PRIMORYE.
1.Primorye is located in the East of the Eurasian continent .
2.Primorye is washed by the waters of the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean .
3.Our native land is a part of the Russian Federation and has the territory of 1659 thousand square km.
4.Three-fourth of the territory is covered with the Sikhote- Alin mountain Range.
5.Two- thirds occupied by the Ussuri Taiga is a real botanical garden.
6.There are about 50 small and large rivers there , but the Ussuri river , the Bikin and the Rasdolnaya rivers are the biggest and the deepest of them.
7.Primorye ‘ s flora and fauna represent a combination of plants and animals.
8.Cedar ,the king of taiga , and legendary ginseng, tigers, deer and many other animals, insects and birds have made the Ussuri taiga famous to naturalists.
9.Primorye is rich in mineral resources: TIN AND LEAD , ZINC and silver , coal and iron, marble and many others.
10.The first inhabitants appeared in Primorye about 45-50 thousand years ago .
11.Today the population consists of Russian and Ukrainian people as well as of people of many other nationalities .
12.The largest cities of the region are Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Ussuriisk and Artyom .
13.Thereare many lakes on the territory of Primorye. One of them is Khanka .
14.A matter of proud is springs of mineral water near settlements of Shmakovka, Lastochka and Chistovodnoye.
15.The climate of Primorye is very particular. It is rather mild .
16. We haven’t very cold winters and very warm summers.
