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  4. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Chapter 2. Lesson 2</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/><link rel="home" href="index.xhtml" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"/><link rel="up" href="index.xhtml" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"/><link rel="prev" href="ch01s09.xhtml" title="Learning Russian script"/><link rel="next" href="ch02s02.xhtml" title="Россия и карта мира."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. Lesson 2</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s09.xhtml">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s02.xhtml">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d5e4365"/>Chapter 2. Lesson 2</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02.xhtml#d5e4381"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро пожаловать в Россию</em></span>! Welcome to
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  5.       Russia!</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Россия и карта мира</em></span>.</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4420"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №1.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4492">Упражнение №2.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4671"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №3.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4682"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №4.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4703"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №5.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4714"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №6.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4760"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №7.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4833"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №8: <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">какой</em></span>?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4848"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №9: что это?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4864"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №10:<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> где?</em></span>
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  6.         <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Вот</em></span>.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4967"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №11.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e4974"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №12.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5003"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №13.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5049"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Климат России. Погода.</em></span></a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5080"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №14.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5100"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Россия и Ближнее Зарубежье.</em></span> Russia and the
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  7.         Newly Independent States of Eurasia</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5212"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №15.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5247"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №16.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5287"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №17.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5350"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №18.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5373"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №19.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5396"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №20.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5424"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №21.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5505">In case you were wondering</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.xhtml#d5e5895">Useful words and expressions</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="1"><colgroup><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td align="center">Lesson №2</td></tr><tr><td align="center">GEOGRAPHY</td></tr><tr><td align="center">УРОК № 2</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../Images/FsiRussianFast-Lessons2-5-1.png"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="d5e4381"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро пожаловать в Россию</em></span>! Welcome to
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  8.       Russia!</h2></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
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  9.       square miles or, roughly speaking, an area more than TWICE the size of the United States. The
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  10.       Ural Mountains divide the country into a European (western) half and an Asian (eastern)
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  11.       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
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  12.       square miles or, roughly speaking, an area more than TWICE the size of the United States. The
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  13.       Ural Mountains divide the country into a European (western) half and an Asian (eastern)
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  14.       half.</p><p>To the west, Russia shares borders with Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia. Southern
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  15.       Russia extends to the Caucasus Mountains, which form the frontier with Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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  16.       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>
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  17.       Siberia stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China in the
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  18.       south.</p><p>The southern portion of Russia is composed primarily of flat, treeless plains known as
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  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">степь</em></span></strong></span></em></span> steppe. Siberia itself is comprised of
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  20.       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>
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  21.       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
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  22.       tundra region has one of the harshest climates known to mankind, with extremely long, cold
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  23.       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
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  24.             Петербург</em></span></strong></span></em></span> St. Petersburg , founded by
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  25.         <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
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  26.             Великий</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Peter the Great on the Gulf of
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  27.       Finland as a "window to the West", has been nicknamed the "brain" of Russia. This is mostly
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  28.       due to its "European" look, thanks to a regular, grid-like pattern of city planning.
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  29.         <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
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  30.       referred to as the "soul", thanks to its more chaotic growth over the years and a more
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  31.       "Russian" look.</p><p>The climate of Moscow is more continental than that of St. Petersburg, with summer
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  32.       temperatures averaging in the high 70s. Summers in both cities can be humid (though the level
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  33.       of humidity there can hardly compare with that of a typical DC summer!), with frequent
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  34.       thunderstorms that seem to come up without much warning. Winter can begin as early as October,
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  35.       with the first significant snowfalls in early November. Winter temperatures in Moscow, as in
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  36.       St. Petersburg, average in the mid-teens. Thanks to the effects of the Neva River and the Gulf
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  37.       of Finland, winters in St. Petersburg tend to feel more damp than those in Moscow. In general,
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  38.       the weather in these cities is similar to that in the northeastern U.S.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s09.xhtml">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s02.xhtml">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Learning Russian script </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.xhtml">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Россия и карта мира</em></span>.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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