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Southern Russia

{{Short description|Geographic region of Russia}}

{{About|the general area||South Russia (disambiguation)}}

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Southern Russia or the South of Russia ({{lang-rus|Юг России|p=juk rɐˈsʲiɪ}}) is a colloquial term for the southernmost geographic portion of European Russia. The term is generally used to refer to the region of Russia's Southern Federal District and North Caucasian Federal District.{{cite news|url= http://vesti7.ru/news?id=38903 |title=Кто подрывает юг России |trans-title=Who Controls Southern Russia?| work=Russia-1|author=Yevgeny Popov |date=9 December 2012 |access-date=30 January 2015|language=ru}}

The term is informal and does not conform to any official areas of the Russian Federation as designated by the Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO).

History

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The Caucasus has been inhabited for millennia. Eastern Slavic tribes, like the Antes, inhabited Southern Russia at least from the 3rd century.{{Cite book|last=Hamilton|first=George Heard|url=https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000geor/page/16|title=The Art and Architecture of Russia|publisher=New York, N.Y. : Penguin|year=1983|isbn=0140561064|pages=[https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000geor/page/16 16]}} Southern Russia played an important role in the influence of Byzantine culture on Russia. Persian culture has also left its traces in Southern Russia.{{Cite journal|jstor = 1835935|title = South Russia in the Prehistoric and Classical Period|journal = The American Historical Review|volume = 26|issue = 2|pages = 203–224|last1 = Rostovtsev|first1 = M.|year = 1921|doi = 10.2307/1835935}} At the beginning of the second millennium, between Volga and Don, Turkic tribes established in the South of Russia Tatar states. According to historical sources, the Russian lands in Southern Russia adopted the Islamic faith after contact with the Mongols.{{Cite book|last=Herberstein, Siegmund Frhr von.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/251498793|title=Moskowia.|publisher=Kiepenheuer|year=1975|pages=6–7|oclc=251498793}}

During the Russian Civil War (1917–1922), a territory called South Russia briefly existed from 1919 to 1920, which spanned the southern parts of the Russian Empire, including portions of Ukraine. In Soviet historiography, it also was referred to as "White South" in reference to the White Army that fought the Bolsheviks there along with the Armed Forces of South Russia and the Volunteer Army.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

General area

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the area of Southern Russia spans two of the nine federal districts of Russia containing 19 federal constituent entities, six of which are disputed with Ukraine:

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In relation to the official economic regions of Russia, most of Southern Russia is included in the North Caucasus economic region, with the exception of the Astrakhan Oblast, the Republic of Kalmykia and the Volgograd Oblast, which are part of the Volga economic region. References to "Southern Russia" can be found in media or news portals devoted to the area. Newspapers and websites like Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Vedomosti have sections or tags for the area.{{cite web|url=http://www.rg.ru/yug/ |title=Юг России |trans-title=Southern Russia|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|access-date=30 January 2015|language=ru}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/page/south-russia |title=Юг России |trans-title=Southern Russia|work=Vedomosti|access-date=30 January 2015|language=ru}}

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.yasnonews.ru ЯСНО (Clearly)], news portal
  • [http://www.southru.info Southru.ino], news portal

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