1. Российская Федерация - Россия (по конституции)
The Russian Federation - Russia is the official name
of our country/homeland.
2. There are 21 republics in the
Russian Federation (Adygea, Altai,
Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia,
Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North
Ossetia-Alania, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Tuva (Tyva), Khakassia, Chechnya,
Chuvashia)
3. Boris Yeltsin was the first
Russian President.
4. The constitution is the
highest law of Russia.
5. Vladimir Putin is the
Russian President at the moment.
The Prime Minister is Dmitry Medvedev.
6. Russia stopped being a
monarchy and became a republic in 1917.
7. Moscow is the capital of
Russia. It's the biggest city of Russia.
8. St.Petersburg, Vladivostok,
Novosibirsk, Sochi, Kazan, Omsk, Tomsk.
9. Yes, it is. Russia is the largest country in the world.
10. The Altai mountains are situated in Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan
come together. The Caucasus mountains are situated in the south-west of Russia, next to
the Black Sea.
11. The Lena is in the north-eastern
part of Siberia. The Ob is situated in Western Siberia. There are many rivers
in Russia. Their names are the Yenisei, The Volga, the Kama, the Amur, etc.
12. The country is washed by
the Pacific and Artic oceans and by the Baltic, the Black and the Azov seas.
13. Lake Baikal is the world's
deepest, purest, most ancient and most capacious freshwater lake. Lake Baikal
alone contains over one fifth of the world's volume of fresh water.