Russia
By: Tori Dyer
About Russia
Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, plus the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by legendary Russian leader Peter the Great, features the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the Hermitage Museum’s art collection.
Capital: Moscow
Abbreviation: RF
Area: 6.602 million square miles
Largest City: Moscow
President: Vladimir Putin
Population: 143.5 Million (2013)
Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev
Currency: Russian ruble
The Flag
Flower
Birch Tree
Tundra Swan
Places To Visit
Hermitage Museum
Moscow Kremlin
Red Square
National Anthem
Russia — our sacred state,
Russia — our beloved country.
Mighty will-power, great glory
Shall remain your honors for all time!
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Praise our free Fatherland,
Long-lasting union of brotherly peoples,
Ancestor-given wisdom of the people!
Long live, Country! We are proud of you!
From the southern seas to the polar realm
Our forests and fields stretch.
You are one in the world! You are alone like that,
God-guarded native land!
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Plenty of room for dreams and for life
The coming years are promising us.
Allegiance to our Motherland gives us strength.
So it had been, so it is, and so it always will be!
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