In every country of the world there are outstanding places: the longest river in the world, the tallest building, the deepest canyon. Today I will tell you about top 10 the most outstanding places, which are located on the territory of Russia.
1. Russia - the largest country in the world, its area of 17,075,400 square kilometers. It’s a little bit more than 6,5 million square miles. The area of Russia is approximately equal the surface area of the planet Pluto.
2. The Moscow Kremlin - the world's largest medieval fortress. The real length of the walls of the Kremlin is 2235 meters. It’s approximately 1400 miles.
3. In the Russian city Oymyakon registered the lowest temperature. Record cold was established in 1924 and amounted to -71.2 ° C. It’s - 96.16 Fahrenheit.
4. Ural Mountains - the oldest mountains in the world. Mountain Karandash appeared 4, 2 billion years ago. Historical names of the Ural Mountains - Big Stone, Siberian stone, Earth Belt and Stone Belt.
5. Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. Lake Baikal has 23 cubic kilometers of water. All the major rivers of the world - the Volga, Don, Dnepr, Yenisei, Ural, Ob, the Ganges, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Thames, the Seine and Oder - should flow almost a year to fill the pool, equal to the volume of Lake Baikal.
6. Trains in Moscow subway come to a station more frequently than in any other subway in the world. At rush hours the interval between trains is 90 seconds. Among them are "nominal" train, such as train "Watercolor", which is a traveling exhibition of painting.
7. Saint-Petersburg’ subway is the deepest in the world. Its average depth - 100 meters, it’s about 328 feet.
8. St. Petersburg - is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over a million people. The population of St. Petersburg in 2015 was about 5, 200 000 people.
9. Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. Great Siberian Way, connects Moscow and Vladivostok. It has a length of 9298 kilometers (5778 miles), it crosses eight time zones, passes through 87 cities and towns and crosses 16 rivers.
10. The world's largest active volcano - Klyuchevskaya Sopka is located in Russia. Its height is 4 km 850 meters. It’s about 3 miles. He throws a column of ash up to eight kilometers. With each eruption, it becomes higher. Volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka erupts over the past 7000 years.
00:00:17 Largest in the world
00:00:37 Kremlin
00:00:51 Oymyakon
00:01:05 Ural
00:01:22 Baikal
00:01:48 Moscow subway
00:02:08 S.-Petersburg's subway
00:02:19 Population
00:02:35 Railway
00:03:02 Volkano

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