ditors nt on Russia! want to welcome ia. We are both Year School in Liverpool, g and living in Russia ogramme. the اان d 3 At Spotlight on Russia we get a lot of emails from children all over the country. Here are two of them written in completely different parts of Russia. Spotlight on Russia hears from two young Russians who live in very different parts of the country Hi. My name is Sergey Demidov and I'm 13 years old. I live in Yakutsk which is the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in northern Siberia. I love my city in the winter when the clean, crisp snow covers everything. The temperature often falls below -40 °C. so we wear fur caps and coats, thick woollen mittens and unty which are fur boots made of deer skin. Today it's bright and sunny. It's only -25°C outside, so I'm going skiing with my family for the first time this year. I go to a Russian school, but we have lessons in our native Yakut language as well. My father plays the khomus Teens a traditional Yakut instrument, and my mother does embroidery with beads. She also makes hats and her friends sometimes ask her to make outfits for our national summer holiday. It's called Yhyakh, and it's a great chance for me to perform a dance called Ohuokhai and to drink kumys - a national drink that's made from mare's milk. Hello, I'm Irina Smirnova. I'm 14 and I live in Kolomna - one of the biggest and most beautiful towns in the Moscow region Kolomna is over 800 years old and a lot of tourists come here t old Kremlin, the churches and monasteries, as well as th 1