Central Russia

Not to be confused with geographical Central Russia or geographical center of Russia.

Central Russia is, broadly, the various areas in European Russia.

  Central Economic Region

  Central Federal District

  European Russia

Historically, the area of Central Russia varied based on the purpose for which it is being used. It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and Kalinigrad).^{[citation needed]}

The 1967 book by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn The Peasants of Central Russia^[1] defines the area as the territory from Novgorod Oblast to the north to the border with Ukraine in the south and from Smolensk Oblast to the west and Volga to the east. A review of the book clarifies that this concept is treated in the book as the historical and ethnographical one: this is the historical area of Great Russians.^[2]

See also

• Central Agricultural Zone (Russia)
• Central Economic Region of the Russian Federation
• Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
• Central Military District – placed in Ural and Siberia, not in Central Russia
• Central Russian Upland
• Political divisions of Russia

References

1. Dunn, S. P., and E. Dunn (1967). The Peasants of Central Russia, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Corrected ed., with new introductory material and new reading list: 1988
2. L. A. Anokhina, V. Iu. Krupianskaia, M. N. Shmeleva (translated by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn), "On the Study of the Russian Peasantry", Current Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 1/2 (Feb. - Apr., 1973), pp. 143-157, JSTOR 2741107