RussiaEssay Preview: RussiaReport this essayLewis Gebhart4/1/08Dr. JonesGNST 200RussiaEngulfed by today’s American society, we stray far from acknowledging other countries. It is appalling to realize how very little Americans know about geography in global terms, let alone information of those countries. We think of the United States as the world, when in comparison to the rest of the earth, it is just a tiny piece to the puzzle.
DemographicRussia, also known as the Russian Federation, covers more than an eighth of the world’s land area (6,592,800 square miles), and has a population between the range of 147.5 and 149.9 million, 78 percent of that which live in the European part of Russia. Moscow is the largest city in Russia and contains approximately 8.7 million people. The next largest city is Saint Petersburg, which contains around four and a half million people. Eleven other countries follow, which all contain anywhere from one to two million people. Russia reached its peak population in 1991 at 148,689,000, but has seen a decline since then. This is due to various reasons such as the postwar baby boom in the early 1990s, the long history of Soviet ecological abuse, and the decline in health conditions and health care.
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Population of Russia by World Population and Region, 2013
Source: United Nations Population Division
Total World National Population, 1995 to 2016:
≈4 million
Demographic Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, covers more than an eighth of the world’s land area (6,592,800 square miles), and has a population between the range of 147.5 and 149.9 million, 78 percent of that which live in the European part of Russia. Moscow is the largest city in Russia and contains approximately 8.7 million people. The next largest city is Saint Petersburg, which contains around four and a half million people. Eleven other countries follow, which all contain beyond the West of Ukraine. In 2015 alone, population stood at 1,537,947 with Russian-speaking women between the age of 35 and over. In 2016 there were 2.25 million men, 1.26 million women and 2.08 million children under 25.
Number of males: 1,004,664.8 (5.9%)
Number of females: 370,500 (14.4%)
≈44.6 million
Source: Population Department, World Population Division, United Nations Population Division (http://www.un.org/projects/npl/)
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≈28.1 million
Demographic Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, covers more than an eighth of the world’s land area (35.5 million square miles) and has a population between the range of 138.5 and 146.7 million, 78 percent of which live in the European part of Russia. Moscow is the largest city in Russia and contains approximately 8.7 million people. The next largest city is Saint Petersburg, which contains around four and a half million people. Eleven other countries follow, which all contain beyond the West of Crimea. In 2015 alone, population stood at 1,537,947 with Russian-speaking women between the age of 35 and over. In 2016 there were 2.25 million men, 1.26 million women and 2.08 million children under 25.≈44.6 million
Demographic Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, covers more than an eighth of the world’s land area (35.5 million square miles) and has a population between the range of 138.5 and 146.7 million, 78 percent of which live in the European part of Russia. Moscow is the largest city in Russia and contains approximately 8.7 million people. The next largest city is Saint Petersburg, which contains around four and a half million people. Eleven other countries follow, which all contain beyond the West of Ukraine. In 2015 alone, population stood at 1,537,947 with Russian-speaking women
The economic status of Russia has dropped severely since the early and mid-1990s. At that time, there was an estimated 46.5 million people (31 percent of the population), which were living in poverty. This situation increased malnutrition, leaving only personal gardeners or farmers with the security of healthy vegetables and fruits. Since the turn of the 9th century, the economy of Russia has grown. Russia’s economy has grown for the past nine years straight, averaging 7 percent since the financial crisis in 1998. Russia had the 7th highest GDP of the world in 2007 ($2.076 trillion), which was due to non-traded services and good for the domestic market. The average salary in 2007 was around $540 per month, which is an incredible improvement from $65 per month in August 1999.
Russia contains the world’s greatest natural gas reserves, second largest coal reserves, and the eight largest oil reserves. Therefore, Russia is the world’s top natural gas exporter and the second in oil exporting. By exporting oil, Russia has been able to significantly diminish its formerly colossal foreign debt.
Thanks to Russia’s free education system guaranteed to all citizens, Russia has a literacy rate of 99.4%, making it first in the world in 2006 for its progress in reading literacy. Education at a collegiate level is extremely competitive and difficult to get into, but is free of charge once accepted. Because of this, intense emphasis is placed on technical, mathematical, science, space, and aviation education. The Russian Government provides a higher education to the more skilled students, rather than to the wealthier students. The government also has to fund the teachers’ salaries, housing, and maintaining facilities, which becomes very difficult and as a result, state institutions have started to open commercial positions.
(www.Countrystudies.us/Russia)Historical SketchTradition states that the Viking Rurik Russia in C.E. 862, and founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod. In the ninth century Viking tribes from Scandinavia moved into European Russia, which were united by Christianity in the 10th and 11th centuries. The grand dukes of Kiev held power, but was destroyed in 1240 by the Mongols, resulting in smaller dukedoms. Duke Ivan III got rid of the Mongol rule, and Ivan the IV founded the Russian state in the 15th century. Russia remained medieval until the reign of Peter the Great (1689-1725), who began the extension of Russia’s western boundaries. During Alexander I rule, Napoleon attempted to invade Russia, but was unsuccessful. Alexander II pushed the borders to the Pacific and into central Asia. After Russia’s defeat in the war to Japan, the Revolutionary struck.
The earliest records in this region are the 12th and 14th centuries. Some of them show that Constantinople was already founded by the Viking emperors, the 13th centuries being the ones that had no successors. They may have been the work of a single person, who began a civilization on land by which it was built. To start a civilization was to introduce the concept that the ancestors had the right to change their culture, and that they had the right to take land they could, for economic gain, without the assistance of any other country. However, their use of land gave no other means of using it. The Christian Church, that of the Vikings, would use it, but would not, because of the laws of nature. It was thus that the idea of Christian society, which was the center of social life and gave the basis for our culture, was replaced by a system of land ownership. Although the Christian Church had a very different concept of land ownership, it represented the main source of Christian thought in this part of the world. The ideas and systems surrounding Christian people were not derived from the traditional beliefs in Christianity. In the past, the Roman Catholic Church had the most common belief; it accepted that the natural world was always inhabited, and that people must acquire lands and property through free trade. However, in this system of land ownership, the majority of lands were reserved to their subjects (i.e., the Catholic Church). Thus, it was possible, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, who could legally take only small islands (such as islands inhabited by the Christians), and take the great tracts of land owned by the various church groups. The idea of land ownership was the main source of Christian values in this part of the world, but to be able to take lands and property for one’s own protection, was a major source of Christian doctrine. For the most part, Christianity had accepted the concept of the land and it was in this aspect of Christianity that the majority of people lived. The Christian concept is the foundation for the entire culture of Western Europe. From 1st century A.D. to 15th century, the Church established a large land empire with a large government, a social federation, a common priesthood, a high position to inherit land and land rights from the lower classes, schools to teach, and a small community of nobility to govern. The Christian church believed that by setting up its land and land ownership system, the whole European civilization might be protected against attacks and oppression in the lands inhabited by people of different races from different parts of the world. In some parts of the world, the lands were not taken. The development of farming and farming-making, the invention of agriculture and the use of women would not only preserve the rural heritage, but would also provide the means of subsistence for a larger portion of the population of the world. The Christian society took this vision of the land under the control of man as a sign of peace, that it had been established by the Creator with his people under his direct control. Once the land was divided between the different church groups, it was distributed among them or, for a brief period, divided up among the lower classes who continued to speak a different language and customs than the higher classes. Many of these groups
World War I lasted from 1914-1917, but was ended with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918. Even though the war with Germany was ended, a civil war broke out and a brief war in 1920 with Poland resulted in Russian defeat.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became established on December 30, 1922, and the community of land a property started. Hitler’s rise in Germany eventually snowballed into World War II in 1941-45. The Soviet Union exploded a hydrogen bomb in 1953, developed an global ballistic missile by 1957, sent the first satellite into space in 1957, and put Yuri Gagarin in the first orbital flight around the earth in 1961. Khrushchevs downfall stemmed from his decision to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and then, when challenged by the U.S., backing down and removing the weapons. The U.S.S.R. was finally dissipated in 1991. Terrorist attacks against civilians led by Chechen separatists caused hundreds of deaths and drew worldwide attention. Budget deficits and the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 resulted in the financial crisis in 1998. Vladimir Putin won the presidential election in 2000, taking Boris Yeltsin spot. Putin suppressed much of the violence, and brought Russia’s economy back to good standings.
(www.infoplease.com/spot/russia)PeopleRussia has numerous Political leaders today. Vladimir Vladimirivic Putin is the President of Russia, Viktor Alexeyevich Zubkov is the Prime Minister, and Sergey Borisovich Ivanov is the First Deputy Prime Minister. Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov is the Minister of Defence, Rashid Gumarovish Nurgaliyev is the Minster of Internal Affairs, Aleksey Leonidovich Kudrin is the Minister of Finance, and Nikolay Mikhaylovich Golushko is the Minister of Security.
There are also many other famous people outside of the political world. Valentin Serov (1865-1911) was considered to be the greatest artist of his time. Two of the most outstanding scholars of Russian neurology and psychiatry were A. Ya. Kozhevnikov (1836-1902) and S.S. Korsakov (1854-1900). Other actors, actresses, and famous celebrities include Anna Semenovich, Elena Dementieve, Evgeni Malkin, Margarita Levieva, Natalia Vodianova, t.A.T.u., Georgi Daneliya, Mikhail Baryshnikov,