russia   (TTS Sound)

The noun russia has 4 senses

• Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR -- (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)


• Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic -- (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)


• Russia -- (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)


• Russia, Russian Federation -- (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)