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West Volochek has extensive <Vyshnevolotskoe Reservoir. This is the oldest reservoir in Russia (not counting the pond Alapaevsk Plant in the Urals), and originally it was called the factory (from plants Serdyukov, stood on the shore). It has created more Serdyukov, originally an area of only 9 km2. However, this reservoir was the most important part of the project Serdyukov, as it maintained a constant level of water in Tsne and Tveretskom channel, allowing the courts to pass Vyshnevolotsky waterway in mezhen. When Osip Ivanovich Koritskom Reservoir was expanded to 68 km2 (then was poured earthen dam near the Moscow-Petersburg Road, Route defended against flooding), and the last of its reconstruction was carried out in the 1930's, when the reservoir reached the 109 km2 area, becoming a huge reservoir of fresh water. Then, a few kilometers south of Volochek was dug Novo Tveretsky channel length of 5 kilometers, in which water Tsny and Msty supplied in Tvertsu, and thence through the channel of the Volga and Moscow, the capital, providing 8% of water consumed in Moscow.
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
