The Natural Resources Of Russia

Much of Russia is plains, mainly the Eastern European Plain and the West Siberian Plain, which is the world’s largest plain. These plains are mainly used for growing crops and other material such as cotton. However, with the flux of the weather and harsh winters, crops experience freezing and drought. The plains are flat and rarely interrupted by hills and mountains, they extend into Hungary and Ukraine.

· The Russian Federation covers a large area (more than 10,000 kilometers east-west and more than 2500 kilometers north-south); it takes a full week to travel by train from St. Petersburg in the west to Vladivostok in the east. Russia is also predominantly northern, with nearly half its territory north of 60 degrees north latitude. Winters are generally long and cold, which keeps most ports and navigable rivers frozen or impassable for many months each year. With few peninsulas and with coastlines that are frozen for most of the year, Russia has

Major Historical Changes: Russia shifted to industrialization and technology in its frontiers. The land size remained relatively constant

Russia is the largest territorial nation on earth. Also it is the most populous northern most nation. These two facts: the huge size and diversity of Russia and the extremely cold climate have contributed greatly to the imperial expansion of Russia. Because of the extreme cold of the far northern regions of Russia, in the 15th century the country began by building up the land around Moscow, St. Petersburg regions, centered on the Kola Peninsula. As the imperialist expansion of Russia grew the population centers remained in the central region and along the southern border of the country. This is because the trans-Siberian railroad was used to move industry to the far east of the country. Even today because of the extreme cold and permafrost

The black-earth belt (steppe) is one of the most important regions in Russia, with its humid continental climate and chernozem combined makes it the most productive area. Polar, subarctic areas cannot support life causing limited vegetation growth.

Russia/ Soviet Union experienced considerable political, social and industrial changes between 1801 and 1939. Russia was a backwards nation during 19th century and into the early 20th century. By the 1800’s Russia were behind technologically, having yet to experience an industrial revolution. They were also behind socially with serfdom still being the used for farming and labor. Thus, because of these obsolete practices Russia underwent many changes that were initiated by the people and the Tsars such as shifts in the government and the end of serfdom. Nonetheless certain aspects still persisted in Russia’s reliance on its agriculture.

Before the Soviet Union dissolved into several smaller countries in 1991, it was a huge country covering around eight million square miles. However, most of the areas were not suitable to be occupied. They were either too cold, or too hot and too dry to be occupied. The best land in the Soviet Union was generally located inside the triangle Leningrad (A) - Lake Baikal (B) - Odessa (C) shown in Fig. 1. This was nine-tenths of the best land in the Soviet Union, where most cities, transportation systems, and farms were located. The triangle also includes the Black Earth region with the Central Black Earth Region or Chernozemie is located approximately in the grey area inside the triangle shown in Fig 1. This is a perfect land for agriculture

Russia is one of the most powerful countries that we have yet seen in the world today. Russia's culture, language, land, and traditions have been around since the beginning of times and are still used to this day. The history of Russia, ethnic groups, cultures and lifestyles, economy, climate, and current Russia are just a few of the most important essentials to know about Russia. The early history of Russia is of migrating people and ancient kingdoms.

Russia’s size and location have played a major role in its strategic outlook since the Middle Ages. Russia has no major natural landforms marking its borders, but it relies solely on its relatively inhospitable climate and its forests for defense,as a result, Russian history is a chronicle of periods of expansion and collapse. Traditionally these invasions have come from the steppes and beyond and from the North European Plain.

Russia is the largest country the world at over 17,000,000 sq. km, twice the extent of the United States. Laying on two continents the Russian Federation is split by the Ural Mountains; with European Russia to the west and Siberia east covering the entirety of northern Asia (8). Russia’s land mass traverses’ eleven different time zones and has multiple environments.

Russia has become the world’s largest country, expanding across 11 different time zones while covering 17 million sq km.

Russia is a huge landmass and covers a vast amount of the earth’s surface area. Being so large, Russia contains a huge variety of different geographical features. There are several mountains, rivers, bodies of water, climate zones, and population centers in Russia. Most of the development in Russia is located in its core area, east of the Ural Mountains. There are several countries around Russia that used to be parts of a larger union called The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, however, in 1991, the USSR broke apart into several other independent states. The new states that were formed are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and

Russia can be geographically separated as following regions: the monsoon Asia, the inner arid/semi-arid districts and the Siberia. The climate change impacts in semi-arid (moderated) might be severer than the arid areas. Natural-scientific domains (ecology, environmental science, etc) situations shifted under climate change crisis in marginal areas seem to be more vulnerable than other areas (Smith et al., 1996). As a large and multi-geographic country, climate change problem in Russia are multiple-dimensional which can

Russia, known by most as the Russian Federation, is a federal state in Eurasia. Russia is the largest country in the world at 17,075,200 square kilometres by surface area, covering more than one eighth of Earth 's inhabited land, and the ninth most populous, with over 146.6 million people as of end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the East, with almost eight-tenths of the population living within the European region of Russia. Russia 's capital, Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe and the world. Its ohter major urban cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.

Russia is a country in Northern Eurasia, bordered by the Arctic Ocean, and numerous countries such as China, Mongolia, and Georgia. The total area of Russia is 17,098,242 square kilometers (CIA.gov), making it the largest country in the world. The terrain of the country is “broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions” (CIA.gov) with a climate that ranges from humid and warm places to extremely frigid regions varying on its location. Russia is a federation