Transcript Europe and Asia US has almost twice the population as Russia

1. Identify the two
continents that Russia
expands across.
Europe and Asia
2. What mountain range
separates Russia into
two continents?
Ural Mts.
Europe
and Asia
Europe
1. Russia is the largest
country in the world in
land area. How does it
compare in terms of
population?
U.S. has almost twice the
population as Russia
2. Where do most people
in Russia live?
Urban areas
3. Why is only 26% of the
population east of the
Ural Mts. ?
Because of the harsh, cold climate
and Asia
Russia is so large---it runs through 11 time zones!
1. What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow
2. How many major cities are within the Arctic Circle?
Eight
3. What Russian city is a port on the Baltic Sea and is disconnected with the
rest of Russia?
Kaliningrad
Russian
Port Cities
Murmansk
St. Petersburg
Kaliningrad
Vladivostok
Be good or I’ll send
you to…
A convict village in Siberia, early
1900s. Siberia became an
important area for the exile of
political and criminal prisoners.
Lenin and Stalin were numbered
among the famous Siberian exile
community.
Siberia!
When a Westerner hears "Siberia",
images of frozen tundra and prison
camps come to mind. But things are
changing even in this lost region.
The Asian part of Russia (east
to Ural Mountains) is called
Siberia. Siberia is usually subdivided into Western Siberia,
Eastern Siberia and Far East.
At about 10,000 KM or just under 6,000 miles the Trans-Siberian Railway
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Trans Siberian of
Railroad
covers over 1/3 of the
the Earth and is the world's
longest railroad.
Novosibirsk
The 1.5-million Novosibirsk is
the third largest city of Russia
after Moscow (8M) and St.
Petersburg (5M) and the chief
city of Western Siberia. Born
in 1893 as a future site of a
railroad bridge crossing the
great Siberian river Ob where
the latter is crossed by the
famous Trans-Siberian
Railroad (built in 1890s 1900s), it officially became a
town in 1903. Now it is the
unofficial capital of Siberia.
Siberia Tundra
1. Where is the
tundra—large,
treeless region
where only the top
few inches of
ground thaw
during the
summer-- found in
Russia? Siberia
2. What do you call
the world’s largest
forest area? taiga
3. What lake is the
world’s deepest
freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal
Taiga
Taiga – huge forests
of evergreen trees
that grow in
subarctic regions.
Animals of the Taiga
Taiga
Tundra
Tundra – vast, rolling, treeless plain in high
latitude climates in which only the top few
inches of ground thaw in summer.
A caribou grazing in the tundra.
Lake Baikal
Moscow
Moscow is the capital
of Russia and the
governmental center of
the center of the
Central region. It is
Russia’s largest city
and a top economic
and cultural center;
Moscow is an inland
port.
Moscow
• The Kremlin
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Moscow is laid out in a series of concentric rings that center
on the original medieval fortress, the Kremlin. The encircling
wide boulevards, the Boulevard Ring, Garden Ring, and
Outer Ring Road, delineate the historic expansion of the city.
Most visitors start a tour of Moscow with the Kremlin and
Red Square. Famed for its abundance of cathedrals and the
heart of the Russian Government, visitors are immediately
confronted with Moscow's contradictions as stunning historic
cathedrals stand within a stone's throw of the most
architecturally modern and somewhat gloomy edifice of
Lenin's Mausoleum.
The Kremlin
Walls,
the walls of the
Kremlin are 19
metres high and
six-and-a-half
metres thick and
are the resting
place for the
Bolsheviks who
died during the
battle for Moscow
in 1917.
Also retained in
the walls are the
ashes of Maxim
Gorky and Yuriy
Gagarin, the first
man in space.
• The Red Square (Krasnaja Ploshad)
was a market place in the fifteenth
century and acquired its present name
in the seventeenth century.
• Red does not refer to Communism
but derives from the old Russian word
'krasniy' meaning beautiful.
• Well known for its May Day parades
during the Soviet regime, it is the site
of Lenin's Mausoleum and the colorful
Cathedral of St Basil the Blessed, with
its domes, towers and spires, each
bearing a distinctive pattern and color.
• Behind the Mausoleum is the Kremlin
wall which contains a mass grave of
Bolsheviks who perished during the
battle for Moscow in 1917, together
with the ashes of a number of wellknown Russians, including writer
Maxim Gorky and Yuriy Gagarin, the
first man in space.
• The cathedral, sitting at the far end of
Red Square, with colorful, onion-shaped
domes and spires, has graced the square
for over four centuries.
• Built to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's
capture of the Mongol stronghold of the
Kazan in 1552, it’s named after St Basil
the Blessed who foretold the Moscow fire
of 1547 and whose remains were buried
on this site.
• For more than four centuries this
remarkable building has survived
numerous fires, natural disasters and
enemy invasions to delight and astound
all who see it.
St. Basil’s
Cathedral
The Kremlin, in Moscow, includes four palaces, four cathedrals,
and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin Towers. The complex
serves as the official residence of the president of Russia.
The Kremlin takes up one side of Red Square
The Kremlin's three corner towers are round in shape and
include the Vodozvodnaya (Corner Water Pump) Tower,
which stands on the bank of the Moscow River near the
Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge.
It was the first tower in all of Moscow to install a machine
for drawing up water from the river, and supplied the
Kremlin palaces and gardens with a daily supply.
The tower was built in 1488 and is almost 59 meters tall.
Most remarkable of the Kremlin's towers has to be the
Gothic-spired Spasskaya (Savior's) Tower, which was
built in 1491 The gate was reputed to have miraculous
powers and to have saved Moscow from invasion many
times. As people walked under the tower they would cross
themselves and doff their hats in respect.
When Napoleon rode through the gates in 1812 without
observing this custom, it's said his horse shied and his hat
fell off, confirming the Russian's belief in its miraculous
powers.
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is Russia’s second
largest city and its previous capital.
It’s a major port, rail joint, and trade,
cultural, and scientific center. The
seaport is one of the world’s largest,
but handles somewhat little traffic
because the size of foreign trade for
Russia is small.
The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood
This amazing Old
Russian-style church
(in St. Petersburg)
was built on the spot
where Emperor
Alexander II was
assassinated on
March 1, 1881.
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