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It’s no surprise that the brown bear was adopted as the symbol for Russia. No, not because it is hairy and sleeps throughout the winter, but because it is strong and lives in the Siberian Alps. Aside from the bear, Russian wildlife is alive and full with animals like the Siberian roe deer and the Siberian tiger which is the largest cat on Earth.
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Flying Helicopters
Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky may have been one step behind French inventor Etienne Oehmichen when it came to the first helicopter flight, but he outdid him eventually. Sikorsky beat the Frenchman’s 1-kilometer flight and built a flying machine that could travel for long periods of time – the predecessor to all the helicopters we have today.
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Flying Helicopters
