WHERE IS RUSSIA ??

MAP OF RUSSIA

RUSSIAN HISTORY
The Millennium of Russia monument on a postage stamp dedicated to the 1140th anniversary of the Russian statehood in 2002.

EARLY RUSSIA
Tradition says the Viking Rurik came to Russia in 862 A.D. and founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod During the 11th century, the grand dukes of Kiev held such centralizing power as existed. In 1240, Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols, and the russian territory was split into numerous smaller dukedoms

IVAN IV THE TERRIBLE

. Ivan IV the Terrible (1533 1584), first Muscovite czar is considered to have founded the Russian state.

Alexander II (18551881) pushed Russia's borders to the Pacific and into central Asia. Serfdom was abolished in 1861, but heavy restrictions were imposed on the emancipated class.

The Bolshevik Revolution

World War I demonstrated czarist corruption and inefficiency, and only patriotism held the poorly equipped army together for a time Disorders broke out in Petrograd (renamed Leningrad and now St. Petersburg) in March 1917, and defection of the Petrograd garrison launched the revolution. Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 15, 1917, and he and his family were killed by revolutionaries on July 16, 1918.

RUSSIA IN FIRST WORLD WAR

 In 1914 the Russian government considered Germany to be the main threat to its territory. This was reinforced by Germany's decision to form the Triple Alliance.

 Under the terms of this military alliance, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy agreed to support each other if attacked by either France or Russia. In 1907 Russia joined Britain and France to form the Triple Entente.

 In 1914 the Russian Army was the largest army in the world. However, Russia's poor roads and railways made the effective deployment of these soldiers difficult. The Russian Army Air Service (RAAS) was established in 1912 and two years later owned 360 Aircrafts and 16 Airships. This made the RAAS the largest airforce in the world. In 1914 the Russian Navy had 4 battleships, 10 cruisers, 21 destroyers, 11 submarines and 50 torpedo boats.

RUSSIA IN SECOND WORLD WAR

In August 1939 Stalin's Communist Russia signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler's Nazi Germany in order to keep the aggressive Hitler away from Russia.

 To keep Hitler appeased all this time, Stalin's Russia provided Germany, as agreed, with large quantities of war materials and even operational support services to assist the German war effort.

 Hitler's German military, exhausted and not equipped for the harsh Russian winter, was finally stopped just before Moscow.

COLD WAR
Cold War is the conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and the democratic nations led by the United States. After the war, the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, and France divided Berlin and Germany into four zones of occupation, which led to immediate antagonism between the Soviet and Western powers, culminating in the Berlin blockade in 1948.

 It marked the beginning of the cold war, the simmering hostility that pitted the world's two superpowers, the U.S. and the USSR and their competing political ideologies against each other for the next 45 years.

PRESIDENTS, KENNEDY & KRUSHCHEV IN NEGOTISTIONS

 SOVIET UNION sent the first satellite into space SPUTNIK 1 in 1957 and put YURI GAGARIN into space in 1961

USSR : WORLD s LAST GREAT EMPIRE

The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics was established as a federation on Dec 30, 1922 With the death of Lenin in 1924, the struggle between Joseph Stalin and Trotsky, after his dismissal in 1925 Trotsky left Soviet Union . Stalin consolidated his power by liquidating party leaders and military officers, and became the Prime Minister on May 6, 1941

MAP OF USSR

BREAK UP OF USSR
On Dec 21, 1991 USSR dissolved into 11 countries forming Commen wealthof Independent States Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Russian Republic
On Dec 25 ,1991 Gorbachev resigned . Yelstin who had been the driving force behind the Soviet dissolution became the president of the newly established Russian Republic

Shocking Hostage Situation

On Sept. 1 3, dozens of heavily armed guerrillas seized a school in Beslan, near Chechnya, and held about 1,100 young schoolchildren, teachers, and parents hostage. Hundreds of hostages were killed, including about 156 children. Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility.

IMPORTANT PLACES AND CULTURE OF RUSSIA

St. Basil s Cathedral

St. Basil s Cathedral

It is a beautiful building in Moscow s Red Square. It almost looks like a fairy-tale castle or gingerbread house. The onion dome shape is found often in Russian church architecture.

Lake baykal
It is almost the deepest lake of the world. It is 6,365 feet deep.

Caspian Sea
It is d world s smallest sea. It is 152,085 square feet .

Lake baykal Caspian Sea

Tchaikovsky,Peter ilich (1840-1893)

1st Russian composer to gain world wide honors. He wrote symphonies, operas, piano solos, and ballets. He is best known for his ballets: Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.

The Bolshoi Theatre

Famous theater located in Moscow. It has produced some of the world s greatest dancers. It is known as one of the world s greatest ballet companies.

RUSSIA IS FAMOUS FOR

The BROWN BEAR. The russian TEACAKES. BABA YAGA. RUSSIAN NESTING DOLLS. BALLET. Ukrainian pysanky.

BROWN BEAR

TEACAKES

BABA YAGA

NESTING DOLLS

BALLET

UKRAINIAN PYSANKY

SPORTS OF RUSSIA

 RUSSIA has consistently finished in the top ranking at the Olympic games. RUSSIA is the second among all nation by number of gold medals both at the summer Olympics and winter Olympics.

Russia take part in:1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. basket ball. Volley ball. hand ball. boxing . weight lifting. ice hockey. Wrestling. Skating. ice dancing .

Russia was traditionally very strong in basket ball , winning various Olympics tournament, world championship. there are many basketball club in Russia such as PBC, CSKA Moscow

In recent year Russia has remerged as a hockey super power, winning back to back gold medal in 2008 and 2009 world championship.
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Since the end of the Soviet era Tennis has grown in popularity and Russia has produced a number of famous players, Maria Sharapova the world highest paid female athlete.

Maria Sharapova

Andrei Chesnokov ranked no. 13 in 2006

Marat Safin winner of 2 grand slam single title ranked world no. 1 for 9 weeks

Marat safin

The climate of Russia is mainly continental, with an arctic section in the north. The severity of the climate increases as one moves further east across the country, with east Siberia experiencing harsh, long, bitterly cold winters. The north of the country is covered with snow much of the year and subject to permafrost. Southern Russia, though, enjoys warm to hot summers with fairly high rainfall, and very cold snowy winters. The most pleasant seasons, and best time to travel to Russia, are spring and autumn, when the weather is mild and dry.

FLORA N FAUNA.

Russia has several soil and vegetation zones, each with its characteristic flora and fauna. The tundra, which extends along the extreme northern part of Asia, is divided into arctic, moss-lichen, and shrubby tundra subzones. Only dwarf birches, willows, lichens, and mosses grow in the thin layer of acidic soil

Indigenous fauna include the arctic fox, reindeer, white hare, lemming, and common and Wildlife in the taiga include moose, Russian bear, reindeer, lynx, sable, squirrel, and among the birds, capercaillie, hazel-grouse, owl, and woodpecker. In the broadleaf woods are European wild boar, deer, roe deer, red deer, mink, and marten.

ECONOMY OF RUSSIA

Economy of russia is ranked 12th in the world. The currency name is RUSSIAN RUBLE(RUB). Trades Organizations CIS,APEC,EURASEC,G-20

STATISTICS

GDP GDP growth GDP per capital GDP by sector INFLATION POPULATION

EXTERNAL
EXPORT EXPORT GOODS MAIN EXPORT PARTNERS IMPORTS IMPORT GOODS MAIN IMPORT PARTNER

PUBLIC FINANCE Public debt 6.9% of GDP. Revenues $205.3 billion. Expenses $306.6 billion.

Russian ground forces

Active1992- Present Allegiance- Ministry of Defence Type- Army Size- Active;321,1000 Active personnel Current Commander Col. Gen Alexander Postnikov

The Main Command of the Ground Forces is officially tasked with the following objectives:
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The training of troops for combat, on the basis of tasks determined by the Armed Forces' General Staff. The improvement of troops' structure and composition, and the optimization of their numbers, including for special troops The development of military theory and practice. The development and introduction of training field manuals and methodology. The improvement of operational and combat training of the Ground Forces.

REGIMENTS OF NEW ORDER

Imperial Russia Army (1721 1917) White Movement White Guard (1917 1921) RSFSR / Soviet Union Red Army (1918 1991) Russian Federation Army (1991 Present)

Russian Army is the worlds 4th powerful army

Main Battle Tanks Light Tanks 22,800+ (~6,500 active)[85][86] 150 PT-76;None 15,000+ (~6,000 active) 9,900+ (~6,400 active) 12,765 (~7,550 active) 6,000 (~3,500 active) about 4,500 (~900 active) 6,600 (~2,600 active) about 2,500

Ground Forces Headquarters in Moscow

Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicles Armoured Personnel Carriers Towed Artillery

Self Propelled Artillery Multiple Rocket Launchers Mortars

Self-Propelled Surface to Air Missiles

Russian Air Force

Current commander Co. General Alexander Zelin

Country

Russian Federation (previously the Soviet Union and Russian Empire

Role

Defeating enemy units, reconnaissance, defence of major military units and facilities

Size

210,000 personnel 7,358 aircraft

Russia will export 232 new multi-role fighters worth over $10 billion in 20102013. The Russian share of Export during this time will be 20%

New developments

A number of Russian aviation companies have been attempting to develop advanced fighter aircraft to replace the large number of aging MiG-29 and Su-27 aircraft in service. All have been severely affected by funding difficulties. Sukhoi has emerged as the frontrunner. The Sukhoi PAK FA- Future Air Complex for Tactical Air Forces - has been under development since 2002. The first prototype made its initial flight on 29 January 2010. A 2015 date has been announced for service entry.

 By August 2010, according to the commanderin-chief of the Russian Air Force Aleksandra Zelin ) the average flight hours of a pilot in Russian tactical aviation had reached 80 hours a year, while in army aviation and military transport aviation it exceeded 100 hours a year.

The Russian Air Force operates around 2,749 Aircraft of All Types. Following Are Some Of Them.

Su h o i Su 2 7

SSR

Mi o y a n MiG 35

R u ssia

Su h o i Su 30

R u ssia

Su ho i Su 34

R ussia

Mi o yan MiG 31

S SR
T upo le v T u 160 S SR

Mi o yan MiG 29

S SR

T upo le v T u 9 5

Su ho i Su 35B

R ussia

T upo le v T u 2 2M

S SR

S SR

Su hoi Su 25

Su hoi Su 24

SSR

SSR

MORDEN RUSSIAN NAVY

Russia has one of the finest navy in the world

TOURISM IN RUSSIA
Best places to visit Russia are Moscow. St. Petersburg. Siberia. Ukraine. Sochi.

THANKS NOT FOR SLEEPING

FROM SUNPREET SINGH GARIMA ARYA AKHIL DHANTA SANDEEP SINGH SAURABH MAHAJAN