The Russian Federation.

We are Non-Stop Team

Our motto : That’s not important

What’s the matter

So, our victory is better!

To attentive juiri :

In you we trust

Enjoy all of us!

To our witty and creative opposition:

United we stand,

Divided we fall,

Compete with us, we call.

• Russia is the largest country in the world.

• It stretches across both Europe and Asia.

• Russia covers more than 17 million square kilometres.

• The population of Russia is about 142

million people.

• The capital city is Moscow.

Russia borders many countries including Finland,

Estonia,

Latvia,

Lithuania,

Ukraine,

Byelorussia,

Poland,

Kazakhstan,

Mongolia,

China and others.

President - D. A. Medvedev

Chairman of Government - V. V. Putin

Chairman of Advice of Federation - V. I. Matvienko

Chairman of State Thought - B. V. Gryzlov

Flag of Russia

Coat of arms of Russia

Geography of Russia

• Russia is very rich in mineral resources, such as oil , gas, coal , potassium salts, nickel , tin, aluminium raw material , tungsten, gold , platinum, earth-flax , rules, mica and others .

K hal'kopirit Халькопирит

B rucite

Брусит

T opaz

Топаз

Seas

Russia has an extensive coastline of over 37,000 km along the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as along the Baltic Sea, Sea of Azov , Black Sea and Caspian Sea. The Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea , East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan are linked to Russia via the Arctic and Pacific.

Sunset of the Baltic sea

The Azovskoe

sea

Coast of the Okhotskoe sea

Rivers

The Siberian rivers the Ob, Yenisey, the Lena and the Amur are among the very longest rivers in the world.

The Yenisei river

The Volga river

Lakes

The largest and most prominent of Russia's bodies of fresh water is Lake Baikal , the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake. Other major lakes include Ladoga and Onega , two of the largest lakes in Europe.

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

lake Ladoga

Largest cities and their sight

• Moscow
• Saint Petersburg

• Novosibirsk
• Yekaterinburg

• Nizhny Novgorod

• Samara
• Kazan
• Omsk

• Chelyabinsk
• Rostov-on-Don

Moscow:

The Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S.Pushkin

The Tretyakov Gallery

The

Kuskovo

Museum

St.Petersburg:

The Mikhailovsky Palace

The Winter Palace

The Kazan Cathedral

The Anichkov bridge

Novosibirsk

Old train station of Yekaterinburg

Animals planet

Arctic deserts: polar bears, white whale, narwhals, walruses and seals, chistiki, murres, loons.

.

walrus

polar bear

Seal

Loon

White

whale

Chistik

Tundra: deer, polar fox, lemming, white owl, partridge, loon.

Lemming

White owl

Polar fox

Deer

Tayga: sable, squirrel, marten, ermine, hackee, elk, brown bear, wolverine, wolf, ondatra, lynx, dwell.

Sable

Brown bear

Squirrel

Mixed forests: roe deer, wolf, marten, fox and squirrel, Amur tiger, spotted deer, raccoon-like dog, Manchurian hare, Far-Eastern forest cat, pheasant, utka-mandarinka and others.

Wolf

Roe deer

Near desert and desert: jerboa, korsak, pelican, tortoise, with big ears hedgehog…

Pelican

Jerboa

Steppe: rodent, steppe wolf, fox, antelope, steppe eagle, kestrel, lark…

Fox

Lark

Vegetable planet

• Tundra
• Forest
• Steppe
• Deserted
• Pratal
• Bog

Green bryophytess, yagel', cowberry, crowberry, kuropatoch'ya grass, kassiopeya, midget birch, arctic willows, arctic poppy, myatlik is arctic et al.

Cowberry

Arctic poppy

Coniferous forest

Culture

Architecture

Sophia St. Basil's Cathedral

11 th century

St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, XVI century.

Temple of the Intercession on the Nerl

12 th century

The Moscow Kremlin,

XVI-XIX centuries.

St. Isaac's

Cathedral in St. Petersburg,

XIX century.

Literature

PROSE

• Among the most famous writers of Russia:

• Fyodor Dostoevsky ( « Crime and punishment » )

• Leo Tolstoy ( « War and Peace » )

• Ivan Bunin ( « Antonovsky apples » )

• Ivan Turgenev ( « Fathers and Sons » )

• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

( « The Cherry Orchard » )

and many others .

F. Dostoevsky

POETRY

• Among the most famous poets of Russia:

• Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ( « Mistress into Maid » )

• Mikhail Lermontov ( « Hero of Our Time » )

• Alexander Blok ( « Twelve » )

• Sergei Esenin ( « Black Man » )

• Anna Akhmatova ( « Evening » )

• Vladimir Mayakovsky ( « Letter from

Paris about the nature of love » )

and many others .

A.Pushkin

Music

Classical music, opera and ballet

• Pyotr Tchaikovsky ( « Swan Lake » )

• Mikhail Glinka ( « Ruslan and Ludmila » )

• Sergei Rachmaninoff

( « The opera Aleko » )

• Sergei Prokofiev ( « Cinderella » )

• Dmitri Shostakovich ( « Golden age » )

• Alfred Schnittke ( « Der gelbe Klang » )

Tchaikovsky

Painting

• Ivanov

• Vasnetsov

• Shishkin

• Kuindzhi

• Surikov

• Repin

• Savrasov

• Petrov-Vodkin

• Nicholas Roerich

• Isaac Levitan

Petrov-Vodkin. "Spring"

Repin painting "Unexpected "

Shishkin

"Morning in a Pine Forest"

Russian customs and traditions

• Maslenitsa
• Christmas
• Advent
• Christian Easter
• Semikov
• Trinity …

Carnival

Carnival

Carnival

Traditional food: cereal, shchi, dumplings, pancakes, kvass, hash, rye bread and other.

Kvass

Shchi

Cereal

Dumplings

Rye bread

National dress

Oh, Russia, I’m love with you!

I love you, Russia, you are great

Not in the field of battles past

But in the green fields full of wheat

And forests, gardens, free of dust.

I love you deeply, dear land,

Your hills and rivers, sand on strand,

Your songs and dances, lakes and seas,

Your beasts and fish, birds in the trees

Your sunrise in a splendid sight

Which gives me always such delight!

…

(L.Khusainova)

Thank you for your

attention!