Russia is located in the northern part of the Eurasian continent. The country is washed by the Arctic and Pacific oceans, the Caspian, Black, Baltic and Sea of ​​Azov. Russia has common borders with 18 countries. The area of ​​the territory is 17,098,246 sq. km.

Plains and lowlands make up more than 70% of the total area of ​​the country. The western regions are located on the East European Plain, where lowlands (Caspian, etc.) and uplands (Central Russian, Valdai, etc.) alternate. The Ural mountain system separates the East European Plain from the West Siberian Lowland.

Satellite map of Russia online

Satellite map of Russia. Russian cities from satellite
(This map allows you to explore roads and individual cities in various view modes. For a detailed study, the map can be dragged to different sides and increase)

Russia is rich in huge reserves of fresh water. The largest rivers include: Lena, Angara, Yenisei, Amur, Volga, Ob, Pechora and others with their numerous tributaries. Baikal is the largest freshwater lake.
The flora of Russia consists of 24,700 varieties of plants. Most plants are in the Caucasus (6000) and the Far East (until 2000). Forests own 40% of the territory.
Diverse animal world. It is represented by polar bears, tigers, leopards, wolves and a huge variety of other animal representatives.
Oil reserves have been explored practically throughout the country. The Siberian platform is rich in coal, potash and rock salts, gas and oil. The Kursk magnetic anomaly includes the largest iron ore deposits, on the Kola Peninsula - deposits of copper-nickel ores. There are a lot of iron ores, asbestos, talc, phosphorites, tungsten, molybdenum in Gorny Altai. The Chukotka region is rich in deposits of gold, tin, mercury, and tungsten.
Thanks to geographic location Russia belongs to different climatic zones: arctic, subarctic, temperate and partly subtropical. The average January temperature (for different regions) is indicated in the range from plus 6 to minus 50°C, in July - plus 1-25°C. Annual precipitation is 150-2000 mm. Permafrost is located on 65% of the country's territory (Siberia, the Far East).
The extreme south of the European part includes the mountains of the Greater Caucasus. The south of Siberia is occupied by Altai and Sayan. The northeastern part of the Far East and Siberia is rich in medium-altitude mountain ranges. There are volcanic territories on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.
The population of Russia by 2013 was 143 million people. Representatives of over 200 nationalities live in the country. Of these, Russians make up about 80%. The rest are Tatars, Chuvashs, Bashkirs, Ukrainians, Chechens, Mordovians, Belarusians, Yakuts and many others.
Russian peoples speak 100 or more languages ​​related to Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic language families. The most common spoken languages ​​are Russian (state), Belarusian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Tatar, German, Chuvash, Chechen and others.
Russia is home to the largest Orthodox population in the world - 75% of Russians. Other common denominations are: Islam, Buddhism, Judaism.

According to its state structure, Russia belongs to the federal republic of the presidential type. It consists of 83 subjects, including:
- regions - 46,
- republics - 21,
- edges - 9,
— cities of federal significance — 2,
— autonomous districts — 4,
- autonomous region - one.

Russia has a huge tourism potential. However, this area is still waiting for its development. On the this moment, in addition to the usual resort tourism, a new direction is developing, for example, rural tourism. Exist different kinds rural tourism: ethnographic, agricultural, ecological, educational, culinary (gastronomic), fishing, sports, adventure, educational, exotic, health and combined.

Rural tourism (agrarian tourism) is, first of all, nature, architectural monuments and historical places surrounding from all sides. Rooster singing in the morning and fresh milk for dinner, natural food and tourist routes abounding in beautiful views, holy springs, monasteries, deposits, the beauty of forests and fields, fishing on the lake, acquaintance with rural life, with traditional crafts, the opportunity to join the village environment and cultural heritage, hiking, cycling and horseback riding. In addition, rural tourism raises the role of local history.

This type of tourism flourishes in Europe, while in Russia it is still an incomprehensible curiosity, however, there are more and more people who want to relax in the country style.

Such a vacation away from the hustle and bustle of the city gives a huge boost of energy.

The frame shows the islands that make up Venice, and the Venetian lagoon that surrounds them. The image was taken on June 22, 2008 from the Ikonos-2 commercial satellite.

Pictured is the extraordinary landscape of the Tanezruft desert, one of the most uninhabited parts of the Sahara in southern Algeria. The frame was taken on June 24, 2009 from the advanced Japanese satellite ALOS.

Photo: JAXA, ESA

Fertile farmland in the Imperial Valley of Southern California, USA, captured July 4, 2010 from the 4-tonne ALOS Earth observation satellite.

Photo: ESA, 2009

A plankton bloom in the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Europe, captured by the Envisat satellite on August 19, 2009.

Photo: ESA

The Jurua River (a right tributary of the Amazon) meanders through the Amazonian rainforests in western Brazil. The image was composed of three frames received from the Envisat satellite on January 2, February 1 and March 3, 2012.

Photo: ESA

This image taken from the Envisat satellite shows snow clouds that cover the North Sea and rush down to the strait between Denmark (lower right corner) and Norway (top center). In the right upper corner a more massive cloud formation covers southeastern Norway and extends over Sweden. Part of the Danish peninsula Jutland is visible in the lower right corner.

Photo: KARI/ESA

The picture was taken on November 24, 2012 by the Kompsat-2 satellite. Before you is the Mangistau region in southwestern Kazakhstan, east of the Caspian Sea. The road network at the bottom left of the image is the Karakuduk oil field. Oil wells are marked with white squares in the web.

Photo: KARI/ESA

The Kompsat-2 satellite captured the hills of farmland in the northwestern United States.

Photo: European Space Agency

In this Envisat satellite image on foreground the delta of the Ganges River, located in southern Asia, is visible. It is also the largest delta in the world.

Photo: USGS/ESA

This artificially colored image was received on May 4, 2012 from the LandSat-5 satellite of the geological survey. Arable agricultural land in the US state of Kansas was divided into circles and rectangles due to the different types of irrigation systems used.

Photo: ESA

The massive iceberg in the center of the image broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland in August 2010. An Envisat satellite took this image on May 4, 2011. From the end of May to the end of June, more than 1,000 icebergs flow into the southern part of the Labrador Sea, which is why the place was called "Iceberg Alley".

Photo: JAXA, ESA

Deep in the Sahara desert, in southeast Libya, is the oasis of Al Jaf, which is shown in this image taken from the Japanese satellite ALOS. The city can be seen in the upper left corner. The two parallel lines are the runways of the Kufra airport.

Photo: KARI/ESA

The Korean satellite Kompsat-2 captured this image of southern and central Romania on January 2, 2013.

Photo: ESA

Most of Siberia, which is visible in the photo, lies beyond the Arctic Circle. It is also an area of ​​permafrost. In the lower left corner, the Yenisei River is highlighted, which flows north into the Kara Sea. Photo taken by Envisat satellite on March 5, 2012.

A photo.

Each user at least once was interested in how to find their home using aerial photographs.

Surprisingly, access via the Internet to this information is now completely free.

Thanks to the launch of commercial Earth observation, internet tools have become available to us that make it easy to see your home from space.

In our modern space age, there are more than 8,000 satellites that are constantly orbiting the Earth.

The vast majority of them receive data and transmit encoded .

Many of them are equipped with high power cameras. Just look up into the sky and you will definitely see a satellite trail after the satellite passes overhead.

But how can you access these satellite data and aerial photographs of your home?

Satellite images of the entire Earth

If you just want to look at satellite images of the entire planet, you have some simple solutions.

You can go to the NASA weather forecasters website. Every three hours, images taken by NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite appear on the site.

This is a release of images of the entire hemisphere of the planet Earth.

From these images, you can see the main changes in weather patterns affecting different hemispheres of the Earth.

The images are so accurate that you can see a specific place on Earth at the closest possible approximation.

In these photographs, the maximum realism is striking. The weather changes that you see in these pictures are happening on the planet right now.

If you don't want to watch videos, but just want to enjoy the extraordinary hemispheres of the Earth, these are the pictures you need.

Also on the Internet you can find amazing new satellite images of the Earth that come from the 3rd generation Meteosat spacecraft of the European Space Agency.

Approximation. Looking at satellite images of houses

If these weather satellite photos aren't enough for you, let's see how to zoom in close enough to see the houses from space.

To do this, we need the best tool on the market today, in my opinion, . All you need is a web browser and an internet connection.

On first launch, the user is presented with a satellite view over North America.

You can then zoom in or move the camera around the surface to see any place on Earth.

You can also enter the exact address you want to see.

Once you do this, you will have free access to satellite imagery of the house you entered. You can save the image or print it.

One more interesting tool, this is Google Earth. It can be accessed via this link: http://earth.google.com.

The main difference Google Maps and Google Earth is that you have to download and install the corresponding application on your local computer (they have a version for PC, Mac, Linux and even iPhone).

Once you have downloaded and installed , you can see a 3D view of the Earth that you can zoom in and out of.

You can also rotate a 3D model of our planet. You can enter your address and look at your home from above.

In Google Earth, the print function works much better than in Google Maps, since the printer is used for printing directly, and not through a web browser.

There are those among modern users who prefer not to use the products of this search engine leader, suspecting that the company's technical engineers are spying on them.

Microsoft's service used to be called MSN Maps, now the developers have changed the name to Bing Maps, completely updating the interface and functionality.

The Yahoo service service is called Yahoo Maps and it is very similar to Google Maps.

There is a big difference between these two services.

There is a cool app on the internet that lets you see both apps side by side.

Comparing them, you can understand that the latter are worked out in more detail.

And most cities are best viewed through this application.

Where do all these photos come from?

Google Maps and other popular mapping services are really just clients.

They, just like users, use satellite communications services, which actually download these photos from space.

There are several major service providers on the market, including Geoeye.

Geoeye's main competitors are Digitalglobe and Spot Image.

Each company has a fleet of satellites that they use to monitor the Earth.

Their technical capabilities make it possible to shoot tiny Earth objects.

The smallest object that has been recorded so far is about 45 cm (18 inches) in size.

In other words, a 45cm object will look like a single pixel in a photograph.

Private satellites that monitor our planet around the clock:

• GeoEye - 5 satellites: IKONOS, OrbView-2, OrbView-3, GeoEye-1, GeoEye-2 (in 2013).
• DigitalGlobe - 4 satellites: Early Bird 1, Quickbird, WorldView-1, Worldview-2
• Spot Image - 2 satellites: Spot 4, Spot 5

Each of these services allows customers to purchase satellite imagery directly, but the prices are extremely high: hundreds or even thousands of dollars for specific satellite images.

It is usually not possible to buy photos directly from the company that owns the satellite.

Most often in such cases, they use the services of international intermediaries.

Average users are better off sticking to free sources.

When you look at these amazing images from space, you may be surprised at the accuracy and detail. In fact, this is far from the most up-to-date data.

At the moment, in the public domain, you can find pictures of two years ago.

More up-to-date data is bought out by special services, intelligence organizations and never goes into free access.

But if you have a burning desire to receive up-to-date information, it is worth turning to other sources that will give you a live view of the Earth from space.

For example, you can access a live feed from NASA's International Space Station.

About 40% of the time, if you go to their site, you will be able to see a video of the Earth from the space station.

Another service called Urthecast launched live camera high resolution from the International Space Station in 2013 to broadcast video of the Earth from space.

Navigation

Google Maps is not just a popular program used by a company, but it is also one of the most popular maps used for hybrid web apps.

This makes Google Maps a very popular and versatile tool that is used in a variety of ways.

It is used in localization applications, in weather forecasting services.

Learning to use the app is easy. This will help you navigate various map-based mashups.

Although some of these hybrids change some of the default settings.

But knowing Google Maps will allow you to quickly adapt to small changes in software mapping.

Tip: while reading the instructions for using the application, try moving the maps to a separate browser window. You can practice in parallel by reading helpful tips.

Drag and Drop Control

The easiest way to navigate is with the drag and drop technique.

To do this, move the mouse cursor to the required areas of the map while holding down the left mouse button.

It is enough to simply move the clamped section in the direction in which you want it to rotate.

For example, if you want the map to move south, hold down the mouse button and move the mouse up.

The image will move to the north, thus revealing all cards in the south.

You can also center the map. You can click on the area you are interested in and drag it to the center.

Or, you can double click on the area. This will not only center the area you need, but also bring the image closer by one division.

To zoom in and out with the mouse, you can use the mouse wheel, which is located between the two buttons.

By moving the wheel, you change the scale. If you don't have a mouse wheel, you can zoom in and out using the navigation icons on the left side of Google Maps.

Understanding the Google Map Menu

At the top of the Google map are several buttons that change modes.

To understand how these buttons work, we'll take a quick look at each one.

Map. This button changes the appearance of maps to the original setting. This view is similar to a normal map.

It has a gray background. Small roads will be painted in White color, major roads in yellow, and major highways and highways in orange.

Satellite. This button draws Google Maps with a satellite overlay that allows you to see the area from above.

In this mode, you can zoom in until you can see individual houses.

terrain. This button highlights terrain differences.

It can be used to define flat or rocky terrain.

She can also give interesting view when zooming in mountainous areas.

These buttons are responsible for making the cards interact with the user:

Traffic jams. This button is very convenient for those who are often late due to slow moving traffic.

This view is designed to scale at street level, so you can see where traffic is.

Roads on which vehicles move freely are marked in green, while roads with heavy traffic will be highlighted in red.

street view. This is a very interesting and even fun way to use maps, this is the hardest mode.

This view displays the street as if you were standing in the center.

This is achieved by zooming in at street level and then dragging. The user feels like small man at the center of what is happening.

Please note that this display option will only work on streets that are highlighted in blue.

Menu navigation

You can also use the navigation menu on the left to manipulate the map. This provides an alternative to using drag-and-drop menus.

At the top of this menu are four arrows, one in each direction.

By clicking on the arrow, you move the map in that direction. By clicking on the button between these arrows, you will center by default.

Below these arrows are a plus sign and a minus sign.

These buttons allow you to zoom in and out. You can zoom in by clicking on the plus sign and zoom out by clicking on the minus sign.

You can also click on a part of the train track to increase the level.

Google Maps Keyboard Shortcuts

Google maps can also be moved using a keyboard shortcut.

To move north, use the up arrow key.

To move south, use the down arrow key.

To move west, use the left arrow key.

To move east, use the right arrow key.

Use the plus key to zoom in. To zoom out, use the minus key.

Navigating the maps is simple and very exciting. It is thanks to him that the user can look at our land with completely new eyes.

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public cadastral map, displayed with an overlay of satellite photos (as of 2015), is an all-Russian resource containing information about real estate. In general terms, this is a huge photograph of the country, assembled from many small photographs taken from space as part of Esri or Scanex projects. The image is composed taking into account the global coordinate system. The main purpose of the service is to provide open (free) access to cadastral information to an unlimited number of users - ordinary citizens, realtors, lawyers, employees of land surveying firms and others. Since the implementation of the project in 2010, the procedure for obtaining cadastral information has been significantly simplified.

Informative resource

Cadastral public map from a satellite - is the result of the work of many cadastral engineers who are in the service of Rosreestr. With its help, you can find an object on the ground and recognize it:

• 1 - cadastral number;

• 2 – address;

• 3 - area;

• 4 - cadastral value, which will be used for taxation;

• 5 - form of ownership.

If necessary, you can:

• 1 - get and print the plan land plot and the corresponding cadastral quarter;

• 2 - clarify the category of land, their boundaries and purpose;

• 3 - determine the location and boundary lines of neighboring objects;

• 4 - find out the data of the division of Rosreestr, which stores information about the object of interest;

• 5 - get information about capital construction projects. In addition to the above data, you can find out the number of storeys of the building, including underground, wall material, dates of commissioning and completion of construction, the name of the contractor and his TIN;

• 6 - send a request to the State Property Committee, USRR, get data about the object online.

Summary

A cadastral public map from a satellite is a unique tool that allows you to get an idea of ​​where the property of interest is located, what are its boundaries, and what objects it is adjacent to. The resource is needed to determine the location and status of land plots. This is very important in resolving disputes: for heirs, notaries and honest citizens who defend their rights.