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An interesting fact about St. Basil's Cathedral is that it was created by a man named Postnik Yakovlev. Who, allegedly was blinded by Ivan the Terrible after he built it so that he couldn't ever build anything better.

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1. Russia has more time zones than any other country in the world. At one point they had 11 but now it is 9 time zones.

2. Russian leaders have some really interesting and diverse hobbies. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev recorded an album of love songs and Vladimir Putin has a judo DVD.

3. Oymyakon, Russia is the coldest inhabitable place on Earth. One day in February 1933, had a recorded temperature of -67.8 °C. (That's -90.04 F)

4. Russia is only 0.6 million sq km smaller than the dwarf planet Pluto.
Russia = 17 million sq km
Pluto = 17.6 million sq km.

5.  Russia is located in both Europe and Asia: 1/4 of its territory is in Europe and 3/4 is in Asia. And of its entire population, only 22% lives in the section that is Asian.

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The 1997 film Anastasia was a massive hit and is still popular to this day for being a story about a nonconventional (Disney) princess. However, what many people don't know is that Anastasia was a real person, the youngest daughter of the last Russian emperor and that her story was very different from the movie. This video compares the movie to the true history of the Russian Royal family it was based on.

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The Messed Up REAL STORY Behind Anastasia

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Easy Russian 10 - Interview with Nastya Semina

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Golubye Ozera is located in Kabardino-Balkaria. Something about the chemical composition of the water makes it turn turquoise! It is said that "on a bright, sunny day, the water is completely clear and visibility reaches 70 meters." Another interesting fact about the lake is that no rivers feed into it. How does it get its water? Underwater sources.

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The Lyudmilinskaya Borehole is located at the Usolsky Salt Deposits, which is near the city of Solikamsk. Solikamsk has been a site for salt mining since the 1400s.
Out of all the wooden pipes that were used to mine for salt in 1906, only this one remains.

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- Orthodox Christianity = 71%
- Non-Affiliated Beliefs = 15%
- Islam - 10%
- Other Christians - 2%
- Other Faiths - 1%

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Tyatya Volcano is located on on Kunashir Island and it is the highest volcano there. It is known for emitting toxic gases that are suspected to interfere with aircrafts passing overhead.

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This video contains 50 common Russian phrases and is super insightful because they are throughly explained, put into context, and broken down slowly to help with pronunciation. For many of the examples there is also the American equivalent of the phases included to help further your understanding.

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50 COMMON PHRASES IN RUSSIAN: BASIC RUSSIAN

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Although, the grammar rules do allow for any combination. For example, the sentence "I went to the shop" can be translated into Russian in the following ways:

Я пошёл в магазин. (I went to the shop)

Я в магазин пошёл. (I to the shop went)

Пошёл я в магазин. (Went I to the shop)

Пошёл в магазин я. (Went to the shop I)

В магазин я пошёл. (To the shop I went)

В магазин пошёл я. (To the shop went I)

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Here are all of the Russian writing symbols with their pronunciations underneath.

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Все люди рождаются свободными и равными в своем достоинстве и правах. Они наделены разумом и совестью и должны поступать в отношении друг друга в духе братства

Translation:
All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards each other in a spirit of brotherhood.

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This video of the Russian Alphabet contains the symbols for each Russian letter, their pronunciation, and a Russian word that starts with each letter.

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Learn the Russian alphabet with examples and pronunciation / Cyrillic alphabet

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Official Language:
- Russia
- Belarus
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan

Unofficial Language:
- Ukraine
- Azerbaijan
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan

Notable Population of Russian Speakers:
- Cyprus
- Finland
- Hungary
- Mongolia
- Poland
- China
- United States
- Israel

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258 million Russian speakers in the world.

153 million native speakers.