1. RUSSA
2018

2. Official Name: Russian Federation
Form of Government: Federation
Capital: Moscow
Population: 142,470,272
Official Language: Russian
Money: Ruble
Area: 17,075,200 square kilometers
Major Mountain Ranges: Ural, Altay
Major Rivers: Amur, Irtysh, Lena, Ob,
Volga, Yenisey.
FAST FACTS
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3. Russia, the largest country in the
world, occupies one-tenth of all the
land on Earth. It spans 11 time zones
across two continents (Europe and
Asia) and has coasts on three oceans
(the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic).
The Russian landscape varies from
desert to frozen coastline, tall mountains
to giant marshes. Much of Russia is
made up of rolling, treeless plains called
steppes. Siberia, which occupies three-
quarters of Russia, is dominated by
sprawling pine forests called taigas.
Russia has about 100,000 rivers,
including some of the longest and most
powerful in the world. It also has many
lakes, including Europe's two largest:
Ladoga and Onega. Lake Baikal in
Siberia contains more water than any
GEOGRAPH
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4. HISTORY
The earliest human settlements in Russia arose around A.D. 500, as Scandinavians moved south to areas around
the upper Volga River. These settlers mixed with Slavs from the west and built a fortress that would eventually
become the Ukrainian city of Kiev.
Kiev evolved into an empire that ruled most of European Russia for 200 years, then broke up into Ukraine,
Belarus, and Muscovy. Muscovy's capital, Moscow, remained a small trading post until the 13th century, when
Mongol invasions in the south drove people to settle in Moscow.
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In the 1550s, Muscovite ruler Ivan IV became Russia's first tsar after driving the Mongols out of Kiev and
unifying the region. In 1682, Peter the Great became tsar at the age of ten and for 42 years worked to make
Russia more modern and more European.
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In 1917, Russians unhappy with their government overthrew the tsar and formed an elected government. Just
a few months later though, a communist group called the Bolsheviks seized power. Their leader, Vladimir Lenin,
created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) from Russia and 11 other countries.
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The U.S.S.R. fought on the side of the US in World War II, but relations between the two powers and their allies
became strained soon after the war ended in 1945. These tensions led to the Cold War, which ended in 1991
when the Soviet Union broke up.
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5. PEOPLE AND CULTURE
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There are about 120 ethnic groups in Russia who speak more than a
hundred languages. Roughly 80 percent of Russians trace their
ancestry to the Slavs who settled in the country 1,500 years ago.
Other major groups include Tatars, who came with the Mongol
invaders, and Ukrainians.
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Russia is known all over the world for its thinkers and artists,
including writers like Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, composers
such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and ballet dancers including Rudolf
Nureyev.
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6. GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMY
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Russia's history as a democracy is short. The country's first election,
in 1917, was quickly reversed by the Bolsheviks, and it wasn't until
the 1991 election of Boris Yeltsin that democracy took hold.
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Russia is a federation of 86 republics, provinces, territories, and
districts, all controlled by the government in Moscow. The head of
state is a president elected by the people. The economy is based on a
vast supply of natural resources, including oil, coal, iron ore, gold, and
aluminum.
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10. Ciudades Sedes del Mundial de Fútbol Rusia 2018. (2017, marzo 19). Recuperado 25 de febrero de 2018, a partir
de https://viajarfull.com/ciudades-sedes-mundial-de-futbol-rusia-2018/