From the 6th century, the Khazars (groups of Turkic and Iranian peoples who moved north) began to subjugate the Finno-Ugric and Slavic population living in the area of today’s western Russia. The Khazars created a prosperous empire that covered most of...
According to Petwithsupplies, 50 km from Sortavala on the northeastern shore of Lake Ladoga is the city of Pitkyaranta. Its name is translated from Finnish as “long coast”. A settlement on this site was first mentioned at the turn of the...
Christianity that came from Byzantium was unable to establish a mediation with Western culture, but rather gave rise to the isolation of the country that the Tatar invasion accentuated and that made Russia a country that was always a bit wary...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The huge geographical extent of the Russian Federation makes the landscape extremely varied. Plains have their largest distribution in the northern parts, west of Jenisei, while mountain scenery, plateaus and larger hill areas occur most in...
