What is encrypted in the “message to the Slavs”? How the Russian State was worth the letter “b”? Who actually suggested the use of the letter “e”? Uncover the secret of the Russian alphabet. The Epistle to the Slavs. The usual set of letters of the Russian alphabet is actually none other than “the Epistle […]
The Polistovsky nature reserve was established in 1994. It is located on the East of the Pskov region, on the lands of Bezhanitsy and Loknya district. The total area of the reserve is 38 000 hectares. A conservation area is temperate-continental climate is dominant. The average temperature in the period from December to February is […]
Omar Khayyam is known to everyone. Everything heard or read his poems. However, if he owns most of them, debatable. But we can say unequivocally that he was the greatest scientist of his time, and his glory is wider popularity of the poet for postcards. Poet for postcards. Omar Khayyam is one of the most […]
3 December 1564 Ivan the terrible left Moscow and moved to the Alexander settlement. Almost two decades of capital, cultural and political center of the state was the suburban residence of the king. 1 Long road. In early December 1564 Ivan the terrible began to behave very strangely: he visited the capital’s churches and monasteries, […]
“Russia” – the name is relatively new. Before that our territory was recorded in historical annals and plotted on maps just under other names. 1 Hyperborea. Legendary country of ancient Greek mythology. Many scholars argue that the Hyperboreans many thousands of years ago lived on the territory of the Russian North. Interestingly, even many medieval […]
Area: 5 426 – 5 470 km2 Maximum depth: 150 m Bratsk reservoir – a reservoir in the Irkutsk region of Russia, founded on the river Angara in the result of construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, the second on volume of the reservoir in the world. On the banks of the city of […]
Area: 9700 km2 Maximum depth: 127 m Onega lake is a lake in the North-West of the European part of the Russian Federation located on the territory of Karelia, the Leningrad and Vologda regions. The second largest lake in Europe after Ladoga. Belongs to the basin of the Baltic sea Atlantic ocean. The lake area […]
Area: 1400-2000 km2 Maximum depth: 7 m. The Chany lake – closed salt lake in Russia, located in Barabinsk lowland on the territory of the Novosibirsk region, the largest lake in Western Siberia. The lake is located on the territory of five districts of the Novosibirsk region: Sivinskogo, Barabinsk, Janovskeho, Kopynskoho and Chistoozernoe. It got […]
Area: 4070 km2 Maximum depth: 11 m Lake Khanka is located on the border of the Primorsky region of Russia and the Heilongjiang province of China. Khanka is the largest freshwater reservoir in the far East. The area 4070 km2 (with an average water level), length 95 km, dominated by the depth of 1-3 m, […]
Area: 4 560 km2 Maximum depth: 26 m Lake Taimyr on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation, is part of Taimyr nature reserve. The second largest after lake Baikal in the Asian part of Russia. Taimyr is the most Northern in the world this large lake is its extreme Northern […]