Trivia in Russia

National symbols

Flag: Horizontal tricolor flag of white, blue, and red

Emblem: State emblem featuring a double-headed eagle and St. George

Trivia & facts

• The Moscow Metro is known as "underground palaces" due to its luxurious decorations
• Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake, has water clarity exceeding 40 meters
• The Trans-Siberian Railway spans approximately 9,300 km, taking 7 days to complete
• Many families spend weekends at dachas, suburban cottages with vegetable gardens
• Russians love ice cream so much they eat it outdoors even in winter
• About 97% of the population has higher education, with one of the world's highest literacy rates
• Chess is a mandatory school subject in some regions, producing strong international competitors
• Russian culture includes calling people by their full patronymic name (surname + patronymic)
• The world's largest matryoshka doll stands 30 meters tall (Orenburg Oblast)
• There's a superstition that "in Russia, three knocks are for the dead, two knocks for the living"