What is the biggest country in the world?Russia is the biggest country in the world.If we talk about the extreme points of the Russian Federation, they are located as follows:
- western extreme point is located on the Vistula Spit, located close to Kaliningrad.This braid is divided border between Poland and Russia.The southern part belongs to Poland, the northern - Russian.This is an extreme point of the West;
- Cape Chelyuskin - extreme northern continental point of Russia and Eurasia, located on the Taimyr Peninsula.Named in honor of the navigator Northern Expedition SIChelyuskin, who first discovered the Cape in 1742 and has put it on the map;
- Mountain Bazarduzu - southern extreme point, in fact, located 3 kilometers from one of the peaks of the main ridge of the Caucasus Mountains, a height of 4466 m, on the border of Russia and Azerbaijan;
- Cape Dezhnev - the extreme eastern point of mainland Eurasia and Russia.It is located on the shore of the Bering Strait, on the peninsula of Chukotka.Cape named in 1879 in honor of the Russian navigator and explorer Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev, who first rounded this cape in 1648;
- the most extreme point on the East - is a few kilometers from the Bering Strait, where the number of the Diomede Islands.One of them - the island Ratmanova belonging to the Russian Federation.In good weather, with a visible located 4 km east of Little Diomede Island, referring to the United States.The island is considered to be an extreme point Ratmanova East.
in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the south-eastern shore of Lake Vivi is the center of Russia, called geographic.At this point, stele a height of 7 m, on top of which is the two-headed eagle and eight-meter cross in memory of Sergius of Radonezh.
Russia is the largest country in the world, is divided into several time zones, namely - 9.
boundaries of time zones (zones) correspond to the boundaries of the RF subjects.The biggest country in the world includes 83 regions.
United Kingdom in 1908 for energy savings "invented" and introduced summer time - clocks move 1 hour forward.The same procedure adopted and many other countries.In Russia and Europe this time is called the "year" and in the United States - "advanced".
In 1917 in Russia was introduced by the Provisional Government, the so-called standard time.In the future, until 1930 it annually sets its decree of People's Commissars of the USSR.In 1930, another decree of the summer was not canceled, and lasted for the winter.Since then, the country has been on time, 1 hour ahead of waist.
In April 1981 the Council of Ministers of the USSR was again set daylight saving time, but is now 1:00 not added to the maternity, and to Standard Time.Set their clocks to summer time on the last Sunday the March, and more recently the September Sunday - back in the winter.In 1996, the Economic Commission for Europe recommended that the Russian transition to winter time in October (last Sunday).Accordingly, the autumn and winter time, Russia outstripped by one hour half-length, in the spring and summer - for two hours.The same procedure is applied in Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
August 2011 on the orders of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and with the approval of the State Duma of the largest country in the world lives on summer time.
