Get to know RUSSIAprepared by Marina Pavljuk

Russian Federation

Russia is the biggest country in the world: you’ll need more than 7 days for crossing it by the fastest

train and a whole life to see whole Russia

Crazy cold..? Russia has an extreme temperature drop

+30 -30

Moscow

The capital, the center of Russia

Saint-Petersburg

The capital of art, culture, Russian Impire history

Our nature

Our nature

Our Food

Our Symbols

Matryoshka

МАТРЁШК

АA set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. They are sometimes incorrectly referred to as "babushka dolls" (grandmother doll) .

The word "matryoshka" (матрёшка), literally "little matron", is a diminutive form of the Russian female first name "Matryona" (Матрёна).

Cheburashka`s story

This one small and strange animal became a real small symbol of Russia. Cheburashka is a character from children`s book written by Eduard Uspenskiy. It is a strange tropical animal which looks like a bear but has giant ears and huge eyes. According to the story he was found in the box full of oranges in which he arrived to a big city. He is very friendly and loves everyone. His best friend is a green crocodile Gena who is a really busy guy working in a Zoo and reading newspapers. But now Cheburashka is also very busy – he works as a Russian Olympic team mascot.

The name of this animal Cheburashka came from a Russian verb cheburahnutsa (spoken Russian) which means to fall awkwardly (Cheburashka did it often because of his huge ears).

Thank you!And now video time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qarVvOlw0-c&list=PLC303C95118BFF6B2