Doing Business in Russia
6 Doing Business in Russia
Interesting facts about Russia
Largest country
in the world
S=
17,075,400
km²
Surrounded
by 12 seas
Siberia's area = 9%
of the world's land
Longest railway
in the world
Deepest
lake in the
world
Pluto
Lake
Baikal
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Russia borders
16 countries
Huge
natural
3/4
Three quarters
of Russians live
in cities
resources
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Lake
Baikal
Russia is the largest country in the world with an
area of 17,075,400 square kilometers. Its area is
approximately equal to the surface area of Pluto.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest
railway in the world. The Great Siberian Way
connecting Moscow with Vladivostok has a
length of 9,298 kilometers crossing 8 time zones,
passing through 87 cities and population centers
and 16 rivers, including the Volga.
Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the
world and the largest source of fresh water
on the planet. It contains a total of 23 cubic
kilometers of water. All the world's major rivers -
the Volga, Don, Dnieper, Yenisei, Ural, Ob,
Ganges, Orinoco, Amazon, Thames, Seine and
Oder - are to flow almost a year to fill a basin
equal to Baikal by volume.
Russia is the only country surrounded by twelve
seas.
Siberia's area is 9,734,300 square kilometers,
which is 9% of the world's land.
Russia borders with 16 countries, including
Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea,
Japan and the United States of America.
Three quarters of Russians live in cities. The
five largest Russian cities are Moscow, St.
Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and
Nizhny Novgorod.
Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas,
peat, wood, salt, drinking water, crabs, sturgeon,
tin, zinc, titanium, niobium, nickel, iron ore,
diamonds and silver. Russia ranks first in the
world for oil and gas production, exports of
steel, primary aluminum and nitrogen fertilizers.
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