Ten fun facts about Russia

Fact 1
Russia is an expansive country and shares borders with a record fifteen countries.

Fact 2
Siberia is spread across around 5.2 million square miles and holds close to 25% of forests in the world.

Fact 3
The Russian’s have certain superstitions of their own. They never shake hands across a doorway as they believe that it leads to endless arguments.

Fact 4
Many languages have specific words that denote “a” or “the”. The Russian language has neither of these two words and thus there is lesser confusion.

Fact 5
The Russian language is one of the world’s five most-spoken languages and instead of the Latin alphabet uses the Cyrillic one.

Fact 6
The world’s oldest mountains are the Russia’s Ural Mountains. The world’s largest fresh water reservoir is Lake Baikal and it is the deepest lake on the planet as well.

Fact 7
Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia, stands at a height of 4,750m and is the largest active volcano in the world.

Fact 8
Moscow’s 1862-founded, Russian State Library is Europe’s largest library and the second-largest in the world, right after the Library of Congress in the United States.

Fact 9
Russia is the world’s only country to have 12 seas on its territory. The Trans-Siberian railway that connects Vladivostok and Moscow is the world’s longest railway.

Fact 10
The Tsar Kolokol bell at the Kremlin is the largest bell in the world. This 223 ton, 6.14 m high bell was fabricated in 1735, cracked soon after and has never been rung.

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