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Russians get their rods out for an annual fishing festival
(7 Mar 2017) LEADIN:
On the bank of the river Volga, Russians are racing to catch as much fish as possible.
The fishing is part of an annual festival which attracts people from all over the country.
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From far and wide amateur anglers arrive at Chkalovsk in Nizhny Novgorod Region for the fishing festival. It's estimated there's a thousand of them here.
But fishing here is hard work.
The fish lie under several feet of ice and before they can do anything else the fishermen have to manually drill their way through to the water below.
This bleak icy landscape is the frozen water of the Sanokhta River.
Everyone has their own ideas about the best way to catch fish and Sergei Startsev likes to start with a nip of vodka.
It's not just for himself.
Startsev also pours a little down his fish hole and says: Otherwise, fish won't bite. First of all, (this is) for the host.
After pouring a cap of vodka into the frozen water Startsev has a drink himself: So that everything goes smoothly.
Valeriy Shantsev is the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
He's scornful of those who are impatient to know if he has a catch: Not yet, I just threw it inside (the water). Do you think you throw a trap and immediately catch a fish?
Shantsev also has his own ideas about what attracts the fish to the hook, in his case it's a bloodworm.
Not just any worm Shantsev explains, but a: Maggot of a mosquito. Red one.
People of all genders and ages participate in the festival.
Guests arrive from neighboring cities, towns and even regions to take part in the event.
Altogether there are twenty different competitions and the anglers are promised plenty of prizes.
It's a family affair for many Russians, despite the cold.
Marina Ochneva is here with her husband and children.
She explains: When I caught my first perch by myself I got hooked on it.
Anastasiya Zelentsova says: Our dad (her husband) loves it, so we try to fish too. Our child tries (to fish) together with his father and grandfather. So, I joined them too.
The participants are also invited to play games and attend master classes on fishing and cooking, as well as some crafts like painting on wood.
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Driverless taxi unveiled in Moscow
(18 Aug 2017) LEADIN
A driverless bus, designed to be used as a taxi, has been unveiled in Moscow.
A technology park was specially adapted to create roads on which to test the vehicle.
STORYLINE
On a Moscow road, this yellow and black taxi moves swiftly forward, but look closer and you'll see there are no front windows.
This is 'Matreshka' (which means 'Russian doll'), a Russian-made driverless electric bus, which uses cameras to recognise objects and follow a route.
It knows the route and it matches with what is sees in front of itself. Just as a real person draws a picture in his head and when he sees the road, imaginatively finishes the route and goes down the road, explains project engineer, Daniil Lisutkin.
The prototype was presented in Moscow and can travel at a speed up of 30 kilometres per hour. However at the presentation the speed was limited to 10 kilometres per hour for safety reasons.
Its batteries allow it to travel up to 100 kilometres on one charge.
The bus needs 9 hours to be fully charged through a standard 220v socket and 4 hours using a charging station.
The cameras installed around the bus replicate biometric eyesight, which allows it to recognise objects on the road and calculate the distances between them.
Cameras are connected to a computer and using a neural eyesight it analyses the images it got from the cameras. And the bus understands where it is located and what it sees in front of itself, adds Lisutkin.
The bus was developed by Russian bus company 'Volgabus' and the 'Bakulin Motors Group'. Although it's being called a bus it's designed to be used as a taxi.
But there will be versions of the bus to transport cargo and others which can transport up to 12 people like a city bus.
Such buses won't be allowed on public roads until 2020 - so for now they can only be used in closed environments such as airports, technology parks and campuses.
Today, the driverless bus is being showcased in a technology park called 'Kalibr' which was opened on the grounds of a former Soviet factory.
The government has converted a large space in the park to replicate public roads. It has bus stops, crossing and roundabouts as well as road signs.
The technology park created this road for our testing. Here it is all possible: road marking, bus stops, stop lines and roundabouts. We can use it around the clock in any conditions. In summer, in winter, during the day and night, explains the Head of the 'Matreshka' project, Anton Poppel.
The bus is planned to be put into manufacture in 2018.
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Thawing waters herald the start of shipping season
(26 Apr 2017) LEADIN
Spring has sprung on Russia's mighty Volga river with the official start of the sailing season.
The river is Europe's longest and is an important gateway through central Russia into the Caspian Sea.
STORYLINE:
The flags go up on the ship, Volga-Don.
It has the honour of being the first ship of the season to pass through the thawing waters of Russia's most important waterway.
All of the river's locks have been closed for winter and their re-opening marks the start of the spring sailing season.
The event is one of the most important dates for everyone working on the waterway, which is used for industry and passenger ships.
As the Volga-Don approaches the lock at Nizhny Novgorod, shipping veterans, sailors and authorities line the banks for a traditional ceremony.
This is the 174th navigation season on the river.
Andre Sorokin is captain of the Volga Don and has guided ships through the ceremony on many occasions.
This is my 33rd navigation. As always, we are waiting for the successful execution of all tasks. Our aim is to come to the backwater without accident and with a fulfilled duty, he says.
The Volga stretches more than 3,500 kilometres and is made up of many tributaries and reservoirs. It is also prone to flooding when it is fed by an immense amount of melting snow.
A system of locks are in place as the river regularly rises to different levels in different areas.
This year, water levels have not reached expected levels, causing some issues with navigation.
The problem is known long ago, almost forty years already - the Cheboksary water reservoir can not be fully filled, and as a result water levels cannot be high enough here, says Alexander Shishkin, Managing Director of Volga Shipping Company.
Old equipment is a problem on the river system, according to Vladimir Krylov, deputy head of Nizhny Novgorod navigation school.
Everything is getting old, but slowly the fleet is being renewed and new dry-cargo ships are being built. With the passenger ship there a more problems. But we can say that we have new cargo ships and takers. And the rivers are being taken care of more, he says.
Until the cold weather of winter returns and the waters of the Volga refreeze the river resumes its important role as a watery highway.
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The Volga Delta is the largest river delta in Europe, and occurs where Europe's largest river system, the Volga River, drains into the Caspian Sea in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, north-east of the republic of Kalmykia.The delta is located in the Caspian Depression—the far eastern part of the delta lies in Kazakhstan.The delta drains into the Caspian approximately 60 km downstream from the city of Astrakhan.The Volga Delta has grown significantly in the past century because of changes in the level of the Caspian Sea.
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Нерестовый запрет Нижегородская область
Нерестовый запрет Нижегородская область. Приказ Минсельхоза России от 18.11.2014 N 453 Об утверждении правил рыболовства для Волжско-Каспийского рыбохозяйственного бассейна (Зарегистрировано в Минюсте России 08.12.2014 N 35097) (в ред. Приказа Минсельхоза России от 19.04.2016 N 153)
30.26. Водные объекты рыбохозяйственного значения Нижегородской области:
30.26.1. Запретные для добычи (вылова) водных биоресурсов районы:
от плотины Горьковской ГЭС (в нижнем бьефе) до слияния бывшего русла реки Волга со шлюзовым каналом, включая указанный шлюзовой канал;
от шлюзов верхнего бьефа плотины Горьковской ГЭС на водоеме пазуха.
30.26.2. Запретные сроки (периоды) добычи (вылова) водных биоресурсов:
с 15 апреля по 15 июня - всеми орудиями добычи (вылова), за исключением одной поплавочной или донной удочкой с берега с общим количеством крючков не более 2 штук на орудиях добычи (вылова) у одного гражданина вне мест нереста, указанных в приложении N 6 к Правилам рыболовства Перечень нерестовых участков, расположенных на водных объектах рыбохозяйственного значения Волжско-Каспийского рыбохозяйственного бассейна;
с 1 октября по 30 апреля - на зимовальных ямах, указанных в приложении N 5 к Правилам рыболовства Перечень зимовальных ям, расположенных на водных объектах рыбохозяйственного значения Волжско-Каспийского рыбохозяйственного бассейна.
30.26.3. Запретные для добычи (вылова) виды водных биоресурсов:
миноги, осетровые виды рыб, сельдь-черноспинка, пузанок каспийский, белорыбица, кумжа (форель) (пресноводная жилая форма), хариус, горчак, подуст.
30.26.4. Минимальный размер добываемых (вылавливаемых) водных биоресурсов (промысловый размер):
Запрещается при осуществлении рыболовства производить добычу (вылов), приемку, обработку, перегрузку, транспортировку, хранение и выгрузку водных биоресурсов, имеющих в свежем виде длину (в см) менее указанной в таблице 28.
Судак 40 см
Жерех 40 см
Сом пресноводный 90 см
Сазан 40 см
Голавль 20 см
Лещ 25 см
Щука 32 см
Рак 10 см
Промысловый размер водных биоресурсов определяется в свежем виде:
у рыб - путем измерения длины от вершины рыла (при закрытом рте) до основания средних лучей хвостового плавника;
у ракообразных - путем измерения тела от линии, соединяющей середину глаз, до окончания хвостовых пластин.
Добытые (выловленные) водные биоресурсы, имеющие длину менее указанной в таблице 28, подлежат немедленному выпуску в естественную среду обитания с наименьшими повреждениями.
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Astrakhan (Russian: Астрахань; IPA: [ˈastrəxənʲ]) is a city in southern Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on two banks of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of 28 meters (92 ft) below sea level.
The oldest economic and cultural center of the Lower Volga, it is often called the southernmost outpost of Russia and the Caspian capital. The city is a member of the Eurasian Regional Office of the World Organization United Cities and Local Governments Its population is diverse and includes one hundred ethnicities and fourteen religious denominations.
The city is located in the upper part of the Volga delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression. The distance to Moscow by road is 1,411 kilometers (877 mi).
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* Екатерина — конструктор первого комбинезона и первый друг Вольтера.
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* Аляска — Русская Америка.
* Разделы Польши.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons ...
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00:05:32 1 Etymology
00:07:19 2 History
00:07:28 2.1 Early history
00:09:14 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:12:33 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow
00:14:49 2.4 Tsardom of Russia
00:19:10 2.5 Imperial Russia
00:24:38 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic
00:26:13 2.7 Soviet Russia and civil war
00:27:46 2.8 Soviet Union
00:31:41 2.8.1 World War II
00:36:03 2.8.2 Cold War
00:40:19 2.9 Russian Federation
00:47:10 3 Politics
00:47:19 3.1 Governance
00:49:28 3.2 Foreign relations
00:54:06 3.3 Military
00:57:02 3.4 Political divisions
00:59:52 4 Geography
01:01:04 4.1 Topography
01:04:56 4.2 Climate
01:07:07 4.3 Biodiversity
01:08:19 5 Economy
01:15:44 5.1 Energy
01:18:19 5.2 External trade and investment
01:19:12 5.3 Agriculture
01:21:22 5.4 Transport
01:26:09 5.5 Science and technology
01:32:23 5.6 Space exploration
01:34:41 5.7 Water supply and sanitation
01:35:25 5.8 Corruption
01:38:01 6 Demographics
01:43:21 6.1 Largest cities
01:43:29 6.2 Ethnic groups
01:43:55 6.3 Language
01:45:19 6.4 Religion
01:55:31 6.5 Health
01:57:25 6.6 Education
01:59:19 7 Culture
01:59:27 7.1 Folk culture and cuisine
02:02:48 7.2 Architecture
02:06:16 7.3 Visual arts
02:09:16 7.4 Music and dance
02:12:01 7.5 Literature and philosophy
02:15:32 7.6 Cinema, animation and media
02:19:16 7.7 Sports
02:26:13 7.8 National holidays and symbols
02:30:11 7.9 Tourism
02:33:06 8 See also
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is one of the largest cities in the world and the second largest city in Europe; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities and achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, wh ...
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...
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00:06:32 1 Etymology
00:08:41 2 History
00:08:51 2.1 Early history
00:10:56 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:14:52 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow
00:17:32 2.4 Tsardom of Russia
00:22:40 2.5 Imperial Russia
00:29:11 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic
00:31:01 2.7 Soviet Russia and civil war
00:32:50 2.8 Soviet Union
00:37:29 2.8.1 World War II
00:41:28 2.8.2 Cold War
00:46:28 2.9 Russian Federation
00:52:03 3 Politics
00:52:13 3.1 Governance
00:54:43 3.2 Foreign relations
01:00:35 3.3 Military
01:04:04 3.4 Political divisions
01:07:27 4 Geography
01:08:51 4.1 Topography
01:13:30 4.2 Climate
01:16:04 4.3 Biodiversity
01:17:30 5 Economy
01:26:22 5.1 Corruption
01:29:29 5.2 Agriculture
01:32:05 5.3 Energy
01:35:09 5.4 Transport
01:40:52 5.5 Science and technology
01:48:14 5.6 Space exploration
01:50:29 5.7 Water supply and sanitation
01:51:21 6 Demographics
01:57:01 6.1 Largest cities
01:57:11 6.2 Ethnic groups
01:57:41 6.3 Language
01:59:20 6.4 Religion
02:11:26 6.5 Health
02:13:42 6.6 Education
02:15:56 7 Culture
02:16:06 7.1 Folk culture and cuisine
02:20:06 7.2 Architecture
02:24:14 7.3 Visual arts
02:27:49 7.4 Music and dance
02:31:04 7.5 Literature and philosophy
02:35:14 7.6 Cinema, animation and media
02:39:41 7.7 Sports
02:47:57 7.8 National holidays and symbols
02:52:37 7.9 Tourism
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on th ...