What is Southern Russia?
[[File:Map_of_Southern_Russia_(region).svg|thumb|300x300px|Map of Southern Russia (the [[Southern Federal District]] is in blue and the [[North Caucasian Federal District]] is in red).]] '''Southern Russia''' ({{lang-ru|Юг России}}, ''Yug Rossii'') is a [[region]] of [[European Russia]]. It is usually said to be made up of the [[Southern Federal District]] and the [[North Caucasian Federal District]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Yevgeny Popov|date=9 December 2012|title=Кто подрывает юг России|language=ru|trans-title=Who Controls Southern Russia?|work=[[Russia-1]]|url=http://vesti7.ru/news?id=38903|access-date=30 January 2015|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225083124/http://vesti7.ru/article/346842/episode/09-12-2012/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Major regions in Southern Russia are the [[North Caucasus]], [[Kuban]], the [[Don (river)|Don]], and [[Kalmykia]]. The area of Southern Russia is made up of two of the nine [[federal districts of Russia]] which have 19 [[Federal subjects of Russia|federal subjects]] in them, six of which are [[Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts|disputed]] with [[Ukraine]] since 2022: {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} *[[Southern Federal District]]: **[[File:Flag of Adygea.svg|23px|border]] [[Adygea|Republic of Adygea]] **[[File:Flag of Astrakhan Oblast.svg|23px|border]] [[Astrakhan Oblast]] **[[File:Flag of Crimea.svg|23px|border]] [[Crimea|Republic of Crimea]]{{efn|name=crimea|group=subject-list|Annexed by Russia in 2014; recognized internationally as a part of [[Ukraine]].}} **[[File:Flag of Donetsk People's Republic.svg|23px|border]] [[Donetsk Oblast#History|Donetsk People's Republic]]{{efn|name=donetsk|group=subject-list|Annexed by Russia in 2022; recognized internationally as a part of [[Ukraine]].}} **[[File:Flag of Kalmykia.svg|23px|border]] [[Republic of Kalmykia]] **[[File:Flag of Kherson Oblast (Russia).svg|23px|border]] [[Kherson Oblast#History|Kherson Region]]{{efn|name=donetsk}} **[[File:Flag of Krasnodar Krai.s