Kuril Islands, Sochi, Orenburg and others: we talk about possible territorial claims of different countries to Russia

For more than a decade, the Russian Federation has been suffering from phantom pain in the territories that at different times were part of the Russian Empire and the USSR. Often, “from behind the curb,” a howl is heard about the “original Russian lands” that are part of the neighboring states.

But if you “stir up the nest” of territorial claims, then you should remember that other countries may also have many questions about the current borders of the Russian Federation.
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🇲🇳Mongolia
The Mongol Empire in the Middle Ages occupied most of modern Russia. But even without taking this into account, among the heirs of Genghis Khan there are ideas of uniting the Mongolian peoples into a single state. These include Buryats and Kalmyks. More than a hundred years ago, at a conference in Chita with the participation of the Buryats, it was decided to create a Great Mongolian state.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan
There is an idea in society of Great Azerbaijan from Derbent to the Persian Gulf. There were also ideas to take Dagestan away from the Russian Federation.

🇮🇷Iran
Tehran also considers Derbent and part of Dagestan theirs.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan
For centuries, Kazakhs roamed the territory of Western Siberia and Altai. The ancestral lands of the Kazakh families were Orenburg and Astrakhan. Tyumen is the northernmost part of the Kazakh nomads, and Altai is the cradle of all Turkic peoples.

🇹🇼Taiwan
As a result of the civil war, the Communists ousted representatives of the Kuomintang Party to Taiwan. “Chinese nationalists,” as they were called in the press, did not recognize the power of the Communist Party. For decades, they considered themselves the legitimate all-Chinese government, which was established after the fall of the Qin dynasty in 1911. And that, in turn, owned the Uriankhai region (now the Republic of Tyva), which in 1914 became part of Russia.

🇨🇳China
Although the Celestial Empire officially has no claims, it often indicates the Far East on maps as its own territory. Textbooks refer to Siberia as “temporarily lost territory.”

🇫🇮Finland
The government does not make any claims against the Russian Federation, but the organizations “ProKarelia”, the “Karelia” club or the magazine “Karjalan kuvalehti” insist on the inclusion of Karelia into Finland.

🇯🇵Japan
After World War II, the USSR and Japan never signed a peace treaty. Therefore, the country of the Rising Sun considers the annexed Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and the Habomai group of islands to be its own.

🇬🇪Georgia
In the Middle Ages, the area around the city of Sochi was part of the Georgian kingdom. In 1918-1919 Tbilisi authorities tried to return Sochi. This question has been raised already in modern times.

🇰🇷Korea
South Korea does not recognize the legal transfer of Noktundo Island on the Tumannaya River in the Primorsky Territory to the Soviet Union in 1990 by North Korean authorities. Seoul may have claims to the Ussuri region, which Russia received back in 1860.

🇩🇪Germany
Then in 1945, the communists expelled the Germans, Lithuanians and Latvians from East Prussia. Instead, peasants from the Tambov, Ryazan, Penza and Oryol regions were brought here. Beautiful names of cities like Konigsberg, Preussisch-Eylau, Tilsit were disfigured, renamed Kaliningrad, Bagrationovsk and Sovetsk.

🇱🇹Lithuania
Vilnius, which considers these lands “Lithuania Minor,” could also lay claim to Kaliningrad.

🇱🇻Latvia
In 1920, the Bolsheviks and the Latvian authorities signed an agreement under which the latter included the city of Jaunlatgale and its surroundings. Two decades later, the USSR captured Latvia and incorporated the city into the RSFSR, renaming it Pytalovo (now Pskov region). After the restoration of independence, Riga considers this area to be illegally annexed territory.

🇪🇪Estonia
The current Pechora district and the city of Ivangorod were part of Estonia during the interwar period. After its occupation, the USSR drew the border between the ESSR and the RSFSR along the Narva River, due to which the satellite cities of Narva and Jaanilinn (Ivangorod) were divided.

🇧🇾Belarus
The territory of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918 included the southern lands of the Pskov region and the western lands of Bryansk and Smolensk with the cities of Sebezh, Velikiye Luki, Smolensk, Bryansk.

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