States bordering on Russia. The State Border of Russia

The Russian Federation is a huge country, occupying the first place in the world in terms of the area occupied by the territory. The states bordering on Russia are from all sides of the world, and the border itself reaches almost 61,000 km.

Types of borders

The border of the state is a line that limits the actual area of the state. Territories include land, water, underground minerals and airspace within the country.

In the Russian Federation there are 3 types of boundaries: sea, land and lake (river). The sea border is the longest of all, it reaches about 39 thousand km. The land border has a length of 14.5 thousand km, and the lake (river) - 7.7 thousand km.

General information about all states bordering the Russian Federation

What countries does Russia border on? The Russian Federation recognizes its proximity to 18 countries.

The name of the states bordering Russia: South Ossetia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Abkhazia, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, United States of America, Japan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, North Korea. Here the first-order countries are listed.

The capitals of the countries bordering on Russia: Tskhinvali, Minsk, Sukhum, Kiev, Warsaw, Oslo, Helsinki, Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga, Astana, Tbilisi, Baku, Washington, Tokyo, Ulan Bator, Beijing, Pyongyang.

South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia are partially recognized, because not all countries of the world recognized these countries as independent. Russia did this with respect to these states, therefore, approved the neighborhood with them and the borders.

Some states bordering on Russia are arguing about the correctness of these borders. Most of the disagreements appeared after the end of the existence of the USSR.

Land borders of the Russian Federation

The states bordering Russia by land are on the continent of Eurasia. These include also lake (river). Not all of them are protected to date, some of them can be easily crossed, having only a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, which is not always mandatory.

The states bordering Russia on the mainland: Norway, Finland, Belarus, South Ossetia, Ukraine, the Republic of Abkhazia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Georgia, Azeibarjan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, North Korea.
Some of them also have a water boundary.

There are Russian territories, which are surrounded on all sides by foreign countries. These areas include the Kaliningrad region, Medvezhye-Sankovo and Dubki.

In the Republic of Belarus it is possible to travel without a passport and any border control on any of the possible roads.

Maritime Boundaries of the Russian Federation

Which states border Russia on the sea? The boundary by sea is a line that is 22 km or 12 n miles distant from the coast. The territory of the country includes not only 22 km of water, but all the islands in this sea area.

States bordering Russia by sea: Japan, United States of America, Norway, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, North Korea. There are only 12. The length of the borders is more than 38 thousand km. With the United States and Japan, Russia has only a sea border, the dividing line with these countries does not pass by land. With other states there are borders both on water, and on land.

Settlement disputed border areas

At all times there were disputes between the countries for the territory. Some of the disputing countries have already agreed and no longer raise this issue. These include: Latvia, Estonia, the People's Republic of China and Azerbaijan.

The dispute between the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan was due to the hydroelectric complex and water intake facilities that belonged to Azerbaijan, but were located in fact in Russia. In 2010, the dispute was resolved, and the border was moved to the middle of this hydroelectric complex. The countries use water resources of this hydropower unit in equal parts.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia considered it unfair that the right bank of the Narva River, Ivangorod and Pechora District remained the property of Russia (Pskov Region). In 2014, the countries signed an agreement on the absence of territorial claims. The border did not change noticeably.

Latvia, as well as Estonia, began to claim one of the districts of the Pskov region - Pytalovsky. The agreement with this state was signed in 2007. The territory remained in the ownership of the Russian Federation, the border of change was not incurred.

The dispute between China and Russia ended with the demarcation of the border in the center of the Amur, which led to the annexation of part of the disputed territories to the People's Republic of China. The Russian Federation handed over to its southern neighbor 337 square kilometers, including two sites in the area of the Great Ussuri and Tarabarov islands and one site near Bolshoi Island. The contract was signed in 2005.

Unsettled disputable border areas

Some disputes over the territory are not closed to this day. When the contracts are signed, it is not yet known. Such disputes Russia has with Japan and Ukraine.
The disputed territory between Ukraine and the Russian Federation is the Crimean peninsula. Ukraine considers the 2014 referendum illegal and the Crimea occupied. The Russian Federation established its border unilaterally, while Ukraine issued a law establishing a free economic zone on the peninsula.

The dispute between Russia and Japan is being conducted because of the four Kuril Islands. Countries can not come to a compromise, because both believe that these islands should belong to it. These islands include Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai.

Borders of the Exclusive Economic Zones of the Russian Federation

An exclusive economic zone is a strip of water adjacent to the boundary of the territorial sea. It can not be wider than 370 km. In this zone the country has the right to develop subsoil, as well as to explore and conserve them, to create artificial structures and use them, to study water and the bottom.

Other countries have the right to freely move through this territory, conduct pipelines and otherwise use this water, while they must take into account the laws of the coastal state. Russia has such zones in the Black, Chukchi, Azov, Okhotsk, Japanese, Baltic, Bering and Barents Seas.