RUSSIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Region:EasternEuropa Areatotal:6,592,800km2 Coast line: Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Barents Sea Capital: Moscow

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Moscow

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building

Thenew financial center in the center of Moscow.

Varvarka street - Moscow

Arbat Street

Movska River - Christ Savior Cathedral

Trip on the Movska River

Shopping street of Moscow

The Moscow Metro (Russian:Moskovsky metropoliten) is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 185 stations and its route length is 305.7 kilometres (190.0 mi). The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 84 metres (276 ft) below ground at the Park Pobedy station. The Moscow Metro is the world's secondmost-heavily-used rapid transit system, after

PetertheGreat,PeterIorPyotr AlexeyevichRomanov PetertheGreat(9June16728 February1725)ruledtheTsardomof RussiaandlatertheRussianEmpire from7May1682untilhisdeath, jointlyrulingbefore1696withhis half-brother.Innumeroussuccessful warsheexpandedtheTsardominto ahugeempirethatbecameamajor Europeanpower.Accordingto historianJamesCracraft,heleda culturalrevolutionthatreplacedthe traditionalistandmedievalsocialand politicalsystemwithamodern, scientific,Europe-oriented,and rationalistsystem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the _Great

The first Russian Navy was established by Peter the Great (Peter I) in

View over Moscow's center

The Grand Kremlin Palace It was built from 1837 to 1849, formerly it was Tsar's Moscow residence.

Grand Kremlin Palace

Grand Kremlin Palace

Gold domes of Grand Kremlin Palace

The Pleasure Palace in the territory of the Kremlin in Moscow

Kremlin clock tower

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917 1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create

Lenin monument on Oktyabrskaya Square

Lenin's Mausoleum also known as Lenin's Tomb situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Ilych Lenin.

Lenin's Mausoleum also known as Lenin's Tomb.

TheKremlinandRedsquareweretogetherrecognizedasaUNESCOWorldHeritage Sitein1990,duetotheirinextricablelinkstoRussianhistorysincethe13thcentury. *REDSQUARE* RedSquareisacitysquareinMoscow,Russia.ThesquareseparatestheKremlin,the formerroyalcitadelandcurrentlytheofficialresidenceofthePresidentofRussia,froma historicmerchantquarterknownasKitai-gorod.AsmajorstreetsofMoscowradiatefrom hereinalldirections,beingpromotedtomajorhighwaysoutsidethecity,RedSquareis oftenconsideredthecentralsquareofMoscowandallofRussia. ThenameRedSquarederivesneitherfromthecolourofthebricksaroundit(which,in fact,werewhitewashedatcertainpointsinhistory)norfromthelinkbetweenthecolour redandcommunism.Rather,thenamecameaboutbecausetheRussianword (krasnaya)canmeaneither"red"or"beautiful". http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Panorama_360_Red_Square.jpg

Red Square

Red Square View from Saint Basil's Cathedral,from theleft;Kremlin Walls and Lenin Mausoleum, State Historical Museum, the Iberian Gate and Chapel, Kazan

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky The only sculptured monument on the square is a bronze statue of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky,

Saint Basil's Cathedral and Lenin Mausoleum

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