Since March 2008, the number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation has been 83. The state includes republics, territories, regions, cities with federal significance, the autonomous region and districts.
Each subject of the Russian Federation is an integral part of the state. All parts are with the country in state-legal membership.
In the Constitution (in article 65, part one), all subjects of the Russian Federation are named by name . So, the state includes the republics: Adygea, Bashkortostan, Altai, Kabardino-Balkaria, Buryatia, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kalmykia and others. The state includes: Altai, Primorsky, Krasnoyarsk, Stavropol, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar Territory. Subjects of the Russian Federation are also: Arkhangelsk, Amur, Belgorod, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Magadan, Omsk and other areas. Cities with federal significance are St. Petersburg and Moscow. As part of Russia, there is one autonomous region - Jewish. The state also includes the following autonomous districts: Aginsky Buryat, Koryaksky, Komi-Permyatsky, Taimyr, Khanty-Mansiysk and others.
The subjects of the Russian Federation are endowed with individual names. The names are based on either political will or tradition. It should be noted that such a diversity of groups in which all the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are united does not occur in any other state in the world. In other countries, all components are in the same category. For example, in the USA it is states, in Germany it is land, in Switzerland it is cantons.
Some subjects of the Russian Federation have names based on the ethnic factor. In accordance with this, they are often represented as national state formations. In fact, all subjects of Russia at their level reproduce ethno-demographic paintings that characterize the whole state as a whole.
All components of the state differ in the area of the territory, the number of people living on it, and population density. So, in accordance with the territorial attribute, Moscow is considered the smallest subject. The largest element of the state is Sakha (Yakutia). In accordance with the sign reflecting the number of population, the Evenki Autonomous Region is considered the most sparsely populated, the largest - Moscow.
Subjects also differ significantly in terms of their socio-economic development. So, for example, some receive subsidies, while others allocate them. In some subjects, not only industry is well developed, but also other economic sectors, while in others, any one direction of the economy (either industry or the agricultural complex) is more developed.
A significant difference between the subjects is noted in the technological structure. So, for example, Moscow is a practically post-industrial region. In some subjects, for example, in remote areas of the Far North , even the industrial era has not yet arrived.
A distinctive feature of the subjective structure of Russia is the accession of one / several subjects to another region. Today, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug is the only autonomous region that is a direct part of the state. All other nine counties are located within the boundaries of regions or territories. So, for example, both the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk districts include the Tyumen region. The Krasnoyarsk Territory includes the Taimyr and Evenki District.
It should be noted that in some countries there are so-called "non-actors." In Russia there are no such formations. Otherwise, a sufficiently complex subjective system would become even more complicated.