- With 17,075,400 square kilometres in area, Russia is the largest country in the world.
- In St. Petersburg there are 2,000 libraries, 221 museums, 80 theaters, 100 concert halls, 45 art galleries, 62 movie theaters, and 80 nightclubs, and over 100 concerts, shows and festivals each year.
- Russian is one among the 5 most spoken languages in the world.
- A myth within a myth: Russians believe that Americans believe that bears walk the streets in Moscow, but this myth of a myth is a purely Russian invention. Americans actually believe all the bears in Russia are dead.
- Sushi is more popular in Russia than in Japan.
- One of the first modern human bones of the age of 35 000 years was found in Russia, in Kostenki on the Don River banks.
- First human to travel into space, Yuri Gagarin was from Russia.
- Russia possesses 10% of the world’s arable land.
- The Periodic Table was invented by a Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev.
- Russia is the world’s leading natural gas exporter as well as the largest oil exporter. Saudi Arabia used to exchange the status of largest oil exporter with Russia sometimes.
- There are more than 160 different ethnic groups in Russia.
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