Переделайте текст в Past Simple! Russia is the largest country in the world by area. Its area is about 17 million square kilometers. The population of Russia is 50 million people; 85% of them are Russian. Russia is a constitutional republic, the head of state is the president (Vladimir Putin). In Russia there are a lot of plains, mountains, forests, steppes, rivers and lakes. Here is the deepest lake in the world - Baikal, 1,600 meters deep. The climate in the northern part of Russia is arctic, in the central part is continental, in the southern part is subtropical. Russia is very rich in minerals and substances. It produces oil, natural gas, coal, iron, gold, copper and much more. In addition to industry, agriculture is well developed in Russia.
Russia was the largest country in the world by area. Its area was about 17 million square kilometers. The population of Russia was 50 million people; 85% of them are Russian. Russia was a constitutional republic, the head of state was the president (Vladimir Putin). In Russia there were a lot of plains, mountains, forests, steppes, rivers and lakes. Here was the deepest lake in the world - Baikal, 1,600 meters deep. The climate in the northern part of Russia was arctic, in the central part was continental, in the southern part was subtropical. Russia was very rich in minerals and substances. It produced oil, natural gas, coal, iron, gold, copper and much more. In addition to industry, agriculture was well developed in Russia.