15/03/2021
🇷🇺 Did you know that Moscow's Red
"Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) was actually named for its loveliness and not for political reasons? Krasnaya or ""red,"" means ""beautiful"" in old Russian. Russia is the largest country in the world, the land border of Russia is 20,241km long the second longest of any country. Russia shares a border with 14 countries, no other country in the world has as many borders."
"There are nine time zones across Russia. Russia is permanently on daylight savings time. The longest railway in the world is in Russia, Trans-Siberian Railroad its length is 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles) and crosses eight time zones. To travel the whole railroad, you would need to spend around a week in a train. Russia is also home to the deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal contains about 20% of the world's fresh water and is the deepest lake in the world. About 1,700 species of plants and animals live in the lake, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world. Russia is 60% forest. What's more interesting, half of that forest is totally uninhabited by humans.The coldest inhabited town on Earth is also in Russia, The town of Oymyakon, in the Yakutia region, Siberia, is considered to be one of the coldest inhabited towns on Earth. The"
coldest temperature was recorded at a jaw-dropping -77.8°C (-108°F). The average temperature in December and January is not much warmer at -50°C.
