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2 unusual facts about European Russia


Triodia laetus

It was described by Staudinger in 1877, and is known from Central Russia and Armenia.

Triodia nubifer

It was described by Lederer in 1853, and is known from Central Russia and Kazakhstan.


Hornet

The common European hornet (Vespa crabro) is the best-known species, widely distributed in Europe (but is never found north of the 63rd parallel), in North China and also the only species introduced to North America, Ukraine and European Russia (except in extreme northern areas).

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Colin McEvedy (Atlas of World Population History, 1978) estimates the population of European Russia dropped from 7.5 million prior to the invasion to 7 million afterwards.

Verkhnyaya Vereya

The village largely burned down on July 29, 2010 due to the wildfires which broke down across European Russia.


see also

Andrei Nikolishin

His father, Vasyl Nikolishin, was a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, and was exiled from Ukraine to a Gulag forced labor coal mine in Vorkuta, the largest center of the camps in European Russia, for a period of 25 years.

Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Xinjiang, Mongolia.

Dmitry Kozak

He was previously regional development minister in the Russian cabinet headed by Viktor Zubkov and in 2004-2007 he served as presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and Southern European Russia).

Nyctiphruretus

Many fossils of the type species, N. acudens, were found well preserved near the Mezen River of European Russia in various stages of growth.

Volucella inflata

This fly is very local over much of Europe, being found from Sweden and northern Germany, the Pyrenees and northern Spain, Britain, eastwards through Central Europe into European Russia and the Caucasus, and the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.