| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334 |
- <html><head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
- <title xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng">Chapter 2. Lesson 2</title><meta xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng" name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="prev" href="ch01s09.html" title="Learning Russian script"><link rel="next" href="ch02s02.html" title="Росси́я и ка́рта ми́ра."></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><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.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div lang="" class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="d5e4374"></a>Chapter 2. Lesson 2</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02.html#d5e4390"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро́ пожа́ловать в Росси́ю</em></span>! Welcome to
- Russia!</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Росси́я и ка́рта ми́ра</em></span>.</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4425"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №1.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4497"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №2.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4678"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №3.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4689"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №4.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4710"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №5.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4721"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №6.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4767"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №7.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4840"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №8: <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Како́й</em></span>?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4855"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №9: <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Что</em></span>? <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Что</em></span>
- <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">э́то</em></span>?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4874"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №10:<span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> где?</em></span>
- <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Вот</em></span>.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4977"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №11.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e4984"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №12.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5012"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №13.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5059"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Кли́мат Росси́и. Пого́да.</em></span></a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5090"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №14.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5110"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Росси́я и Бли́жнее Зарубе́жье.</em></span> Russia and
- the Newly Independent States of Eurasia</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5222"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №15.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5257"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №16.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5297"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №17.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5360"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №18.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5383"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №19.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5406"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №20.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5433"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражне́ние</em></span> №21.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5515">In case you were wondering</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch02s02.html#d5e5905">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 name="d5e4390"></a><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Добро́ пожа́ловать в Росси́ю</em></span>! Welcome to
- Russia!</h2></div></div></div><p><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">ту́ндра</em></span></strong></span></em></span> and, more southerly, vast evergreen
- forests <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Санкт
- Петербу́рг</em></span></strong></span></em></span> St. Petersburg , founded by
- <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s09.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s02.html">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.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Росси́я и ка́рта ми́ра</em></span>.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|
