Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia

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Introduction

Privet and welcome to WikiProject Russia, (November 16, 2006 - ) made simply to improve articles relating to Russia or Russians. Simply add your name to participate on this project. Everyone is welcome as long as you follow the rules and guidelines of Wikipedia. No copyrighted material or copyrighted images please. Please add your name to the Project.

Participation

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the project.

(Newest members go at the bottom)

Members

1. Chernyshev Yegor
2. Jacob Dahlen
3. Artaxiad
4. Badbilltucker
5. robertjohnsonrj
6. MarshallPoe
7. AVIosad
8. Errabee
9. Paul Lynch
10. HarryP2511
11. General Eisenhower
12. BraveFoot
13.   Ezhiki
14. Esn
15. Superzohar
16. Madler
17. Aerobird
18. gr8white
19. Darwinek
20. Taamu
21. Ilyushka88
22. ADimiTR
23. Julian BH
24. Bookworm857158367
25. FrankEldonDixon
26. Ashiq Sultan
27. mqmpk (talk · contribs) -history,Poet, Painters
28. HunterSGuthrie
29. IFilipp
30. Superzohar
31. Rarelibra - maps of the raions at oblast level
32. cs
33. Miguelemejia
34. nathanww
35. Parker007
36. Geanixx
37. Elfalem
38. Seryi volk
39. Russavia
40. thabigd
41. blueorpheus
42. Dudtz
43. Avmich
44. Alaexis
45.  ;;SergeiXXX
46.    Yuriy Lapitskiy
47. dima
48. natebjones
49. Doudja
50. Skunkmaster
51. M.V.E.i.
52. Likthem
53. SpigotMap
54. Miyokan
55. Easternknight
56. P.Marlow
57. AKA MBG
58. Flickts
59. zolotina
60. Patrick Sullivan
61. GrahamColm
62. Pentangle
63. svetlanita http://www.mari-el.ucoz.ru/
64. Gegnome
65. cIue44
66. LAz17
67. Philbuck222
68. Chamieiniibet
69. pazan.ua
70. New4325
71.   Redstarsldr
72. ScottM84
73. Lunasspectos29
74. Alton
75. bb807
76. clio2773
77. VetMax
78. AllenHansen
79. Ss_r
80. SiberianSpireite
81. Caesar Augustvs
82. Janisterzaj
83. Ruslancool
84. SkyBon
85. Template:Country data World
86. SSCPUSA
87. Vadim Astashevsky
88. wormantson
89. Victor V V
90. Doogal

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Russia, its cities, counties, geography, transport, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Russia in a fair and accurate manner.

Project category tree

Russia

Russia-related lists

Buildings and structures in Russia

Client states of Russia

Culture of Russia

Economy of Russia

Education in Russia

Environment of Russia

Geography of Russia

Government of Russia

Health in Russia

History of Russia

Organizations based in Russia

Russian people

Politics of Russia

Society of Russia

Spies for Russia

Images of Russia

Russia stubs

Project divisions

• Assessment (talk) - our assessment department.
• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Russia-related articles
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transport (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Russia.
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Russia's predecessor states who have shaped Russia
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Russia and its predecessors
• History (talk) – history of Russia and its predecessors
• Photo requests (talk) – List of requested photos.
• Sourcing (talk) – List of poor-sourced articles within the scope of this WikiProject
• Russian AfD – Russia-related articles proposed for deletion

Announcements of new articles should be made at Portal:Russia/New article announcements.

Sister projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Caucasia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian federal subjects
• Russia military history task force of the Military history WikiProject

Templates

• {{WikiProject Russia}} - Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
• {{Russia-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Russia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Russian geography; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Central-Russia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Central Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{FarEast-Russia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Northwest-Russia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Northwestern Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Siberia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Siberian Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{South-Russia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of Southern Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Urals-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Urals Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Volga-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the geography of the Volga Federal District of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Russia-hist-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian history; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-battle-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian historical battles; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Russia-mil-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Military history of the Soviet Union, and the Military history of Imperial Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-mil-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about people connected with the military of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Russia-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian people; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-composer-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian composers; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-mil-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about people connected with the military of Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-musician-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian musicians; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-painter-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian painters; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-writer-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian writers; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-noble-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian nobility; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Russia-sport-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian sportspeople; placed at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about people connected with the sport of athletics (track and field) in Russia; placed at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Russia-company-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian companies or corporations; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Russia-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Russian buildings or structures; placed at the bottom of article pages.

Note: Please do not create further stub templates or categories without proposing them at WP:WSS/P first.

Tables of contents and indexes

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Russia-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

• List of basic Russia topics - for its placement, see Lists of basic topics
• List of Russia-related topics - needs creation; for the set of index pages it belongs to, see Lists of country-related topics

Recognized content

Featured articles

• Aleksandr Vasilevsky
• Anton Chekhov
• History of post-Soviet Russia
• History of Russia
• Igor Stravinsky
• Laika
• National Anthem of Russia
• Regulamentul Organic
• Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
• Russian Ground Forces
• Russian language

Good articles

• Hero of the Russian Federation
• Koryaksky
• Russia

Did you know (DYK)s

• April 23, 2006: Microdistrict
• January 9, 2007: Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
• January 10, 2007: Kira Kirillovna of Russia
• April 12, 2007: All Saints' Church, Daresbury
• April 25, 2007: Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation
• April 28, 2007: The Bronze Horseman
• June 2, 2007: ASNOVA

Featured lists

• Administrative and municipal divisions of Adygea

Requested articles

• Federation of Scouts of Russia
• Slavino
• Irena Ponaroshku
• Vitebsk Governorate ([1])
• Technopromexport - a major conventional power plant constructor and power technology exporter

Gallery

• 
  Coat of Arms of Russia
• 
  St. Basil's Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower
• 
  Siberia, Russia
• 
  Kamchatka
• 
  Chechnya, Russia
• 
  Moscow
• Russians in traditional dress
  Russians in traditional dress
• 
  View of Neva River in Saint Petersburg

Userboxes

{{User Russian Project}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Russia.

{{User Russia}}

This user lives in Russia. Этот участник живёт в России.

{{User Russian}}

This user is of Russian ancestry.

Barnstar

There is a barnstar which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles relating to Russia:

		Russian Barnstar of National Merit
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