Cities Of Choice

Cities Of Choice

Name : Russia

Location : Northem Asia (that part west of the Urals is sometimes included withEurope) bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean.

Climate : Ranges from steppes in the South through humid continental in much of European Russia, Subartic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigld in Siberia ; summers varry from warm in the steppes to along Arctic coast.

Population : 145,47o,197 (July 2001 est)

Famous for : Wide natural resourse base including major deposits of oil, natural gas,coal and many strategic minerals timber.

Thing to see : Permafrost over much of Siberia is major impediment to development volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands, volcanoes and earth quakes on the Kamchatka Penisula.

Soure :www.wordfactsandfigures.com

For information, the defeat of the Russian Empire in world war 1 led to the seizure of power by the communists and the formation of the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1924-1953) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagneted in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-1991) introduced glasnost (opennes) and perestroika restructuring in an attempt to modernize communism, but his initiatives in a advertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republic.Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political and economic controls of the communist period.

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