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From west to east, the country stretches from Kaliningrad ( the exclave separated by the 1990 secession of Lithuania from the then-Soviet Union ) to Ratmanov Island ( one of the Diomede Islands ) in the Bering Strait.

This distance is roughly equivalent to the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Nome, Alaska.

From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.