Russia Description

Russia Russia - a great power, the biggest state in the world in the occupied territories! Country with a great spiritual and cultural heritage! With huge natural resources and beautiful historic monuments! The people of Russia, the Russian soul - is a puzzle that every tourist tries to solve its own way ...

Russia - a federal state with rich cultural traditions and natural resources. This is the largest state in area - more than 17 sq.km. Russia is situated on two continents - Europe and Asia. In the south and south-eastern borders with China, south-east - with North Korea in the south - with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, on the south-west - with Ukraine in the west - from Finland, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Norway. In addition, the Kaliningrad region, Russia enclave on the Baltic coast and borders with Poland and Lithuania.

Russia belong to the same island of Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, Vaygach, the archipelago Franz Josef Land, New Siberian Islands, Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, the Kurile Islands (part of the Kuril islands - Etorofu, Shikotan - contested by Japan) and Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean.
In the east, Russia is washed by the Japan, Okhotsk and Bering seas and the Bering Strait in the north - the Barents, Kara, Chukchi and East Siberian Sea, Laptev Sea in the west - the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, in the south - the Black and Azov Seas.

Russia can be divided into three very broad regions: European Russia, occupying territory to the west of the Ural Mountains, Siberia, stretching from the Urals almost to the Pacific coast and the Far East of Russia. In turn, these regions have pronounced physiographic features.

Capital: Moscow.

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