RUSSIA

Huaraz - 2018
 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIA
• Russia is the largest country in the world with a
territory of more than 17 million square
kilometers. It is located in eastern Europe and
northern Asia, has borders with 16 states and its
border line is the longest in the world with 60
thousand kilometers. Russia holds a quarter of
all the world's forests, more than any other
country.
 STATE SYSTEM
• Russia is a democratic federal state
with a republican form of government.
The current Constitution of Russia was
approved in the national referendum
held on December 12, 1993. The Head
of State is the President elected by the
citizens of Russia for a period of 4
years. In March 2004, Vladimir Putin
was re-elected for a second term of
four years.
MAIN CITIES, ADMINISTRATIVE
DIVISION
• The Russian Federation is composed of 21
republics, 6 territories, 48 regions, cities of
federal importance of Moscow and St.
Petersburg, an autonomous region and 9
autonomous districts. Moscow is the capital of
Russia (more than 10 million inhabitants).
Large cities with more than 1 million
inhabitants are: St. Petersburg (4.6 million),
Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg,
Samara, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Perm,
Ufa, Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd.
 POPULATION, LANGUAGE, RELIGION
• According to data from the 2003 census, the
population of Russia reaches 145.2 million inhabitants.
. The Russians constitute approximately 80% of the
population. In addition to the Russians, in Russia there
are more than 100 nations and peoples, the most
numerous of which are the Ukrainians and Tatars. The
official language of international communication is
Russian. Most believers profess the Orthodox Christian
faith. Also present are Islam, Catholicism, Judaism,
Buddhism.
WEATHER
• The climate of Russia is very varied: subtropical on the
coast of the Black Sea, strongly continental in South
Siberia, Arctic in the Far North, maritime on the coast of
the Baltic Sea and temperate monsoon in the south of
the Far East. On the same day on the coast of the Black
Sea the bathing season opens and on the coast of the
Eastern Sea of Siberia a snow storm is triggered. The
most populated part of the territory of Russia is in the
temperate climate zone. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, in the
area of the Golden Ring and the Volga River the
summer is hot and the winter is soft and snowy, which
attracts tourists from all over the world
 CULTURE
• Russia is a country with a culture of more than a thousand years. Most of the
cities preserve the old temples and monasteries and nowadays new ones are
being built and opened. The talented people of Russia gave the world writers
like Tolstoy and Dostoevskiy, Gorky and Chekhov. Five representatives of the
Russian people won the Nobel Prize for Literature: Bunin, Shólokhov, Pasternak,
Solzhenitsin and Brodskiy. Everyone knows the music of Russian composers
Tchaikovsky, Rakhmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Shnitke. Malévich
and Kandinsky, representatives of the Russian avant-garde, stood out for
embodying the new ideas in painting and Serguey Eisenstein, Andrey Tarkovsky
in cinematographic art. The discoveries and inventions of Russian scientists in the
fields of chemistry, nuclear physics, aviation and the military industry are known
all over the world. In 1961 in Russia (at that time the Soviet Union) the first flight
of man into cosmic space was put into practice. World Classical Ballet with its
outstanding stars Anna Pávlova, Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisétskaya, Rodolfo
Nureev, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Everyone knows the successes of Russian athletes:
swimmers, athletes, gymnasts, chess players, figure skating champions and hockey
players.
 BANKS AND LOCAL CURRENCY
• Russian national currency is the ruble. One ruble
equals 100 kopecks. You can exchange currency
(dollars, euros) in banks or at the exchange offices
in the streets, in hotels, supermarkets, stations and
airports. In the capital and in the big cities there
are offices that remain open 24 hours a day.
• Credit cards are now accepted mainly in large
cities and tourist centers.
TRANSPORT
• The main means of interurban communication in the
gigantic territory of Russia are the train and the
plane. The trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg lasts
5-7 hours on the train and one hour by plane, but
the flight from Moscow to Kamchatka lasts 9 hours.
The capital has 5 airports and 9 railway stations.
The communication between the cities and
neighboring regions is done by electric trains or
intercity buses. In Moscow and other large cities
there are several types of transport: metro, buses,
trolley buses, taxis and collective taxis. In Moscow
the most popular transport is the metro.
 TOURIST PLACES OF RUSSIA

Peterhof Palace, Saint

Red Square, Moscow Petersburg Sochi

Church of the Savior on the Spilled Kremlin

Russian State Museum
Blood, Saint Petersburg
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