Russia

HELLO, FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION !!! ПРИВЕТ ИЗ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ !!!

** Russia **** occupies a large territory. It stretches almost 10,000 (ten thousand) kilometres from east to west and nearly 5,000 (five thousand) kilometres from north to south. Its population is 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty) million people. **

** From spring till autumn the sun never sets over Russia: in Kaliningrad people see it sitting in the Baltic, while in Kamchatka it rises out of the Pacific Ocean at the same time. People in our country see the New Year eleven times in one night. **

Now, dear friends, let`s have a look at and the biggest region of Russia, coloured in green, it is our Land called Sakha-Yakutia. The ** Sakha (Yakutia) Republic ** is a [|federal subject] of Russia. Population: 958,528, [|[7]] consisting mainly of ethnic [|Yakuts] and [|Russians].

Sakha-Yakutia is the [|largest subnational governing body by area] in the world at 3,103,200 km2 (1,198,200 sq mi). (just smaller than [|India] which covers an area of 3,287,240 km2). It has a population of fewer than one million inhabitants. Its [|capital] is the [|city] of [|Yakutsk].

Sakha is known for its [|climate] extremes, with the Verkhoyansk Range being the coldest area in the northern hemisphere. Winters here are extremely cold. Some of the lowest natural temperatures ever recorded have been here. The [|Northern Hemisphere] 's [|Pole of Cold] is at [|Verkhoyansk], where the temperatures reached as low as −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) in 1892, and at [|Oymyakon] , where the temperatures reached as low as −71.2 °C (−96.2 °F) in 1926.

Mark Mikhailov
Irina Maximova Kunney Osipova Liuba Tarasova Nastya Sergeyeva Egor Pakhomov

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