{"id":1680,"date":"2012-09-07T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T14:10:04","slug":"facts-about-russia-russian-cities-top-20-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/facts-about-russia-russian-cities-top-20-facts","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Facts about Russian Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are almost 1100\u00a0cities in Russia. It&#8217;s crazy, right? By the way, the oldest city in Russia is not Moscow. The\u00a0oldest town in Russia is\u00a0Derbent. It is called one of the oldest cities in the world, being about 5000\u00a0years old. Here are other <strong>20 facts about cities of Russia<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0how they stand out.<\/p>\n<h2>Facts about Russian cities<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_88771\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"602\"  data-origwidth=\"1070\" data-origheight=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nU7TVkbmgLY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>St. Petersburg<\/strong> is is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over a million people. Fun fact: our <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/saint-petersburg\/tours\">St Petersburg tours <\/a>tend to be one-day tours, while Moscow is mostly\u00a0multi-day tours. We believe, it&#8217;s only the weather to blame.<\/li>\n<li>There are\u00a0more <strong>Kalashnikov rifle<\/strong> in the world than all other guns\u00a0combined.<\/li>\n<li>The most famous computer game &#8211;<strong>Tetris<\/strong> &#8211; was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. This game became popular in the Soviet Union, and then, in 1986, in the West.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peterhof Park and Gardens<\/strong> in\u00a0St. Petersburg has 176 fountains, including 40 giant and 5 stages.<\/li>\n<li>In the Russian city of <strong>Oymyakon<\/strong> was recorded the lowest temperature\u00a0-71.2 \u00b0 C in 1924.<\/li>\n<li>The most famous national tourist routes are\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Golden Ring of Russia\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/russian-holidays-golden-ring\/\">Golden Ring of Russia<\/a>, Silver Ring of Russia and the\u00a0Big Ural Ring<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Saint Petersburg can&#8217;t be happy enough to have the Hermitage.<strong> The Hermitage<\/strong> is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, with 2.7\u00a0works of art from the Stone Age to the present. if you were to spend a minute looking at each exhibit, it would take you over 25 years to go to the Hermitage as a job, and view the exhibits for 8 hours a day to see them all.<\/li>\n<li>Russia is regularly ranked on top\u00a0of numerical rankings\u00a0of the least <strong>friendly<\/strong> countries in the world, but it is simply a misunderstanding due to differences of cultural codes. In Russian schools, children are taught not to smile for no reason, it&#8217;s considered foolish. In fact, the Russians are friendly and always ready to help a foreigner.<\/li>\n<li>In 2002, the UNESCO included\u00a0<strong>Yekaterinburg<\/strong> in\u00a0the list of the 12 perfect\u00a0cities in the world.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Facts about Moscow\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-50-facts-about-moscow\/\"><strong>Moscow<\/strong> <\/a>is all about paradoxes. The largest ever cast bell &#8211; the <strong>Russian Tsar Bell<\/strong> &#8211; weighs\u00a0201 ton 924 kilograms, like 40 adult elephants.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_1682\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1682\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1682 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Ring tour in Russia\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts about Russia. Russian cities. Golden Ring<\/p><\/div>\n<p>11.<strong> Suzdal<\/strong> is just 15 square kilometers and has a population of only\u00a010,000 inhabitants. However, it boasts\u00a053 Suzdal temples and cathedrals.<\/p>\n<p>12. Russia is a cultural and spiritual successor to\u00a0the <strong>Roman Empire<\/strong>. Two-headed eagle on its coat of arms symbolizes the Byzantine idea of \u200b\u200b&#8221;symphony of powers&#8221; \u00a0&#8211; harmonious complementarity of the state and the Church. The word &#8220;Tsar&#8221; is derived from the word &#8220;Caesar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>13. In <a title=\"Facts about Russia\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/interesting-facts-about-russian-geography\/\">Russia<\/a>, there at least <strong>15 secret cities<\/strong>\u00a0which are not on maps or\u00a0road signs.<\/p>\n<p>14. In the 1930s <strong>Russian fishermen<\/strong>\u00a0caught a sturgeon with 245 kilograms of black caviar in it. in the river Quiet Pine near Belgorod Russian fishermen caught sturgeon, which was 245 kilograms of black caviar. According to my simple conservative estimate, it would be $245,000 :)<\/p>\n<p>15. Dacha (some kind of villa) is\u00a0a purely <strong>Russian phenomenon<\/strong>. Dachas\u00a0appeared at the time of Peter the Great, who gave the lands to people for\u00a0architectural experiments.<\/p>\n<p>16. Before the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Russian <strong>family<\/strong> was one of the largest in the world. In Russia, the family with\u00a08 kids\u00a0was considered a small one. It Was normal to have 12-14 children.<\/p>\n<p>17. Each of the <strong>Romanov dynasty<\/strong> monarch left his successor with a country larger than he received from his father.<\/p>\n<p>18.\u00a0<a title=\"Russian cosmonaut Yury Gagarin\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/russia-first-russian-cosmonaut-yury-gagarin\/\"><strong>Russian cosmonaut<\/strong> <\/a>Sergei Krikalev set the record stay in space &#8211; 803 days. In addition, this versatile man is a world champion in aerobatics gliders, candidate for master of sports of all-round and founder of the space photography genre.<\/p>\n<p>19. Half of the Russian city of <strong>Chelyabinsk<\/strong> is located in the Urals, half &#8211; in Siberia. At the same time the coat of arms depicts a camel. Why would it be a camel in Russian city? Because 200 years ago trade was the main income of the city and there were quite a lot of \u00a0trade caravans of\u00a0camels laden.<\/p>\n<p>20. Five of the <strong>largest cities in Russia<\/strong> are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Nowogrod. The combined population of Moscow and St.Petersburg is 17 million people, the same as the Netherlands, or Sweden and Switzerland combined.<\/p>\n<p>And the last one:\u00a0<strong>15\u00a0Russian cities with population over 1 million<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1681\" style=\"width: 775px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1681\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1681 size-full\" title=\"Facts about Russia. Russian cities. Top 20 facts\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cities3.jpg\" alt=\"Big cities in Russia\" width=\"765\" height=\"719\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts about Russia. Russian cities. 15 largest cities of Russia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are almost 1100\u00a0cities in Russia. It&#8217;s crazy, right? By the way, the oldest city in Russia is not Moscow. The\u00a0oldest town in Russia is\u00a0Derbent. 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