Libya dwarfs Russia: about 1,626,369 km² km² against 16,879,701 km² km². At true size Libya is about 10.4× larger — the whole of Russia fits into Libya roughly 10 times.
Libya sits in Africa, Russia in Europe. On the old Mercator map the latitude gap distorted how large each felt beside the other; at true size the answer is simply 10.4×.
The old map muddied it further: Mercator inflates Libya about 1.3× and Russia about 6.1×, so on a Mercator-style map this pair appears 49.9× apart instead of the true 10.4×.
Libya fits 10× into Russia.