Russia is the biggest country in the world! Russia is a great military power! Russia is the country with the greatest history! All these facts are well known, but behind their shadow are many equally interesting and little-known facts, which, perhaps, will become a complete revelation for most of our contemporaries. So, interesting facts about Russia, its history and modernity, nature and people:
1 Largest country
Everyone knows that Russia is the largest country in the world. Its area is also known - 17,075,400 square kilometers. To imagine how huge Russia is, here are a few examples:
The area of Russia is approximately equal to the surface area of the planet Pluto. It is 1.8 times larger than the USA. The Czech Republic is the size of the Kostroma region, and Germany is approximately the size of the Arkhangelsk region. The Kalinin region is not inferior in area to Hungary, but Switzerland is equal to the Yaroslavl region. The Kola Peninsula is the size of two Denmark. Ireland is the size of the Novgorod region, and the Komi Republic is the size of France. Yakutia is equal in area to half of Western Europe. The area of Russia is 30 times larger than Ukraine and 21.8 times larger than Turkey. France is 20 times smaller than Russia.
2 Most active volcano
One of the most active active volcanoes is located in Russia -. It is the highest active volcano on the Eurasian continent. Its height is 4 kilometers 850 meters. Klyuchevskaya Sopka is the highest peak in Russia outside the Caucasus. It throws columns of ash eight kilometers up. With each eruption, it gets higher and higher. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has been erupting for the past 7 thousand years.
3 Deepest underground
Metro of St. Petersburg is the deepest in the world. Its average depth is 100 meters. Metro in Leningrad was solemnly opened in 1955. The fame of him, as the most beautiful subway, instantly spread throughout the world. And the Admiralteyskaya station is the deepest metro station in Russia and one of the deepest in the world - 86 meters.
4 Northern Venice
Peter the Great dreamed of building "another Amsterdam" in his homeland in the Neva Delta. It was Amsterdam, with its canals, that inspired Peter to build a maritime city. In the 18th century, rivers and canals had a practical purpose - they were used by small boats. But, having built the second Amsterdam, the city more and more resembled Venice - a city on the water, famous throughout the world for its architecture and masterpieces of architecture, numerous canals and, for which it received its second unofficial name - Venice of the North.
The French traveler Theophile Gauthier in 1859 was the first to compare Petersburg with Venice. In his book Journey to Russia, he wrote: “Numerous canals ply the city, built like northern Venice on many islands.”
5 Longest railroad
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. The road was continuously built for 25 years - from 1891 to 1916 and cost the Russian treasury 1.5 billion rubles in gold. Another 300 million gold rubles were spent on its restoration after the Civil War. On the records of the Trans-Siberian.
6 Siberian miracle
Much is known about the great Siberian miracle - Lake Baikal - the deepest lake in the world and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. But still, some surprising facts: in Baikal there are 23 thousand cubic kilometers of water and all the largest rivers in the world - the Volga, Don, Dnieper, Yenisei, Ural, Ob, Ganges, Orinoco, Amazon, Thames, Seine and Oder - should flow for almost a year, to fill a basin equal in volume to Lake Baikal. And there are so many fish here that by catching all the fish on Baikal and distributing it to the Russians, everyone will receive more than 1 kg of fish. And the coastline of Lake Baikal has the same distance as from Turkey to Moscow.
The territory of Baikal is much larger than the area of Holland and Denmark. Lake Baikal is so large that about a hundred Seas of Azov could fit in it. As we already know, the volume of Baikal water is about 23 thousand cubic meters. km, but how much is it, how to imagine these figures? So - this is more than the volume of water contained in all five Great Lakes of North America (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario) combined, in the Baltic Sea, 23 times more than in Lake Ladoga.
Baikal contains about 1/5 of the world's surface water reserves (excluding the ice of Antarctica, Greenland, and other glaciers), and more than 4/5 of Russia's fresh water.
7 Russia is washed by...
Russia is the only state whose territory is washed by 1 closed sea and 13 seas belonging to three oceans. We talk about this in detail.
8 "Where are we and where is America"
In Russia, you can often hear - "where are we and where is America", meaning how geographically far they are from us. In fact, this is true only for central Russia. But if we talk about Russia as a whole, then we are separated from America by only 4 kilometers. This is the distance between Ratmanov Island (Russia) and Krusenstern Island (USA) in the Bering Strait.
9 The oldest mountain
The oldest mountain in the world is located in Russia. Located in the Kusinsky district near the village of Aleksandrovka, Mount Pencil arose 4.2 billion years ago. For comparison, the age of the Earth is 4.5 billion years. The name "Pencil" comes from the Turkic Kara-Tash and means "black stone". The mountain consists of a very rare black mineral - israndite. Previously, it was part of the earth's mantle, but years later it came out. Now the height of the mountain is only six hundred meters.
10 The world's largest medieval fortress
The Moscow Kremlin is the largest medieval fortress in the world. It is also the largest fortress in the entire territory of Russia and the largest surviving and functioning Europe. The total length of the Kremlin walls is 2235 meters.
11 Best weapons on the planet
The most famous weapon in the world is the Kalashnikov assault rifle (AK-47, Kalash). There are more of them in the world than of machines of all other designs combined. The best weapons on the planet are known for their "reliability and simplicity."
By the way, for his invention, Mikhail Kalashnikov was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Stalin Prize, which amounted to 150 thousand rubles. The amount is huge for those times (1947). It was equal to the cost of 10 brand new "Pobeda" (then costing about 16 thousand rubles).
Today, earthlings have 100 million of these machines in their hands. It is easy to calculate that 1 vending machine accounts for an average of 60 people. For this fact, he got into the Guinness Book of Records. Few people know, but the legendary weapons designer and author of Kalash wrote 9 months before his death in the name of Patriarch Kirill.
12 Who discovered Antarctica
The continent of Antarctica, located in the very south of the Earth, was discovered in 1820 by Russian navigators - Thaddeus Bellingshausen and. Previously, the existence of the southern mainland was hypothesized, often combined with South America and Australia. However, it was the expedition of Bellingshausen and Lazarev in the south polar seas, having circled the Antarctic ice around the world, confirmed the existence of the sixth continent.
13 Most Played Game
The most famous computer game, Tetris, was created by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West. Tetris was created using the Elektronika-60 computer. The author of the game, Alexei Pajitnov, a researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences, received a new computer and an apartment from the state, as this game was the first to break through the Iron Curtain.
Until 1996, the profit from the game went only to the Kremlin, while the author began to receive royalties personally only after the founding of The Tetris Company, taking on licensing duties.
The game is officially recognized as a work of art, and a 1984 copy of the game takes pride of place in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in New York. This game has been mentioned nine times in the Guinness Book of Records. The most ridiculous record associated with her can be safely called "the longest prison sentence thanks to a computer game." A certain Feiz Chopdat served four months for not turning off the game on board the plane.
14 Samovar
The samovar is one of the most unique inventions in Russia, most associated with Russian identity. Almost everywhere replaced by electric kettles and electric stoves. Today it is a luxury, a piece of art and is perceived by collectors as an investment. Many believe that the samovar is a truly Russian invention. However, devices similar to a samovar were known in ancient times, in ancient times (Rome, China, Egypt).
15 Largest Monarchy
The Russian Empire was the largest continental monarchy that ever existed. And the USSR is the largest of the socialist states in world history.
The Russian Empire was the third largest state that ever existed (after the British and Mongol empires) - it stretched to the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Black Sea in the south, to the Baltic Sea in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east. The motto of the empire was: "God be with us!"
The empire was proclaimed on October 22 (2) November 1721 following the results of the Northern War, when, at the request of the senators, the Russian Tsar Peter I the Great assumed the titles of Emperor of All Russia and Father of the Fatherland.
16 The largest museum
25 Largest park in the world
The garden and park area in Moscow is much larger than in Western metropolitan areas. Founded in 1931, Izmailovsky Park (former name - Stalin Park) is one of the largest city parks in the world. With an area of 15.34 square kilometers, it is six times the size of New York's Central Park.
One sad event is connected with the park. In 1995, the so-called "dirty bomb" - a radiological weapon - was found in the park. Law enforcement agencies found a container containing radioactive cesium-137, information about the whereabouts of which was provided by Chechen terrorists. Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev made a statement: “What we demonstrated in Izmailovsky Park to the entire world community and Moscow is a tiny fraction of the radioactive substances that we have.”
26 More than 100 resorts
There are more than 100 resorts in Russia for every taste. The main national resorts are Crimea, Sochi, a group of resorts Caucasian Mineralnye Vody, Nalchik, Anapa, Sergievsky Mineralnye Vody and Belokurikha. Despite this, tourist destinations outside of Russia are still huge.
27 Largest reserves in the world
Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas, peat, timber, salt, drinking water, crabs, sturgeon, tin, zinc, titanium, niobium, nickel, iron ores, diamonds, and silver. In addition, Russia ranks first in the world in oil and gas production, export of steel, primary aluminum, and nitrogen fertilizers.
28 The largest reserve
There are 109 nature reserves in Russia. As of the end of 2013, there were 103 state natural reserves in Russia, the total area of which was 27.38 million hectares (without water areas). In 2014, the state natural reserve "Shaitan-Tau" was established. As a result of the entry of Crimea into Russia, the number of reserves increased by 6, so at the end of 2014 there were 109 reserves in Russia.
And the very first nature reserve in Russia - - was founded on January 11, 1916 on the territory of Buryatia. The oldest reserves, in addition to Barguzinsky, are Astrakhansky (1919), Ilmensky (1920) and Caucasian (1924).
The largest of the Russian reserves are the Great Arctic (over 41 thousand km²), Commander (over 36 thousand km²) and Wrangel Island (over 22 thousand km²).
The smallest reserves in Russia are Belogorye (more than 21 km²) and Prioksko-Terrasny and Galichya Gora (both less than 50 km²). Most nature reserves (by number) are located on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories.
29 The world's largest tram network
For many years St. Petersburg had the largest tram network in the world. It was opened on September 16 (29), 1907. By the end of the 1980s, it reached the largest scale, became the largest in the world, for which it was included in the Guinness Book of Records. Starting from the 1990s, traffic volumes began to decline, tram tracks were dismantled on many highways, but back in 2002, the length of tram lines in St. Petersburg exceeded 600 km. After that, the record passed to the Melbourne tram.
30 “War and Peace” between Russia and Japan
From the point of view of international law, Russia and Japan have been at war since World War II. Because of the dispute over the Kuril Islands, they still have not signed a peace treaty. Nevertheless, Russia and Japan live in peace and harmony.
31 Cheerful Governor
In 2005, the cheerful Ulyanovsk governor Sergei Morozov declared September 12 the Day of Conception and a day off. The townspeople did not disappoint, the success of the initiative exceeded all expectations: in June 2006, the birth rate in Ulyanovsk tripled.
32 Komsomol records
In May 1990, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda set an absolute and now, apparently, an eternal record for the circulation of a paper newspaper of 22 million copies.
33 The largest forest in the world is the Siberian taiga.
The total area of the taiga is more than fifteen million kilometers - this is about twenty-seven percent of all forests on the planet.
Most of the trees in the taiga are coniferous, but there are also deciduous ones. The taiga is vital to the oxygen balance on the planet. Despite the vast area occupied by the taiga, its fauna is rather poor. Although, it is much richer than the tundra fauna. There are few aboveground herd animals here, which, however, is also true for other places. In the taiga, this is explained by the fact that the forest stand of the taiga prevents animals from notifying each other of the approaching danger. At the same time, the conditions for animals in the Siberian taiga are quite good, many of them have never seen a person and are forced to defend themselves only from the natural enemies of the animal world.
Photographer - Anatoly Volkov 34 The oldest city in Russia
The oldest city in Russia, Dagestan Derbent is one of the oldest living cities in the world. (more than 2000 years) True, there are finds that determine the age of 5000 years, but there is no information that the city already existed in terms of the “city” of that period, it was just a settlement. It is believed that these items were simply dropped here. The city of Derbent is located on the shores of the largest lake / sea in the world - the Caspian Sea. (according to the classification of lakes, seas and oceans, if a body of water does not have access to the world ocean, then it is considered a lake)
35 Largest Army
In terms of the number of armed forces and paramilitary formations, the USSR ranked first in the world.
After the collapse, Russia, as the successor of everything Soviet, fell to the 5th line of this rating. Despite this, US President Barack Obama in February 2016 called the Russian Armed Forces the second most powerful army in the world. Despite all the ratings, today Russia has the largest number of nuclear warheads in the world.
36 Russian frame of the Statue of Liberty
Roofing iron produced in Yekaterinburg was used to cover the roof of the British Parliament building, in addition, the frame of the American Statue of Liberty is made of metal produced here.
37 King - Caesar
Russia is sometimes called the spiritual and cultural successor of the Roman Empire. The double-headed eagle on her coat of arms symbolizes the Byzantine idea of the "symphony of authorities", the harmonious complementarity of the state and the Church. The word "king" comes from the word "caesar".
38 Longest border
The longest continuous land border in the world is the border between Russia and Kazakhstan.
39 Chelyabinsk camel
Camel on the coat of arms of Chelyabinsk. According to historians, Chelyabinsk was built on the line of the "Great Silk Road", connecting Europe with Asia, so there has always been a dashing trade. In the same region, the Turks roamed, who used camels for transportation - one of the strongest and most enduring animals that exist on earth.
For trade, the camel was the most ideal vehicle, so the locals highly valued it, so much so that they even placed it on the coat of arms. By the way, in Soviet times, the coat of arms was abolished - there were no animals on it, but there was a tractor and an image of an overhead pile driver. However, already in 1994, it was decided to create a new project based on the historical coat of arms. True, it was approved only in 2001, but a camel appeared on it again.
40 The largest swamp in the world
Vasyugan Swamp is located in the center of the Siberian Federal District, between the Ob and Irtysh rivers. the largest swamp in Russia and the world.
Most of this unique natural area is located on the territory of the Tomsk region, including the Novosibirsk, Omsk regions and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
The area of this swamp is the largest in the world and is about 53-55 thousand square meters. km, which exceeds the size of such European countries as Switzerland, Denmark or Estonia. The dimensions of the swamp in length are approximately 570 by 320 km, it is truly huge. According to scientists, the swamping of this area began about 10,000 years ago and continues to this day - over the past 500 years, the swamp has quadrupled.
The most important function of the swamp is to purify the atmosphere, for which it is called a giant natural filter. The peat bogs of Siberia absorb toxic substances, sequester carbon and thus prevent the greenhouse effect by saturating the air with oxygen.
Russia is home to the world's largest active volcano, Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Its height is 4 kilometers 850 meters. It throws columns of ash eight kilometers up. With each eruption, it gets higher and higher. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has been erupting for the past 7 thousand years.
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The St. Petersburg metro station "Admiralteyskaya" is the deepest in Russia. Its laying depth is 102 meters. It is also one of the three deepest metro stations in the world.
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The oldest Christian church in Russia is the ancient temple of Tkhaba-Erdy, located in the Republic of Ingushetia, in the Dzheirakh region, between the villages of Khairakh and Pui. It was built in the VIII-IX centuries. The three oldest of the current temples are located in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz in Karachay-Cherkessia. They were built in the 10th century.
Interesting Fact about Russia #5
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. The Great Siberian Way, connecting Moscow with Vladivostok, is 9298 kilometers long, crosses 7 time zones, passes through 87 cities and towns and crosses 16 rivers, including the Volga. In addition, it has a throughput capacity of 100,000,000 tons of cargo per year.
Interesting Fact about Russia #6
Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. There are over 23,615 cubic kilometers of water in 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.
Interesting Fact about Russia #7
Russia is the only state whose territory is washed by 12 seas.
Interesting Fact about Russia #8
Russia is separated from America by 4 kilometers. This is the distance between Ratmanov Island (Russia) and Krusenstern Island (USA) in the Bering Strait.
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Interesting Fact about Russia #10
In the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, there are 2,000 libraries, 221 museums, 100 concert organizations, more than 70 theaters, 80 clubs and houses of culture, 62 cinemas, 45 art galleries.
Interesting Fact about Russia #11
The Urals are the oldest mountains in the world. Located in the Kusinsky district near the village of Aleksandrovka, Mount Pencil arose 4.2 billion years ago. The historical names of the Ural Mountains are Big Stone, Siberian Stone, Earth Belt, Belt Stone. Once the Ural Mountains were very high, but now only the foundations remain of the former mountains.
Interesting Fact about Russia #12
There are 7 absolutely identical high-rise buildings in Moscow: 2 hotels, 2 administrative buildings, 2 residential buildings and a university. In English, this ensemble is called the Seven Sisters, and in Russian simply Stalin's skyscrapers. The style in which skyscrapers are built is called Stalinist Gothic.
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In Moscow there is a large fountain 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.
Interesting Fact about Russia #20
Russia proclaimed equal rights for 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.
Interesting Fact about Russia #21
Russia has never known slavery. The period of the most fully expressed form of feudal dependence, serfdom, was shorter in Russia than, for example, in England and most European countries. Serfdom in Russia had softer forms. Russia abolished serfdom in 1861, the United States abolished slavery in 1865.
Interesting Fact about Russia #22
On January 16, 1820, the Russian expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica.
Interesting Fact about Russia #23
The most famous computer game, Tetris, was created by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West.
Interesting Fact about Russia #24
Ivan the Terrible was not a tyrant, he ruled softly, unprecedented for his time. With the same size of Europe and Russia at that time, Grozny executed 100 times fewer people during his reign than his European counterparts over the same period - 3-4 thousand people against 300-400 thousand people.
Interesting Fact about Russia #25
Trains in the Moscow metro run more often than in any other metro in the world. During peak hours, the interval between trains in it is 90 seconds. Among them there are "nominal" trains, such as the "Watercolor" train, which is a traveling art exhibition.
Interesting Fact about Russia #27
In the Russian village of Oymyakon, the lowest air temperature was recorded. The coldest record was set in 1924 and amounted to -71.2 °C.
Interesting Fact about Russia #28
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space.
Interesting Fact about Russia #29
During World War II, the metro stations were used as bomb shelters. During the air raids, 150 people were born in this perfectly safe shelter.
Interesting Fact about Russia #30
There are many wonderful sightseeing and tourist routes in Russia. The most famous so-called "families of tourist routes" are the Golden Ring of Russia, the Silver Ring of Russia and the Big Ural Ring.
Interesting Fact about Russia #31
The total length of 12 lines of the Moscow metro is 310 km. Almost 10,000 trains run between 182 stations. The average duration of a passenger trip is 13 kilometers. In addition, the Moscow metro is the second busiest in the world.
Interesting Fact about Russia #32
In the 19th century, Russia was the 3rd largest empire in human history, spanning from European Poland to North American Alaska.
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The West Siberian Plain is the largest plain on Earth.
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The Hermitage is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. It contains three million works of art from the Stone Age to the present. If you give each of these works one minute, then it will take more than 25 years to go to the Hermitage as if to work, and inspect the exhibits for 8 hours a day to see them all.
Interesting Fact about Russia #35
Russia occupies one seventh of the earth's land.
Interesting Fact about Russia #36
On the opening day of the 700-seat McDonalds restaurant on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, there were 5,000 people in line in front of it by 5 am. During the first day, the restaurant served 3,000 customers. To this day, it remains the most visited McDonald's in the world.
Interesting Fact about Russia #37
250-300 swans and 1.5-2 thousand wild ducks annually arrive at Swan Lake in the Altai Territory. They arrive in autumn to spend the winter.
Interesting Fact about Russia #39
A new sport has appeared in Russia - helicopter golf. Two helicopters, equipped with 4-meter clubs, play two balls with a diameter of a meter.
Each team has five people. One pilots a helicopter, the second hits the ball, the third coordinates the actions of the first two, two more are in reserve. They replace the one with the club when he runs out of steam.
The largest bell ever cast is the Russian Tsar Bell, made by Ivan Fyodorovich Motorin and his son Mikhail. The weight of the Tsar Bell is 12327 pounds and 19 pounds, that is, 201 tons 924 kilograms. Its height is 6 meters 14 centimeters.
Interesting fact about Russia No. 42
The city of Suzdal covers only 15 square kilometers and has just over 10,000 people. At the same time, there are 53 churches in Suzdal.
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Myth about myth: Russians think Americans think bears walk the streets in Moscow. In fact, bears don't visit Russian cities that often, and Americans don't have the stereotype of wild Russia.
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- light bulb
- TV set
- Electron microscope
- Helicopter
- Bomber
- Video recorder
- Crawler
- color photograph
- artificial heart model
- Gas engine
- grain harvester
- Machine
- electric welding
- Synthetic rubber
- Coal gas mask
- Radio
- Turbodrill
- spotlight
- Automatic telephone exchange
- Periodic system of chemical elements
- electric submarine
- heat engine
- Synthetic detergents
- coal harvester
- Heart-lung machine
- Mortar
- electric motor
- backpack parachute
- and many more useful things.
Interesting Fact about Russia #46
In the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, over the past 50 years, domestic foxes have been bred, affectionate, friendly and devoted, like dogs, and independent, like cats.
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In the 1930s, in the Tikhaya Sosna River near Belgorod, Russian fishermen caught a sturgeon containing 245 kilograms of black caviar.
Interesting Fact about Russia #49
In 1980, the Swedish Navy tracked strange sounds coming from the water column, the source of which they announced were Soviet submarines. When the diplomatic conflict between the USSR and Sweden was already ready to break out, scientists found out that farting fish produce sounds. For this discovery, scientists were awarded the parody Ig Nobel Prize.
Interesting Fact about Russia #50
Dacha is a purely Russian phenomenon, in many European languages it is called dacha. Dachas appeared during the time of Peter the Great, who gave his subjects country plots so that they would not hesitate to experiment in architecture. This was given by the king and was called - cottage.
Interesting Fact about Russia #51
The Russian Emperor Nicholas II was the first to propose to the world the idea of general disarmament. He put forward such a proposal at a conference of European heads of state on the limitation of armaments that he convened in The Hague in 1898. Forces and capital squandered on excessive armaments, he called for the use of education and the development of the well-being of the people. Europe admired the generosity of the Russian Sovereign, but took the very idea very reservedly.
Interesting Fact about Russia #52
Before the 1917 revolution, the Russian family was one of the largest in the world. In Russia, it was believed that 8 children in a family is regrettably small. It was normal to have 12-14 children.
Interesting Fact about Russia #53
Each monarch of the Romanov dynasty left to his heir a country larger than he received from his father.
Interesting Fact about Russia #54
Under Ivan the Terrible in Russia, the alcohol content in various intoxicating drinks ranged from 1 to 6%. Wine, according to Greek custom, was diluted with water. They drank on holidays no more than twice a month.
Interesting Fact about Russia #55
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev set a record for staying in space - 803 days. In addition, this versatile person is a world champion in aerobatics on gliders, a candidate for master of sports in all-around and the founder of the genre of space photography.
Interesting Fact about Russia #57
The garden and park area in Moscow is much larger than in Western metropolitan areas. Founded in 1931, Izmailovsky Park is one of the largest city parks in the world. With an area of 15.34 square kilometers, it is six times the size of New York's Central Park.
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In recent years, interest in the Russian state has escalated significantly due to the fact that ... however, we will talk about politics another time.
Many people know that it is Russia that is the largest state in the world. Its area is 17,125,191 km², which is approximately equal to the area. To be convinced of this, open any geographical map and shudder soberly when you see the vast expanses of the Russian land.
Klyuchevskaya Sopka or Klyuchevskoy Volcano is the largest active volcano in Eurasia, which is over 7000 years old. The height of this is almost 5 kilometers. The last eruption was on August 15, 2013. Since then, the height of the volcano is 4835 meters.
An interesting fact is that some people think that St. Petersburg has the deepest metro in the sense of a particular station. However, the superiority of this subway is determined by the average depth of the stations.
St. Petersburg is called the Venice of the North because there are 342 bridges in this metropolis. In general, if you count all the rivers and canals, adjacent to Peter, then there will be about 800 bridges. Here confusion arises, since some citizens believe that there are more bridges in St. Petersburg than in Venice.
What do you think, what is the distance from Russia to America? Not right! There are only 4 kilometers between the Russian island of Ratmanov and the American island of Krusenstern! So a Russian person, if desired, can get to America by boat.
Everyone knows that St. Petersburg is called the cultural capital of Russia. However, not everyone knows interesting facts about this intellectual city. So, in St. Petersburg there are 2000 libraries, 221 museums, more than 80 theaters and 45 art galleries.
The Kalashnikov assault rifle (AK), invented by Russian designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, is a unique, most widespread small arms in the world. According to some estimates, a fifth of all firearms on earth are directly related to Kalashnikov (see), that is, if we take into account all unlicensed copies and developments built exclusively on the basis of AK.
For sixty years, more than 70 million different modifications of the Kalashnikov assault rifle have been produced, which are in service with more than 50. The closest competitor to the AK is the American M16 automatic rifle.
However, she is significantly inferior to her older brother. Over the years of the existence of the M16, about 8 million pieces were produced, with which 27 foreign armies are armed.
Mikhail Kalashnikov with his unique invention Interestingly, Russia equalized the rights of women and men in 1918, while the United States did so in 1920.
On the same topic. Russia abolished serfdom in 1861, and in the USA slavery was abolished in 1865. Here we must add an interesting fact that serfdom itself in Russia was much softer and more humane than in most European countries, where slaves were considered just a thing , property of the owner.
Yuri Gagarin If you like not only to read interesting facts about Russia, but also want to see some of them with your own eyes, take advantage of the unique tourist routes. Three such excursion "paths" are known all over the world: the Silver Ring of Russia, the Big Ural Ring.
Sculpture in the foreground of the library And this interesting fact about Russia directly breathes with its natural freshness. Every year, 400-450 whooper swans and 1.5-2 thousand ducks arrive in the Altai Territory to Swan Lake. They winter in this unusually beautiful place.
Swan lake in Altai Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas. The share of Russia's reserves is almost a quarter (24.6%) of all world reserves.
Russia, with varying degrees of success, ranks first in the world in oil production. The permanent top three production leaders include Russia, the United States and.
St. Petersburg has the longest tram network of almost 700 kilometers. This record is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
The largest forest in the world is located in Russia. This is East Siberian, with an area of 3,900,000 km².
East Siberian taiga Despite the fact that diplomatic relations are in perfect order, the official peace treaty as of 2016 has not yet been signed. It happens!
Back in 1990, a record was set in Soviet Russia for the number of circulation of a paper newspaper. Komsomolskaya Pravda was printed in 22 million copies.
In Russia, in the Republic of Dagestan, there is one of the oldest cities in the world - Derbent. The first settlements arose here at the end of the 4th millennium BC. e. The modern city was founded in 438 AD as a Persian fortress.
The longest land border in the world is between Russia and Kazakhstan, at 7,512.8 km.
Chistye Prudy in Moscow, until 1703, were called Filthy Swamps. However!
Chistye Prudy The artificial heart was first invented in Russia by a scientist named Vladimir Demikhov. An interesting fact is that the young genius had to spend money sent by his parents to buy a costume for a motor. The invention was tested on animals in 1936.
The Russian state flag under Peter the Great had a clear designation of each stripe.
- The red line below is the physical world of people with all their worries, sufferings and passions.
- The blue line is the angelic, heavenly world.
- The white, highest band is the divine world of Faith, Hope and Love.
To date, there is no official interpretation of the tricolor.
Peter the Great "awarded" drunkenness with a special medal weighing 7 kg. And that's without the chain. Interesting pedagogy!
The beginning of Russian statehood was laid in 862. In 2016, the population of the country is 146 million people. The Russian Federation includes 85 subjects, 46 of which are called regions, 22 - republics, 9 - territories, 3 - cities of federal significance, 4 - autonomous districts and 1 - autonomous region.
In total, we collected 57 facts. If we list all the interesting facts about Russia, then, probably, a whole site will not be enough to describe the more or less significant features of this vast country.
note that various interesting facts about Russia and Russian people on many sites contain unverified information. In preparing this material, the number of erroneous statements led the author downright into confusion!
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Interesting facts about Russia, 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 a pleasure to remember them once again. And some interesting facts about Russia from this list, many, perhaps, will learn for the first time.
So let's go!!!
Interesting fact about Russia No. 1
Russia is the largest country in the world, its area is 17,075,400 square kilometers. It is 1.8 times larger than the USA. The area of Russia is approximately equal to the surface area of the planet Pluto.
Interesting fact about Russia №2
In Russia, there is the largest active volcano on the Eurasian continent - Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Its height is 4 kilometers 850 meters. It throws columns of ash eight kilometers up. With each eruption, it gets higher and higher. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has been erupting for the past 7 thousand years.
Interesting Fact about Russia #3
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. The Great Siberian Way, connecting Moscow with Vladivostok, is 9288 kilometers long, crosses 8 time zones, passes through 87 cities and towns and crosses 16 rivers, including the Volga.
Interesting Fact about Russia #4
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 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.
Interesting Fact about Russia #5
Russia is the only state whose territory is washed by thirteen seas.
Interesting Fact about Russia #6
Russia is separated from America by 4 kilometers. This is the distance between Ratmanov Island (Russia) and Krusenstern Island (USA) in the Bering Strait.
Interesting Fact about Russia #7
The most famous computer game, Tetris, was created by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West.
Interesting Fact about Russia #8
Ivan the Terrible was not a tyrant, he ruled softly, unprecedented for his time. With the size of Europe and Russia being the same at that moment, Grozny executed 100 times fewer people during his reign than his European counterparts during the same period - 3-4 thousand people against 300-400 thousand people.
Interesting Fact about Russia #9
In the Russian city of Oymyakon, the lowest air temperature was recorded. The coldest record was set in 1938 and amounted to -77.8 °C.
Interesting Fact about Russia #10
During World War II, metro stations were used as bomb shelters. During the air raids, 150 people were born in this perfectly safe shelter.
Interesting Fact about Russia #11
The West Siberian Plain is the largest plain on Earth.
Interesting Fact about Russia #12
Half of Chelyabinsk is located in the Urals, half - in Siberia. At the same time, a camel is depicted on the coat of arms of Chelyabinsk. It would seem, why a camel, because there are no camels in Chelyabinsk? Not now, but 200 years ago they were. Chelyabinsk often received trade caravans of loaded camels.
Russia is the largest state on the planet Earth. Throughout history, many political and social events have taken place in this country. Many great writers, poets, artists, musicians and military men were born here. Russia has made a great contribution to science and is one of the world's leading space powers. It has always remained a political force that not only the closest neighbors, but also more distant states must reckon with. Interesting facts about Russia attract the attention of not only foreigners, but also citizens of this country. Few can be sure that they are familiar.
Interesting geographical facts about Russia
Russia occupies an immense territory. Large areas of land still require human development. Getting to know such a topic as interesting facts about Russia can inspire young people to be proud of their native country. And the older generation, perhaps, will want to go on vacation not to distant Turkey, but to make a tour of domestic open spaces. Many interesting things are still waiting for their discoverers. This is a state with the oldest mountains and a freshwater lake. Russia occupies an area equal to the area of a space object and hides many secrets to be unraveled.
