What Makes Russia Unique?

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Russia covers about one-eighth of the world’s land surface.

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Much of Russia’s territory is located above the 50th parallel, where subarctic and arctic weather conditions are prevalent.

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Russia’s great breadth of territory includes many different geographical regions. These include areas of permafrost (areas of eternal ice) in Siberia and the Far North as well as taiga and steppes (vast grassland). Much of Russia’s northern and eastern coastline is hemmed in by ice for much of the year, complicating navigation. However, Russia has year-round warm water seaports at Murmansk on its northwestern coastline of the Barents Sea and at Vladivostok at the far eastern coast on the Sea of Japan / East Sea.

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Mammals found only in Russia include the Baikal Seal (ARKive), the Snow Sheep (Ultimate Ungulate), the Black-capped Marmot (eol), the Palearctic Collared Lemming (SZMN), the Wrangel Island Collared Lemming (CalPhotos), the Siberian Brown Lemming (sevin.ru), the Amur Brown Lemming (sevin.ru), the Ciscaucasian Hamster (sevin.ru), Middendorff’s Vole (Planet’ Mammiferes), the Lemming Mountain Vole (sevin.ru), the Paramushir Shrew (Planet’ Mammiferes), and the extinct Steller’s Sea Cow (Animal Diversity Web).

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In St. Petersburg, the church with the improbable name of the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood came as a total surprise to me.

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