Russian Federation Digital Data

Authors: Alexander Perepechko and Dmitry Sharkov

The digital spatial data includes the subjects of the Russian Federation: 21 republics, 6 krays, 49 oblasts, 2 cities of federal significance (Moscow and St. Petersburg), 1 autonomous oblast, and 10 autonomous districts are the subjects of the Russian Federation. The data includes locations of 1858 rayons, 6 ethnic administrative rayons, and 441 gorsovets.

Spatial relationships amont rayons are preserved. In few cases, as with Chechen and Ingush republics, the authors used their best knowledge to generate boundaries between splitting or newly created rayons.

The boundaries for the most gorsovets, are shown.  Some gorsovets are combined with the surrounding administrative units. 27 gorsovets with unknown locations are absent in the data:

Amur oblast: Uglegorsk
Arkhangelsk oblast: Mirnyi
Astrakhan oblast: Znamensk
Chelyabinsk oblast: Lokomotivnyi, Ozersk, Snezhinsk, Trekhgornyi
Chita oblast: Gornyi
Kamchatka oblast: Vilyuchinsk, Vulkannyi
Kirov oblast: Pervomaiskiy
Krasnoyarsk kray: Kedrovyi
Moscow oblast: Krasnoznamenskiy, Molodyezhnyi, Prioksk, Voskhod
Murmansk oblast: Ostrovnoi, Skalistyi, Snezhnogorsk, Zaozerskiy
Orenburg oblast: Komarovskiy
Penza oblast: Zarechnyi
Perm oblast: Zvezdnyi
Primorskiy kray: Fokino
Saratov oblast: Svetlyi
Tver oblast: Ozernyi, Solnechnyi

For gorsovets, which have their own administrative division, the internal boundaries are not shown.

Gorsovets' sizes and shapes in the cartogram may not exactly match their real geometric parameters.

Coordinate System

The map is Albers equal-area projection Clarke spheroid of1866 with the first standard parallel 46 00 0.000, the second standard parallel 73 00 0.000, the central meridian 84 00 0.000. The latitude of the projection's origin is 60 00 0.000.  Units -- meters.

COVERAGE 'RUSRAY'
Spatial Data

1) The 'id' item is the random unique identification number.
2) The 'subject' item identifies names of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
3) The 'subj_id' shows the subject's numeric order.
4) The 'status' define the administrative status of the 'subject':  Republic, Kray, Oblast, Autonomous Oblast, or Autonomous District.
5) The 'capital' item identifies the center of the 'subjects' which have capitals or administrative centers.
6) The 'sub_subjec' item identifies names of rayons, ethnic administrative rayons, and gorsovets.
7) The 'sub_subj_s' define the administrative status of the 'sub_subject'.
8) The 'sub_subj_i' is the unique identification number within the subject of the Russian Federation.
9) The 'comment' provides the user with additional explanations.

Thematic Attributes

10) 'n1995t' resident total population in 1995.
11) 'n1995u' resident urban population in 1995.
12) 'n1995r' resident rural population in 1995.
13) 'turnout_07' turnout during the second round of 1996 Russian Presidential Elections.
14) 'Yeltsin_07' share of votes for Boris Yeltsin during the second round of 1996 Russian Presidential Elections.
15) 'Zyuganov_0' share of votes for Gennady Zyuganov during the second round of 1996 Russian Presidential Elections.
16) 'against_07'  share of votes 'Against All' during the second round of 1996 Russian Presidential Elections

COVERAGE 'RUSOBL'
Spatial Data

1) The 'id' item is the random unique identification number.
2) The 'subject' item identifies names of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
3) The 'subj_id' shows the subject's numeric order.
4) The 'status' define the administrative status of the 'subject':  Republic, Kray, Oblast, Autonomous Oblast, or Autonomous District.

Sources and References
The sources of the population statistics:

Gosudarstvennyi komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po statistike.  Chislennost naseleniia Rossiiskoi Federatsii po gorodam, rabochim poselkam i raionam na 1 ianvaria 1995 g.  Moskva: Gos. kom-t Rossiiskoi Federatsii po statistike, 1995.
 
Tsentralnaya Izebratelnaya Komissia Rossiiskoi Federatsii.  Vybory Presidenta Rossiiskoi Fedeatsii 1996 - Elektoralnaya Statistika.  Moskva: Ves' Mir, 1996.

The data was produced on the base of oblast administrative maps published until 1973.  Oblast-level maps of the Russian Federation, published in 1993-1996 were used as references.

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