St. Petersburg is a relatively young city, with a little over three hundred years of history. However, in these three centuries of rapid growth and development, St. Petersburg has forged its own path, evolving into a timeless city, inimitable in its beauty and harmony. It is elusive and enigmatic, a truly unique city in Russia's history.

For more than 200 years, it was the resplendent capital of the great Russian Empire, and remains the country's cultural and spiritual centre to this day.

INTERESTING FACTS

While it is the youngest of the large European cities, still, it has no equal on earth with such well-preserved architectural examples of neoclassicism, eclecticism, modernism, and retrospectivism. The city’s historical centre and the palace estates that surround the city are on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

It is the world’s largest, most northern city: the 60th parallel, on which the city lies, passes through Greenland, Anchorage, Alaska, Magadan, and Oslo, the capital of Norway. The city is famed for its white nights, a major tourist attraction.

St. Petersburg has more bridges than any other city in Europe, and is runner-up in the number of canals and islands. If you include the suburbs, the city has 64 rivers, 48 canals, 170 kilometres of coastline, about 100 islands, and 800 bridges.

St. Petersburg is a relatively young city, with a little over three hundred years of history. However, in these three centuries of rapid growth and development, St. Petersburg has forged its own path, evolving into a timeless city, inimitable in its beauty and harmony. It is elusive and enigmatic, a truly unique city in Russia's history. For more than 200 years, it was the resplendent capital of the great Russian Empire, and remains the country's cultural and spiritual centre to this day.

INTERESTING FACTS

While it is the youngest of the large European cities, still, it has no equal on earth with such well-preserved architectural examples of neoclassicism, eclecticism, modernism, and retrospectivism. The city’s historical centre and the palace estates that surround the city are on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

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Russia — officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation.

The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world.

It covers more than an eighth of the Earth's land area and stretches from the Baltic and Black Seas in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

Russia is a great country which has a vast territory and different climatic zones.

Roughly 142 million people live in Russia nowadays.

The total area is up to 17,075,400 km ² or 11.46% of the total land area of the Earth. It includes 83 equal subjects of the Federation.

Russia is a dynamically developing country with huge reserves of minerals and by means of it country has huge economic potential.

Russia is known worldwide as a leading exporter of oil and gas, which has a modern oil industry complex.  Russia, by virtue of its territories has a big potential in agro-industrial developing.

It is famous for cultural and religious diversity. About 160 different other ethnic groups and indigenous people live within its borders. Taking into account that there is more than 20 million of Muslims live in Russia and with the growth of religious identity, different producers correspond with their needs and organize the halal products production. It should be noted that Muslims in Russia are the original inhabitants. The main Muslims settlement regions in Russia are the Volga which includes Tatarstan and Bashkortostan and also the North Caucasus which includes Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygea. The large numbers of Muslims live in the capital of Russia in Moscow city (about 2 million) and Siberia.
One of the fastest growing Muslim regions of Russia is the Republic of Tatarstan. Republic of Tatarstan is located in the Volga region. About 52% of citizens of the Tatarstan are Muslims. The total number of citizens is equal to 4 million. The capital of Tatarstan is Kazan city. It is the third capital of Russia which indicates the high potential of this country. Kazan is situated 800 kilometers away from Moscow. Its Eastern flavor and traditions of interfaith harmony give to Kazan the right to be a Muslim capital of Russia.

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