dissolved_or_abolished far eastern state technical university
Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District in Russia . From ___MASK55___ to ___MASK64___ , it was known as Gorky , after the writer Maxim Gorky , who was born there . The city is an important economic , transportation , scientific , educational and cultural center in Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main center of river tourism in Russia . In the historical part of the city there are a large number of universities , theaters , museums and churches . Nizhny Novgorod is located about ___MASK25___ km east of Moscow , where the Oka empties into the Volga . Population : Russia is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion ( almost 25 %) of the country that is considered part of Europe , and the larger eastern portion ( more than 75 %) that is part of Asia . European Russia contains about 77 % of the country ' s population ( 110 , 000 , 000 people out of about 144 , 000 , 000 ) in an area comprising almost 4 million km ( 1 . 54 million mi ); an average of ___MASK63___ . 5 persons per km ( 70 per mi ). This territory makes up 38 % of Europe . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south , it is defined by the border with Kazakhstan . This area includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg , the two largest cities in Russia . Vladivostok ( literally " ruler of the east ") is a city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai , Russia , located at the head of the Golden Horn Bay , not far from Russia ' s borders with China and North Korea . The population of the city as of 2016 is 606 , 653 , up from 592 , 034 recorded in the ___MASK78___ Russian census . The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean . A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in ___MASK47___ and reaffirmed by the United Nations in ___MASK19___ , a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . Saint Petersburg is Russia ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in ___MASK54___ , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Far Eastern State Technical University ( FESTU ) ( Russian :             ,  ) is a university located in Vladivostok , Russia . It was established on February 20 , 1930 as Far Eastern Politechnical Institute (    (  ) ) . It was granted the university status in 1992 . FESTU is not a successor of Oriental Institute as it claimed to be . The court denied its claims and reassured Far Eastern Federal University as the only successor . But FESTU was established on base of closed Oriental Institute and the building of the original Oriental Institute is currently the main building of Far Eastern State Technical University . Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is the Russian name for a province of Russia . " Primorsky " means " maritime " in Russian , so in English translation it is known as the Maritime Province or Maritime Territory . Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok . The region ' s population is 1 , 956 , 497 ( ___MASK78___ Census ). Today , Primorsky Krai has the largest economy in the Russian Far East . Novosibirsk is the third - most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St . Petersburg . It is the most populous city in Asian Russia , with a population of 1 , 473 , 754 as of the ___MASK78___ Census . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District . The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley , near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant , and occupies an area of . Moscow ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of Russia , with ___MASK67___ . 2 million residents within the city limits and 16 . 8 million within the urban area . Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city . Yekaterinburg , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of Europe and Asia . At the ___MASK78___ Census , it had a population of 1 , 349 , 772 .