The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, covering 6,375,000 sq. mi. and having 109,278,000 people, comprises four-fifths of the area and nearly two-thirds of the population of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It extends from Leningrad to Vladivostock and from the Arctic Ocean southward to the border of Ukraina, to the Sea of Azov and to Kazakhstan. With the exception of Ukraina, the other republics of the Union are mere border states of the R.S.F.S.R. and most of what is said of the Union is true also of the R.S.F.S.R. The Russian Republic also has an appendage: when the Soviet Republic of Outer Mongolia, following a revolution in 1924, chose to draw toward Russia instead of toward China, this vast state became loosely attached to the Union and has been defended by it against Japan.
The R.S.F.S.R. is divided into 17 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics and 6 Autonomous Regions, but these divisions seem to be administrative areas rather than organic units. The capital of the Republic is Moscow, a city dating back to the 12th century and having now more than 4,000,000 inhabitants. See U.S.S.R.
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