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SOVIET RUSSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
Synonyms:
Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))
Meronyms (members of "Soviet Russia"):
Komi (a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia)
Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari (a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia)
Inger; Ingerman; Ingrian (a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built)
Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian (a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia)
Veps; Vepse; Vepsian (a member of a Finnish people of Russia)
Mansi; Vogul (a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals)
Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)
Domain member region:
Borodino (Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army)
Holonyms ("Soviet Russia" is a part of...):
Russia; Soviet Union; 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)
Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)
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