The world language from the largest country in the world

Welcome! Or as they say in Russia – Добро́ пожа́ловать!
With more than 17,000,000 km², Russia is by far the largest country in the world in terms of area. It is almost twice the size of Canada, the world's second largest country, which, with an area of 10,000,000 km², is almost as large as all European countries put together.

Russian (ру́сский язы́к) is a Slavic language, one of the most spoken languages in the world and the native language of more than 165 million people. Together with those who speak Russian as a second or foreign language, it is spoken by over 275 million people worldwide. The Russian language is not only the official language in Russia, but also in countries such as Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.

Unlike Western European languages, which are written in the Latin alphabet, Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters (10 vowels, 21 consonants as well as hard and soft signs):
А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Ъ Ю, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я

Russian is the original language of many important works of world literature. These include literary classics such as War and Peace or Anna Karenina, probably the most famous works of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, or Crime and Punishment, one of the major works of the important Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.