COUNTRY

Official Website:
http://www.gov.ru/

Population:
145,166,731 (2002 census)

Founding Date:
862 AD

• Tsar of Russia
• President of Russia
• Prime Minister of Russia
• Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
• Russian Minister
• Member of the Russian Duma
• Russian Official
• Russian Ambassador
• US Ambassador to Russia

• Russian Revolution of 1905
• Russian Revolution
• Russian Culture
• Russian Politics
• Russian Business

CITIES

City	Type	Population
Moscow, Russia	--	11,273,400
St. Petersburg, Russia	--	4,661,219
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	--	1,334,249
Samara, Russia	--	1,157,880
Perm, Russia	city	1,001,653
Simbirsk, Russia	--	635,600
Vladivostok, Russia	--	591,800
Kaliningrad, Russia	--	415,100
Tikhvin, Russia	--	67,200
Vyshny Volochyok, Russia	--	56,405

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sergei Averintsev	Author	10-Dec-1937	21-Feb-2004	Myth of the Peoples of the World
Edward Ludwig	Film Director	7-Oct-1898	20-Aug-1982	The Fighting Seabees
Eugene Mirman	Actor	24-Jul-1974		Eugene on Flight of the Conchords
Leon Mirsky	Mathematician	19-Dec-1918	1-Dec-1983	Transversal Theory
Alexey Pajitnov	Computer Programmer	c. 1956		Helped invent Tetris
Alexander M. Poniatoff	Business	1892	1980	Founder of Ampex
Sophie Tucker	Singer	13-Jan-1884	9-Feb-1966	Some of These Days
Petr Ufimtsev	Physicist	8-Jul-1931		Physical Theory of Diffraction

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