A glimpse of Russia

A glimpse of Russia.

Answer the following questions.
1. What is the official name of our country?
2. What is the capital of the Russian Federation?
3. What is the population of our country?
The Russsian Federation.
Moscow
147 mln. people

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Think about grammar: Reading and writing numbers.

The highest volcanoes:
Klyuchevsky- 4,850 metres.

Avachinsky – 4,750 metres. Koryaksky-3,456 metres.

The largest geyser, Velican shoots boiling water up 30 meters and steam to 300 m.

The most important river is Kamchatka (750 km. long)

The biggest lakes in Kamchatka are Kurilskoye and Kronotskoye.

Kamchatka is 8,200 km. and 9 hour zones from Moscow, a region where each Russian day begins.

Novosibirsk

The Mountains!!!
There are several mountain chains on the territory of the country: the Urals, the Caucasus, the Altai and others. The largest mountain chain, the Urals, separates Europe from Asia.

The Caucasus

Rivers. The Volga is Europe’s biggest river. It runs into the Caspian Sea which is in fact the largest lake in the world. The main Siberian rivers – the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena – flow from south to north. The Amur in the Far East flows into the Pacific Ocean.

Russia is rich in beautiful lakes. The world’s deepest lake (1600 meters) is Lake Baikal. It is much smaller than the Baltic Sea, but there is much more water in it than in the Baltic Sea.