What is the largest country in the world? Russia is the biggest country in the world. If we talk about the extreme points of the territory of the Russian Federation, they are located as follows:
- The western extreme point is located on the Baltic Spit, located near Kaliningrad. This spit is divided by the border between Poland and the Russian Federation. The southern part belongs to Poland, and the northern - to Russia. This is the extreme point in the West;
- Cape Chelyuskin - the northernmost continental point of Russia and Eurasia, located on the Taimyr Peninsula. Named in honor of the navigator of the northern expedition S.I. Chelyuskin, who first discovered this cape in 1742 and plotted it on a map;
- Mount Bazardyuzyu - the southern extreme point, located actually 3 kilometers from one of the peaks of the main ridge of the Caucasus Mountains, 4466 m high, on the border of the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan;
- Cape Dezhnev - the extreme point of the eastern continental part of Eurasia and Russia. It is located on the shores of the Bering Strait, on the Chukotka Peninsula. The cape was named in 1879 in honor of the Russian navigator and traveler Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev, who first rounded this cape in 1648;
- the most extreme point in the East - located a few kilometers from the Bering Strait, where several Diomede islands are located. One of them is the island of Ratmanov, owned by the Russian Federation. In good weather, the island of Kruzenshtern, belonging to the United States, located 4 km to the east, can be seen from it. Ratmanova Island is considered the extreme point of the East.
In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the southeastern part of the shore of Lake Vivi, is the center of Russia, called the geographical. At this point, a stele 7 m high was installed, on top of which there is a two-headed eagle and an eight-meter cross in memory of Sergius of Radonezh.
Russia, as the largest country in the world, is divided into several time zones, namely 9.
The boundaries of time zones (zones) correspond to the boundaries of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The largest country in the world includes 83 entities.
In 1908, the United Kingdom “invented” and introduced summer time to save energy - the clock moved 1 hour ahead. The same order was adopted by many other countries. In Russia and Europe, this time is called "summer", and in the US - "leading".
In 1917, the so-called maternity time was introduced in Russia by the Provisional Government . Later, until 1930, he was annually established by his decrees by the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. In 1930, summer time was not canceled by another decree and lasted for the winter. Since then, the country has lived on time, 1 hour ahead of the zone.
In April 1981, the Council of Ministers of the USSR again established daylight saving time, but now 1 hour was added not to maternity, but to standard time. The clock hands were switched to summer time on the last March Sunday, and on the last September Sunday - back to winter. In 1996, the Economic Commission for Europe recommended that Russia switch to winter time in October (last Sunday). Accordingly, in the fall and winter, Russian time was one hour ahead of the standard time, and in the spring and summer by two hours. The same procedure applies in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.
Since August 2011, by order of Russian President D. Medvedev and with the approval of the State Duma, the largest country in the world has been living in summertime.