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  2. Forestry in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Forestry activity in Khimki Forest near Moscow. Forestry in Russia is a set of industries related to wood harvesting and processing.It is one of the oldest sectors in the country's economy, Russia's timber industry is valued at $20 billion per year, and as at 2022, is the second largest producer of industrial roundwood. [1]

  3. Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture - Wikipedia

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    The Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture (Russian: Фатьяновская культура, romanized: Fatyanovskaya kul'tura) was a Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age culture within the wider Corded Ware complex which flourished in the forests of Russia from c. 2900 to 2050 BC.

  4. List of World Heritage Sites in Russia - Wikipedia

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    The temperate forests represent a unique meeting point between the taiga and the subtropics, and are home to species such as the Siberian tiger, Himalayan black bear, Siberian musk deer, wolverine, and sable. [22] Uvs Nuur Basin* Tuva: 2003 769rev; ix, x (natural) This transnational site comprises seven properties in Russia and five in Mongolia.

  5. Eurasian Steppe - Wikipedia

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    Russian Cossack and tea culture were strongly influenced by the culture of Asian nomadic peoples. [24] The Eurasian steppes play a major role in Eastern Europe history and the steppes are a subject of many Slavic as well as Russian folk-songs. [25] [26] [27]

  6. Volosovo culture - Wikipedia

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    The archaeological assemblage identified with this culture is related to finds from the middle Volga and Kama basin. [3] The Volosovo culture emerged sometime between the third and fourth millennium B.C. and lasted until the second millennium BC. [4] The people of the Volosovo culture has been described as forest foragers. [5] [6]

  7. Scandinavian and Russian taiga - Wikipedia

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    The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). [1] It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km 2 (832,800 sq mi) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ...

  8. Culture of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The forest plays a very important role in Russia's culture and history. The forest had a great influence on the characteristics of Russian people and their cultural creations. Many myths of Russian culture are closely intertwined with the forest.

  9. Russian wooden architecture - Wikipedia

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    The latter occupied the south of the forest zone and forest-steppe on the territory of modern Belarus, Ukraine, and the southwestern regions of Russia in the 5th-10th centuries (Praga, Korchak, Penkovka, Ipotești–Cândești, later Volyntsevo, and Romensko-Borshchev cultures). Among them, there were both log houses and frame (frame-pillar ...