Russia
Where's Russia?
Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries. Russia is a transcontinental country,extending halfway around the northern hemisphere covering much of eastern and northern eastern. Europe and the whole of northern Asia.
Matryoshka
Matyoshka, one of the most popular symbols to symbolize Russia . They are decorated wooden dolls also known as Russian nesting dolls, or babushka dolls.
Russia's Flag
The flag of Russia is a tricolor flag consisting of three equal horizontal fields
Saint Basil's Cathedral
This is a Cathedral church also known as Saint Basil's. This building is now turned into a museum.
The Bolshevik
World War I demonstrated czarist corruption and inefficiency, and only patriotism held the poorly equipped army together for a time. Disorders broke out in Petrograd (renamed Leningrad and now St. Petersburg) in March 1917, and defection of the Petrograd garrison launched the revolution. Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 15, 1917
Russia's Capital
Moscow, on the Moskva River in western Russia, is the nation’s cosmopolitan capital. It is also the largest city in Russia.
Population
There are over 143.5 miilion people in Russia. Russia population is equivalent to 1.95% of the total world population.
Area
Russia is 6.602 miilion miles. Between 1550 and 1700, Russia grew by about 35000 square kilometres of territory every year, about the size of the Netherlands. This prodigious expansion owes a lot to Russian competition with western powers, as colonial Europe was extending its rule to the Americas and Africa.
Tourism
The State Russian Museum is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg. It is also one of the largest museums in the country.
Industries
Currently Russian consists of the following competitive industries: oil and gas, mining, processing precious stones and metals, aircraft building, aerospace production, weapons and military machinery manufacture, electric engineering, pulp-and-paper production, automotive industry, transport, road and agriculture machinery production, light and foodstuffs industries.