Russia

Russia is a country located in the northeast of Europe and the north of Asia. It is the largest country by area on Earth, with a population of 147.2 million, including the population of occupied Crimea. The capital is Moscow, though Russia has historically been led from Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Kyiv, Vladimir, and Staraya Ladoga.
The SCP Foundation has an International Branch located within modern Russia, identified simply as the Russian Branch.
==Relevant history==
=== Overview===
Modern Russia was founded as Kievan Rus' from the city of Kyiv in modern Ukraine by the Rus people descending from the Norse in 879. The Kievan Rus were annihilated by the Mongol Empire from 1237 to 1240, resulting in the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1263 after separating from the Vladimir-Suzdal, ruling from Moscow under the rule of the Golden Horde.
The Duchy eventually defeated the Golden Horde and installed a Tsardom beginning with Ivan III the Terrible in 1547 that ruled until the Russian Empire was founded in 1721. As one of the European great powers, they warred with several European nations, including Sweden and Napoleon's France. However, their power began to wane during the 19th and 20th centuries after a failed war with Japan and communist uprisings during World War I against the last Emperor Nicholas II, which resulted in the fall of the Empire and rise of the Soviet Union led by Vladimir Lenin in 1922.
Lenin died from a blood disease in 1924, resulting in Joseph Stalin taking power and causing mass death and famine during his rapid industrialization and imprisonment of political opponents. Adolf Hitler invading the Soviet Union during World War II in 1942 caused the Soviets to retaliate in a war of annihilation, fighting bitterly to Berlin and capturing the city in May 1945. This made the Soviet Union a global superpower, engaging in the Cold War with NATO and supporting communist uprisings in other countries. The Space Race and the invasion of Afghanistan dwindled the Soviet economy, and with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, the Soviet Union eventually dissolved in 1991.
Oligarchs soon flooded the new Russian Federation, taking advantage of the depression to establish power and become kingmakers by the 21st century. The First Chechen War claimed the lives of many Russians, Newly elected President Vladimir Putin led Russia to win the Second Chechen War and reincorporate Chechnya into the Federation. Several more conflicts occurred with neighboring countries, including Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
==Notable locations==
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*Central Federal District
**Kursk Oblast
***Kursk
**Moscow
***Grashinow Block
***Kremlin
*** University of Moscow
* GRU-P Headquarters
*Mongolian–Manchurian grassland
**SCP-5267
*Northwestern Federal District
**Komi Republic
***SCP-3930
***Usinsk
**Murmansk Oblast
***Kola Peninsula
**Novgorod Oblast
***Veliky Novgorod
**Saint Petersburg
*SCP-4840
**The Old Library
**Temple of Night
***Site-00-00-00
**Temple of Sunrise
**Temple of Sunset
*Siberia
**Far Eastern Federal District
***Primorsky Krai
****Vladivostok
***Sakha
****Verkhoyansk Range 
*****Psionics Research Facility
**Siberian Federal District
***Irkutsk Oblast
****Irkutsk
***Krasnoyarsk Krai
****Norilsk
*****Norillag 
***Novosibirsk Oblast
****Novosibirsk
**Ural Federal District
***Chelyabinsk Oblast
****Kyshtym
***SCP-2133 
***SCP-5957-A
***Sverdlovsk Oblast
****Yekaterinburg
*****Ural Polytechnical Institute
***Ural Mountains
****Adytum
****Dyatlov Pass
*Southern Federal District
**Astrakhan Oblast
***Astrakhan
***SCP-006
**Krasnodar Krai
***Gelendzhik
**Volgograd Oblast
***Volgograd
==Anomalies==
*SCP-006
*SCP-5001
**SCP-5001-A
==External link==
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 006
*Entry Page: 5001
*Excerpts from PHYSICS Division Strike Team Database - 14 May 2023
==References==
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Category:Countries
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Category:Europe locations