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Sergey Levitsky, inventor of the bellows camera, one of the earliest photography pioneers. Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath scientist and artist, inventor of off-axis reflecting telescope and night vision telescope. Alexander Makarov, inventor of orbitrap. Dmitry Maksutov, inventor of the Maksutov telescope.
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Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
Mushrooms (Russian: грибы, griby) have been an important part of Russian folk culture at least since the 10th century and an essential part of Russian meals. There are more than 200 kinds of edible mushrooms in Russia. Mushrooms were always considered magical and so they play a prominent role in Russian fairy tales.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
(David Gray/AFP/Getty Images) (AFP via Getty Images) Men's 400m hurdles American star Rai Benjamin won the men's 400 meter hurdles final on Friday in the Stade de France.
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity, is a multinational state, and is home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide.According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.
Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лeв Давидович Трóцкий) was a Ukrainian-born ethnically-Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and