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- <?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 xml:lang="" class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e6308" 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="d0e6328" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро́ пожа́ловать в Росси́ю</em></span>! Welcome to
- 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">Росси́я</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Russia covers more than 6.5 million
- square miles or, roughly speaking, an area more than TWICE the size of the United States. The
- Ural Mountains divide the country into a European (western) half and an Asian (eastern)
- half.</p><p>To the west, Russia shares borders with Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia. Southern
- Russia extends to the Caucasus Mountains, which form the frontier with Georgia and Azerbaijan.
- 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">Сиби́рь</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Siberia stretches from the Arctic Ocean
- in the north to Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China in the south.</p><p>The southern portion of Russia is composed primarily of flat, treeless plains 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">степь</em></span></strong></span></em></span> steppe. Siberia itself is comprised of
- 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">ту́ндра</em></span></strong></span></em></span> 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">тайга́</em></span></strong></span></em></span>́́. The tundra region has one of the
- harshest climates known to mankind, with extremely long, cold 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
- Петербу́рг</em></span></strong></span></em></span> St. Petersburg , founded by
- <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
- Вели́кий</em></span></strong></span></em></span> Peter the Great on the Gulf of
- Finland as a "window to the West", has been nicknamed the "brain" of Russia. This is mostly
- due to its "European" look, thanks to a regular, grid-like pattern of city planning.
- <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">Москва́</em></span></strong></span></em></span>́ Moscow, on the other hand, is often
- referred to as the "soul", thanks to its more chaotic growth over the years and a more
- "Russian" look.</p><p>The climate of Moscow is more continental than that of St. Petersburg, with summer
- temperatures averaging in the high 70s. Summers in both cities can be humid (though the level
- of humidity there can hardly compare with that of a typical DC summer!), with frequent
- thunderstorms that seem to come up without much warning. Winter can begin as early as October,
- with the first significant snowfalls in early November. Winter temperatures in Moscow, as in
- St. Petersburg, average in the mid-teens. Thanks to the effects of the Neva River and the Gulf
- of Finland, winters in St. Petersburg tend to feel more damp than those in Moscow. In general,
- the weather in these cities is similar to that in the northeastern U.S.</p></div></div></body></html>
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