Some of these facts are widely known but we think they worth another mentioning here, in this post.
1. Russia is the only country of the world washed by twelve seas.
2. The Ural mountains dividing Russia into European and Asian parts are the most ancient mountains in the world.
3. The distance from Moscow to Chicago is shorter than the one from Chicago to Rio Janeiro.
4. Saint Petersburg is the northernmost city of the world with population over million people.
5. The area of Siberia is 9 million 9734,3 thousand square kilometers which occupy 9% of all dry land.
6. Russia has never had slavery. The period of feudal dependence and serfdom in Russia was shorter than, for example, in England and majority countries of Europe. Russian serfdom law was much softer.
7. On January 16, 1820 the Russian expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent.
8. The most popular computer game “Tetris: was created by a Russian programmer Alexey Pazhitnov in 1985. It gained popularity in the USSR too, and later, in 1986 in the west.
9. Ivan the Terrible was not a tyrant, he was rulling the country too soft for that time. At the similar (for that moment) size of Europe and Russia, for all years of his rule Ivan the Terrible executed 100 times less people than his European colleagues for the same period – 3-4 thousand people against 300-400 thousand people.
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