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RUSSIA
What is Russia?
Not only Putin riding a bear…
What is Russia?
Simply, the biggest country in the world.
17,098,246 km²
But this number might not help you imagine how really
big is it…
= 70
2 continents
Russia
North Caucasian Federal District
Caucasus mountains
Traditions of Caucasian nationalities
Elbrus – 5,642 m
Southern Federal District
The Volga river (length – 3530 km)
Volgograd/Stalingrad – The Motherland Calls
Sochi – Winter Olympic Games 2014
Astrakhan
Volga Federal District
Nizhny Novgorod – the Kremlin (13th century) Cloister 15th century
Perm – wooden architecture (19th century)
Kazan – Kul-Sharif mosque
Ufa
Central Federal District
Red Square The Kremlin Saint Basil’s Cathedral
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
“Moscow City” business centre
Kuskovo homestead
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Moscow region)
Northwestern Federal District
Franz Josef Land Karelia
Kizhi
the Ural Mountains
Peterhof
Tsar’s Village
Kazan Cathedral
The Peter and Paul Fortress Palace Bridge
Ural Federal District
Metallurgy industry
The largest coal mine
Arkaim
Kungurskaya Ice cave
Nevyansky tower
Siberian Federal District
Lake Baikal (1642 m. depth) Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam
The Trans-Siberian Railway
9288,2 km
Novosibirsk
Far Eastern Federal District
Cape Dezhnyov
Valley of Geysers
Yakutia – poles of cold
Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Vladivostok
From Russia with love!