The territory of Russia amounts to 17,075,260 square. km and lies mostly north of 50 ° N
Average temperatures in January, according to different regions, from 0 to -50 ° C, in July from 1 to 25 ° C; precipitation from 150 to 2000 mm per year.
Permafrost (areas of Siberia and Far East) occupies 65%of the territory of Russia.
Over 70%of Russia's territory - a zone of risky agriculture.
The agricultural season in most of Russia is 2-3 months (for comparison, in Europe or the U.S. 8-9 months). Over 50%of the territory covered by forests.
The length of the state border of 58,322 km, the total number of settlements 157,895, of which more than 30,000 still do not have telephone service.
Of the 39,000 abandoned villages and towns accounted for most of the Central Federal District, North-West, Far North, Siberia and the Far East.
The total population of Russia, according to latest reports, is, according to various estimates, approximately 132,000,000 people.
Of these, 74%(97.680.000) live in cities and towns, where:
10,969,000 Moscow, in the Moscow area 7,900,000,
in St. Petersburg, 6,897,000, 3,350,000 in the Leningrad region.
(subject to temporary registration and work permits for foreign workers)
Cities with population of about 1 million people:
1391.9 Novosibirsk Ekaterinburg 1315.1 Nizhny Novgorod 1278.3 Samara 1139.0
1134.8 Omsk Kazan 1116.0 Chelyabinsk 1091.5 Rostov-on-Don 1051.6 Ufa 1022.6
Perm 990.2 Volgograd 986.4.
Of the total population:
62%are people of pension and retirement age - 81,840,000
army personnel, together with contractors, draftees, hired workers, staff of the subsidiary companies, research institutes, design bureaus and institutes of higher education - 1,470,000
(including 355,000 officers and generals and admirals, 1.886, 10.523 - the central office of Defense, 11,290 - the bodies of military administration, 15 academies, 4 military university, 46 military colleges and military institutions)
staff members of the FSB, FSO, Federal FAPSI, SVR, etc. - 2,140,000
staffers MOE, MIA, BB, Ministry of Justice, the Federal Migration Service and the Prosecutor's Office - 2,536,000
customs officials, tax, health and other inspections - 1,957,000
MPs and members of the staff of power structures at all levels - 1,870,000
Officials licensing, regulatory and registration bodies - 1,741,000
Foreign and apparatus goszagranuchrezhdeny (UN, UNESCO, CIS, etc.) - 797.000
employees of other federal ministries and departments - 1,985,000
clerks pension, social, insurance and other funds - 2,439,000
priests and religious attendants and religious buildings - 692,000
notaries, legal offices, lawyers and inmates - 2,357,000
staff of private security firms, detectives, security, etc. - 1,775,600
unemployed - 5,780,000
Total: 109,397,600 people who produce nothing and are due to the budget and the solvent parts of the population.
It remains to 22,602,400 people. And this is our everything.
All small, medium, and farm business class along with private business and the shuttle.
Where, incidentally, are still young children, schoolchildren, students, housewives, street children, homeless, displaced people, refugees, etc., etc., etc.
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