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Russia is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It's the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanized country including 16 population centers with over a million inhabitants. Its capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city and its cultural capital.

Russia had a population of 144.7 million in 2021, growing from 142.8 million in 2010. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth most populous in the world. Yet with a population density of 8 inhabitants per square kilometer (21 inhabitants/sq. mi), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. The country is highly urbanized, with two-thirds of the population living in towns and cities. It's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate.

Russian is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. Russian is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Russia's climate, thanks to the remoteness of many of its areas from the sea, result in the dominance of the humid continental climate throughout most of the country, except for the tundra and the extreme southwest. Most of northwest Russia and Siberia have a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of northeast Siberia (mostly Sakha, where the coldest record low temperature of −71.2°C or −96.2°F was set for the country); with more moderate winters elsewhere. Russia's vast coastline along the Arctic Ocean and the Russian Arctic islands have a polar climate.

We currently have 3 cams from Russia, with the first 2 from St. Petersburg:

Nevskiy Avenue, St. Petersburg, Russia
(From Mobotix Webcams Russia)

Locations around St. Petersburg Russia
(From Mobotix Webcams Russia)

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. It's also Russia's former Imperial capital, and today the city has the nickname of being "the Northern Capital of Russia"

The area of Saint Petersburg city proper is 605.8 km2 (233.9 square miles). and Saint Petersburg proper (consisting of eighty-one municipal okrugs), and nine municipal towns, and twenty-one municipal settlements. Saint Petersburg is on the middle taiga (forest) lowlands along the shores of the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland, and islands of the river delta. The elevation of Saint Petersburg ranges from the sea level to its highest point of 175.9 m (577 ft). Part of the city's territory is no higher than 4 m (13 ft) above sea level, and has suffered from numerous floods.

Due to its northerly location at c. 60° N latitude the day length in Petersburg varies across seasons, ranging from 5 hours 53 minutes to 18 hours 50 minutes. You may notice on our two cams, that from mid-May to mid-July, twilight will last all night, and this is called the white nights.

Saint Petersburg is classified as a humid continental climate The average maximum temperature in July is 23°C (73°F), and the average minimum temperature in February is −8.5°C (16.7°F); an extreme temperature of 37.1°C (98.8°F) occurred in 2010. A winter minimum of −35.9°C (−32.6°F) was recorded in 1883. The average annual temperature is 5.8°C (42.4°F). From December to March there are 118 days on average with snow cover, which reaches an average snow depth of 19 cm (7.5 in) by February. The frost-free period in the city lasts on average for about 135 days.

White-tailed eagles in Lower Kama National Park, Tatarstan, Russia
(from orlan.beloxvost)

This park is located near the city of Izhevsk, on the west side of the Ural Mountains. Literally translated as "Lower Kama National Park", Nizhnyaya Kama is a national park in the center of Russia, located in Tukayevsky and Yelabuzhsky Districts of Tatarstan. Big mammals are widespread in the park and include moose, roe deer, boar, lynx, badger, eurasian beaver, and raccoon dog. There are several species of bats, some of which are rare. The park has over 190 species of birds, 6 species of reptiles, 10 species of amphibian, and 16 species of fish. The areas adjacent to Nizhnekamsk Reservoir are covered by forest. Forest are also present far from the shore, as isolated clusters. Among the trees, the most common are pine (65.4% of the forest area), birch (19%), and aspen (6%).

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