A large part of Russia lies in the temperate climatic zone. The North of the country - on the Islands of the Arctic ocean and part of the land areas - is located in the Arctic and subarctic zones, South black sea coast of the Caucasus - in the tropics. The climate is almost everywhere continental, in the extreme North-West of the sea. In the Central and East-European plains, as a rule, moderate, in Siberia and in the far East is sharply continental, with the big differences of temperatures in th