallymentalpig1173 о а ещё, восточная Московия, это бред полный
It's crazy that for a country as big as Russia, almost it's entire population lives within only 15% of the land.
25% you mean
15% of the land, but 50% of the...
_oh, wrong demographic..._
Allot of the places are very hard to inhabit as the climate is extreme.
This is completely natural if only 10% of the territory of Russia is suitable for normal life in terms of climate. If it were not for the Soviet policy of colonization of the tundra and unsuitable territories, the percentage of populated territory would have been even lower. I mean, if in one part of your country the winter is like in Sweden (Some may think that it’s cold, but in fact, all of Europe has a very good climate and it’s definitely not Antarctica like north Siberia) or even like in northern Italy, and in another part it is minus 30 or even minus 50 degrees, then the choice of where to live is obvious.
Look at the USA. It's the same thing.
This is amazing you should do the other BRIC countries next. Possibly add Mexico and Nigeria as other federal hegemons.
It is more geographical, economic and political division rather than a cultural one.
My inside that culturally and historically, Russia is divided into
1. Ethnic core
2. Territories colonized during the Empire.
3. National republics.
1. The ethnic core is the territory inhabited by the indigenous Slavic population from the ancient time and middle ages until formation and expansion of the Empire. The territory is approximately from Arkhangelsk in the north to Voronezh or maybe Rostov-on-Don in the south and from the western border to Vyatka in ther north east and Tambov in the south east. There are many ancient cities and villages, territory of ancient slavic tribes and medieval kingdoms, local dialects and autochtonous ethnic russian traditions. There are even differences in the gene pools of the regions in the north and south. It is divided into northern and southern regions approximately at the latitude of Moscow. And it's divided historically even further to the historical regions on the site of ancient kingdoms, like Pskov, Tver, Severia, Smolensk etc.
2. Colonized territories are the south, Kuban and Stavropol, Lower Volga and Trans-Volga regions. Ural. Taiga-Tundra. South Siberia. Far East. Since these territories were settled by russians recently, historical and cultural differences have not accumulated, with the exception of Kuban, where there is a noticeable Ukrainian specificity due to the fact that many residents have ancestors from the territory of modern Ukraine. The cultural characteristics of these regions are determined by geography and modern economics, rather than by local ancient history.
3. Almost every republic is special due to the fact that separate peoples live in them, with their own languages and ancient separate ethnic history. Also, the republics differ greatly in the percentage of the Russian population that spread there after these lands came under Russian Empire. In some republics there are almost no local people and such a republic will hardly differ from neighboring Russian regions, and in some there are almost no Russians.
Very high-quality comment.
I think Kaliningrad is also a colonized territory. It's disconnected from previous history and settled by normal russians.
If you need help, I can advise you on italy. It is very interesting and very easy for a foreigner to confuse. Is there a discord I can join to help?
You can shoot me an email at monsieurz101@gmail.com
Rofl. Crimea is on the map, but Novorossiya is not, although both are not recognized by the West, but are recognized by Russia. And there is no Kaliningrad, although it is recognized by everyone. It's like if you forget Alaska...stop
I think a regions of India would be cool!
As many people have already said in the comments, this representation of Russian "cultural regions" has absolutely nothing to do with reality. It's also worth noting that Russians are much more similar to each other than Americans. Accents are pretty much nonexistent in Russia but if I was to divide Russia into cultural regions, I'd divide Russia into 8 regions:
1. The Northwest
2. Midlands (this is my free interpretation of the Russian term "средняя полоса", which literally means "middle strip").
3. The South
4. Caucasus
5. Volga
6. Ural
7. Siberia
8. Far East
This was really interesting. Do you think you could do India as well?
and why do you call russia "moskovia"? it's russia so the eastern part of it is "east russia" not "east moskovia". Russia has never even been called this way in the whole history
I would say this is still oversimplified. There are The federal districts of Russia. I love it when people try to link Missouri with the Great Lakes like no the Heartland Is a different region and West Virginia with New York what's that. It looks like you had Volga too big and the Muscovy area could be subdivided further into other regions too
1. Missouri shouldn't exist as a state, it's an amalgam of contrasting regions.
2. Rust and Coal belt regions of New York and West Virginia overlap with those of the Midwest.
@@MonsieurDean hey im from missouri
@@2010hyundaielantra It should be split up.
@@MonsieurDean how exactly
@@2010hyundaielantra just look at his video of cultural regions in the Us.
Don’t forget keiv
There are many mistakes in the video (and I don't mean it in a hateful way) but probably the biggest (and I'm not even Russian or expecially attached to the country) is to call "wealthy" the region that contains actually the poorest parts of Russia, in the Caucasus.
Oh god...this video is bad lmao
(Kuban, Turkic lands and Caucasus mashed into one...чел это кринж. Also, greater Dagestan? Try to call Caucasus to face of Chechens or Ingushs)
I eagerly await next episode of MonsieurZ Geographic.
Плохо искал , у России есть федеральные округи.
Good job on the video bro👍 I’m Tuvan
Tuvan like Shoigu.
@@utvara1 yes
I'm from Nalchik which is in Central Caucasus. Didn't know that I'm a part of a 'Greater Volgograd area'. Another American smarty pants who does not even know what he's talking about
You said that specific regions were underpopulated. Given that the populations are decreasing in many of these regions as folks migrate to more prosperous regions, are they really underpopulated? Or were they overpopulated in the past due to Soviet policies? I think the proper term is sparsely populated. AFAIK, many of the regions have higher population densities compared to similar regions in Canada. For example, rather East Moscovia is more akin to British Columbia than Oregon. Moscow is more akin to Alberta than anyplace in the USA. Is St Petersburg not closer to Vancouver, BC than Seattle?
You might have a point there.
I think he was comparing their cultural equvilients to give americans a clearer understanding rather than climate.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I guess my point is that thinking of Russia as Canada with Nukes is a clearer understanding, rather than just a simple, but somewhat inaccurate, mapping to American regions.
Also keep in mind that the whole of Russia is underpopulated and over urbanised due to the Soviets, Russia has a tiny population for its landmass and it's society has been heavily hollowed out. Under the Tsars these regions were continually settled and with high birthrates it was presumed that they would be settled in time.
@@vorynrosethorn903 During much of the Soviet era, the population was growing at a faster rate than under the Tsars, or after the collapse. Of course the Germans did contribute to "significant demographic challenges". In thinking about its population, I think you need to factor in climate. Of course this is a bit of a challenge since European Russia doesn't have a good analog elsewhere in the world. But eastern Siberia is more densely populated than similar areas in Canada.
A general comment: it's very hard to measure political beliefs, as the elections are somewhat manipulated and the ideological of views of most Russians lie behind Western schemes - I guess, the most people are "red" conservatives, which want socialism with traditions combined. These views are most spread in Ural region (with Yekaterinburg being surprisingly the most liberally-progressive and the most right national-conservative city in Russia, as there exist both Yeltsin museum and Cathedral for Holy Passion-Bearers Emperial Family), less spread in Central Russia, where the progressive liberal forces are stronger, than anywhere else. European South seems to be right conservative and traditional stronghold, with most people in the Pacific seem to view the national politics very cynically and critically - they don't support any ideology or party, only knowing, that the centre and the state are bad
0:48 There is a huge difference between Central Russia and White Sea region, with the first one being one of the poorest in Russia (except Moscow, which accumulates wealth from all of the Pax Ruthenica) and having mentality based on compromise-thinking and collectivism, while the White Sea (European North) region is culturally closer to Siberia. Many people there are sailors, hunters or fisherman, they seem to be more educated and culturally advanced in comparison to any other Russians
3:40 "buddhist Altai" here was not marked right, as only southern part of it has population of turkish buddhist tribes (Republic of Altai), while the Altai Krai is unique region, as it has significant German minority (these are descendants of German colonists settled in Siberia in 18-19th century) and one of the highest rate of catholics and protestants inside Russia
Borders of South Urals seem to be too east-going at all, too, as this regions identity is focused mostly exceptionally on legacy of heavy and mining industries, while people in Tomsk/Novosibirsk oblasts still associate themselves rich hunters and merchants of emperial times. They have very different climat and landscape from Ural, and even if people really live in industrialised and urban areas, the character of industry there is different (as the factories produce more complex products - not just steel and tractors, but pharmacies, planes and electronics)
4:55 The North was populated by nomads and hunters, but now the most people there (about 90 percent) are ethnically diverse settlers from other regions, which came for oil money. Still, the most of them (about 60%) are Russian, which is far more than 20% of Russians in the North Caucasus
6:55 Chukotka has to be merged better with Magadan Oblast. These are both very rich gold mining regions which have huge social problems (as they acted and still act today as the main prison regions of all the Russia east of Ural - the population is very marginalised) and weak control of the Center (may be seen as a positive thing also)
7:07 Yakuts and native Siberian groups are mostly syncretic, holding many of their traditional believes with some buddhist influences
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@@Writer_Productions_Maphe is ❤
For me as a russian this map has absolutely no sense. Why Ural is divided on north and south? Why is it stretches so far east? Why Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk etc. oblasts not in Siberia? Some people call Novosibirsk a capital of Siberia. Altai is not buddhist, majority are russian orthodox and indigenous people are pagans. There is already a division on federal districts and it has more historical and cultural meaning than this map. Nice try tho
Russia is a great country.
Nope. My Viatka isn't in South Russia, according to culture & mentality, it's a part of North Russia.
You should do Indonesia or India next it would be a very interesting video
incompetent BS
I, as a Russian, think that it is not a good understanding of Russian regions. It is better to divide Russia into many more smaller regions, and not compare it to the USA. I guess because of the map, it kinda screws up the perception of regions of Russia, since the European part is so much smaller than the Siberian. To sum up, it is not a good video explaining Russian regions and you should not take it as a reference for understanding the current state of Russia. If someone is interested, I can write what I think is a better division. Nevertheless, thanks Monsieur Z for making an attempt.
Do elaborate. What are Russia's regions?
My main criticism is generalizing the European part. Monsieur Z did exactly the same thing he tried to avoid, as in the example of an American map, dividing everything into just California, Texas and New York.
@@borealevatski5167 Explain.
@@MonsieurDeanyou united North Russia with Moscow region, European Russia should be divided in 4 parts Moscowia in North Russia with saint-Petersburg, Central Russia or Velikorussia ( Moscow) and Volga in south Russia with Volgograd and Trans Volga with Kazan. South ural in your interpretation look more like west Siberia but it just my feelings.
@@MonsieurDean Damn, I finally finished writing it. So, it's not easy without a map, but I will try. First of all, there is a big difference between big cities and smaller towns, obviously, so we should look at them a little separately from the surrounding regions. Alright, the first region is "The dead northern zone". It would include Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Tver, Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Murmansk oblasts and the Karelian republic. It is an old Russian region with a lot of history and traditionally one of the most "russian" regions. And they are one of the most depressive and underdeveloped regions of the country, low population density, no big centers, and a weak economy. Then, "Greater Saint-Petersburg", strong economy, many young people come there, close to Europe, many people of culture(music, art, literature etc) live there, and it is considered one of the more liberal cities, but I would call it just more free-spirited, not more liberal in particular. Then, Moscow city and the Moscow region I would call "Greater Moscow", without including regions bordering it. Moscow is huge and is like a country inside a country, it has around 1/9 of Russia's population. Most taxes collected in Russia are spent in Moscow, it has many migrants from different post-soviet countries, the list is long. Russians not from the capital even say that Moscow is not Russia at all. Then a region I called "Historical Core", kinda hugs Greater Moscow. It is connected economically, but very different in everything else. Again, a very russian region, with little immigrants. Its centers are not big, but are not small either, and they are again quite depressive, but not as bad as the North. I include here Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl oblasts. They are again, used to be lands historically settled by russians a thousand years ago, and have a lot of historical places and old cities. To the south is the Chernozem region: Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Belgorod, Tambov oblasts. It is characterized mainly by agriculture. Living here is better than in the Core. Now it is quite influenced by the war as well, more so than other regions. Going further south, there is a region I called Don-Kuban. It includes Rostov oblast, Krasnodar krai and Stavropol krai, Adygea republic, and possibly Kalmykia (barely anyone lives there and it is a desert) and Crimea. It also has developed agriculture, but the economy is more diverse and stronger. The climate is different as well, and the population is a lot more diverse. On the Caucasus, there is a Caucasus region, surprise. It is very distinct from the rest of Russia, many ethnicities, cultures, religions. A lot more conservative and they have more local power. Then, The Russian Volga and Not Russian Volga, two interconnected regions, with economies closely tied, but very distinct culturally. First is the Russian Volga: Astrakhan, Volgograd, Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Mordovia and Nizhniy Novgorod oblasts. Absolute majority Russian population, big cities, Volga as the main connector. Then the Not Russian Volga(I don't really have a name for it, maybe Idel-Ural?) are all the other republics on the Volga and Kama rivers: Tatarstan, Bashkiria, Mary El, Chuvashia, Udmurtia. They are characterized by a big non-russian population. When I visited Kazan it felt like I was in a completely different country. Nizhniy Novgorod serves as the connector between Volga regions and Moscow. Finally, the Ural region which is difficult to define actually. No region can be described as exclusively Ural, except for Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk oblasts maybe, and even they are somewhat Siberian. Other have some characteristics of neighboring regions. Like Perm krai and Kirov oblast are
Ural, russian Volga and North at the same time. Or Orenburg and Bashkiria are also Ural and Volga. I will not discuss Siberia, I think you did a pretty good job yourself. I did not discuss political views of the population here as you can see. In Russia, in my opinion, the main difference is between rural and urban. It is not as simple as conservative vs liberal, but more like supportive vs in opposition to the current government. That's how I see it.
What a bullshit
What if the anglosphere united?
I've done that before.
@@MonsieurDean oh my bad
The word Moscovia is not used inside Russia, Russians never named their country this way
As Crimean, I'd added Crimea-Kuban-Don region (south-west, russificated Ukrainians and Cossaks), Greater Volga renamed to Chernozyom ('black soil'), North and South Ural to N./S. Siberia (Ural is only mountain chain, plains are Siberia) and East Moscovia to Far East of Russia. Good work!
>russificated Ukranians
russificated Russians lol
@@poyo6838 Kuban's population are Russified Ukrainians (Zaporozhian Cossacks)
Russia is not moskovia like USA(America) is not yankeland
The US and Russia really do share a lot in common, far more then either do with Europe or even their neighbors apart from a few. Why are we not allies?
Fate hates the Russo-American alliance.
And by fate I mean everyone else.
In fact, Russian-American relations were pretty good, until the world was gripped by leftist fever
Honestly, the only thing holding me back from supporting an alliance is Putin's overall influence on the country and a lack of free and fair elections. I think if Russia were to democratize a little more once Putin is out of power, then a russo-american alliance would make a lot of sense. As things stand right now, Russia shouldn't be at the top of America's list of enemies, at least.
@@I-Nex leftists in Russia after 1917 and leftists in the US one hundred years later... 😅😅🤔🤔