Russia Business Directory
Mid 2007, Russia has 89 federal subjects, but as from 1 May 2008 some of them will be merged, so that the number will be 85. The government is planning further gradually merging in order to keep the number down to 50-60.
There are also 7 so-called federal okrugs (districts) in Russia, namely
- Central Federal District
- Southern Federal District
- Northwest Federal District
- Far East Federal District
- Siberian Federal District
- Urals Federal District
- Volga Federal District
Every district has a presidential plenipotentiary envoy. However, these districts are not constituent units of the Russian Federation.
If you are looking for the official website of a specific region or republic in Russia, you may also like to see a list of regions in alphabetical order, presenting regional administration of the key regions.
Key data
Number of autonomous republics - 21
Number of autonomous oblast (region) - 1
Number of regions - 49 Oblasts
Number of krays (areas) - 6
Number of autonomous districts - 10
Number of federal cities - 2 (Moscow and St.Petersburg)
Did you know… Every of 89 federal subjects in Russia (all regions, republics etc) has its own number code. Moscow is number 77, Murmansk is number 51 and so on. The same code is used on the car license plates registered in the respective region. |
General information
Regional authorities in Russia - links collected by Ministry of Regional Development of Russia, leading to the websites of regional and municipal authorities (rus)
Moscow City Government – official portal (rus)
Moscow Region Government – official portal (rus)
Moscow, Tourist information - official site of type Visit Moscow (eng)
Moscow: Information and Leisure Activities - site with useful addresses and brief introduction to the city (eng)
North-Western Russia - Economy and Business (eng)
St.Petersburg - official portal (eng)
St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce (eng)
Leningrad Region - official portal (rus/eng)
Leningrad region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (rus)
Arkhangelsk region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (rus)
Archangelsk Oblast - official portal (rus)
Murmansk Region: Governor's office - Official portal (rus)
North (Murmansk region) Chamber of Commerce and Industry (rus/eng)
Kaliningrad region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (eng)
Karelia Republic (rus/eng)
Komi Republic (rus)
Nenets Autonom region
Novgorod Region (rus/eng)
Novgorod region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (rus)
Pskov Region - (eng)
Pskov region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (eng/rus)
Tuymen Region - (rus)
Vologda Region - (rus)
Jaroslavl region Chamber of Commerce and Industry - official portal (eng)
Kommersant regional inormation - information about CIS countries and other ex-USSR countries (eng)
Kommersant regional inormation - information about republics, territories, regions, federal cities etc. (eng)
Regional Outreach - local contacts and business development (by the American Chamber of Commerce) (eng)
Downloadable presentations (PDF-files)
St.Petersburg and Leningrad Region - presentation of the region and business opportunities, updated per February 2006 (PDF, 685 kB)
Komi Republic, updated pr May 2006 (PDF, large file, 6 Mb) and "Oil industry in Komi" (PDF, 58kB)
Mordovia - Statistics, industries, investments opportunities, updated per May 2005 (PDF, large file, 1,79mB
Tyumen Oblast, incl. information about Tyumen special economic area, updated per May 2006 (PDF, large file, 2 mB)
Tatarstan - information about special economic zone in Tatarstan, May 2006 (eng)
Kaliningrad Region: General Presentation, Agroindustrial Complex, Cooperation Possibilities, updated per September 2006 (PDF)