Quarter 2 project

Russian Project quarter DVA!!! (two)
Russia is a lot like America in the way people react to their surroundings and such. There are four main religions, The RUssian Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism. привет (preevyet) and здравствойте (zdrasvooytye) are very common ways of greeting eachother. If you know the person, preevyet is the way to go. It is like saying "Hi" here. Zdrasvooytye is used to say "Hello" when you don't know a person. If someone greets you first with "preevyet" then it is safe to answere them with "preevyet." If not, then use Zdrasvooytye. The dating and marriage practices are like America. To be married you have to fill out paperwork. They also wear "normal" clothes. Торт (tort) is a dessert a lot like cake or pie. Кока-Кола (coca-cola) is coca-cola. Вода (vada) is water. Борщ (Borsh) is a russian beetroot soup.

Russia's major phisical features.

I am answereing the question: What are some of the phisical features of Russia?

The three main features are, bodies of water, mountains, and forests/land cover.

I will start with one of the bodies of water that is located in Russia.

Lake Baikal is the deepest fresh water lake in the world. It has more water volume in it than any other lake even though it doesn't cover much area. The bottom of the lake lies at about 1,285 meters below sea level. It has many islands like the Olkhon and Greater Ushkany islands. There are lots of fish that live in the lake. Some are Omul, Sor fish, Bottom Bullheads, Pelagic Bullheads, and Golomyanka. Villagers that live in towns around this lake fish for a living. Lake Baikal is also called the Pearl of Siberia.

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There are many mountain ranges in Russia but I am going to choose the Ural Mountains to talk about.

In Russian they are called the Ура́льские го́ры, or the Uralskiye gory. They are also known as the Stone Belt. They run north and south throught the western part of Russia.They are usually considered the boudary between Europe and Asia. They extend 2,500 km from the Kazakh steppes to the Arctic ocean. They are among the world's oldest mountain ranges. The elevation is very high considering it's age. It is estimated to be around 250 to 300 million years old.

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There are more forests in Russia than any other country. There are over one thousand million hectares, or 22% of the world's cover. That is larger than the USA. It was very hard to choose a forest, but I decided to go with the Komi Forests.

The Komi Forest runs along the eastern part of the Ural Mountains. It is the largest oldgrowth forest on the continent. Foreign timber companies are logging there. There are 3,280,000 hectares covered in this beautiful forest.