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{{Short description|Various areas in European Russia}}
{{Distinguish|Krasnoyarsk Krai{{!}}geographical Central Russia|Lake Vivi{{!}}geographical center of Russia}}
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[[File:Central Russia map.svg|thumb|{{legend|#ffaaaa|[[Central Economic Region]]}} {{legend|#ffff00|[[Central Federal District]]}} {{legend|#7fff2a|[[European Russia]]}}]]

'''Central Russia''' is, broadly, the various areas in [[European Russia]]. 

Historically, the area of Central Russia varied based on the purpose for which it is being used. It may, for example, refer to [[European Russia]] (except the [[North Caucasus]] and [[Kaliningrad]]).{{cn|date=May 2022}}

The 1967 book by [[Stephen P. Dunn]] and Ethel Dunn ''The Peasants of Central Russia''<ref>Dunn, S. P., and E. Dunn (1967). ''The Peasants of Central Russia'', New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Corrected ed., with new introductory material and new reading list: 1988
</ref> defines the area as the territory from [[Novgorod Oblast]] to the north to the border with [[Ukraine]] in the south and from [[Smolensk Oblast]] to the west and [[Volga]] to the east. A review of the book clarifies that this concept is treated in the book as the historical and ethnographical one: this is the historical area of [[Great Russians]].<ref>L. A. Anokhina, V. Iu. Krupianskaia, M. N. Shmeleva (translated by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn), "On the Study of the Russian Peasantry", ''Current Anthropology'', ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 14, No. 1/2 (Feb. - Apr., 1973), pp. 143-157, {{JSTOR|2741107}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Central Agricultural Zone (Russia)]]
* [[Central Military District]] – placed in [[Ural (region)|Ural]] and [[Siberia]], not in Central Russia
* [[Central Russian Upland]]
* [[Political divisions of Russia]]

==References==
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[[Category:Regions of Russia]]
[[Category:Geography of Russia]]


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