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 * The Early Years**

Climate and Geography of Russia

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 * Russian has a total of 16,995,800 square kilometers today
 * In the early years of the Russian Tsars, Russia owned Alaska which occupied 1,482,970 sqaure kilometers
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 * All together in the early years Russian owned 18,478,770 square kilometers
 * Russia has 79,400 square kilometers of water
 * 0.00429 percent of Russia is fresh water
 * This is approximately 1.8 times the United States
 * The latitude of Russia's capital Moscow is 55°45′8 ″N
 * The longitude of Russia's capital Moscow is 37°35′56″E
 * Russia's lowes point is 28 meters below sea level in the Caspian sea
 * Russia’s highest point is 5,633 meters on the Gora El'brus
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 * They also have natural gas, coal, and oil, but these materials were not harvested in the early years of the Russian Tsars
 * Russia's natural resources include timber, metals, and minerals
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 * Russia’s land is 7.33 % arable and has 46,630 square kilometers of irrigated land
 * Despite its size Russia has improper soils to grow foods in because their either too dry or too wet
 * Some of the natural hazards in Russia are volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, spring floods, and forest fires.
 * The terrain of Russian consists of large forests and tundra
 * It also has long stretches of mountains on the southern border
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 * In southern Russia there are low amounts of precipitation
 * In the Northern part of Russia there are average to high amounts of precipitation
 * Russia’s temperature’s vary vastly from winter to summer
 * In Moscow the average temperature in the winter is -15 Celsius and in the summer the average temperature is 22 Celsius
 * The national record for the coldest temperature in Russia is -94 Celsius in Siberia
 * The national record for the coldest temperature in Russia is -94 Celsius in Siberia



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