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Russian Federation/Российская Федерация
The Russian Federation, also known as Russia is the largest
country in the world. Their capital city
is Moscow , their population is over
142,946,800 , and their president is
Vladimir Putin. Russian is the official
language, however they have over 20
separate languages.
Russia in 2012 Olympics
Russian History in the Olympics
Russia hosted the 1980 olympics in Moscow.
You may have heard of the 1976 olympic boycott
in South Africa due to the apartheid law.
This was boycotted much worse, led by the United
States. This was due to a 9 year war in Afghanistan
led by the soviets (Russian Armed Forces) Only 80 nations competed, which is miniscule compared to this year's 200+.
Russia excel in a wide variety of sports. They have a whopping total of 323 medals ever since their first olympics in 1900.
Their flag bearer for this year was Maria Sharapova.
Being the largest country in the world, Russia was a big competitor in the Olympic Games. Russia finished in 3rd place behind USA and China, having 24 golds, 26 silvers and 32 bronze medals. Their total medal count is 82. They had 438 athletes competing in this year's olympics and first entered the Olympic Games in 1900. Their 3 best events are track and field, wrestling , and shooting.
Official logo for the 1980 olympic games
A Russian athlete
Russia Facts
Capital City - Moscow
Area - 17075400 km squared
Religions - Christian, Islam (muslim), Buddhism , Judaism
Internet Domains - .ru .rf .su
Currency - Roubles (dollars) Kopecks (cents)
Life expextency - 59 men 73 women
interntional dialing code +7
Russian Athletes
Russian History
Russia has 18 medals in track and field events in
2012. Aliya Mustafina has 1 gold , 1 silver and 2 bronze medals in gymnastics. Surprisingly she is only eighteen years of age!
Russia was founded in the year 862 by the viking Rurik. He found the first Russian tribe in Novgorod. Russia had a large presence in WW2. Joseph Stalin created a pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler - a non-aggression pact. Russia established this because they knew Germany was becoming powerful. However Hitler broke the pact on the 22nd of June, 1941, by invading soviet-held territories. This resulted in a massive war on the Eastern Front, east of Germany between the Axis and Allies. Here are some of the axis countries:
Germany Croatia
Romania Italy
Hungary Bulgaria
Finland Slovakia
Tatyana Lysenko, Russian hammer throw gold medallist
Dzhamal Otarsultanov, wrestling gold medallist
These are some of the allied
countries.
Soviet union (Russia)
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
These countries were originally part of the
axis but later converted to the allied forces.
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
A map. The purple and pink areas show axis countries, the yellow is the allied countries.
The grey is neutral countries, the red arrows are axis offenses and the green are allied offenses.