Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of territory, which is simultaneously located in both Europe and Asia. This is a well-known fact. But our country is also famous for its no less amazing indicators, which more contemporaries will become a true revelation. To verify this, we bring to your attention a selection of amazing facts about Russia.

The oldest mountains in the world

The Ural Mountains - a monumental mountain range, tops the ranking 10 amazing facts about Russia. Everything in this mountain system is unique: from the peaks that keep the secrets of thousands of years and the depths rich in gems to a truly heavenly plant world.

The mountain slopes act as a kind of barrier between Asia and Europe. They stretch from south to north of Russia for more than two thousand kilometers and pass through almost all climatic zones with the exception of deserts. The Belt Mountains began to form 350 million years ago. The age of the most ancient mountain, Karandash, which is part of the ridge, is 4.2 billion years.

Previously, the Ural Mountains were considered the highest on the planet. But under the influence of erosion, they lost their grandeur and therefore today cannot compete with grandiose mountain ranges such as the Alps or the Himalayas. Height itself high point The ridge is only a couple of thousand meters long.

Natural resources Ural mountains include almost all elements of the periodic table. The combination of sources of raw materials and energy, which literally appeared on the surface as a result of erosion processes, made the natural massif one of the main mining and industrial sites in the country.

Largest active volcano

In Russia there is the largest old volcano called Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Its age is over 7 thousand years. It is located in the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

This active mountain with a crater on the Eurasian continent is the highest. Now the height of its highest point reaches 4850 m above sea level. But it increases with each eruption due to lava layering and solidifying on the crater of the volcano. The giant erupts throughout its existence, each time throwing columns of ash up to a height of 8 km.

Today, in addition to the main cone covered with snow and ice, the top of which is decorated with a crater with a diameter of 600 m, about 70 side craters of more modest sizes have formed.

The deepest lake in the world

Baikal is one of the most ancient lakes, which is the greatest natural attraction great power, included in the UNESCO list. It receives water from 336 rivers, but gives its own to only one.

  1. The deepest lake in the world of tectonic origin, listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The bottom in the deepest part of the reservoir reaches 1642 m below the level of the World Ocean. Moreover, the water in it is so clean that it allows you to see objects under a thickness of 40 meters.
  2. The largest source on the planet fresh water. In global terms this is 19%. Due to the minimal percentage of minerals and organic impurities against the background of a high oxygen concentration, the water from this lake is equated to distilled water.

There is colossal seismic activity in the lake area. The number of annual earthquakes on Lake Baikal often reaches several hundred. Fortunately, they are not so strong and can only be determined by using special equipment. But still, in winter, when ice forms on the surface under the influence of subzero temperatures, over time it becomes covered with a scattering of cracks, called “freeze cracks.” The length of individual cracks can reach 10-30 km, and the width is about 2-3 m.

In addition to the “big” Baikal with the same name, there are several other reservoirs in Russia.

Giant natural filter

Continuing the topic of amazing bodies of water, I would like to recall the fact that in Russia there is the largest swamp in the world by area. The reservoir is located in the Tomsk region, geographically lying between the Ob and Irtysh rivers.

The Vasyugan swamp, with an area of ​​55 thousand square meters, is larger in size than Denmark or Switzerland. Swamping of the area began 10 thousand years ago. This process continues to this day: the reservoir increases in size by 800 hectares annually. Over the last half century alone, its coverage area has increased 4 times. Today these are deserted spaces strewn with blueberries, cloudberries and cranberries.

The peat bog is considered the greatest natural filter because it is capable of absorbing toxic substances. In the process of carbon sequestration, the swamp releases oxygen into the atmosphere, thereby preventing the greenhouse effect.

The longest railway in the world

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the Great Siberian Route connecting the capital with Vladivostok. Construction of the structure lasted for 25 years and was completed in October 1916. Her gasket cost the treasury Russian Empire in 1.5 billion gold coins. Another over 300 million rubles. needed for reconstruction after the end of the Civil War.

Today the Trans-Siberian Railway, uniting western, northern and southern industrial cities with Pacific ports into a single economic system, amazes with its size:

  • has a length of 9298 km;
  • passes through the territory of two continents;
  • along the way crosses 8 time zones;
  • passes through 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and 158 settlements;
  • crosses 16 on the way large rivers.

The end kilometer posts indicating the length of the highway are located at two points. The first with the mark “zero kilometer” is at the Yaroslavsky station in Moscow, the second with the mark “9298” is at the Vladivostok station.

Distance between Moscow and the administrative center Far East The fastest passenger train "Russia" travels in 6 days and 2 hours, making stops at 40 railway stations.

The technical capabilities and throughput of the Trans-Siberian Railway make it possible to transport over 100 million tons of cargo annually, including: metals, oil products, timber and extracted minerals.

The world's deepest metro

The Moscow and St. Petersburg metro are rightfully recognized as one of the most pompous and expensive in the world. But few people know the amazing fact about Russia that the capitals can boast of the deepest laying stations.

Leading stations in terms of laying depth:

  • Victory Park is a Moscow metro station, opened in 2003, with a depth of 84 m. The length of the escalators used in its arrangement is 124 m. The design is based on military themes of 1812 and 1941-45.
  • Admiralteyskaya is a St. Petersburg metro station, opened in 2011. Due to the close location of the Neva, it has a depth of 86 m. You have to go down to it by two escalators. The walls and ceilings of the station are decorated with mosaic panels and an illuminated “wind rose” composition.

If we consider this issue more broadly, then the vast majority of St. Petersburg metro stations have precisely deep laying. These include “Bolshevik Avenue” with a depth of 70 m, and “Proletarskaya” - 72 m, “Vyborgskaya” - 68 m... Many of them have original architectural and artistic design, and therefore belong to the list of cultural heritage sites.

Another interesting point is that the capital’s metro trains run more often than any other metro in the world metropolis. The time interval between trains during peak hours is 1.5 minutes. In addition, among them there are trains that have their own names, assigned as part of thematic events and in honor of significant events. For example: Striped Express, Sochi 2014, New Year's Train, Soyuzmultfilm, Red Arrow...

St. Petersburg – the city of three hundred bridges

Continuing the topic of the northern capital, I would like to mention one more amazing fact about Russia - the incredible number of bridges within one city. Due to the abundance of reservoirs, including rivers, canals and streams, the total length of which is over 300 km, there are 324 bridges in St. Petersburg. This:

  • 297 transport bridges;
  • 24 pedestrian structures;
  • 21 drawbridges.

The longest drawbridge of them is named in honor of Alexander Nevsky. The length of the structure including the ramps is over 900 meters. The widest bridge, a structure 99.3 m wide, is called Blue. It is laid across the Moika River.

The city with numerous canals and bridges plowing through it, famous for its masterpieces of architecture and world architecture, has another unofficial name - Venice of the North. But, if you count, then in the northern capital there are three times as many bridges in the city of Italy, revered by many.

The largest medieval fortress

The Moscow Kremlin is an architectural ensemble serving business card our capital. It tops the rating of the largest and at the same time active medieval fortresses not only in our country, but also in Europe. Located in the center of the capital, the fortress includes architectural monuments built during the 14th-20th centuries. The most recognizable among them:

  • a fortress with 20 towers and powerful brick walls;
  • numerous golden-domed temples and palaces;
  • ancient chambers and tower.

The most amazing thing is that all 20 towers of the Moscow Kremlin are different. There are simply no identical ones. Each of them has its own name and history. For example: The Alarm Tower owes its name to the bell that was previously hung on it, the Konstantino-Eleninskaya Tower is named after the church of the same name that stood here in ancient times, and the Senate Tower is named after the Senate, the green dome of which rises above the fortress wall.

The religious buildings of this complex are three multi-domed cathedrals: Annunciation, Assumption and Arkhangelsk. On the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, unique museum complexes are organized, which are the richest treasury of historical relics.

The complex also houses the largest bell ever cast. Cast by hand from bronze by Russian craftsmen, the Tsar Bell has stunning dimensions:

  • height 6.14 m;
  • diameter 6.6 m;
  • weight 201 tons 924 kg.

The largest bell in the world has tragic story: He never called. As a result of a fire that occurred in 1737, a piece weighing 11 tons broke off from the bell. Even if you place and secure the fragment in its original place, the bronze truncated cone will not give the desired sound.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is an architectural oddity that has become famous throughout the world. But this miracle occurs in Russia.

In the city of Nevyansk Sverdlovsk region There is a local landmark - a tower erected in 1720. It is known not only for its inclination, but also for its riddles. Moreover, pay attention - this is not a leaning tower, but an inclined one. A clear confirmation of this is the flag-weather vane crowning the tower, which, despite its heaviness, instantly reacts to the slightest breath of breeze. If the tower had simply tilted a few degrees, the weather vane would have frozen forever.

The Nevyansk Tower is also amazing for its so-called “dormer room”. Located at the base of the structure, the office of the building's first owner has the unique ability to create an auditory anomaly. If two interlocutors are located at opposite corners of the room and whisper at the same time, despite the distance, they will hear each other perfectly. At the same time, nothing will be heard in the central part of the room.

And the last puzzle that baffles us is the connection of grounding to the bell tower spire. This indicates that the Ural craftsmen were almost a quarter of a century ahead of the inventor of the land allotment, Benjamin Franklin, with their discovery.

The Hermitage is the world's largest museum

Silent Witness Russian history, representing a collection of unique artifacts, is one of the oldest and largest cultural and historical museums in the world. The collections of the complex museum complex are housed in 5 buildings located along the Neva embankment. To explore all the treasures of the museum you will have to cover a distance of 24 km.

The collection includes exhibits demonstrating the development of world art, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the 20th century. Its walls contain such a number of exhibits that a person would need to spend about 10 years to examine each of them for a minute, subject to a daily eight-hour visit to the museum. In addition to the famous pearls of European painting, the museum’s storerooms also contain unknown masterpieces of artists.

An interesting fact is that the museum staff includes representatives of the cat family. Aristocratic cats are descendants of individuals who, since the time of Peter I, had the official status of “guards of art galleries.” The animals have passports with photographs attached and spend their time on daily walks within the walls of the museum.

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. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has been erupting for the last 7 thousand years.

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The St. Petersburg metro station “Admiralteyskaya” is the deepest in Russia. Its depth is 102 meters. It is also one of the three deepest metro stations in the world.

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The oldest Christian temple in Russia is considered to be the ancient temple of Thaba-Erdy, located in the Republic of Ingushetia, in the Dzheirakhsky district, between the villages of Khairakh and Pui. It was built in the 8th-9th centuries. The three oldest currently operating temples are located in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz in Karachay-Cherkessia. They were built in the 10th century.

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Trans-Siberian railway line– the longest railway in the world. Great Siberian Way, connecting Moscow with Vladivostok, is 9,298 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.

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Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. Baikal has more than 23,615 cubic kilometers of water. All the world's largest rivers - 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.

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Russia is the only state whose territory is washed by 12 seas.

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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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In the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, there are 2000 libraries, 221 museums, 100 concert organizations, more than 70 theaters, 80 clubs and cultural centers, 62 cinemas, 45 art galleries.

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The Urals are the oldest mountains in the world. Located in the Kusinsky district near the village of Aleksandrovka, Mount Karandash arose 4.2 billion years ago. Historical names Ural Mountains - Big Stone, Siberian Stone, Earth Belt, Belt Stone. Once upon a time the Ural Mountains were very high, but now only the foundations remain of the former mountains.

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There are 7 absolutely identical ones in Moscow high-rise buildings: 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 the high-rise buildings are built is called Stalinist Gothic.

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In Moscow there is a large fountain from which it gushes drinking water. The fountain is part of the architectural group “Alexander and Natalie” with a sculptural composition of Pushkin and Goncharova in an elegant rotunda.

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Russia proclaimed equal rights for men and women earlier than the United States. In Russia, women's suffrage was granted in 1918, in the United States - in 1920.

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Russia has never known slavery. The period of the most fully expressed form of feudal dependence, serfdom, in Russia was shorter than, for example, in England and most European countries. Serfdom in Russia had softer forms. Russia canceled serfdom in 1861, the US abolished slavery in 1865.

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On January 16, 1820, the Russian expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica.

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The most famous computer game–Tetris – was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West.

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Ivan the Terrible was not a tyrant; he ruled with a gentleness unprecedented for his time. Given the same size of Europe and Russia at that time, Ivan the Terrible executed 100 times during his reign. fewer people than its European colleagues for the same period - 3-4 thousand people versus 300-400 thousand people.

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Trains in the Moscow metro run more frequently than in any other metro in the world. During rush hours, the interval between trains is 90 seconds. Among them there are “personalized” trains, such as the “Watercolor” train, which is a traveling exhibition of paintings.

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In the Russian village of Oymyakon the most low temperature air. The cold record was set in 1924 and was –71.2 °C.

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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go into space.

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During World War II, the metro stations were used as bomb shelters. During the air raids, 150 people were born in this completely safe shelter.

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Russia has many wonderful excursion and tourist routes. The most famous so-called “families of tourist routes” are the Golden Ring of Russia, the Silver Ring of Russia and the Great Ural Ring.

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The total length of 12 lines of the Moscow metro is 310 km. Almost 10,000 trains run between 182 stations. The average travel time for a passenger is 13 kilometers. In addition, the Moscow metro is the second busiest in the world.

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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 modern times. If you devote one minute to each of these works, you will need to go to the Hermitage for more than 25 years, like going to work, and viewing the exhibits for 8 hours a day to see them all.

Interesting fact about Russia No. 35

Russia occupies a seventh of the earth's landmass.

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On the day of the opening of the 700-seat McDonalds restaurant in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square, by 5 am there was a queue of 5,000 people in front of it. During the first day, the restaurant served 3,000 customers. To this day, it remains the most visited McDonald's in the world.

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250-300 swans and 1.5-2 thousand wild ducks fly to Swan Lake in the Altai Territory every year. They arrive in the fall to spend the winter.

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Appeared in Russia new look sports - helicopter golf. Two helicopters equipped with 4-meter sticks play with two balls with a diameter of a meter.

Each team has five people. One pilots the helicopter, the second hits the ball, the third coordinates the actions of the first two, and two more are in reserve. They replace the one with the stick when he runs out of steam.

The largest bell ever cast is the Russian Tsar Bell, made by masters Ivan Fedorovich Motorin and his son Mikhail. The weight of the Tsar Bell is 12,327 poods and 19 pounds, that is, 201 tons 924 kilograms. Its height is 6 meters 14 centimeters.

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The city of Suzdal occupies only 15 square kilometers and has a population of just over 10,000 people. At the same time, there are 53 churches in Suzdal.

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Myth about a myth: Russians think Americans think bears walk the streets in Moscow. In fact, bears don’t walk around Russian cities that often, and Americans don’t have a stereotype about wild Russia.

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  1. Light bulb
  2. TV
  3. Electron microscope
  4. Helicopter
  5. Bomber
  6. VCR
  7. Crawler tractor
  8. Color photography
  9. Artificial heart model
  10. Gasoline engine
  11. grain harvester
  12. Machine
  13. Electric welding
  14. Synthetic rubber
  15. Coal gas mask
  16. Radio
  17. Turbodrill
  18. Spotlight
  19. Automatic telephone exchange
  20. Periodic table of chemical elements
  21. Electric submarine
  22. Heat engine
  23. Synthetic detergents
  24. Coal miner
  25. Heart-lung machine
  26. Mortar
  27. Electric motor
  28. Backpack parachute
  29. and many more useful things.

Interesting fact about Russia No. 46

Over the past 50 years, at the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the SB RAS, domestic foxes have been bred that are affectionate, friendly and loyal, 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 that contained 245 kilograms of black caviar.

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In 1980, the Swedish Navy detected strange sounds coming from the water column, the source of which they declared to be Soviet submarines. When a diplomatic conflict between the USSR and Sweden was about to break out, scientists discovered that the sounds were made by farting fish. For this discovery, scientists were awarded a mock Ig Nobel Prize.

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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 suburban plots so that they would not hesitate to experiment in architecture. Given by the king That’s what it was called – a dacha.

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Russian Emperor Nicholas II first proposed to the world the idea of ​​general disarmament. He put forward such a proposal at the conference of European heads of state on arms limitation that he convened in The Hague in 1898. He called for forces and capital wasted on excessive weapons to be used for education and development of the well-being of the people. Europe admired the generosity of the Russian Sovereign, but accepted the idea itself very restrainedly.

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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 was sadly few. It was normal to have 12-14 children.

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Each monarch of the Romanov dynasty left his heir a larger country than he received from his father.

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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. On holidays they drank no more than twice a month.

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Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev set a record for staying in space for 803 days. In addition, this versatile person is a world champion in glider aerobatics, a candidate for master of sports in all-around and the founder of the genre of space photography.

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The gardening area in Moscow is much larger than in Western megacities. 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 larger than New York's Central Park.

Russia is a great country that amazes with its large size and influence in the world. At the same time, Russians are kind and sweet people who welcome every guest. This country is associated with forests and mountains, clear lakes and endless rivers, a diverse flora and fauna. This is where people live different nationalities, respecting the culture and customs of local residents. Next, we suggest reading more interesting and surprising facts about Russia and Russians.

1. Russia is the largest country in the world, with an area of ​​more than 17 million km2, so its length from east to west covers 10 time zones at once.

2. Composition Russian Federation includes 21 national republics, which occupy 21% of the territory of Russia.

3. Throughout the world, Russia is considered a European country, but 2/3 of its territory is located in Asia.

4. Russia is separated from the United States by only 4 km, which separates the Russian island of Ratmanov and the American island of Kruzenshtern.

5. The area of ​​frosty Siberia is 9.7 million km2, which is as much as 9% of the landmass of planet Earth.

6. Forests occupy most of the Russian territory and make up as much as 60% of Russia's area. Russia is also rich water resources, which includes 3 million lakes and 2.5 million rivers.

7. Lake in Russia, which is located on the territory of Valdai national park, is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. They say that the water in this lake is healing and holy.

8. In Russia, Swan Lake is not only the name of the ballet, but also the place in the Altai region where about 300 swans and 2,000 ducks fly to winter for the winter.

9. In Russia, Mother Nature is revered, so 4% of the country’s area is occupied by nature reserves.

10. Russia is the only state in the whole world whose territory is washed by 12 seas at once.

11. Russia is home to the largest active volcano in the world - Klyuchevskaya Sopka, whose height is 4.85 km, and has been erupting regularly for 7,000 years.

12. The climate in Russia is very diverse, and if in Sochi in winter the usual air temperature is +5°C, then in the village of Yakutia it can reach -55°C at the same time.

13. The record low air temperature was recorded in 1924 in the Russian city of Oymyakon, and it was as much as -710°C.

14. The first place in the world in gas and oil production, as well as in the export of aluminum, steel and nitrogen fertilizers is awarded to the Russian Federation.

15. The capital of Russia, Moscow, is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, because according to official data alone, 11 million people live there.

16. In terms of population, Russia ranks 7th in the world and has 145 million people, with Russians making up 75% of the population in Russia.

17. Moscow is one of the richest and most expensive cities in the whole world, and the level of salaries in this city differs from the level of salaries in other Russian cities by 3, and sometimes by 33 times.

18. There is one in Russia amazing city– Suzdal, whose area of ​​15 km2 is home to 10,000 people, and which is surprising in that there are as many as 53 temples there, majestic in their beauty and decoration.

19. In 2002, the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, according to the UNESCO rating, was included in the list of the 12 most ideal cities in the world to live in.

20. One of the oldest cities in the world where people still live is in Russia - the Dagestan city of Derbent.

21. If you add together the territories of the Netherlands and Belgium, their area will be equal area Tambov region.

22. The Russian Federation is considered the successor to the Roman Empire, because the double-headed eagle depicted on its coat of arms symbolizes the Byzantine idea of ​​harmonious interaction between the powers of church and state.

23. Russia is rich in its secrets. For example, there are more than 15 cities there that are hidden from everyone, because they are not on maps, or on road signs, or anywhere at all, and, of course, entry there is strictly prohibited for foreigners.

24. Moscow metro- the most punctual metro in the whole world, because the intervals between trains during rush hour are only 1.5 minutes.

25. The deepest metro in the world is located in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - St. Petersburg, and its depth is as much as 100 meters.

26. The Russian metro was the safest place during the air raids of World War II, and 150 people were born there during the bombing.

27. St. Petersburg is called the cultural capital of Russia for a reason; this city simply has 2,000 libraries, 45 art galleries, 221 museums, about 80 theaters and the same number of clubs and palaces of culture.

28. Peterhof is one of the most amazing palace and park complexes in the world, because in addition to luxurious palaces, it amazes with a huge number of fountains, of which there are 176, of which 40 fountains are truly gigantic.

29. They say that Venice is a city of bridges, but this is not true, because in St. Petersburg there are three times as many bridges.

30. Russia has the longest railway track– Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Moscow and Vladivostok. The duration of this route is 9298 km, and during the trip you can pass through 8 time zones, 87 cities and 16 rivers.

31. Russia is also home to the largest freshwater lake in the world - Baikal, whose volume is as much as 23 km3. To imagine its greatness, it is enough to think about the fact that the 12 largest rivers in the world must flow for a whole year in order to fill Baikal.

32. The most ancient, and therefore the most majestic, mountains in the world are the Urals. For example, Mount Karandash, which is part of the Ural Mountains complex, arose more than 4 billion years ago.

33. One of the strangest mountains in the world is the Russian Magnitnaya Mountain, located near the city of Magnitogorsk, which is almost entirely made of iron.

34. Russia has the largest, densest and almost wild forest in the world - the Siberian taiga, half of which has not even been developed by humans yet.

35. In the capital of the Russian Federation there is one fountain, part of the “Alexander and Natalie” architectural group, from which not just plain water flows, but drinking water, which you can happily quench your thirst on a hot summer day.

36. Located on Borovitsky Hill, the Moscow Kremlin is the largest fortress in the whole world, preserved from the Middle Ages, and its area covers 27.5 hectares, and the length of the walls is 2235 m.

37. The largest and ancient museum in the whole world, this is the Russian Hermitage Museum, which houses 3 million exhibits, and if someone wants to view them all, devoting just one minute to each exhibit, this person will have to go to the museum, like going to work, for 25 years.

38. The Hermitage is also famous for the fact that the museum’s staff includes not only people, but also the most ordinary cats, who have their own passport with a photo and earn their Whiskas by catching rodents in the museum, preventing them from spoiling the exhibits.

39. Russia has the most large library Europe is a public library that was founded in Moscow in 1862.

40. In the small town of Kizhi there is a church that resembles a work of art, which is interesting because not a single nail was spent on its construction.

41. In Russia there is the largest university building in the world - Moscow State University, the height of which, together with the exquisite spire, is 240 meters.

42. In Moscow you can see the tallest building in Europe - the Ostankino TV tower, whose height is 540 meters.

43. The world's largest bell was cast in Russia by masters Ivan Motorin and his son Mikhail. This is the Tsar Bell, whose height is 614 cm and weighs 202 tons.

44. The oldest Christian temple is located on the territory of the Russian Federation - this is the Thaba-Erdy temple, built in the 8th-9th centuries, which is located in Ingushetia.

45. Russia has one of the largest urban parks in the world - Izmailovsky Park, which was founded in 1931 and whose territory now covers as much as 15.3 km2.

46. ​​The largest in Europe botanical garden again Russian. This is the botanical garden named after. Tsitsin, which was founded immediately after the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945.

47. The world's largest tram network is located in St. Petersburg and is as much as 690 km.

48. The most record edition of a paper newspaper took place in May 1990, when 22 million copies of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspapers were published.

49. The frame of the world-famous New York Statue of Liberty was smelted in one of the Russian cities - Yekaterinburg.

50. Russia is a paradise for tourists with many beautiful and interesting tourist and excursion routes, among which the Golden and Silver Rings of Russia, as well as the Great Ural Ring, are considered the best.

51. One of the most beautiful valleys in the world is the picturesque Lotus Valley, located near Astrakhan, from which it is impossible to take your eyes off at the moment when all the lotuses bloom.

52. In 1949, Russia, then part of the USSR, developed the Kalashnikov assault rifle, and the number of AKs in the world now exceeds the number of all other assault rifles, even if you put them all together.

53. The most famous and beloved game of the whole world, Tetris, was invented precisely in 1985 in Russia by programmer Alexei Pajitnov.

54. The matryoshka was invented in 1900 by Russian craftsman Vasily Zvezdochkin, but merchants demonstrated it at the World Exhibition in Paris as an ancient Russian one, and for this the nesting doll was awarded a bronze medal.

55. In Russia, an ancient version of the now so popular electric kettle was invented - a samovar, which, although it ran on coal and not on electricity, still performed the same function of boiling water.

56. Among Russian inventions, it is worth highlighting the bomber, television, searchlight, synthetic detergents, video recorder, backpack parachute, electron microscope and many other useful household items.

57. There is no end to inventions in Russia, and quite recently, at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, which is located in Siberia, a completely new breed of foxes was bred, which are very domestic, affectionate and their habits resemble dogs and cats.

58. Near the building Novosibirsk Institute cytology and genetics, a monument to the same laboratory mouse, on which experiments are being carried out, this mouse is depicted in the form of a scientist weaving a strand of DNA.

59. It was in Russia that a rather strange sport at first glance was invented - helicopter golf, in which 2 helicopters use 4-meter clubs to drive a huge ball with a diameter of 1 meter into a pocket.

60. Antarctica was discovered on January 16, 1820 by a Russian expedition led by Mikhail Lazarev and Thaddeus Bellingshausen.

61. The first person to conquer outer space was, again, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made his first flight into space on April 12, 1961.

62. And Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev made another record in space - he stayed there for as much as 803 days.

63. Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky are the most widely read authors in the whole world.

64. Russian champagne, which was produced in Abrau-Durso in 2010, received a bronze medal at the International Wine & Spirit Competition.

65. In Russia, equality between men and women came 2 years earlier than in the USA, because in Russia women received suffrage in 1918, and in the USA only in 1920.

66. In Russia, unlike all other states, there has never been slavery in the full meaning of the word. And serfdom was abolished in 1861, which was 4 years earlier than slavery was abolished in the United States.

67. Russia is practically a military state, because in terms of the number of military personnel this country ranks 2nd after China.

68. In relation to the internal gross product Russia has the lowest government debt in the entire world.

69. In Russia, there is a funny myth about the myth that Americans think that in Russia residents calmly walk around the cities with their bears. Bears don’t roam around Russia, and Americans don’t think so, but nevertheless, Russians really like to buy a souvenir T-shirt with an inscription on it. English: I was in Russia. There are no bears there.

70. Although Russians do not smile at everyone they meet, like Europeans, they still distinctive features This nation is openness, breadth of soul and sincerity.

71. Historically in Russia, Russians prefer to make decisions collectively, constantly consult and give advice.

72. Russians very often hope for luck and “maybe” in their lives, and they consider themselves, although not the most intelligent nation on earth, but at least the most spiritual.

73. The most typical pastime for Russians is home kitchen gatherings late into the night, during which they talk about everything in the world, with the exception of work.

74. Russians do not trust anything cheap, preferring to buy more expensive things, but at the same time they love “freebies”, so they take everything they can for free.

75. Most issues and problems in Russia are resolved solely through connections or agreements.

76. Corruption is very developed in Russia. To obtain one of the many services that can be obtained for free, you need to pay a bribe. Although you may not give it, in this case you will have to wait a very long time for the issue to be resolved.

77. The most favorite holiday in Russia is New Year, the celebration of which usually lasts 2 weeks and ends only on January 14 for the Old New Year. Read facts about the New Year here.

78. Due to a shortage in Soviet times, Russians have become hoarders, so they try never to throw anything away, but at the same time, if they suddenly lose half of their trash, they may not even notice it.

79. Formally in Russia there is a ban on walking dogs on playgrounds and on smoking in public place, but in fact, almost no one ever receives a fine for this.

80. In Russia, in 2011, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was reformed, as a result of which the police became the police, but Russians cannot understand the reasons for this reform to this day.

81. One of the most popular genres of television programs and series that are shown on central Russian television is the crime thriller.

82. One of the most popular and long-running TV series in Russia is the series “Street of Broken Lanterns”, the first episode of which was shown on television in 1998 and which continues to air to this day.

83. In 1990, the wonderful TV game “Field of Miracles” was released in Russia for the first time, which is an analogue American show“Wheel of Fortune” and which is successfully broadcast on Channel One to this day, airing without fail every Friday.

84. The most beloved and popular entertainment show in Russia is KVN, which, by the way, has already been visited several times by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.

85. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, over the past 35 years, about 35 million people have left Russia for permanent residence.

86. Despite constant migration, all Russians are patriots who do not allow anyone to scold their country and its government.

88. Most popular search engines in Russia, along with the world-famous Google, there are Yandex and Mail.ru.

89. Russian computer scientists are considered the most powerful and intelligent hackers all over the world, and a special “K” department has even been created in the police to catch them.

90. When in Moscow on Pushkin Square it was the opening day of a McDonalds restaurant with 700 seats, city residents who wanted to visit it came to the restaurant doors at 5 in the morning and there were as many as 5,000 people in line.

91. In Russia, the most popular dish is sushi, and Russians love it even more than the Japanese.

92. Nowadays in an ordinary Russian family you rarely see more than 4 children, and most often there are 1-2 of them, but before the 1917 revolution there were at least 12 children in an ordinary Russian family.

93. On at the moment The Russian nation is considered the most drinking in the world, but under Ivan the Terrible in Russia they drank only on holidays, and then the wine was diluted with water, and the alcohol strength varied between 1-6%.

94. Tsarist Russia famous for the fact that in those days you could buy a revolver in a store as easily as bread.

95. In Russia, in the 30s of the 20th century, the largest sturgeon in the world was caught in the Tikhaya Sosna River, inside which 245 kg of delicious black caviar was found.

96. Russia is also famous for the discovery of “farting” fish there in 1980, which the Swedish Navy confused with Soviet submarines, for which they were subsequently awarded the Ig Nobel Prize.

97. Made a huge contribution to the victory over the Nazis Soviet Union Therefore, in honor of this outstanding event, a military parade is held annually on May 9 on Red Square in Moscow.

98. If we think from the point of view international law, then Japan must have been in conflict with Russia since World War II due to the fact that the dispute over the ownership of the Kuril Islands did not lead them to sign a peace treaty, but nevertheless these countries live in complete harmony with each other.

99. All healthy men in Russia between the ages of 18 and 27 consider military service to be their sacred duty to their Motherland.

Russia... Huge, immense, beautiful country. So huge that many people living on its territory do not know even a small fraction of everything that its endless expanses conceal.

  1. Russia is the largest country in the world. However, this is no secret to anyone.
  2. Russia is the only country in the world washed by a dozen seas.
  3. The deepest lake on earth, Baikal, is located in Russia.
  4. The most ancient mountains on the planet, the Ural Mountains are also a Russian heritage.
  5. There are more than eight hundred glaciers in Altai.
  6. The Russian and US borders in the north are separated by a distance of 4 kilometers.
  7. The world's deepest metro is located in St. Petersburg, its depth is more than a hundred meters.
  8. The world's largest active volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka, almost five kilometers high. It has been erupting for over seven thousand years.
  9. St. Petersburg has three times as many bridges as Venice.
  10. The largest medieval fortress in the world is the Moscow Kremlin.
  11. St. Petersburg is the world's northernmost metropolis with a population of more than a million people.
  12. The area of ​​Siberia is about nine percent of the entire land area of ​​the Earth.
  13. Russia borders on 16 countries.
  14. In Russia, women received the right to vote in elections earlier than in the United States.
  15. There are almost ten thousand trains in the Moscow metro.
  16. The most extensive plain on the planet is the West Siberian.
  17. The Hermitage contains about three million works of art.
  18. The most visited McDonald's in the world is located in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square.
  19. Sushi is more popular in Russia than in Japan.
  20. The highest university in the world is Moscow State University.
  21. Before the revolution, firearms were sold freely in Russia.
  22. Ostankino TV Tower was the most tall building in Europe for a long time. But in recent years skyscrapers appeared that surpassed it in height.
  23. The coat of arms of Chelyabinsk depicts a camel.
  24. About four percent of Russia's territory is occupied by protected reserves.
  25. The world's largest tram network is located in St. Petersburg.
  26. The Siberian taiga is the largest forest in the world.
  27. Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty after the end of World War II. Still.
  28. In the area of ​​the city of Magnitogorsk there is Mount Magnitnaya, almost entirely consisting of iron.
  29. The oldest city in Russia is Derbent, located in Dagestan.
  30. Russia ranks second in the world (after China) in terms of the number of military personnel.
  31. The metal for the frame of the American Statue of Liberty would have been smelted in Russia.
  32. The longest continuous land border in the world is the border between Russia and Kazakhstan.
  33. About 45 percent of Russia's territory is located beyond the Arctic Circle.
    Geographical center Russia - Lake Vivi.
  34. The farthest from Moscow populated area on earth - the city of Dunedin, New Zealand.
  35. The large Vasyugan swamp with an area of ​​about 56 thousand square meters. kilometers - the largest swamp in the world.

Interesting facts about Russia– this is a great opportunity to learn about our Motherland as much information as possible in a minimum of text. Here you will learn a lot of new things about how mysterious, extraordinary and in many ways unique the country is Russia - the birthplace of, and.

In recent years, interest in To the Russian state significantly worsened due to the fact that... however, we’ll talk about politics another time.

Many people know that Russia is the largest state in the world. Its area is 17,125,191 km², which is approximately equal to the area of ​​. To verify 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 more than 7,000 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 has been 4835 meters.

An interesting fact is that some people think that St. Petersburg has the deepest metro in terms of a specific station. However, the primacy of this metro 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 we count all the rivers and canals, adjacent to St. Petersburg, then there will be about 800 bridges. Confusion arises here, since some citizens believe that there are more bridges in St. Petersburg than in Venice.

What do you think is the distance from Russia to America? Wrong! There are only 4 kilometers between the Russian Ratmanov Island and the American Krusenstern Island! 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 common 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 you take into account all unlicensed copies and developments built exclusively on the AK.

Over sixty years, more than 70 million different modifications of the Kalashnikov assault rifle have been produced, which have been in service for more than 50 years. 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 its existence, about 8 million M16s were produced, which are used by 27 foreign armies.


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 the 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 , the property of the owner.


Yuri Gagarin

If you not only like 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 Great Ural Ring.


There is a sculpture in the foreground of the library

And this interesting fact about Russia breathes with its natural freshness. Every year, 400-450 whooper swans and 1.5-2 thousand ducks fly to Swan Lake in the Altai Territory. They winter in this unusually beautiful place.


Swan Lake in Altai

Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas. Russia's share of 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 constant top three production leaders include Russia, the USA and.

St. Petersburg has the longest tram network, almost 700 kilometers. This record is included in the Guinness Book of Records.

The world's largest forest is located in Russia. This is East Siberian, with an area of ​​3,900,000 km².


East Siberian taiga

Although diplomatic relations are in good order, a formal peace treaty has not yet been signed as of 2016. It happens!

Back in 1990 in Soviet Russia A record was set for the number of copies 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 here appeared 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 runs between Russia and Kazakhstan, amounting to 7,512.8 km.

Chistye Ponds in Moscow, until 1703, were called Nasty 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 suit for the motor. The invention was tested on animals in 1936.

Russian national flag under Peter the Great, each stripe was clearly marked.

  • Red line below - physical world people with all their worries, sufferings and passions.
  • The blue line is the angelic, heavenly world.
  • The white, highest stripe is the divine world of Faith, Hope and Love.

To date, there is no official interpretation of the tricolor.

Peter was the first to “reward” drunkenness with a special medal weighing 7 kg. And this does not take into account the chain. Interesting pedagogy!

Russian statehood began in 862. As of 2016, the country's population is 146 million people. The Russian Federation includes 85 subjects, 46 of which are called regions, 22 are republics, 9 are territories, 3 are cities federal significance, 4 – autonomous okrugs and 1 – autonomous region.

In total, we collected 57 facts. If we list all the interesting facts about Russia, then, probably, an entire website would not be enough to describe the more or less significant features of this huge country.

note that various interesting facts about Russia and Russian people on many sites contain unverified information. When preparing this material, the amount erroneous statements really confused the author!

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