ABOUT RUSSIA / Cities in Russia

	CITIES IN RUSSIA
	MOSCOW
	SAINT PETERSBURG
	SUZDAL
	VLADIMIR
	VELIKY NOVGOROD
	YAROSLAVL

in Moscow: the Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum, Armory, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Tretyakov Arts Gallery, Borodino Panorama Memorial, Andrey Rublyov Museum, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Kuskovo, Kolomenskoye, Ostankino, Tsaritsino, Arkhangelskoye Estate Museums;

in Saint-Petersburg: Hermitage, Russian Arts Museum, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Peterhoff, Pavlovsk, Tsar Selo (Pushkin), Gatchina Palace and Garden Ensembles;

ancient Russian towns of "The Golden Ring": Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Suzdal, Vladimir, Sergiev Posad, Yuriev

Russia is the world's largest state, covering 17075.5 million square kilometers. There are 1,030 cities and 2,153 conurbations. It is located in the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia. Russia borders on Korea, the Chinese People's Republic, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway. Capital of the state is Moscow. The largest cities are Moscow, St Petersburg, Samara, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Ufa and Perm. The state language is Russian; other languages are spoken in various regions. The state structure is federal, with a republican form of government. The head of state is the president, elected for a 4-year term.
Religions are Orthodox Christian, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism among others. Russia is a country with tradition and culture stretching back to the early first millennium.

Major tourist sights: over 100 preserves and national parks; Volga, Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Amur rivers, Baikal lake, Black sea resorts, peaks of Caucasus mountains and Caucasian Mineralnye Vody resorts, Teletskoe lake in Altai mountains, geysers and volcanoes of Kamchatka; in Moscow: the Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum, Armory, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Tretyakov Arts Gallery, Borodino Panorama Memorial, Andrey Rublyov Museum, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Kuskovo, Kolomenskoye, Ostankino, Tsaritsino, Arkhangelskoye Estate Museums; in Saint-Petersburg: Hermitage, Russian Arts Museum, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Peterhoff, Pavlovsk, Tsar Selo (Pushkin), Gatchina Palace and Garden Ensembles; ancient Russian towns of "The Golden Ring": Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Suzdal, Vladimir, Sergiev Posad, Yuriev; Historic and Architectural Museum preserve in Smolensk, the Kremlin and Ivan the Terrible Palace in Vologda, Kizhi wooden Architectural Museum, the Kremlin and Historical Monuments of Veliky Novgorod, Solovetsky Monastery on White sea, Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery and Pushkinsky Gory Museum preserve in Pskov, the Kremlin in Kazan, Historical and Architectural Museum preserve in Tobolsk, Stalingrad Battle Panorama-Museum (1942) in Volgograd.