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In the early 1800s russia was saved from Nepoleon  by the harsh weather

In 1904 the Trans-Siberian railway was completed

in 1916 there was finally a Trans-Siberian Railroad wholly within Russian territory.

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Scientists estimate that just to keep the sea at its current level, nine of the 18 million acres of farmland would need to be removed.

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This is the longest railway in the world. I was built to connect Moscow to Vladivostok. It takes eight days to ride it from one end to another.

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Russia and the republics have extreme whether. There was even a time when  the harsh weather kept Napoleon from invading Russia. Most of his troops died from the cold. However because Russians are more adapted to the weather, the cold never bothered them anyway.

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Due to the runoff from farms, many of the fish that used to live in the Aral sea died off from the chemicals and fertilizer.

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The Aral sea was once a large sea but ever since a dam was built to irrigate the collective farms when the USSR ruled Russia and the republics the sea has rapidly been evaporating.