Total Area: 17,098,242 sq. km
Land Area: 16,377,742 sq. km
Water Area: 720,500 sq. km
Size Comparison to the U.S.: approximately 1.8 times the size of the US
Bordering Countries: Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959
km, China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 km, Finland
1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 17.5 km, Latvia 292
km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,441 km, Norway 196 km,
Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 432 km, Ukraine 1,576 km
Bordering Bodies of Water:
Distance of Land Boundaries: 20,241.5 km
Distance of Coastline: 37,653 km
Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid
continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate
in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in
Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic
coast
Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in
Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
Point of Lowest Elevation: Caspian Sea -28 m
Point of Highest Elevation: Gora El'brus 5,633 m
Land Area: 16,377,742 sq. km
Water Area: 720,500 sq. km
Size Comparison to the U.S.: approximately 1.8 times the size of the US
Bordering Countries: Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959
km, China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 km, Finland
1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 17.5 km, Latvia 292
km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,441 km, Norway 196 km,
Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 432 km, Ukraine 1,576 km
Bordering Bodies of Water:
Distance of Land Boundaries: 20,241.5 km
Distance of Coastline: 37,653 km
Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid
continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate
in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in
Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic
coast
Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in
Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
Point of Lowest Elevation: Caspian Sea -28 m
Point of Highest Elevation: Gora El'brus 5,633 m
Entry Two: Population and Migration
Population: 142,500,482
Net Migration Rate: 1.69
Birth Rate: 12.11
Death Rate: 13.97
NIR: -1.86
Population Growth Rate: -0.02
Infant Mortality Rate: 7.19
Total Fertility Rate: 1.61
Population Age<15%: 11.5%
Population Ages 65+: 13.1%
Dependency Rate: 24.6%
Life Expectancy at Birth: 69.85
Life Expectancy at Birth(Females): 76.02
Life Expectancy at Birth(Males): 64.04
Population: 142,500,482
Net Migration Rate: 1.69
Birth Rate: 12.11
Death Rate: 13.97
NIR: -1.86
Population Growth Rate: -0.02
Infant Mortality Rate: 7.19
Total Fertility Rate: 1.61
Population Age<15%: 11.5%
Population Ages 65+: 13.1%
Dependency Rate: 24.6%
Life Expectancy at Birth: 69.85
Life Expectancy at Birth(Females): 76.02
Life Expectancy at Birth(Males): 64.04
Entry Three: Cultural Patterns and Processes
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Cultural Journal Report
A Bilbao on Siberia’s Edge?
By Finn-Olaf Jones Published: July 22, 2011
I WAS wandering though a dozen curtained-off video galleries on the second floor of one of Russia’s newest cultural hot spots, the Perm Museum of Modern Art (Permm), watching provocative art videos by a Siberian performance group named Blue Noses, when I came across a plain cardboard box. Peering inside, I was startled to see a film loop projected from the ceiling of one of the Blue Noses dressed as Lenin manically twitching in his coffin.
By Finn-Olaf Jones Published: July 22, 2011
I WAS wandering though a dozen curtained-off video galleries on the second floor of one of Russia’s newest cultural hot spots, the Perm Museum of Modern Art (Permm), watching provocative art videos by a Siberian performance group named Blue Noses, when I came across a plain cardboard box. Peering inside, I was startled to see a film loop projected from the ceiling of one of the Blue Noses dressed as Lenin manically twitching in his coffin.