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Russia 's Highest Peak Is The Largest Country With A Land Size

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Geography:
Russia is the largest country with a land size of 6,592,812 Square Miles, 17,075,400 Square Kilometers (The USSR had a land mass of 8,144,228 Square Miles). Russia occupies most of Eastern Europe to North Asia. It stretches all the way from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea/Caucus Mountain Region. Russia is bordered by North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Norway. Russia resides in 11 time zones. Russia’s highest peak is Mount Elbrus: 5,642 m with the Caspian Sea (-28 m) is its lowest point.

People: Russia is made up of over 185 ethnic groups, with Russians and being the largest. The
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After the Mongols destroyed Kiev, Russia was split into many different kingdoms. Ivan IV “the Terrible”, was the first Muscovite czar and is considered to have created the first Russian state in the 1500s. During the late 1600s and early 1700s, Peter the Great started western reformations of Russia and extended Russian territory to the west after defeating the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. Alexander I defeated Napoleon during his invasion of Russia in 1812-13. He then created the Holy Alliance witch destroyed the Liberal European Movement. Then his successor, Alexander II, expanded the Russian border to the Pacific Ocean and into Central Asia. The USSR emerged on Dec. 30, 1922 and was dissolved in the early 1990s. During the history of the USSR, Stalin emerged as one of the most important leaders, mostly due to WWII. Though involved with Nazi Germany in the early years of the war, Russia quickly joined the allies after an attack by Germany on Russia. Germany pressed into Russia until it suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad, which became a major turning point in the war. After WWII Russia and the United States entered into the Cold War, which only turned hot in conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam. After the fall of the USSR, Russia entered financial turmoil and entered in many small scale conflicts with neighboring countries. But in 2000, after Yeltsin resigned, Putin rose to power and brought Russia under political

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