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official
name – Russian Federation
population- about 146 million
official language – Russian
monetary unit – rouble
State banner has 3 colours: white, blue and red. White stands for earth, blue
represents sky and red means liberty.
Russian symbol is a two-headed eagle, the most ancient symbol of Russia.
Poetic symbol of Russia is a birch.
Geography
Russia is situated in Eastern Europe , Northern and Central Asia .
The land is washed by 12 seas, such as White Sea, Okhotsk Sea , Barents Sea .
Russia boarders on 14 countries and has a sea boarder with the USA . The landscape
is very varied: forests, plains, steppes, taiga, tundra, mountains, deserts,
semi deserts. The highest mountains are the Urals and the Altai. There are about
2000 rivers. The longest of them are the Volga , the Ob , the Lena , the Amur.
Russia is rich in lakes, such as Chani, Karachi. The lake Baikal is the deepest
in the world.
The largest cities are Moscow , St. Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Omsk , Vladivostok
, Perm.
Russian nature (slide show)
Capital
Moscow is the capital of our county, political, economic, cultural and educational
centre.
It's one of the oldest cities in Russia that was founded in 1147.
Now the population of Moscow is about 9 million people.
Moscow is a very beautiful city. It's famous for it's museums, such as Tretyakov
Art Gallery , State Historical Museum , Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The total
number of museums is 80.
Bolshoy and Maly theatres are famous in the world.
There are also a lot of masterpieces of architecture.
The Kremlin is the heart of Moscow . It's the oldest historical centre. Many
events are connected with Kremlin.