Russia
Russia is also known as the Soviet Union, which is a sovereign state in North Eurasia, which is a federal republic state, and is the largest country in the world in terms of area with a total of 17125200 km2, and is considered the eighth most populated country with a population of more than 144 million people.
Its total area extends from the northern part of the Asian continent to large parts of Eastern Europe and Russia, and due to its large area it extends over ten time zones, and it has a large group of international land borders with (Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea) have maritime borders with countries (Japan across the Sea of Okhotsk, and the United States of America via the Bering Strait).
Cities of Russia
Moscow
Moscow is the capital of Russia, and it has the status of a federal city, over 12.2 million people live there, and its total area reaches 2511 km2, and it is considered a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific center in Russia and Eastern Europe, and is located on the banks of the Moskva River.
St. Petersburg
It is the second largest city in the country in terms of area with a total of 1439 km2, located on the banks of the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, and during 1914 AD the name of the city was changed from the current name to the name of Petrograd; however, in 1991 it regained its current name Its history was founded by Tsar Peter in the year 1703 AD.
Novosibirsk
The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River, adjacent to the valley of the Ob River, and its total area reaches 502.1 km 2, and over 1.5 million people live there, and depends on its economy on the industry sector as it includes more than 214 industrial enterprises.
Yekaterinburg
It is the fourth largest city in the country, and it is administratively affiliated to the Sverdlovsk Oblast. It is located in the center of the Eurasia continent on the border between the European and Asian continents, and it covers an area of 495 km2, and its population is more than 1.4 million people.
Other cities
- Abakan: It is considered the capital of Lakkasia. It is located in the central part of Minosinsk, with more than 170 thousand inhabitants. It is affected by the continental climate, which has semi-arid impacts. There are temperature differences between one season and another.
- Port: It is one of the cities belonging to a region in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is located to the north of the bank of the Volga River, and despite its establishment during the fourteenth century AD, it obtained the name of the city in 1938 AD.
- Polokovo: The city is administratively attached to the state of Kireyevsky, and it is located on the Olin River, 20 kilometers from the Tula region to the southeast.
