{"id":244725,"date":"2023-07-20T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=244725"},"modified":"2025-02-16T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:23:01","slug":"russia-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/russia-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Radical Facts About Russia That Will Blow Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Russia, a country you might know for its cold climate, vodka, and world-famous nesting dolls.\n</p><p>Russia\u2019s history began 1160 years ago when several Kievan Rus states unified in 879 AD. Russia has changed a lot since then; modern Russia as we know it didn\u2019t form until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union.\n</p><p>Despite being one of the most well-known countries in the world, there are still many fascinating facts for you to discover about Russia and its history, so here are 15 radical facts about Russia!\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia is the largest country in the world.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245158 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-largest-country.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"An' old map of the russian empire width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-largest-country.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Maybe you already knew Russia was pretty big, but did you know just how massive it is?\n</p><p>With a total area of 6,601,665 square miles (17,098,242 square kilometers), Russia is the biggest of all the world&rsquo;s countries.\n</p><p>For comparison, this is 70% bigger than the second-largest country, <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/canada-facts%5C/%5C%22">Canada, and more than twice as large as the third-place United States.\n<h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia has the world&rsquo;s longest border.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245154 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-border.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"St.' basil cathedral in moscow russia width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-border.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Being the largest country in the world, it isn\u2019t surprising that Russia also boasts the longest border!\n</p><p>The total length of its border is 35,910 miles (57,792 km), which it shares with 14 other countries.\n</p><p>Its boundary stretches as far West as Poland due to its exclave, Kaliningrad, between Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia has one of the oldest currencies in circulation.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245162 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-ruble.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Russian' rubles width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-ruble.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The Russian Ruble has been circulating in various forms since the 13th Century. The British Pound is the only other currency in circulation today that is older than this.\n</p><p>Russia first used the Ruble in medieval times, and it likely got its name from the Russian verb \u201crubit,\u201d which means \u201cto chop.\u201d\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The Russian Language is one of the two \u201cSpace Languages.\u201d\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245157 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-languages.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"An' english-russian dictionary width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-languages.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>If you\u2019ve ever wondered how astronauts from around the world, all using different languages, can work together while they\u2019re on the <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/international-space-station-facts%5C/%5C%22">International Space Station, wonder no more!\n<p>While there is no official language for the ISS, English and Russian are the principal choices. Even US astronauts have to learn Russian as part of their training to go to space.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245152 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-alaska.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' map showing alaska the bering sea and kamchatka russia width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-alaska.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Russia had been sending settlers to <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/alaska-facts%5C/%5C%22">Alaska since 1725. But when needing to improve finances, Russia offered to sell its North American land claims to the US government for $7.2 million (about $125 million in today\u2019s money).\n<p>Russia gave the original offer in 1859, hoping that empowering the United States might weaken Russia&rsquo;s biggest Pacific rival, Great Britain.\n</p><p>America\u2019s Civil War delayed the sale. Still, representatives from each country signed the agreement on <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/may-28%5C/%5C%22">May 28, 1867. On </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/october-18%5C/%5C%22">October 18th of the same year, Russia transferred the territory to the United States.\n<h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia is home to 1.87% of the world&rsquo;s population.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245161 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-population.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Russian' people in moscow metro width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-population.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Russia is the 9th most populated country globally, with 146,123,072 estimated inhabitants.\n</p><p>Although this is a huge number, considering how large the country itself is, the population density of Russia is surprisingly low!\n</p><p>At 23 people per square mile (9 per km\u00b2), it ends up being one of the least densely populated countries in the world.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The coldest inhabited village on Earth is in Russia.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245160 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-oymyakon.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' coldest inhabited place on earth oymyakon russia width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-oymyakon.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Russian winters are known for their brutality, but it gets unbelievably cold in one village in particular.\n</p><p>The village of Oymyakon, in the Sakha Republic within Russia, is known as \u201cthe coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth.\u201d\n</p><p>Average winter temperatures get as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit (-50\u00b0C), and their lowest recorded temperature was minus 96.2 Fahrenheit (-71.2\u00b0C).\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The first Russian nesting doll set was carved in 1890.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245159 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-matryoshka.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' set of matryoshka nesting dolls width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-matryoshka.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Now known worldwide as a symbol of Russia, nesting dolls are known as Matryoshka dolls in Russia.\n</p><p>The first set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin and then painted by Sergey Malyutin, who both worked on the estate of Savva Mamontov.\n</p><p>Years later, Mamontov\u2019s wife presented the dolls at the 1900 World\u2019s Fair in Paris, where they received a bronze medal, increasing the toy\u2019s production in Russia and its distribution worldwide.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Almost half of Russia is covered in forests.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245155 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-forests.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' forest in siberia russia width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-forests.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>49.4%, to be exact, and considering how large the country is, that\u2019s a whole lot of <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/tree-facts%5C/%5C%22">trees!\n<p>About a third of this is &ldquo;primary forest,&rdquo; the thickest and most biodiverse woodland type.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>There are volcanoes in Russia.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245151 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-volcanoes.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' volcano in kamchatka russia width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-volcanoes.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>When you imagine Russia, it\u2019s typically the frosty winters, arctic tundras, or bustling cities, not volcanoes.\n</p><p>But it\u2019s true; Russia is home to 77 volcanoes, of which 61 are active. The last severe eruption in Russia occurred in 1872 when the volcano \u201cSinarka\u201d erupted on <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/january-1%5C/%5C%22">January 1, 1872.\n<p>This was Russia\u2019s worst recorded volcanic eruption in terms of lives lost, houses destroyed, and economic disruption.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia has the deepest lake in the world.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245153 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-baikal.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' view along the coast of lake baikal russia during summer width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-baikal.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>UNESCO recognized Lake Baikal as the deepest lake in the world at 5,577 ft (1,700 m).\n</p><p>Famous for its unusual and diverse freshwater fauna, Lake Baikal is 12,162 square miles (31,500 km\u00b2) in area and contains 20% of the world\u2019s unfrozen freshwater reserve.\n</p><p>It is situated in South-Eastern Siberia and is also the oldest lake in the world at 25 million years old.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The first human in space was from Russia.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245156 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-gagarin.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' coin commemorating yuri gagarin the first man in space. width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-gagarin.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Yuri Gagarin was born in the Soviet Union, the precursor to modern-day Russia.\n</p><p>The Soviet Union sent Yuri on the first crewed mission into <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/100-space-facts%5C/%5C%22">outer space. His spacecraft, Vostok 1, circled </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/facts-about-earth%5C/%5C%22">Earth for 108 minutes, traveling about 17,000 miles per hour (27,400 km\/h).\n<h2 class='\"list\"'>Russia has the longest railway in the world.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245164 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-transsiberian.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' trans-siberian railway width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-transsiberian.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Russia\u2019s Trans-Siberian Railway connects Russia\u2019s capital Moscow in the West with the far Eastern city Vladivostok. The railway is 5,772 miles (9,289 km) long and crosses eight different time zones.\n</p><p>The Russian government ordered its creation on <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/march-9%5C/%5C%22">March 9, 1891, and construction was completed on </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/june-21%5C/%5C%22">June 21, 1904.\n<h2 class='\"list\"'>Russians drink the most vodka per person of any country.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245165 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-vodka.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Bottles' of smirnoff vodka width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-vodka.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Although it\u2019s a stereotype of the country, it is indeed true, with the average Russian drinking 17.28 shots of vodka per month. That&rsquo;s a lot of <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/amazing-alcohol-facts%5C/%5C%22">alcohol!\n<p>In perspective, Poland is the next highest vodka-consuming country, at 13.71.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Tetris was invented in Russia.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-245163 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/07%5C/russia-facts-tetris.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' original soviet tetris game on the elektronika width='\"728\"' height='\"400\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/russia-facts-tetris.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>And a final fact for you, you might be surprised to learn that Tetris is, in fact, a Russian invention!\n</p><p>In 1984, Russian scientist Alexey Pajitnov created the <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/100-video-game-facts%5C/%5C%22">video game in Moscow using an Electronika 60 computer system.\n<p>Tetris didn\u2019t leave the Soviet Union for another three years, then spread rapidly worldwide to become the game we know and love today.\n</p><p>&nbsp;\n</p><p>And with that, we finish our deep dive into some of Russia\u2019s most exciting and awe-inspiring facts!\n</p><p>So whether it\u2019s the vastness of their borders, the astounding Lake Baikal, or Russia\u2019s technological achievements in space, you now know 15 radical facts about Russia that you can share with the world.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Welcome to Russia, a country you might know for its cold climate, vodka, and world-famous nesting dolls. Russia\u2019s history began 1160 years ago when several Kievan Rus states unified in 879 AD. Russia has changed a lot since then; modern Russia as we know it didn\u2019t form until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet &hellip; <a title='\"15' radical facts about russia that will blow your mind class='\"read-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/russia-facts%5C/%5C%22" aria-label='\"Read' more>Read more\n","protected":false},"author":10000029,"featured_media":245150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"176221,201069","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"206840,202127,226069,250553","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"category":[21],"tags":[364],"topics":[195,1067],"class_list":["post-244725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geography-places","tag-europe","topics-countries","topics-russia","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":{"tfs_sources":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/geography\/largest-countries-in-the-world","title":"Worldometer - World's Largest Countries","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geography_of_Russia","title":"Wikipedia - Geography of Russia","no_follow":true},{"url":"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/forex\/r\/rub-russian-ruble.asp","title":"Investopedia","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/languageinsight.com\/blog\/2021\/russian-language-facts\/","title":"Language Insight","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1866-1898\/alaska-purchase","title":"US Office of the Historian","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/russia-population","title":"Worldometer - Population of Russia","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/antarctica\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth","title":"Live Science","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matryoshka_doll","title":"Wikipedia - Matryoshka Dolls","no_follow":true},{"url":"https:\/\/rainforests.mongabay.com\/deforestation\/2000\/Russia.htm","title":"Mongabay","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/www.worlddata.info\/europe\/russia\/volcanoes.php","title":"World Data","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/754","title":"UNESCO","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/heo\/scan\/images\/history\/April1961.html","title":"NASA","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trans-Siberian_Railway","title":"Wikipedia - Trans-Siberian Railway","no_follow":true},{"url":"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/countries-who-consume-the-most-vodka.html","title":"World Atlas","no_follow":false},{"url":"https:\/\/tetris.com\/history-of-tetris","title":"Tetris","no_follow":false}],"tfs_previous_post_link":false,"tfs_next_post_link":false,"tfs_social_fact":"Did you know that Alaska used to be a part of Russia? 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