Talk:Borders of Russia

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List of countries bordering the federal subjects of Russia was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 21 November 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Borders of Russia. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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This article badly needs an image. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Land border

"Table of countries with a LAND border with Russia": USA: WATER lol --90.226.181.130 (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hypothetical Border Change

Here's an interesting, somewhat alternative history-esque scenario. This is not a change I am suggesting making to this page, but a fascinating idea to explore nonetheless:

While it's highly unlikely that Russia's borders will ever change drastically, let alone on this scale, it would be interesting to explore how differently its borders would look, had certain historical events happened or not. For Instance:

1. Despite having fought the USSR in the Winter War, Finland would have never experienced any territory loss or border change in the years following World War II and the various treaties that mandated which country would receive which areas (i.e. Karelia, Petsamo, etc.). Thus, Norway would lose its border with Russia.

2. Russia would give up Kaliningrad, and either return it to Germany, whether as part of the GDR or at the end of the Cold War, or instead give it to Lithuania.This would cut off Lithuania and Poland's border with the Kaliningrad enclave.

3. The current Russian territories of Rostov Oblast, Republic of Kalmykia, and Astrakhan Oblast, as well as every territory south of there would become its own sovereign state. Supposedly, as part of the breakup of the Soviet Union, one might see some of these states merge, e.g. Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast to become a sovereign Kalmykia.

4. The southern half of Sakhalin Oblast would return to Japan, as well as the Kuril Islands.

5. Finally, although the United States had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, Russia would lose its border with the U.S. due to the break-off of Kamchatka Krai and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, also following the Soviet Union's collapse.

Table of countries with a land border with Russia (listed anti-clockwise around Russia).

Country	Length in km
Country	Land	Sea
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Belarus
Ukraine
Rostov
Kalmykia
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
China
Mongolia
North Korea
Japan
Kamchatka Krai
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

(talk) 16:19, 1 July 2020 (UTC)-Wiscipidier[reply]

Delete this pointless article

How does a big list of Russia's federal subdivisions add anything of value that cannot be found on the individual 'country X-Russia Border' pages?? I'd say delete this article altogether.WisDom-UK (talk) 23:09, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Table

The table is labeled as a "Table of countries with a land border with Russia (listed counterclockwise around Russia)," but the United States and Japan don't have a land border with Russia, only a maritime one. Should something be done about this? Qwerty3521 -- Message me here 22:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kaliningrad

sorry if this has already been settled, but if not, why is Kaliningrad not part of this focus? thank you. es (talk) 14:43, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Data in table

Anyone know the source of the data in the country table in the 'Internationally recognized' section? The border with Finland is shown as 1,271.8 km, whereas in Finland–Russia border this is shown as 1,340 km. The latter is at least backed up by a source, so we should probably go with that unless someone has a better source to support the 1,271 figure? (But there's still the wider point of how do we know any of these are correct, since the table is unreferenced?) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]