Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему The sights of Russia

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II Великая) was the most famous and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67.

The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg. It is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. It was founded in 1754 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852.

constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics. It is located in the Adler City District of Sochi on the Black Sea. The main Olympic Stadium used for the Games' ceremonies, such as hockey, figure skating, curling, and speed skating. It also houses training facilities, the Olympic Village, the international broadcasting centre, and other entertainments.

in southern Siberia. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world. It is considered among the world's clearest lakes and is considered the world's oldest lake — at 25 million years.


Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of which exist nowhere else in the world. The lake was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Lake Baikal 

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The Motherland Calls is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin.

It was declared the largest statue in the world in 1967. Today, it is the tallest statue of a woman in the world.

мост) across the Golden Horn in Vladivostok. It was built in preparation for the 2012 APEC summit (саммита АТЭС). Construction of the bridge began on the 25th of July in 2008 and the bridge was officially opened on the 11th of August in 2012.