ABOUT RUSIA

From 1919 to 1992 Russia was the USSR conformed by 50 countries of eastern Europe the country disappeared alter of Berlin wall fall; the revolution that made Russia communist started on October of 1917 but there is a confusion because they us the Gregorian calendar that have 30 days of difference to our calendar and some people celebrate it in November.

Russia is the biggest country of the world and it is mad by three regions at the west is the European Russia at the east is Asian Russia and at the north is Siberia where the weather can be very cold and get to 40*c under cero but in big cities like Moscow weather is warmer in summer Moscow is about 10*c and in winter season about 14*c Russia have a big population but it is little compared to its big territory, there are about 170 million people but when it was soviet union there were about 200million people

Before of revolution Russia was an ancient monarchy and it’s capital city was saint Petersburg a big and wonderful city built by peter the great who was dreaming with build the biggest port of all the world with palaces, a city like the European cities and he built it over a share and it was incredible hard to finish.

Culture

The religion from Russia always has been the Christian orthodox religion, people from Russia is very religious and in the main cities there are incredible churches and cathedrals all of them historic buildings but religion disappeared when the communist rise to the power but it appeared again when Russia became democratic

Family traditions

In little towns family is really large people use to have about 15 or 16 children usually people lived in rural places when the country was communist but when revolution felt people started to moving to the big cities, some people says that maybe revolution times were better because in that times people has always some to eat and they never knew scarcity and people never saw other people starving in the streets and now you can see people with big proprieties and other people in the misery. In the cities people use not to have too much children and cities are like all the big cities of the world they celebrate with their families the Christmas day the 11th of June and in eastern week the main celebration in family is the resurrection of our lord

Sports

In the times of the revolution the USSR has the best team of football and hockey in all the world but it seem to be a big smog screen because in Russia people lived a hard situation and the regime only wanted to show a good image to the western world they had the best Olympic athletes because government use to finance the sports

Territory

Russia is part of Europe and Asia this last part of territory was not Russian until Ivan the terrible defeat the enemies of Russia in this part of territory and take it for Russia Siberia and central Russia are like two different countries because people is not very similar and both are incredible big but Siberia is not a good place to live because the economic situation and weather