The first culture for this week

Subject: The first culture for this week Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:02 am

Hey!

How is life going with you people?

I hope it is going ok with you Very Happy

OK, I would like to tells you the first culture we'll gonna talk about it for a week today

As Oleg likes to tell us about his country and its culture; so we'll gonna begin with Russia geek

I wanna know a lot and new things about this wide culture cyclops

Let us see together how beautiful this culture Cool

Oleg work hard to tell us about it Wink

Subject: Geography ( Russia ). Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:07 am

Russia is the largest country in the
world with the total area 17 075 400 square kilometers (over 6.5 million
square miles), that is about 1,8 times the size of the
USA. It's situated in the Eastern part of Europe and Northern part
of Asia. The main part of the European territory of Russia is situated
within the Eastern European Plain (Vostochno-Evropeyskaya Ravnina).
The southern border is on the North Caucasus. The main part of the
Asian area of Russia is on Zapadno-Sibirskaya Ravnina and
Sredne-Sibirskoye Ploskogor'ye. The territory of Russia spans
through 11 times zones.
Russia borders with Norway, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia,
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and North Korea by land,
and with Sweden, Turkey, Japan and the USA by sea.
The climate of Russia varies from the
steppes
in the south and coastal on the north-west through humid
continental in much of European Russia; sub arctic in Siberia to
tundra climate in the polar north and monsoon on the Far East. The
average temperatures of January vary from 0 to -50°C, July - from
1 to 25°C. Many regions of Siberia and Far East are situated in
the permafrost zone. Thus, Russia is one of the coldest
countries in the world. The town of
Oimyakon in north-east Siberia is the coldest inhabited place on
earth, with temperatures recorded at more than 70°C
below zero. The inhabited areas are mostly in the
continental climate zones with long freezing winters (5-6 months
long) and short warm summers.
The largest rivers: Volga, Lena,
Irtysh, Yenisey, Ob, Amur.
The largest lakes: Caspean Sea,
Aral'skoye More, Baykal, Ladozhskoye, Onezhskoye.
Russia has an extremely wide natural
resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal,
strategic minerals, timber, diamonds and gold. There are 85
nature reserves and 25 national parks.

Subject: Re: The first culture for this week Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:20 am

This is the first time for me to know that is Russia is the largest country in the world Shocked

Is that right scratch

Subject: Re: The first culture for this week Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:55 am

We have started discussion about Russia, so I wanna complete it today, so I'll put some informations about population and language together Surprised

Have a nice time Very Happy

Population
Total population is about 144.7 mln people, with about
72.9% urban population. Most of the population are
Russians (81,5%), with more than 100 other nationalities (Tatar 3.8%,
Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%).

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Subject: Re: The first culture for this week Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:11 am

And here about language Surprised

Language
The official language is Russian. Every autonomous republic uses its own
language as the second official language. Religions: Russian
Orthodox, Muslim, Judaic and others. 1066 cities and towns, 2070
urban settlements (1994).

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Subject: Re: The first culture for this week Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:32 am

Some picture I like it for Russia Smile

* Flag of Russia

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** This is Tower in Moscow

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Thanks for the info!

Subject: Re: The first culture for this week Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:09 pm

You are welcome Meera Smile

I'll try to put more information for you