Russia

Russia, officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia.
It is a federal semi-presidential republic.
From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait and Canada's Arctic islands.
At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.
Russia is also the world's ninth most populous nation with 143 million people as of 2012.
Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms.

Russia's Notable Births

1981 June 07

Anna Kournikova, Tennis player,model (born at Moscow, Russia) Gemini

1986 January 06

Irina Shayk, Top model (born at Emanzelinsk, Russia) Capricorn

1887 July 07

Marc Chagall, painter (born at Vicebsk, Bielorussia) (dead 1985 March 28) Cancer

1987 January 25

Maria Kirilenko, Tennis Player (born at Moscow, Russia) Aquarius

1987 April 19

Maria Sharapova, Tennis player (born at Siberia, Russia) Aries

1983 August 14

Mila Kunis, (Milena Markovna Kunis) (born at Chernivtsi,Ukrainian SSR,Russia) Leo

1975 December 17

Milla Jovovich, actress (born at Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Russia) Sagittarius

1918 December 11

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , writer (born at Kislovodsk, Russia) (dead 2008 August 03) Sagittarius

1860 January 29

Anton Chekhov , (born at Taganrog, Russia) (dead 1904 July 15) Aquarius

1890 February 10

Boris Pasternak , Poet,writer (born at Moscow,Russia) (dead 1960 May 30) Aquarius

1931 February 01

Boris Yeltsin , Russian President (born at Butka,Russian) (dead 2007 April 23) Aquarius

Russia's Notable Deaths

2008 August 03

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , writer (dead at Moscow, Russia) (born 1918 December 11) Sagittarius

1960 May 30

Boris Pasternak , Poet,writer (dead at Moscow,Russia) (born 1890 February 10) Aquarius

1953 March 05

Josef Stalin , Politician (Iosif Vissarionovic Džugašvili) (dead at Mosca,Russia) (born 1878 December 21) Sagittarius

1924 January 21

Lenin , rivoluzionario (dead at Gorki Leninskie, Russia) (born 1870 April 22) Taurus

1982 November 10

Leonid Breznev , Politician (dead at Russia) (born 1906 December 19) Sagittarius

2009 November 08

Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist (dead at Mosca, Russia) (born 1916 October 04) Libra