Category: Countries

Discover more here www.ToiToi.ru, but oops !!! need to learn russian first.

Russia, the world’s largest country, obviously defies a “brief description,” as it covers 11 time zones, all climate zones except tropical, with land that stretches almost halfway around the planet.
In fact, by jet from Moscow, it takes about 8 hours to reach Vladivostok on its Pacific Ocean coast. If you were to take that trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, count on your journey taking four days minimum.

Russia has over 1,000 major cities, with 16 having a metro population of more than one million. The most populated cities are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg.

Moscow, the capital, with over 12 million (metro) residents, is the country’s major economic and political center – the seat of the President, the government and the State Duma.

The Palace of Culture and Science (Palac Kultury i Nauki) dominates the silhouette of Warsaw. It was constructed in 1952-1955 and ‘given’ by Stalin as a not returnable gift of friendship. At 231 m it is still the tallest structure in Poland.

For its construction a number of 40 million bricks was used and its room space is over 80.000 m3 but the resident’s of Warsaw don’t seem to particularly thrilled about the most prevalent structure on their city’s skyline.

I will be in Warsaw, Poland for the coming few days, I hope to bring you some cool postings from here. I might be visiting some other cities too.

Funny weather, I came from Beirut where it’s 30 degrees but Warsaw is 15 with rain!

I am staying here, cool hotel, Le Regina