{"id":1980,"date":"2015-06-14T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:42:46","slug":"fun-facts-about-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-about-russia","title":{"rendered":"30 Fun Facts about Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Russia Day today,\u00a0celebrated on June 12 every year since 1992. We collected<strong> fun facts about\u00a0Russian culture, Russian traditions, Russian holidays and <a title=\"Facts about Russians\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/facts-about-russians\">Russians<\/a>. Happy reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_80609\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"602\"  data-origwidth=\"1070\" data-origheight=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etmRI2_9Q_A?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  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>\n<ol>\n<li>Russia is the <strong>only country in the world<\/strong> washed by 12 seas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lake Baika<\/strong>l in <a title=\"Facts about SIberia\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/russia-facts-about-siberia\/\">Siberia<\/a> is the deepest lake in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>largest swamp in the world<\/strong> is the Russian Great Vasyugan swamp.<\/li>\n<li>Lake Ladoga is the <strong>largest in Europe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ural mountains that divide Russia in the European and Asian parts are the<strong> oldest mountains<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>About 600 square kilometers of Altai are covered with more than <strong>800 glaciers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The legendary Trans-Siberian route passes through <strong>eight time zones in Russia<\/strong>, starting in Moscow and ending in Beijing, China. The length of the route is more than <strong>9000 km<\/strong>.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1982\" style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1982 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden-Ring-of-Russia.-Rostov-Veliky..jpg\" alt=\"Friendly Local Guides in Moscow\" width=\"676\" height=\"468\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Ring of Russia. Rostov Veliky<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>The length of the nearest territory <strong>between Russia and America<\/strong>, which shares these two continents, is 4 km only.<\/li>\n<li>Moscow has the <strong>largest number of billionaires<\/strong>. If you dream to visit the Russian capital, here are <a title=\"fun facts about Moscow\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-50-facts-about-moscow\/\">50 fun facts about Moscow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The only fountain with drinking water in Moscow is &#8220;<strong>Alexander and Natalie<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; located on the street Arbat.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Cities and towns of the &#8220;<strong>Golden Ring of Russia<\/strong>&#8221; are called an outstanding encyclopedia of ancient Russian architecture.<\/li>\n<li>Russian is the <strong>seventh country in the world<\/strong> in terms of population. It is home to about 145 million.<\/li>\n<li>Russia is considered a <strong>European country<\/strong>, but 2\/3 of the country is located in Asia.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1983\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1983\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Golden-Ring-of-Russia.jpg\" alt=\"Trips outside Moscow\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Ring of Russia<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian forests<\/strong> occupy\u00a060% of the territory of country<\/li>\n<li>Russia has a border with <strong>18 countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the great length there are\u00a0<strong>10 time zones in Russia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The literacy rate in Russia is almost <strong>99%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Moscow metro<\/strong> is probably the most beautiful in the world. More <a title=\"facts about Moscow metro\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-about-moscow-metro\/\">fun facts about Moscow metro<\/a>. IF you are into myths here are\u00a0<a title=\"myths about Moscow metro\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/7-myths-about-moscow-metro\/\">7 myths about Moscow metro<\/a>\u00a0for you.<\/li>\n<li>The metro station &#8220;Revolution Square&#8221; in Moscow is decorated with\u00a0<strong>76 bronze statues<\/strong> of workers, peasants, soldiers, sailors and other proletarians of the Soviet Union.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1985\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1985\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/358.jpg\" alt=\"Most beautiful Moscow Metro stations\" width=\"667\" height=\"672\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moscow Metro. Revolution Square metro station, a dog that accompanies a frontier guard<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>In facing of more than <strong>twenty stations of the Moscow metro<\/strong> there are various fossils: nautilus, ammonites and other prehistoric shellfish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ekaterinburg<\/strong> is listed in a Guinness Book of Records as the city with the largest consumption of mayonnaise per capita.<\/li>\n<li><em>David Duchovny, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg, Natalie Portman, Mila Yovovoch, Winona Ryder and Sean Penn<\/em> have\u00a0Russian roots. Great-grandmother of actress Whoopi Goldberg came from Odessa.<\/li>\n<li>Two of the five founders of <strong>Hollywood<\/strong> came from Russia. In particular, the founders of \u00abMGM\u00bb Goldwyn and Mayer. Mayer spoke English rather badly, having difficulties with \u00a0reading the script.<\/li>\n<li>The largest number of visitors in the history of &#8220;<strong>McDonald&#8217;s<\/strong>&#8221; was\u00a0served in 1990 &#8211; the first day of this restaurant on the &#8220;Pushkin&#8221; in Moscow. More than 10 000 visitors!<\/li>\n<li>Russia is the <strong>largest country in the world<\/strong>. Its area covers 17, 1 million square kilometers. More about <a title=\"facts about Russian geography\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/interesting-facts-about-russian-geography\/\">Russian geography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Before the 1917 revolution, <strong>Russian family<\/strong> was one of the biggest in the world, 8 children was considered a small number, there were usually 12-14. Currently Russian family has 1-2 children, one of the lowest among all the nationalities\u00a0of the world.<\/li>\n<li>The largest population center on the area Russia is not Moscow, but the\u00a0settlement in the Murmansk region, <strong>Siberia<\/strong>. With a population of just above 17 thousand people, it covers an area of \u200b\u200b4620 square km, which is 4 times more bigger than\u00a0Moscow.<\/li>\n<li>One of the puppies of the Soviet space dog <strong>Strelka<\/strong> was named Pushinka &#8211; a feather, and was presented by Khrushchev to President Kennedy&#8217;s daughter Caroline. Pushinka\u00a0had a love affair with the\u00a0Kennedys&#8217; family dog \u200b\u200bnamed Charlie, and she gave birth to four puppies, which John Kennedy dubbed pupniks (cross word pup +\u00a0sputnik).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"first russian cosmonaut yury gagarin\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/russia-first-russian-cosmonaut-yury-gagarin\/\">Russian cosmonaut<\/a> Sergei Krikalev spent a total of <strong>803 days in the\u00a0orbit<\/strong>, which is a world record.<\/li>\n<li>Every monarch of the <strong>Romanov dynasty<\/strong> left to his heir a country than received from his father.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1984\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1984\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tsar-Cannon-in-Kremlin-Moscow.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin tours\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsar Cannon in Kremlin, Moscow<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Russia Day today,\u00a0celebrated on June 12 every year since 1992. We collected fun facts about\u00a0Russian culture, Russian traditions, Russian holidays and Russians. Happy reading! Russia is the only country \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-about-russia\">Continue<i class=\"icon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1696,1691,1143,970,1140,1135,1345,1336,1430,942,1142,1132,683,811,1695,961,1694,1692,968,1693],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}