European Russia
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- noun
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Rusia europea
- In certain areas of Ukraine and central European Russia, gains in physician availability were a function more of low population growth or population decline, together with modest expansion of physician supply, than of rapid increase in the number of physicians.
Examples
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Yet between 1937 and 1938, it is important to remember, some seven million Soviet citizens were either summarily executed or shipped off to the archipelago of slave labor camps stretching across Siberia and northern European Russia.
Academic text (1991) -
We provide detailed income estimates for economic and social classes in each of the 50 provinces of European Russia.
Blog text (10) -
In effect, the goal of this transformation was to remold the indigenous peoples and cultures in the image of European Russia.
Academic text (1991) -
By 1985, Siberia and the Far East were more uniformly areas of high availability, and Central Asia and sections in the central part of European Russia had low availability (Fig. 2).
Academic text (1990) -
Three Russian Catholics, especially the new apostolic administrator for European Russia, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusziewicz, have been energetic and articulate spokesmen for the church in the public arena.
Academic text (1997) -
Census statistics reveal a significant decline in the population of European Russia over the past decade.
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European Russia is home to many of the country's largest cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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The cultural heritage of European Russia includes famous landmarks like the Kremlin and the Hermitage Museum.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the part of Russia that lies in Europe' is directly and transparently derived from combining the adjective 'European' (connected with Europe) with the country name 'Russia'—a straightforward modifier + noun composition. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended geographic sense.
Etymology
European Russia points to the part of Russia that lies on the European side of the country, the land west of the Ural Mountains. Think of Russia split by that long mountain line: the area 'in Europe' is called European Russia, so the phrase means the part of Russia that is in Europe.