Anniversary

Birthday's
Don                              August 17
Laura                            June 17

Nathan                          January 12, 1983

Key facts about Couriers for CHRIST:

Population:  146,001,176 (July 2000 est.)

Ethnic groups:  Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%

Religions:  Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other

Languages:  Russian

Area: 
total: 17,075,200 sq km
land: 16,995,800 sq km
water: 79,400 sq km

Area - comparative:  slightly less than 1.8 times the size of the US

Climate:  ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast

Terrain:  broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions