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!