Russia

Waters
Freshwater fishes
Saltwater fishes
General data
Catches (3)

Oceans

Pacific Ocean

Arctic ocean

Seas

Baltic sea

Kara sea

Barents Sea

Sea of Okhotsk

Sea of Japan

White sea

Laptev sea

Black sea

Chukchi Sea

Bays

Gulf of Finland

Largest rivers

Volga

Don

Kuban

Amur

Yenisey

Angara

Selenga

Yana

Lena

Indigirka

Kolyma

River Ob

Pechora

Neva

Svir

Tugur

Vuoksi

Daugava (Western Dvina)

Narva

Velikaya

Mezen

Kama

Northern Dvina

Oka

Neman

Ural

Dnieper

Terek

Biggest natural lakes

Lake Baikal

Lake Ladoga

Lake Onega

Lake Peipus

Biggest endorheic lakes

Caspian Sea

Biggest artificial lakes

Bratsk reservoir

Krasnoyarsk reservoir

Zeya reservoir

Perciformes - Perches

Zander (Sander lucioperca)

Volga zander (Sander volgensis)

Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua)

Balon's ruffe (Gymnocephalus baloni)

Schraetzer (Gymnocephalus schraetser)

Donets ruffe (Gymnocephalus acerina)

European perch (Perca fluviatilis)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma)

Northern whitefish (Coregonus peled)

Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi)

Grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

Nelma (Stenodus nelma)

Blunt-snouted lenok (Brachymystax tumensis)

Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Sharp-snouted lenok (Brachymystax lenok)

Baikal omul (Coregonus migratorius)

Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Vendace (Coregonus albula)

Maraena Whitefish (Coregonus maraena)

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

Whitespotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis)

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Siberian taimen (Hucho taimen)

Baikal black grayling (Thymallus baikalensis)

Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus)

Common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)

Broad whitefish (Coregonus nasus)

Round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum)

Esociformes - Pikes

Northern pike (Esox lucius)

Amur pike (Esox reichertii)

Siluriformes - Catfishes

Amur catfish (Silurus asotus)

Soldatov's catfish (Silurus soldatovi)

Wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)

Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)

Cypriniformes - Carps

Silver bream (Blicca bjoerkna)

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)

Danube whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio vladykovi)

Vimba (Vimba vimba)

Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)

Common nase (Chondrostoma nasus)

Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)

Schneider (Alburnoides bipunctatus)

Topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva)

Bleak (Alburnus alburnus)

Kutum (Rutilus frisii)

European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus)

Rudd (Scardinius erythrophtalmus)

Chub (Squalius cephalus)

Roach (Rutilus rutilus)

Black amur bream (Megalobrama terminalis)

European gudgeon (Gobio gobio)

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Northern whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio belingi)

Siberian dace (Leuciscus baicalensis)

Rosy bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus)

Amur bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)

Weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis)

Flathead asp (Pseudaspius leptocephalus)

Yellowcheek (Elopichthys bambusa)

Tench (Tinca tinca)

Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)

Common barbel (Barbus barbus)

Moderlieschen (Leucaspius delineatus)

Dnieper chub (Petroleuciscus borysthenicus)

Dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)

Crucian carp (Carassius carassius)

Ide (Leuciscus idus)

Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio)

Stone loach (Barbatula barbatula)

Asp (Leuciscus aspius)

Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus)

Volga nase (Chondrostoma variabile)

Bream (Abramis brama)

Common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)

Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus)

Blue bream (Ballerus ballerus)

European spined loach (Cobitis teania)

White-eye bream (Ballerus sapa)

Zeige (Pelecus cultratus)

Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish

Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus)

Kaluga (Huso dauricus)

Bastard sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris)

Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)

Starry sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus)

Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii)

European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio)

Beluga (Huso huso)

Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii)

Anabantiformes - Gouramies and snakeheads

Northern snakehead (Channa argus)

Gadiformes - Cods

Burbot (Lota lota)

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Twaite shad (Alosa fallax)

Black sea shad (Alosa immaculata)

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)

European bullhead (Cottus gobio)

Big Baikal oilfish (Comephorus baikalensis)

Great sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus)

Little Baikal oilfish (Comephorus dybowskii)

Baikal bighead sculpin (Batrachocottus baikalensis)

Fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis)

Alpine bullhead (Cottus poecilopus)

Volga bullhead (Cottus koshewnikowi)

Elopiformes - Tarpons and tenpounders

Indo-Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides)

Anguilliformes - Eels and morays

Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Moroniformes - Temperate basses

European bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Mugiliformes - Mullets

Thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus)

Golden grey mullet (Chelon auratus)

Thinlip grey mullet (Chelon ramada)

Flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Gobiiformes - Gobies

Bighead goby (Ponticola kessleri)

Monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis)

Sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus)

Racer goby (Babka gymnotrachelus)

Western tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris)

Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii)

Korean tripletooth goby (Tridentiger brevispinis)

Dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus)

Svetovidov tadpole goby (Benthophilus svetovidovi)

Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Gasterosteiformes - Sticklebacks

Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)

Ukrainian stickleback (Pungitius platygaster)

Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Syngnathiformes - Pipefishes and Seahorses

Black-striped pipefish (Syngnathus abaster)

Atheriniformes - Silversides

Big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri)

Osmeriformes - Smelts

European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus)

Ayu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis)

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas)

Petromyzontiformes - Lampreys

Brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri)

European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)

Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)

Perciformes - Perches

Ambon damsel (Pomacentrus amboinensis)

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Sea zander (Sander marinus)

Comber (Serranus cabrilla)

Painted comber (Serranus scriba)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma)

Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi)

Nelma (Stenodus nelma)

Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)

Vendace (Coregonus albula)

Maraena Whitefish (Coregonus maraena)

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

Whitespotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis)

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Largescale blackfish (Girella punctata)

Redlip morwong (Goniistius zebra)

Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish

Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus)

Kaluga (Huso dauricus)

Bastard sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris)

Starry sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus)

Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii)

European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio)

Beluga (Huso huso)

Gadiformes - Cods

Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)

Polar cod (Boreogadus saida)

Ghostly grenadier (Coryphaenoides leptolepis)

Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)

Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis)

Abyssal grenadier (Coryphaenoides armatus)

Atlantic pollock (Pollachius pollachius)

Saithe (Pollachius virens)

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

European hake (Merluccius merluccius)

Cusk (Brosme brosme)

Spariformes - Breams and porgies

Blotched picarel (Spicara maena)

Common two-banded sea bream (Diplodus vulgaris)

Annular seabream (Diplodus annularis)

Sharpsnout seabream (Diplodus puntazzo)

Common dentex (Dentex dentex)

Salema (Sarpa salpa)

Atlantic tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis)

Bogue (Boops boops)

Zeiformes - Dories

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Carangiformes - Jacks

Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)

Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)

Shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)

Striped marlin (Kajikia audax)

Black marlin (Istiompax indica)

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Twaite shad (Alosa fallax)

European pilchard (Sardina pilchard)

Black sea shad (Alosa immaculata)

European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)

European sprat (Sprattus sprattus)

Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax)

Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes

Silver croaker (Pennahia argentata)

Meagre (Argyrosomus regius)

Honnibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)

Brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus)

Montagu's seasnail (Liparis montagui)

Shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius)

Saitone prickleback (Chirolophis saitone)

Black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus)

Striped seasnail (Liparis liparis)

Rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus)

Tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna)

Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)

Rock greenling (Hexagrammos lagocephalus)

Spotty-bellied greenling (Hexagrammos agrammus)

Spiny red gurnard (Chelidonichthys spinosus)

Masked greenling (Hexagrammos octogrammus)

Abyssal searobin (Lepidotrigla abyssalis)

Japanese red gurnard (Lepidotrigla microptera)

Japanese White Seaperch (Sebastes cheni)

Goldeye rockfish (Sebastes thompsoni)

Brassblotched Rockfish (Sebastes pachycephalus)

Whitespotted greenling (Hexagrammos stelleri)

Japanese Red Rockfish (Sebastes inermis)

Korean rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii)

Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus)

Gilbert’s Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus gilberti)

Red Irish lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)

False kelpfish (Sebastiscus marmoratus)

False kelpfish (Sebastes marmoratus)

Great sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus)

Kelp greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)

Spotted wolffish (Anarhichas minor)

Fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis)

Golden redfish (Sebastes norvegicus)

Okhotsk atka mackerel (Pleurogrammus azonus)

Northern wolffish (Anarhichas denticulatus)

Bering wolffish (Anarhichas orientalis)

Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus)

Wolf eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)

Eelpout (Zoarces viviparus)

Grey gurnard (Eutrigla gurnardus)

Beloniformes - Needlefishes

Garfish (Belone belone)

Scombriformes - Mackerels

Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)

Atlantic Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus)

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)

Albacore (Thunnus alalunga)

Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda)

Bullet tuna (Auxis rochei)

Little tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus)

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

Pacific Chub Mackerel (Scomber japonicus)

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Labriformes - Wrasses

Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis)

Goldsinny wrasse (Ctenolabrus rupestris)

Tetraodontiformes - Puffers and filefishes

Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Elopiformes - Tarpons and tenpounders

Indo-Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides)

Anguilliformes - Eels and morays

European conger (Conger conger)

Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Mulliformes - Goatfishes

Red mullet (Mullus barbatus)

Striped red mullet (Mullus surmuletus)

Moroniformes - Temperate basses

European bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Mugiliformes - Mullets

Thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus)

Golden grey mullet (Chelon auratus)

Thinlip grey mullet (Chelon ramada)

Flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Blenniiformes - Blennies

Zvonimir's blenny (Parablennius zvonimiri)

Butterfly blenny (Blennius ocellaris)

Montagu’s blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita)

Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine)

Mystery blenny (Parablennius incognitus)

Rusty blenny (Parablennius sanguinolentus)

Tentacled blenny (Parablennius tentacularis)

Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes

European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

European flounder (Platichthys flesus)

Common sole (Solea solea)

Common dab (Limanda limanda)

Common topknot (Zeugopterus punctatus)

Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes

Greater weever (Trachinus draco)

Lesser sand eel (Ammodytes tobianus)

Gobiiformes - Gobies

Transparent goby (Aphia minuta)

Sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus)

Korean tripletooth goby (Tridentiger brevispinis)

Dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus)

Chameleon goby (Tridentiger trigonocephalus)

Black goby (Gobius niger)

Red-mouthed goby (Gobius cruentatus)

Rock goby (Gobius paganellus)

Svetovidov tadpole goby (Benthophilus svetovidovi)

Giant goby (Gobius cobitis)

Painted goby (Pomatoschistus pictus)

Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Fries's goby (Lesueurigobius friesii)

Beryciformes - Sawbellies

Alfonsino (Beryx decadactylus)

Trachichthyiformes - Rughies

Big roughy (Gephyroberyx japonicus)

Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses

Giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas)

Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus)

Lampriformes - Lamprids

Blackflash ribbonfish (Trachipterus jacksonensis)

Mediterranean dealfish (Trachipterus trachypterus)

Giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne)

Syngnathiformes - Pipefishes and Seahorses

Snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus)

Broadnosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle)

Black-striped pipefish (Syngnathus abaster)

Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus)

Lophiiformes - Anglerfishes

European anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius)

Blackbellied anglerfish (Lophius budegassa)

Atheriniformes - Silversides

Big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri)

Osmeriformes - Smelts

European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus)

Ayu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis)

Myxiniformes - Hagfishes

Honshu hagfish (Eptatretus okinoseanus)

Callionymiformes - Dragonets

Common dragonet (Callionymus lyra)

Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks

Thresher (Alopias vulpinus)

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)

Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)

Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Smalltooth sand tiger (Odontaspis ferox)

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)

Blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus)

Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)

Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas)

Blue shark (Prionace glauca)

Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)

Hexanchiformes - Six-gill sharks

Bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus)

Orectolobiformes - Carpet shark

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks

Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)

Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi)

Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

Chimaeriformes - Chimaeras

Rabbit fish (Chimaera monstrosa)

Echinorhiniformes - Bramble sharks

Prickly shark (Echinorhinus cookei)

Pristiophoriformes - Saw sharks

Japanese sawshark (Pristiophorus japonicus)

Rajiformes - Skates and rays

Thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata)

Thornback ray (Raja clavata)

Common skate (Dipturus batis)

Ophidiiformes - Cusk-eels

Pudgy cuskeel (Spectrunculus grandis)

Brunswig's Cusk-eel (Lamprogrammus brunswigi)

Myliobatiformes - Stingrays

Giant manta ray (Mobula birostris)

Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers

Pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides)

Torpediniformes - Electric rays

Common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo)

Rhinopristiformes - Shovelnose rays

Chola guitarfish (Pseudobatos percellens)

Alepocephaliformes - Slickheads and tubeshoulders

California slickhead (Alepocephalus tenebrosus)

Polymixiiformes - Beardfishes

Silver eye (Polymixia japonica)

Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels

Snub-nosed spiny eel (Notacanthus chemnitzii)

Petromyzontiformes - Lampreys

Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)

Squatiniformes - Angelsharks

Angelshark (Squatina squatina)

Japanese angelshark (Squatina japonica)

Climate zones
The northern parts of the country, including Murmansk and Siberia, lie in the cold polar zone of the Arctic Ocean. Further south, large parts of the country are in the temperate climate zone and the southernmost regions near the Black Sea belong to the subtropics.

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