Siberia 2011 Highlights.mp4
Here's some highlights of our recent trip to Siberia. It's hard to fit two weeks into a minute and a half, but this will give you an idea of what Siberia is like in the winter! Another video is coming next week!
St Petersburg Russia McDonalds Lunch and Going to Museum Guide Talking
After the visit to the Catherine Palace (Pushkin), it was time to get some lunch before continuing our journey. We had to walk out of the Catherine Palace back to our ride. The Russian driver was waiting for us. Along the way, we saw many tourists going to visit Catherine Palace, including children. We asked our guide to bring us to a McDonalds for lunch. She brought us to a convenient McDs at a shopping mall where we had a quick lunch (time was quite tight). So all of us had burgers, a drink and some fries. The cost wasn't too expensive, about 1,400 Russian Roubles (abt 22 USD) for all of us. Then we were caught in heavy traffic as we made our way back to St Petersburg, to the Hermitage Museum.
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We sail on the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas 7N Baltic Seas cruise out of Copenhagen Denmark, sailing to Stockholm (Sweden), Tallinn (Estonia), St Petersburg (Russia) and Helsinki (Finland). Our sailing was late May 2016. Launched in 2003, the Serenade of the Seas is a retrofitted Radiance class cruise ship. We stayed in a gorgeous Family Oceanview cabin 1054 and had a wonderful time. Follow my cruise critic review -
Old Believers
In Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers, or Old Ritualists separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices that the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms.
Russian-speakers refer to the schism itself as raskol, etymologically indicating a cleaving-apart.
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For anyone visiting Moscow, St Basil's has to be near the top of the sightseeing list. Often mistaken for the nearby Kremlin, the cathedral was built on the .
Mention St. Petersburg and what often comes to mind is the wonderful Hermitage museum, a favourite of many travellers. And in a good example of the old meeti.
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Siberia (; Russian: Сиби́рь, tr. Sibírj;, IPA: [sʲɪˈbʲirʲ] ( listen)) is an extensive geographical region spanning much of Eurasia and North Asia. Siberia has historically been a part of modern Russia since the 16th and 17th centuries.
The territory of Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins. The Yenisei River conditionally divides Siberia into two parts, Western and Eastern. Siberia stretches southwards from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and to the national borders of Mongolia and China. With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to approximately 36 million people—27% of the country's population. This is equivalent to an average population density of about 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi) (approximately equal to that of Australia), making Siberia one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. If it were a country by itself, it would still be the largest country in area, but in population it would be the world's 35th-largest and Asia's 14th-largest.
Worldwide, Siberia is well known primarily for its long, harsh winters, with a January average of −25 °C (−13 °F), as well as its extensive history of use by Russian and Soviet administrations as a place for prisons, labour camps, and exile.
Demographics of Russia
The demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation, including population growth, population density, ethnic composition, education level, health, economic status and other aspects.
According to an official estimate for 1 June 2014, the population of Russia is 143,800,000. With the May 2014 annexation of Crimea, the population of Russia has increased to over 146 million. New citizenship rules allowing Russian citizenship to post Soviet peoples has gained strong interest with Uzbeks. The population could return to levels seen just before the breakup of the Soviet Union as well as resolve problems of statelessness.
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