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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>Chapter 2. Lesson 2</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e6286" shape="rect"/>Chapter 2. Lesson 2</h1></div></div></div><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="1"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1"/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lesson №2</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">GEOGRAPHY</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">УРОК № 2</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/FsiRussianFast-Lessons2-5-1.png" alt="Lesson 2"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e6306" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро пожаловать в Россию</em></span>! Welcome to
  2. Russia!</h1></div></div></div><p><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Россия</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Russia covers more than 6.5 million
  3. square miles or, roughly speaking, an area more than TWICE the size of the United States. The
  4. Ural Mountains divide the country into a European (western) half and an Asian (eastern)
  5. half.</p><p><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Россия</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Russia covers more than 6.5 million
  6. square miles or, roughly speaking, an area more than TWICE the size of the United States. The
  7. Ural Mountains divide the country into a European (western) half and an Asian (eastern)
  8. half.</p><p>To the west, Russia shares borders with Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia. Southern
  9. Russia extends to the Caucasus Mountains, which form the frontier with Georgia and Azerbaijan.
  10. In the east, that portion of Russia known as <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Сибирь</em></span></strong></span></em></span>
  11. Siberia stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China in the
  12. south.</p><p>The southern portion of Russia is composed primarily of flat, treeless plains known as
  13. <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">степь</em></span></strong></span></em></span> steppe. Siberia itself is comprised of
  14. a northern belt of permanently frozen, treeless plains <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">тундра</em></span></strong></span></em></span>
  15. and, more southerly, vast evergreen forests <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">тайга</em></span></strong></span></em></span>. The
  16. tundra region has one of the harshest climates known to mankind, with extremely long, cold
  17. winters and brief, often sweltering summers.</p><p><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Санкт
  18. Петербург</em></span></strong></span></em></span> St. Petersburg , founded by
  19. <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Пётр
  20. Великий</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Peter the Great on the Gulf of
  21. Finland as a "window to the West", has been nicknamed the "brain" of Russia. This is mostly
  22. due to its "European" look, thanks to a regular, grid-like pattern of city planning.
  23. <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Москва</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Moscow, on the other hand, is often
  24. referred to as the "soul", thanks to its more chaotic growth over the years and a more
  25. "Russian" look.</p><p>The climate of Moscow is more continental than that of St. Petersburg, with summer
  26. temperatures averaging in the high 70s. Summers in both cities can be humid (though the level
  27. of humidity there can hardly compare with that of a typical DC summer!), with frequent
  28. thunderstorms that seem to come up without much warning. Winter can begin as early as October,
  29. with the first significant snowfalls in early November. Winter temperatures in Moscow, as in
  30. St. Petersburg, average in the mid-teens. Thanks to the effects of the Neva River and the Gulf
  31. of Finland, winters in St. Petersburg tend to feel more damp than those in Moscow. In general,
  32. the weather in these cities is similar to that in the northeastern U.S.</p></div></div></body></html>