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Jomon Culture and the peopling of the Japanese archipelago: advancements in the fields of morphometrics and ancient DNA". ResearchGate . Retrieved 18 August 2019. Simon: There's also still a lot of people living in this type as well. These are known as Khrushchevkas and they're named after the former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, who first announced in the 1950s that the Soviet Union was going to begin a programme of housing construction, the like of which has never been seen before. Russia Natural Resources: Russia has an extensive amount of natural resources. These resources include major fossil fuel deposits of oil, natural gas and coal. The country also has timber and many strategic minerals. Germany, located in Central Europe, is the continent’s most populous nation. Berlin, its capital, combines a rich history with a vibrant contemporary culture. Its landmarks, like the Brandenburg Gate, and the remnants of the Berlin Wall, symbolize its turbulent past. Garshelis, D.; Steinmetz, R. (2020). " Ursus thibetanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22824A166528664. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22824A166528664.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

The workforce involved in agriculture workforce was reported to be about 9.4% of the population in 2016. [25] Altai: Saving the Pearl of Siberia". Pacific Environment. Archived from the original on 22 March 2007 . Retrieved 30 November 2006.

Russia, home to over 100,000 rivers, [1] is divided into twenty watershed districts. It has one of the world's largest surface water resources, with its lakes containing approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water. [20] Russia is second only to Brazil by total renewable water resources. [21]Russia is known all over the world for its thinkers and artists, including writers like Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and ballet dancers like Rudolf Nureyev. The Cathedral of the Annunciation is connected to Moscow’s Grand Kremlin Palace. Russian economy and government

Barker, Adele Marie (2010). Barker, Adele Marie; Grant, Bruce (eds.). The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics. The World Readers. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p.441. ISBN 9780822346487 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Throughout Russian history there is a long-standing tradition of imprisoning and sentencing to internal exile (within the country proper) political and religious dissidents. [...] Among those sentenced to internal exile were [...] the Decembrists [...]. Several were executed; others were exiled to Siberia, the Far East, and Kazakhstan. Even though it looks like this is a newer political map of Europe it really isn’t. It is just a portion of one of the oldest maps on the web.The Russian Far East: A History. John J. Stephan (1996). Stanford University Press. p.62. ISBN 0-8047-2701-5 C. Michael Hogan. 2011. Taiga. eds. M.McGinley & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC Russia also contains most of the nonferrous metals. Aluminium ores are scarce and are found primarily in the Ural region, northwestern European Russia, and south-central Siberia. Copper is more abundant and major reserves are located in the Urals, the Norilsk area near the mouth of the Yenisey in eastern Siberia, and the Kola Peninsula. Another vast deposit located east of Lake Baikal only became exploited when the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railroad was finished in 1989. Main articles: Prehistory of Siberia, History of Siberia, and List of Russian explorers Prehistory [ edit ] Horseman hunting, with characteristic Xiongnu horse trappings, southern Siberia, 280–180 BCE. Hermitage Museum. [15] [16] [17]

One billion acres of land is arable in Russia, but only about 0.1 percent is permanent agriculture. [24] The landscapes of region have extremely varied environments because of the following: Mixed and deciduous forests [ edit ] A birch forest in Novosibirsk. Birch is a national tree of Russia.Russia, by land area, is larger than the continents of Australia, Antarctica, [5] and Europe; although it covers a large part of the latter itself.