Russia
Russian Federation
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About Russia
Russia is by far the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest nation, Canada. It contains large Arctic and sub-Arctic areas, vast Siberian tundra, forests and steppe, mountains such as the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus with Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest point at 5,633 m and the volcanoes on Kamchatka.
Travelers will enjoy a country with enormous cultural treasures and historical monuments. St. Petersburg and Moscow are exciting cities with an overwhelming sense of history, world class museums, churches and other historic centers, witnesses of the turbulent history of Russia from Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great, from the fall of the tsars to the dictatorship of the Soviet government.
Top destinations in Russia
Cities in Russia
- Irkutsk
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Kostroma
- Moscow
- Murmansk
- Novgorod
- Pereslavl-Zalessky
- Petrozavodsk
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Rostov-on-Don
- Saint Petersburg
- Sochi
- Vladimir
- Vladivostok
- Volgograd
- Yaroslavl
- Yekaterinburg
General information
- Capital: Moscow
- Language: Russian, many minority languages
- Climate: Ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north
- Timezone: UTC +2/+12
- Currency: 1 Rouble = 100 kopecks
- Electricity plugs: c f (show)
- No. of inhabitants: 143,420,309 (July 2005 est.)
- Interl. accesscode +7
- Toplevel domain .ru
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Good to know
Russia's many ethnic groups have created an enormous diversity in culture. In some regions non-slavic tongues have become more prevalent.
Religion: mainly Russian Orthodox Christian with Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish minorities
National holiday: Russia Day, 12 June (1990)
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