Russian Currency and Travel Insights
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT RUSSIA.
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• Russia has over 40 national parks and 100 wildlife reserves.
• Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world. It reaches 1642 metres (5,387 feet)
in depth and contains around 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Russia (and Europe), it reaches a height of 5642
metres (18,510 feet).
Russia's Volga River is the longest in Europe, with a length of around 3690 kilometres (2293
miles).
Russia has the world's largest area of forests.
• There are approximately 10 million more women in Russia than there are men.
• In Russia, men never give an even amount of flowers to a women. You should always
make sure you give them in odd numbers, unless going to a funeral, where
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