Super interesting! I’d love more videos like this, maybe about some other countries? Learning about America is great but I also love to learn about others

For American Understanding: Moscovia = Northeast Usa, Greater Volga = midwest usa, North Ural and Siberia = West usa, Yakutsa and Chukdta = Alaska, East Moscovia = northwest usa, South Ural = Southwest (with muslims instead of hispanics)

As a Russian and someone who majored in Geography,, I swear to you this is the most unusual subdivision I've ever seen! I'm having a hard time figuring out the criterion that could underlay this zoning. I understand you meant it was culture but even from the cultural perspective seeing Kirov and Krasnodar, or Murmansk and Bryansk in the same region, whereas Kirov and Vologda in different regions, is fascinating. Thank you for your work, I love riddles!

Bro put Crimea but forgot about Kaliningrad 💀

As a person from Novosibirsk region, we as well as Omsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions view ourselves as "Siberia" rather than "South Ural". Novosibirsk is commonly labelled as the "Capital of Siberia" in particular. The map you presented attaches all of us to the "South Urals" which is not really accurate.

Извини друг, но ты вообще не понял деление России на регионы. Мимо. Можно выделить несколько регионов: Центр, Юг, Кавказ, Северо-запад, Поволжье-Урал, Западная Сибирь, Алтай, Восточная Сибирь, Дальний Восток. Твое деление это какая то фантазия на тему.

That's a very weird division of Russia that misses a lot of actual cultural regions and invents new ones.

We don't call it "East Moscovia", we call it "Far East"

Let me know what you think of each of these regions. Naturally, I'm not from Russia, so this had to be based on an outsider's perspective. If there's anything you think should be changed, do let me know. As well as if you have additional insight on the cultures of these regions. Also, hey, happy Valentines Day, folks. If you enjoy our content, please consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/monsieurz/membership

I love it, finally this is being done with other contries and not just the US

I hope this becomes an ongoing series. Might I suggest the regions of China next.

You should make this a series, maybe make one about China or Europe as a whole

As a longterm inhabitant of the Pacific Northwest, aka Cascadia, I resonated with your description of the Russian far east as similar to our region. That has been my impression. Forests, salmon runs, volcanic chains, connections to Pacific nations. And both are far away from the national centers, developing their own cultural sense. I would like to visit Vladivostok and Kamchatka someday.

"There's no life beyond MKAD" -native moscovians MKAD - a road around Moscow

Что за east moscovia? Впервые слышу чтобы дальний восток так называли

I would disagree with name of "East Moscovia". We in the Far East don't use it, nor do we any rationale behind it

Nobody uses moskovia termin in Russia.

As Sakha (that's how we Yakutians call ourselves) myself, this is by far the greatest summary of a sociopolitical situation of a far eastern side of Russia in an English 10 minutes long video

"Southern Ural" would be better called "West Siberia", because it includes cities like Novosibirsk and Omsk (and also some ural cities like Tobolsk try to.claim thw title "Capital of Siberia") There I'd like to subdivide the Siberia-Ural region into much more balkanized regions: Kuzbass-Khakkassia - Coal Miners regions, based on extracting resources. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk would be better unified as "Cental Sineria", being most scientifically developped regions of Siberia. And as the ossopite - The Ural (which will include the regions Southern of Sverdlovsk region and the Yekaterinburg itself) - one of the most "liberal", yet industrialized region and the regions in-between aa buffer between Central Siberia and Ural. This is necause the regions of Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg are in kind of a rivalry (like netween Texas and Oklahoma) And Irkutsk and Buryatia would be their own region "Pribaikalye"z distributing the "frontier" of Siberian cilture from Novosibirsk, but sharing some common inbetween the Buryats about the Lake. The Far East would he better plased as "Primorye", "Northern Far east" and Yakutia. Yakutia is their own cultural region, no need to explain why. And the division between "Primorye" and Northern is because South is usually about "colonizing" the, much like the Oregon during the XIXth century, when Northern region is dealing with resource extracting and has some similarities with Alaska.

I can already smell the "Crimea is 🇺🇦 Ukraine" comments

Incorrect mostly but as a russian I appreciate the attempt. I'd say you can't really do this type of content until you live in the place and personally understand its cultural contexts

1. Siberia has some strong-populated cities like Novosibirsk where’re located some of top russian’s tech-universities and institutes, medical centres, etc. 2. Ural region is industrial core with big and beatiful cities like Yekaterinburg (which is I think capital of liberalism in country) and Kazan. 3. Far East is no way “eastern Moscowia”. It’s fully original formation of regions that close to Japan, China and Korea with special mix of these countries attributes. Economics are gas/oil extraction, fishing, mining, logging and it’s a russain trade center with Asia. Ppl of Far East drive a lot of right-wheel cars imported from Japan.

This was awesome. I hope you do this stuff for other countries as well. France and England are interesting since they have some Celtic regions.

Okay, name "east Moscovia" is absolutely disgusting, I'm saying it as a Blagoveschensk resident.

Ive met plenty of Russians, worked with a few too. We're really not all that different as people and its sad to see the US and Russia at each others throats

Hello from Rostov on Don! Wanted to say my position about some names used in this video. "Greater Dagestan" should be better named as "North caucasus" due to a big national minorities in this region. So as with "Moscovia" and "Great Volga". There are some better names such as "Central Russia" and "South Russia" or "Chernozem'ye" (literally black soil region). And "Promorye" (translation: "Near sea land") instead of "East Moscovia" These names could better represent regions and would help remember them easier!

Suggestion: What if Alexander II survived and made russia into a constintutinal monarchy?

As a Siberian Russian myself… thanks for cool video! Really nice job you did. For westerners you could use arrows to point at sub-regions you were talking about (for example Tuva) because a lot of people don’t get it I guess, and you could tell more about Caucasus subregion, because it has its own sub-sub-regions lol. But anyway, thanks for your work, nice!

Love your content man! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊❤❤❤

As a russian, I think you did a good job breaking it down into distinct regions. Nice work!

Greetings from the Republic of Tuva. Things I want to mention are... 1. Greater Volga region contains two absolutely different worlds. You can separate a half of its territory right from Black Earth to Northern Caucasus and just call it Southern Russia. 2. From Southern Urals you also can get Western Siberia with a large city of Novosibirsk being the center of his entity. 3. Chukotka geographically can be moved to the Far East

East Moscovia wtf? 🤡🤡🤡

The term Moscovia - Initially, it was the Latin name for Moscow (for comparison: Latin Varsovia, Kiovia) and the Moscow Principality, later in a number of states of Western and Central Europe it was transferred to the unified Russian state, formed around Moscow under Ivan III. Various researchers believe that the use of this name was facilitated by Polish-Lithuanian propaganda, which deliberately preserved the terminology of feudal fragmentation, denying the legitimacy of the struggle of Ivan III and his successors for the reunification of the lands of Rus'. The Latinism Muscovy was not used as a self-name, having entered the Russian language no earlier than the 18th century.

I'd say diminishing several national republics like that is wrong. North Caucasus is most definitely a subregion of Russia on its own, not just a part of Southwest Russia. Tatarstan and Bashkortostan (not Bashkiriya, btw) should very much be grouped together. They are VERY similar culturally and very similar demographically and economically. Tyva also deserved its own grouping, I think - it became a part of Russia MUCH later than any other region and outside of Chechnya and maybe Ingushetia is the only republic where Russian is not the most spoken language. Buryatia is most certainly a part of Siberia and not the Far East, as it has absolutely nothing to do with the Pacific.

Wow, didn't expect anyone to make a video on provinces of any country like this! Thanks.

A a Russian man who was born in the South of the country but now moved to near Moscow I hate to see how you glanced over so much about the south of Russia. Barely talked about the Caucasus region, which is the most culturally diverse part of the country. So many ethnicities and languages concentrated in a small space. Dagestan alone has like 100 unique languages. Not to mention Chechnya, which is basically a monoethnic 99,9% muslim country inside a country. Technically they are a part of Russia, but they live under they own rules, a right they have proven with 2 recent wars. Yes, the South is mostly agricultutal, but you didn't mention Sochi and other seaside towns and cities or Crimea which are about holiday hospitality and entertainment. The South produces is also the poorest of all regions. And I can tell you with all certanty, Moscow and Saint Petersburg are not the same. Moscow region is far more advanced in all aspects: transportation, infrostructure, factories and plants. Greater Moskow and Moskov Oblast is rapidly being developed with factories, appartment blocks and job opportunities popping up everywhere. While Saint Peterburg is not much more than an open air museum. Man, a few words and a more in-depth look could heve gone a long way, such a missed opportunity

I eagerly await next episode of MonsieurZ Geographic.

TL;DR: The location of the Russian cultural regions seems a bit like an inverted America. Both sought to, and successfully, expand into the Pacific Ocean. Americans had a Wild West, and Russians had a Wild East to deal with. Our New England is located in the northeastern US, but Moscovia is in the northwest. Our Midwest is located to the west and southwest,but Greater Volga is south and southeast of Moscovia. Appalachia is further southwest, but the South Ural is only to the east of Greater Volga, which mirrors more closely our Eastern Midwest + Pennsylvania & Upstate New York, especially based on latitude. Our Pacific Northwest is also an exclave of New England, one of the original regional cultures of America, for it was settled by New Englanders brave enough to sail around the Americas. Even today it’s culturally similar. Could it be that something similar happened in East Moscovia, whereby it’s a cultural exclave of Moscovia because it was settled by Northern Russians? If yes, then it’s also another way in which the Russian cultural regions are an inverted America.

do u have a video on america in the same sense? or other western countries?

as residents of the so-called eastern Muscovy, I can say that the influence of Asian countries is very minimal, and the territories bordering China teach Russians the language and not Chinese. And the cultural difference between Russians and Koreans and Japanese is huge. And cultural influence, as well as family ties, are too close to be culturally separated from Moscow

As a Russian: 1. South-West being the best in terms of GDP. Not exactly true, regions with the minimal income are located in the same area 2. Borders of the Ural region are SUPER INCORRECT. I am from Urals. Urals region goes from south to the north, not from west to east. What you mentioned as a western Urals region are closer culturally and economically to the Southern region you've mentioned earlier. Urals region consists of three main staples: Permskiy Kray, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Chelyabinskaya Oblast'. Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Kurgan and Tyumen are considered something like "before-Urals" and "behind-Urals" and considered as a part of Urals region too. Also, Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk are much more "Westernized" than any of the Southern cities so you're completely incorrect there too. It may be wild for a foreigner but a fact that southern and nothern parts of some region has different climates doesn't mean much in Urals and Siberia. 3. Depiction of Far East is incorrect too. Kamchatka peninsula is almost empty and there are only 2-3 cities in the whole region. Southern Siberia is far more urbanized.

LDPR - is an ultranationalist party? Where you got this information from? Heart of iron 4 - Millennium Dawn mod?

I didn’t know that the Novosibirsk region where I live is located in the “Urals”. The map is drawn up extremely poorly. Better open Wikipedia and look at what regions Russia is divided into.

What sources did you use to draw these conclusions (as well as regions)? Bc it’s looks rather interesting to say the least.

Easy muscovia isn't a good name unless you're on grugs. It already has a name of far east

This is amazing you should do the other BRIC countries next. Possibly add Mexico and Nigeria as other federal hegemons.

Much better comparison would de (I guess): Muscovia - New England, Volgograd - South, South Ural - Midwest, North Ural - Rocky Mountains, Siberia - Alaska, Pacific Coast - West Coast

great video!

Moscow and Snt Petersburg have separate identities and accents.

Mate, please, for notice, please don't name Far East as "East Moscovia". I know, it's easier for you to put it like that, but we have A LOT of dislike towards Moscovians, and calling us "East Moscovia" feels like an insult. Some inaccuracies here and there, but overall, as a first video of this format I have ever seen, it's decent :>

Siberia actually would be somewhat between Tobolsk and Irkutsk. Altai Krai is not culturaly distinct as on your map - it's fully part of Siberia (South Siberia to be precise). Altai Republic though is indeed cultury distinct. Some evidence - both Ural and Siberia sometimes seek more autonomy but always independently from each other.

Awesome, live your content.

You forgot Nothern Russian cultural region, consisting of Murmansk, Archangelsk, Vologda oblasts and Komi and Karelia republics

From a Russian-American. Great video! I personally would have had Crimea as its separate region rather connected to the South, other than that it all checks out!

Thanks for the video! It was nice to see my country and hear about its regions.

keep this series up 🆙 ‼️💯

7:22 East Moscovia??? It's impossible to come up with a more infuriating name. Far East, and that's it!

FINALLY , ANOTHER MONSTOR Z VIDEO . I LOVE YOU MONSTOR Z .

Facepalm... I've never seen that Novosibirsk was marked as South Ural. It is much more correct to mark as South of West Siberia. Also, Moskovia is the name that is used by.... nobody. Really nobody call these lands as Moskovia in Russia.

Good job on the video bro👍 I’m Tuvan

If you need help, I can advise you on italy. It is very interesting and very easy for a foreigner to confuse. Is there a discord I can join to help?

This was really interesting. Do you think you could do India as well?

It's crazy that for a country as big as Russia, almost it's entire population lives within only 15% of the land.

I think it makes sense to single out another region from Muscovy. The Russian North, consisting of Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Murmansk and Vologda (Lets call these four Pomorie). Or we can use a broader definition and include all the lands of the former Novgorod Republic or the current Northwestern Federal District. They differ from the rest of Muscovy in that these lands historically belonged to the Novgorod Republic, and not to the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. Serfdom was much less widespread in these lands. There were active contacts and assimilation of the Fino-Ugric peoples. There was an active cultural exchange with northern Europe and the Baltic States, the cities of the Hanseatic League. Historically and to this day (at least before the outbreak of the war), the economy was tied to the sea, mining and trade with the Scandinavian countries.

Well, that was a decent try. Your video has some flaws regarding politics and religion. But it is obviously a complex topic for a foreigner. The role of Moscow and St Petersburg should be mentioned a bit more. As well as the fact that the regions have mixed feelings for them. The major cities position and the structure of transportation on the map would add a lot, too. Anyway you've done a good job, considering there were not much information, I suppose.

Calling Russia Muscovy is as illiterate as calling Great Britain Mercia. It simply shows that you are do not know topic and follow political fashion rather then history.

This analysis is quite interesting and accurate. Thanks

This was excellent. I find it difficult to find this information anywhere else. I have learnt a lot from it. I would like to learn more about Russia and the various communities that live in it. Thank you.

Love your videos Mr Z 🔥

Ironic channel name when talking about Russia haha

The word Moscovia is not used inside Russia, Russians never named their country this way

the compass in the thumbnail is a nifty stylistic choice

There is no such thing as "Muscovy". "Muscovy" is a derogatory nickname for the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the Poles, which has become popular in the West. Stop spreading these false names.

There are many mistakes in the video (and I don't mean it in a hateful way) but probably the biggest (and I'm not even Russian or expecially attached to the country) is to call "wealthy" the region that contains actually the poorest parts of Russia, in the Caucasus.

Rofl. Crimea is on the map, but Novorossiya is not, although both are not recognized by the West, but are recognized by Russia. And there is no Kaliningrad, although it is recognized by everyone. It's like if you forget Alaska...stop

As a resident of Russian Federation, I'll allow myself some remarks. The term Moscovia is virtually never used by Russian people themselves. It is a term used by foreign historians for a state formed around Moscow by Ivan III after the period of feudal fragmentation. In Russian tradition this state is called Moscow Rus. In no way you can name any modern region of Russia "Moscovia". The division of European Russia into northern Moscovia and southern Greater Volga is very rough and mostly incorrect. The Greater Volga region is much smaller and located in the east of European Russia. Western borderland regions are more related to Moscow than to Volga, both culturally and economically. You can separate the Kuban subregion in the south of European Russia, which is culturally authentic and is a strong center of agriculture. Also on the northwest of "Moscovia" is Karelia region, which is culturally inclined towards Finland. "East Moscovian" region is never called that, it is called The Far East. And the most distinctive regions of Russia are, of course, the cities of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg themselves. In fact, you can call Moscow City and the rest of Russia completely different states and it will not be too far from the truth. Generally, the contrast between large cities and rural areas is very sharp.

It is more geographical, economic and political division rather than a cultural one. My inside that culturally and historically, Russia is divided into 1. Ethnic core 2. Territories colonized during the Empire. 3. National republics. 1. The ethnic core is the territory inhabited by the indigenous Slavic population from the ancient time and middle ages until formation and expansion of the Empire. The territory is approximately from Arkhangelsk in the north to Voronezh or maybe Rostov-on-Don in the south and from the western border to Vyatka in ther north east and Tambov in the south east. There are many ancient cities and villages, territory of ancient slavic tribes and medieval kingdoms, local dialects and autochtonous ethnic russian traditions. There are even differences in the gene pools of the regions in the north and south. It is divided into northern and southern regions approximately at the latitude of Moscow. And it's divided historically even further to the historical regions on the site of ancient kingdoms, like Pskov, Tver, Severia, Smolensk etc. 2. Colonized territories are the south, Kuban and Stavropol, Lower Volga and Trans-Volga regions. Ural. Taiga-Tundra. South Siberia. Far East. Since these territories were settled by russians recently, historical and cultural differences have not accumulated, with the exception of Kuban, where there is a noticeable Ukrainian specificity due to the fact that many residents have ancestors from the territory of modern Ukraine. The cultural characteristics of these regions are determined by geography and modern economics, rather than by local ancient history. 3. Almost every republic is special due to the fact that separate peoples live in them, with their own languages and ancient separate ethnic history. Also, the republics differ greatly in the percentage of the Russian population that spread there after these lands came under Russian Empire. In some republics there are almost no local people and such a republic will hardly differ from neighboring Russian regions, and in some there are almost no Russians.

You should do Indonesia or India next it would be a very interesting video

I have some family background in the south Ural region with family on my fathers side immigrating from that region. This video is very interesting although Sakhalin is actually a very interesting part of Russia that could have been at least mentioned.

i love how alot of people are spiritual and buddhist there. the govt doesnt hide spiritual awakening from ppl like they do here in america.

You said that specific regions were underpopulated. Given that the populations are decreasing in many of these regions as folks migrate to more prosperous regions, are they really underpopulated? Or were they overpopulated in the past due to Soviet policies? I think the proper term is sparsely populated. AFAIK, many of the regions have higher population densities compared to similar regions in Canada. For example, rather East Moscovia is more akin to British Columbia than Oregon. Moscow is more akin to Alberta than anyplace in the USA. Is St Petersburg not closer to Vancouver, BC than Seattle?

I think a regions of India would be cool!

Please make a cultural map of China and Ethiopia

Any conmmunity videos soon?

What if the anglosphere united?

I would say this is still oversimplified. There are The federal districts of Russia. I love it when people try to link Missouri with the Great Lakes like no the Heartland Is a different region and West Virginia with New York what's that. It looks like you had Volga too big and the Muscovy area could be subdivided further into other regions too

I would love to see a video like this about the cultures of Spain and Italy.

it would be interests to see this kind of video done with a smaller nation like Greece or one of the nordic countries

Mr. Z, Respectfully, its Appalachia(Apple-atchya)

The US and Russia really do share a lot in common, far more then either do with Europe or even their neighbors apart from a few. Why are we not allies?

Video suggestion: Make a cultural map for the UK and China.

Interesting!

Surprisingly decent, not 100% correct, but good enough for short 9-min video. Also, might I suggest you to visit our country and experience it first-hand?)

Карта выглядит довольно странно, некоторые регионы "выходят" За свои границы, а так же некоторых субъектов тут нет.... Непорядок

Eh, it was interesting to see an American view of the Russian cultural regions. But I have to point out some things. Firstly the line between European Russia and so called Siberia is wrong, it's drawn too west. Also you mistakenly counted Omsk and Novosibirsk regions as Urals, while in reality they belong to Siberia. Greater Volgograd and East Moscovia are incredibly unserious names no one ever uses. The most east region already has its name - Russian Far East, why come up with new silly name for that? The thing about Ural mostly supporting ruling party is also wrong. Yekaterinburg, the biggest city in the Urals, is probably the most protest and free-thinking city of all Russia.

Great video, Russia is such a huge and fascinating country! Could you make a video comparing the treatment of native populations in the Russian East vs American West during the respective country’s expansion?

Это ужасный анализ. Географические, экономические и политические регионы соединены бог пойми как. Все смешано в кучу. Север и псковщина в одном ряду с Москвой и Питером. Бедная буддисткая Калмыкия у Каспия вместе с богатым и модернизированным Татарстаном на Волге. Западная Сибирь убежала в "Южный Урал". Русское ядро разделено надвое и ее южная половина объединяет такие абсолютно разные регионы как северокавзские республики и русские центральные области. Как будто ИИ делал мод на Хойку или что-то типа того.

I should add that St.Petersburg, Novgorod and Pskov oblasts are usually grouped in their own cultural region something similar to Catalonia in Spain: there is some kind of cultural and influence rivalry between St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Hate to break this to you but uh every country at least the size of Nevada have distinct regions

no. just - no. we don`t have such structure