Interesting and Amazing Facts about Russia (USSR)

Russia, the world’s largest nation with landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Read Interesting and Amazing Facts about Russia USSR

Interesting and Amazing Facts about Russia USSR

• There is a girl in Russia named Virsaviya Borun who was born with a rare condition called Pentalogy of Cantrell  due to which her heart is outside the chest.

• Russia is bigger than the Planet Pluto.

• Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year.

• The Russian culture is one of the richest and most influential in the world.

• About 500,000 alcohol-related deaths are reported in Russia each year.

• In 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived in London. They reached 12 days late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar.

• The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US 7.2 million dollar in 1867.

• The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown in Russia from 32,000-year-old seeds.

• There is only one lake whose water does not get freeze, the name of that lake is Baikal in Russia.
  
  

• Japan and Russia still haven’t signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute.

• There are 9 million more women than men in Russia.

• In Russia, there are 160 ethnic groups that speak 100 different languages.

• The cold climate has much influence on the Russian cuisine. Soups are very popular, especially the famous and traditional borscht.

• Vodka is no doubt the most popular alcoholic drink in Russia. It is served between and with meals.

• “White Nights” in St. Petersburg is considered a very special event.These nights are during June and July at the peak of the summer when the nights are longer and the big cities host summer festivals and many cultural events.

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• Moscow has more billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world.

• Moscow has the 3rd busiest metro in the world.

• Russians are taught not to smile in school.

• Russians believe in a lot of superstitions.

• Russian women really do walk around in 6-inch heels.

• A Russian woman in the 1700’s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.

These are some Interesting and Amazing Facts about Russia USSR.