Welcome to Russian Life

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I. General Knowledge

II. Culture

III. Cities

General Knowledge

TerritoryClimateNatural recoursesPopulationGovernmentEconomyEducation

TerritoryRussia is the largest country in the world. It occupies 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq miles).Covers more than a ninth of the Earth's land area.Have borders with 16 countries.

Location: World’s Map

Location: Russia’s Map

Urals

Location: Ural’s Region Map

Location: Nizhniy Tagil’s Map

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Nizhniy Tagil

Location: World’s Map

Climate

Seasons

Winter

Summer

Autumn

Spring

Summer

50 ° F - 86 ° F

Autumn

10° F - 50° F

10° F - -40° F

Winter

Spring

20° F - 60° F

BIOMES

Populationo Population – 142 million people.o Russia is the ninth most populous nation.o Nations:

• Russians 79.8% • Ukrainians 2%

•Tatars 3.8% •Bashkirs 1.2%

•Chuvashes 1.1% •Chechens 0.9%

•Armenians 0.8% •other 10.4%

Government

Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russian Federation

Russia is a federation

country and semi-presidential republic, where the President is

the head of state and the Prime Minister is the

head of

government.

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russian Federation.

Federal SubjectsThe Russian Federation comprises 83 federal

subjects: 46 oblasts (provinces), 21 republics, 9 krais (territories),

5 autonomous okrugs (autonomous districts), 2 federal cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg).

Federal subject divided into 8 federal districts and had its representatives in Federation Council and State Duma that is both include about 636 members, which could adopt federal laws, declares wars, approves treaties, has the power of the purse and the power of impeachment of the President.

Federal Subjects

• Generosity

• Honesty

• Courage, love

• Orthodox faith

• Royal authority

• Russian People

•Freedom

•Blessed Virgin Mary

•Statehood

Economy• The economy of Russia is the 12th largest

economy in the world by nominal value and the 7th largest by purchasing powe parity (PPP).

• Russia has an abundance of natural gas oil, coal, and precious metals. It is also rich in agriculture.

• Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a globally-isolated, centrally-planned economy to a more market-based and globally-integrated economy.

Money

$ 1 – 30 rubley

Natural Recourses• Russia accounts for around 20 percent of the

world's production of oil and natural gas. • Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore,

manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, lead, diamonds and so on.

• It has one of the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.

Education SystemType of school Grade Age

Primary General School

1st - 4th (6)7 - 10

Basic General Secondary School

5th – 9th 11 - 16

Secondary (Complete) General

School

10th – 11th 17 - 18

General secondary education lasts for nine years. After 9th grade students can graduate and continue to study in Non-university level higher education. Other way, pupils may graduate after another two years in high school that allowed them to complete their secondary general school. And after that, students may enter a University Level schools.

School TypesSecondary

(School) Education

General SchoolExtensive School,

upper level

Gymnasium, upper level

Lyceum, Non-University Level Higher Education Institution (9 -11 grade)

Higher Education

Uchilische, Technical Institution

Technikum, Non-University Level

Higher Education Institution

College, Non-University Level Higher

Education Institution

Conservatory (musical education)

Institute, University Level

Academy, University Level

Technical University

University

School Schedule

As a rule students go to school six days a week.

(7:50-8:25 Facultative )

8:30 – 9:15 First lesson

9:25 – 10:10 Second lesson

10:20 – 11:05 Third lesson

11:30 – 12:15 Forth lesson

12:25 – 13:10 Fifth lesson

13:30 – 14:15 Sixth lesson

(14:20 – 15:05 Seventh lesson)

General Subjects for High School

RussianLiterature(all)Foreign

languagesChemistryPhysicsBiologyGeographyAlgebraGeometry

History(all)Social SciencesComputer

SciencePESafetyMusicArtH-craft (drafting)

Culture

TraditionsLanguageReligionArtHolidays

some basic Traditions and Customs

There is a tradition to pull the ears of a birthday person as many times as he become older.

Happy b-day!С Днём Рождения!

(S Dnyom Rozh-deni-ya!)

Each student have to stand up in the beginning of the class – to greet teacher until he will let pupils sit down.Students also have to stand up each time that any teacher arrived in a room.

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Classroom

Handshake could be used in different situations in the life of Russians. One of them – greeting each other, but as a rule used only by men. Women prefer hugs or just words.

Greeting handshake

Loaf – bread, might used to greet visitors.Also widely used in wedding traditions.

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Loaf

Russians use to drink tea a lot. As a rule tea could go with breakfast, dinner and supper and any kind of desert. Also, when there is a guest in the house it’s a tradition to offer a tea to him.Tea

The first meal is a breakfast in the morning.

The second meal is a dinner. Russian people usually have it after noon.

The last meal is a supper. Could be between 6 to 8 o’clock in the evening.

3 times Meal

National FoodBorsch

Pelmeny

National FoodBliny

(not pancakes!)

Salads

Salad with cucumbers and tomatoes

Salad with crab and corn

Olivie

Language

Russian Alphabet1 А 12 К 23 Х

2 Б 13 Л 24 Ц3 В 14 М 25 Ч4 Г 15 Н 26 Ш5 Д 16 О 27 Щ6 Е 17 П 28 Ъ7 Ё 18 Р 29 Ы8 Ж 19 С 30 Ь9 З 20 Т 31 Э

10 И 21 У 32 Ю11 Й 22 Ф 33 Я

Vowels Consonants

New WordsWord Translate In Russian

Privet Hello Привет

Poka Bye Пока

Kak dela? How are you? Как дела?

Spasibo Thank you Спасибо

Horosho Fine Хорошо

Ya I’m Я

Eda Food Еда

Religion

According to the Russian Constitution, there is a Freedom of choosing religion. But during a long period of history Russians are used to be Orthodox Christians.

The latest situation in the country now include: Orthodox 75% Islam 5% Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Buddhism 1% per religion and

less Atheists 8%

Churches

Churches

Inside the churches

Aspects of

Folk Art

National Instruments

Balalaika

Gusli

Garmoni

National costumes

Khokhloma

Decorative painting wooden utensils and furniture, primarily in black and red colors. Traditional elements Khokhloma - Herbal patterns, juicy red rowan berries and strawberries, flowers and twigs. Not uncommon to find birds, fish and animals. Also, was found in Nizhniy Novgorod, in 17th century.

GzhelGzhel is one of the traditional Russian centers of ceramics production with using white and blue colors.

Wooden dolls

Matryoshka - Russian wooden toy in the form of a painted doll, with similar but smaller dolls inside.

Main Holidays New Year – 31th of December – 1st of

January Carnival – 7 weeks before Eastern Defender's Day – 23th of February Women's Day – 8th of March Victory’s Day – 9th of May Knowledge’s Day – 1st of September

New Year New Year is a big family holiday, when people get together had a great dinner, listen to the president before the midnight, give gifts and had a party.

Festive cycle preserved in Russia since pre-Christian times. The rite is associated with the wires of winter and spring meeting.

The cycle continue 7 days and all this days people supposed to eat different dishes with bliny (crepes).

Carnival (Masleniza)

Defender’s Day

• Casual holiday that congratulate men and army. for their honor. Connected with World War II.

Women’s Day

• Casual holiday that congratulate all women without any reason. This day also was a beginning for women’s equality.

Victory’s Day. 9th of May

The Day that officially was called the end of the Second World War. Russians celebrate it with big parades, concerts, fireworks.

Knowledge Day1 September – Back to school

• In the 1st of September all students finish their summer holidays and back to school.

• As a rule there is a meeting of all students in front of school. It’s cold “lineyka’ and usually include concert numbers, mistress speech, greeting 1st grade.

Cities

Capitol – MoscowSaint- PetersburgNizhniy Tagil

Moscow

A few words about… Moscow is the capital of RF. The city is a global city.

Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe including about 10,563,038 people.

Underground Railroad Map

Sa int -Petersburg

is a city of a federal meaning. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad. The city was founded by Tsar Petr I to “create a window to Europe”. It is a cultural city and also one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Nizhniy Tagil• Territory - 4,601 km2 (1,776 sq mi).• Population is over 400 000 people.

Natural Recourses Nizhniy Tagil has a lot of different

natural recourses, that’s why it’s an industrial city with a lot of plants and factories.

One of the greatest amount of its recourses is copper.

Fact: there are about 30 tons of Nizhniy Tagil’s copper in Statue of Liberty in USA.

THIS AREA ALSO WELL KNOWN FOR ITS MALACHITE.

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Streets

Winter

DEMIDOV’S OLD PLANT. NOWADAYS - MUSEUM

MONUMENT TO THE BROTHERS CHEREPANOVS WHO BUILT THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE

Model of first locomotive

PALACE OF CULTURE

Eternal Flame

Lenin Monument

Local Museum

Fair Street

SCHOOL BUILDING

Park

Drama Theatre

Bride Day

FIREWORKS ON CELEBRATIONS

Baker Parade

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Thank you =)

Anastasiya Borisyuk ValeryevnaFLEX student 2010 from Russia

Salado, TX