This is the presentation that my Russian daughter prepared for her class in fulfillment of her U.S. State Department terms of her scholarship.

1. Welcome to Russian Life

2. I. General Knowledge P C
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III. Cities

3. General Knowledge
Territory
Climate
Natural recourses
Population
Government
Economy
Education

4. Territory
Russia is the largest country in the world.
It occupies 17,075,400 square kilometres
(6,592,800 sq miles).
Covers more than a ninth of the Earth's land
area.
Have borders with 16 countries.

5. Location: World’s Map

6. Location: Russia’s Map

7. Urals
Location: Ural’s Region Map

8. Location: Nizhniy Tagil’s Map

9. Nizhniy Tagil
Salado
Location: World’s Map

10. Climate

11. Summe Autum
Seasons
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Winter Sprin

12. 50 ° F - 86 ° F

17. Population
o Population – 142 million people.
o Russia is the ninth most populous nation.
o Nations:
• Russians 79.8% • Ukrainians 2%
•Tatars 3.8% •Bashkirs 1.2%
•Chuvashes 1.1% •Chechens 0.9%
•Armenians 0.8% •other 10.4%

18. Government
Russia is a
federation
country and
semi-presidential
republic, where
the President is
the head of state
and the Prime
Minister is the
head of
government.
Dmitry Medvedev, the President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of
of Russian Federation Russian Federation.

19. Federal Subjects
The Russian Federation comprises 83 federal
subjects:
 46 oblasts (provinces), 21 republics, 9 krais (territories), 5
autonomous okrugs (autonomous districts), 2 federal
cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg).
Federal subject divided into 8 federal
districts and had its representatives in
Federation Council and State Duma that is
both include about 636 members, which
could adopt federal laws, declares wars,
approves treaties, has the power of the purse
and the power of impeachment of the
President.

20. Federal Subjects

21. • Generosity •Freedom • Orthodox faith
•Blessed • Royal
• Honesty Virgin Mary authority
• Courage,
•Statehood • Russian
love People

22. • The economy of Russia is the 12th largest
economy in the world by nominal value and the
7th largest by purchasing powe parity (PPP).
• Russia has an abundance of natural gas oil, coal, and precious
metals. It is also rich in agriculture.
• Russia has undergone significant changes since
the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a
globally-isolated, centrally-planned economy to a
more market-based and globally-integrated
economy.

23. $ 1 – 30 rubley

24. Natural Recourses
• Russia accounts for around 20 percent of the
world's production of oil and natural gas.
• Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore,
manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum,
titanium, copper, lead, diamonds and so on.
• It has one of the world's largest forest
reserves and its lakes contain approximately
one-quarter of the world's fresh water.

25. Education System
Type of school Grade Age
Primary General 1st - 4th (6)7 - 10
School
Basic General 5th – 9th 11 - 16
Secondary School
Secondary (Complete) 10th – 11th 17 - 18
General School
General secondary education lasts for nine years. After 9th grade
students can graduate and continue to study in Non-university level
higher education. Other way, pupils may graduate after another two
years in high school that allowed them to complete their secondary
general school. And after that, students may enter a University Level
schools.

26. School Types
Secondary (School) Higher Education
Education
General School Uchilische, Technical Institution
Extensive School, upper level Technikum, Non-University Level
Higher Education Institution
Gymnasium, upper level
Lyceum, Non-University Level Higher College, Non-University Level Higher
Education Institution (9 -11 grade) Education Institution
Conservatory (musical education)
Institute, University Level
Academy, University Level
Technical University
University

27. School Schedule
(7:50-8:25 Facultative )
8:30 – 9:15 First lesson
9:25 – 10:10 Second lesson
10:20 – 11:05 Third lesson
11:30 – 12:15 Forth lesson
12:25 – 13:10 Fifth lesson
13:30 – 14:15 Sixth lesson
(14:20 – 15:05 Seventh lesson)
As a rule students go
to school six days a
week.

28. General Subjects for High School
 Russian  History(all)
 Literature(all)  Social Sciences
 Foreign languages  Computer Science
 Chemistry  PE
 Physics  Safety
 Biology  Music
 Geography  Art
 Algebra  H-craft (drafting)
 Geometry

29. Culture
Traditions
Language
Religion
Art
Holidays

30. some basic Traditions
and Customs

31. There is a tradition
to pull the ears of a
birthday person as
many times as he
become older.
Happy b-day!
С Днём Рождения!
(S Dnyom Rozh-deni-ya!)

32. Each student have
to stand up in the
beginning of the
class – to greet
teacher until he will
let pupils sit down.
Students also have
to stand up each
time that any
teacher arrived in a
room.
Classroom

33. Handshake could
be used in different
situations in the life
of Russians. One of
them – greeting
each other, but as a
rule used only by
men. Women prefer
hugs or just words.
Greeting handshake

34. Loaf – bread, might
used to greet
visitors.
Also widely used in
wedding traditions.
Loaf

36. Russians use to
drink tea a lot. As a
rule tea could go
with breakfast,
dinner and supper
and any kind of
desert.
Also, when there is
a guest in the
house it’s a
tradition to offer a
tea to him.
Tea

37. The first meal is a
breakfast in the
morning.
The second meal is a
dinner. Russian
people usually have it
after noon.
The last meal is a
supper. Could be
between 6 to 8
3 times Meal o’clock in the
evening.

38. Borsch
National Food
Pelmeny

39. National Food
Bliny
(not pancakes!)

40. Salad with crab and corn
Salads
Salad with cucumbers and tomatoes
Olivie

41. Language

42. Russian Alphabet
1 А 12 К 23 Х
2 Б 13 Л 24 Ц
3 В 14 М 25 Ч
4 Г 15 Н 26 Ш
5 Д 16 О 27 Щ
6 Е 17 П 28 Ъ
7 Ё 18 Р 29 Ы
8 Ж 19 С 30 Ь
9 З 20 Т 31 Э
10 И 21 У 32 Ю
11 Й 22 Ф 33 Я
Vowels Consonants

43. New Words
Word Translate In Russian
Privet Hello Привет
Poka Bye Пока
Kak dela? How are you? Как дела?
Spasibo Thank you Спасибо
Horosho Fine Хорошо
Ya I’m Я
Eda Food Еда

44. According to the Russian Constitution, there is a
Freedom of choosing religion. But during a long
period of history Russians are used to be Orthodox
Christians.
The latest situation in the country now include:
 Orthodox 75%
 Islam 5%
 Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Buddhism 1% per religion and
less
 Atheists 8%

49. Balalaika
National Instruments
Garmoni
Gusli

53. Khokhloma
Decorative painting
wooden utensils and
furniture, primarily in
black and red colors.
Traditional elements
Khokhloma - Herbal
patterns, juicy red rowan
berries and strawberries,
flowers and twigs. Not
uncommon to find birds,
fish and animals.
Also, was found in
Nizhniy Novgorod, in 17th
century.

54. Gzhel
Gzhel is one of the
traditional Russian
centers of ceramics
production with
using white and blue
colors.

56. Main Holidays
 New Year – 31th of December – 1st of
January
 Carnival – 7 weeks before Eastern
 Defender's Day – 23th of February
 Women's Day – 8th of March
 Victory’s Day – 9th of May
 Knowledge’s Day – 1st of September

57. New Year is a
big family
holiday, when
people get
together had a
great dinner,
listen to the
president
before the
midnight, give
gifts and had a
party.

58. Carnival (Masleniza)
Festive cycle preserved in Russia since pre-
Christian times. The rite is associated with
the wires of winter and spring meeting.
The cycle continue 7 days and all this days
people supposed to eat different dishes with
bliny (crepes).

59. Defender’s Day Women’s Day
• Casual holiday that • Casual holiday that
congratulate men and congratulate all women
army. for their honor. without any reason.
Connected with World This day also was a
War II. beginning for women’s
equality.

60. The Day that officially was called the end of the
Second World War. Russians celebrate it with
big parades, concerts, fireworks.

62. Knowledge Day
1 September – Back to school
• In the 1st of September all students finish their
summer holidays and back to school.
• As a rule there is a meeting of all students in front of
school. It’s cold “lineyka’ and usually include concert
numbers, mistress speech, greeting 1st grade.

63. Cities
Capitol – Moscow
Saint- Petersburg
Nizhniy Tagil

64. Moscow

65. A few words about…
Moscow is the capital of RF. The city is a global city.
Moscow is the most populous city on the continent
of Europe including about 10,563,038 people.
Underground Railroad Map

66. is a city of a federal meaning. The city's other
names were Petrograd and Leningrad. The city
was founded by Tsar Petr I to “create a
window to Europe”. It is a cultural city and
also one of the most beautiful cities in the
world.

69. • Territory - 4,601 km2 (1,776 sq mi).
• Population is over 400 000 people.

70. Nizhniy Tagil has a lot of different natural
recourses, that’s why it’s an industrial city
with a lot of plants and factories.
One of the greatest amount of its recourses is
copper.
Fact: there are about 30 tons of Nizhniy
Tagil’s copper in Statue of Liberty in USA.

71. THIS AREA ALSO WELL KNOWN FOR ITS
MALACHITE.

72. View

75. DEMIDOV’S OLD PLANT. NOWADAYS - MUSEUM

76.  Model of first locomotive
MONUMENT TO THE BROTHERS CHEREPANOVS
WHO BUILT THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE

77. PALACE OF CULTURE Lenin Monument
Eternal Flame
Local Museum

78. Park
SCHOOL BUILDING
Fair Street
Drama Theatre

79. FIREWORKS ON CELEBRATIONS
Baker Parade
 Bride Day

80. THE END
 Thank you =)

81. Anastasiya Borisyuk Valeryevna
FLEX student 2010 from Russia
Salado, TX