From North America to the east, the first thing to see should be Alaska.

It's a very famous place.

First of all, the origin is interesting.

The Russians sold it to the beautiful country for half a million dollars, which should have been the most loss-making deal.

But now, the Russians may be able to raise their eyebrows. By the time Du Lengqiu arrived in Alaska, the prominent peninsula of North America was left with only a few tall snow-capped mountains, and the rest of the country had turned into the ocean.

And beyond the strait, continue to the east, and there is the legendary fighting nation - Russia.

Du Lengqiu does not have a good impression of Russia.

But he did a little research on the origin of this country, because he was fascinated by Russia and looked up information on it.

Russian history originated with the Eastern Slavs in the steppes of Eastern Europe, and the mixed-race Rus' people were the common ancestors of Russians and Belarusians and Ukrainians. Kievan Rus' was the first state established by the Eastern Slavs.

Beginning in 988, Orthodox Christianity was introduced from the Byzantine Empire to Kievan Rus', thus beginning a fusion of Byzantine and Slavic cultures, and eventually forming the Russian culture that would occupy the next 700 years.

It is also for this reason that Russia has always considered itself the successor of the Roman Empire.

Russia has also made it its mission to revive Rome and become the Holy Emperor of the Roman Empire. Over the years, he gradually expanded, eventually becoming the largest country on the Blue Star by land area.

It has to be said that this is a resilient people.

In 1283 Muscovy was officially established.

In 1547, the Grand Duke of Moscow, Ivan IV, was crowned Tsar and built the Kremlin, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually developed into the political, economic, cultural and religious center of Northeast Rus', leading other principalities to free themselves from Mongol-Tatar rule and make Russia an independent state.

In 1605, Godunov died suddenly, and Russia entered an "era of chaos". This period of turmoil did not finally end until Minin and Pozharsky of Nizhny Novgorod led the militia to drive the Polish invading army out of Moscow.

In 1613, the Romanov dynasty was founded.

In 1721, after his victory in the Great Northern War with the Kingdom of Sweden, Peter I was awarded the title of "Emperor of All Russia" by the Russian Senate, and Russia officially became the Russian Empire.

It reached its peak in the mid-to-late 18th century during the reign of Catherine II. Russia at the time of the reign of Alexander I participated in the all-European anti-French coalition against Napoleon and became the leader of the Holy League after the war, and thereafter for a long time played the role of "gendarme of Europe".

At its peak, it stretched from the Arctic Ocean in the north, the southern Black Sea in the south, the Baltic Sea in the west, and Alaska in the east, with a land area of about 22.8 million square kilometers.

The Russian Empire, one of the five traditional European powers and one of the world powers of the time, did not show the shortcomings of Russian serfdom until its defeat in the Crimean War in the middle of the XIX century.

As a result, Russia's economic development, social development, and industrialization lagged behind that of other European powers, although Alexander II carried out the reform of serfdom in Russia in 1861, but it was not thorough.

In 1904, the Imperialists lost again in the Russo-Japanese War, in which the imperialists fought for spheres of influence.

In August 1914, the politically turbulent Russian entered World War I, which led directly to the February Revolution in 1917, when Nicholas II signed an abdication and the Russian Empire was destroyed.

Well, there's no need to say much about the rest of the matter.

It can only be said that when an empire is strong, there are times when it declines, and there are no exceptions.

There is no empire in the world that will remain unchanged for a thousand years.

Although Russia is now weakened, it still has the largest land area, from the map, it is located at 30°~180°E, 50°~80°N, across Europe and Asia, located in the east of Europe and the north of the Asian continent, and most of its European territory is the Eastern European Plain. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland to the northwest. [16]

Its land neighbors are Norway and Finland to the northwest, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus to the west, Ukraine to the southwest, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to the south, and China's Heilongjiang Province, Mongolia and North Korea to the southeast. The coastline is 37,653 km long.

At the same time, Russia is also separated by the sea from Japan, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, and the United States.

Before the cataclysm, Russia had a land area of 17,098,200 square kilometers (13% of the water area, making it the largest country in the world. It is 9,000 kilometers long from east to west and spans 11 time zones, and 4,000 kilometers wide from north to south, spanning 4 climatic zones.

It was with such a strong territory that Russia was able to drag down Napoleon and Hitler. This allowed him to win two key wars and emerge as the winner.

The terrain of Russia is dominated by plains and plateaus. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, low in the west and high in the east.

The western part is almost entirely the Eastern European Plain, and to the east is the Ural Mountains, the Western Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, the Northern Siberian Lowlands and the Eastern Siberian Mountains, and the Pacific Coastal Mountains. To the southwest stands the Greater Caucasus Mountains, with the highest peak, Mount Elbrus, at 5,642 meters above sea level.

Such topography makes Russia's luck and misfortune all hidden in it.

Russia's fortune lies in the fact that it is bordered by the Mongolian Plateau to the south, which is so high that even if the sea level has risen by 800 meters, there is still a large area of land in the south.

Unfortunately, these plateaus are completely undeveloped land.

The traditionally rich regions of Russia, that is, the areas of concentration of the population, are in the west, that is, the European plate. This time, however, the rising waters of the Arctic Ocean have caused the entire western region to fall.

When Du Lengqiu arrived in Russia, what he saw was that the ice floe in the Arctic Ocean was floating everywhere, and some of the ice floe was still standing with polar bears, which was a unique sight.

Speaking of which, we have to say another unfortunate place for Russia.

The influx of cold currents in the Arctic Ocean has cooled down large areas of Russia. Those who fled froze to death in droves. It's not that they don't want to burn a fire to keep warm, but the bitter cold wind makes any kind of heating in the wild a complete luxury.

And Russia is lucky.

Fortunately, it was his great military power.

When all civilizations are destroyed by the cataclysm, it is natural that the big fist will take advantage. Countless Russians poured into the Mongolian steppe, and there was a fierce conflict with the original inhabitants.

The Mongolian ancestors also used to be wide, and in the era of Genghis Khan, iron hooves were everywhere. Russia was still a little brother at that time.

But now, it is not possible, and the Mongols are crushed by the destruction of the fighting nation.

However, Russia finally stopped at the border.

They did not dare to go any further south.

As a half-crippled Russia, it would never dare to provoke the dragon.

In any case, when Du Lengqiu flew over the grassland, he saw slash-and-burn cultivation and farmland planting on the grassland. It has to be said that the resilience of this nation deserves a thumbs up.

It's just that Du Lengqiu is not optimistic about this remnant country.

There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important is that their machinery manufacturing industry is located in the western region, and all of them are submerged in the sea. And rebuilding industrialization is not something that this remnant country can do.

And in the era of cataclysm, without heavy industry, it is a dead end.