World Region Information --- Russia Information
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It is the largest country in the world, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south.
Approximately 17.1 million km2
Saint Petersburg(5.28 million), Novosibirsk(1.6 million), Yekaterinburg(1.46 million), Nizhny Novgorod(1.27 million), Kazan(1.23 million), Chelyabinsk(1.2 million), Omsk(1.18 million), Samara(1.17 million), Ufa(1.13 million), Rostov-na-Donu(1.12 million), etc.
Approximately 146.75 million people
81.0% Russian, 3.7% Tatar, 1.4% Ukrainian, 1.2% Armenian, 1.1% Bashkir, 1.0% Chuvash, 11.0% other/unspecified
Russian is the national and official language
Russian Orthodox 41.1%, Other Christians 6.3%, Muslims 6.5%, Others
- Sophia Cathedral
- St Basil's Church
Russia has literary, philosophical, dance, classical, ballet, architecture, painting, and rich material and technical traditions. Influenced by Slavic and European cultures as well as Byzantine, Turkish, and Mongol cultures, Russia has nurtured a unique Russian culture that differs from them. The influence of tyranny and political oppression on Russian culture can also be seen.
- Elbrus Mountain
- Valley of Geysers(Dolina Geyzerov)
- Museum-Reserve "Kizhi"
- Lake Baikal
- Suzdaliskiy kremli
- State Hermitage
An 11-year course is compulsory.
- Moscow State University
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Saint Petersburg State University
- RANKhiGS
- Kazan Federal University
- Ural Federal University
- Tomsk State University
- Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
- National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
- Siberian Federal University
- Novosibirsk State University
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
- St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great
- Lobachevsky University Nizhny Novgorod
- Russian National Library
- Library of Foreign Literature
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia
1853 Crimean War
1877-78 Russian-Turkish War
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
1914-18 World War I
1917 Russian Revolution, Dictatorship of the Proletariat
1922 The Soviet Union is formed
1930s- Great Stalinist Purge, Forced Ethnic Migration
1939-45 World War II
1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. Invades eastern Poland and partitions Poland. Winter War
1941 German forces launch a surprise attack
1942 Battle of Stalingrad
1945 Germany surrenders. Growing influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
1947 The Cold War begins
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1979-89 Military intervention in Afghanistan
1985-91 Perestroika
1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union. Birth of the Russian Federation. Presidential system begins
2022 Invade to Ukraine
It is a semi-presidential federal republic. The president is the head of state. The prime minister serves as head of government. The legislative branch is bicameral.
- Moscow Kremlin
- Red Square
- Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
$11,305
It is a medium to high income economy with vast natural resources, especially oil and gas.
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