Interesting facts about Russian country, its history and modernity, nature and people, relationships with the outside world, and just funny curiosities. Some of these facts are well-known, but it is still quite difficult to recall them again. And many people may find out some interesting facts about Russia from this list for the first time.
Here are the top 24 fascinating strange facts about Russian country
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Oldest Mountain in the World :
►The Urals are the oldest mountains in the world. Located in the Kusinsky district near the village of Alexandrovka, Mount Pencil appeared 4.2 billion years ago. The historical names of the Ural Mountains are the Big Stone, the Siberian Stone, the Earth Belt, the Belt Stone. Once the Ural Mountains were very high, but now only the foundations of the former mountains remain.
Largest Active volcano in the world :
►Russia is home to the world’s largest active volcano – Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Its height is 4 kilometers 850 meters. It throws out columns of ash eight kilometers up. With each eruption, it gets higher and higher. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has been erupting for the last 7 thousand years.
Largest Country in the world :
► Russia is the largest country in the world, with an area of 17,075,400 square kilometers. It is 1.8 times larger than the United States. The area of Russia is approximately equal to the surface area of the planet Pluto.
Longest Railway in the World :
►The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest in the world. The Great Siberian Way, connecting Moscow with Vladivostok, has a length of 9298 kilometers, crosses 8 time zones, passes through 87 cities and settlements, and crosses 16 rivers, including the Volga.
Deepest Lake in the World – Baikal :
►Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. There are 23 cubic kilometers of water in Lake Baikal. All the largest rivers in the world-the Volga, Don, Dnieper, Yenisei, Ural, Ob, Ganges, Orinoco, Amazon, Thames, Seine, and Oder – must flow for almost a year to fill a basin equal in volume to Lake Baikal.
Border shared with Most Number of Countries :
Russia has borders with 16 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, and the United States. Russia also borders on two unrecognized states: South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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18 Interesting facts about Russian Country :
►Russia is the only state whose territory is washed by twelve seas.
►Russia is separated from America by 4 kilometers. This is the distance between Ratmanov Island (Russia) and Krusenstern Island (USA) in the Bering Strait.
►It is closer from Moscow to Chicago than from Chicago to Rio de Janeiro.
►There are 2000 libraries, 221 museums, 100 concert organizations, more than 80 theaters, 80 clubs and houses of culture, 62 cinemas, 45 art galleries in the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg.
►The Moscow Kremlin is the largest medieval fortress in the world.
►The total length of the Kremlin walls is 2235 meters.
►There is a large fountain in Moscow, from which drinking water flows. The fountain is part of the architectural group “Alexander and Natalie” with a sculptural composition of Pushkin and Goncharova in an elegant rotunda.
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►Saint Petersburg is the northernmost city in the world with a population of more than a million people.
►The area of Siberia is 9 million 734.3 thousand square kilometers, which is 9% of the earth’s land.
►There are more Kalashnikov assault rifles in the world than there are submachine guns of all other designs combined.
►Russia proclaimed the equal rights of men and women earlier than the United States. In Russia, women were granted the right to vote in 1918, in the United States – in 1920.
►On January 16, 1820, the Russian expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica.
►The most famous computer game-Tetris – was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West.
►There are 176 fountains in Peterhof near St. Petersburg, of which 40 are giant, and 5 cascades.
►Samovar – an ancient version of an electric kettle. This is one of the traditional symbols of Russia. The samovar worked on coal but performed the same function, boiled water.
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►The St. Petersburg Metro is the deepest in the world. Its average depth is 100 meters.
►There are three times more bridges in St. Petersburg than in Venice. According to the number of canals and bridges, it is more appropriate not to call St. Petersburg Northern Venice, but Venice – Southern St. Petersburg.
►The oldest Christian church in Russia is the ancient temple of Thaba-Yerdy, located in Ingushetia, in the Jeyrakh district, between the villages of Khayrah and Pui. It was built in the VIII-IX centuries. The three oldest of the currently operating temples are located in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz in Karachay-Cherkessia. They were built in the X-th century.
Conclusion :
Hope you enjoyed the beauty facts of Russian country and its uniqueness, Russia is one of the most developed countries in the world.
Apart from all Russia has plenty of Natural Resources including one of the Largest Forest in the world – Taiga.
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