•4. Write a note on how IT can help an organization in gaining a competitive advantage on its operations. •5. Briefly describe one way how ICT can be applied in each of the following areas. •6. What are the key applications of ICT that you will learn during this course unit? ​

Russia is a great country and only a lazy person does not know the history of its origin, development and formation. It covers an area of about 17 million kilometers. The country is located in the Northern hemisphere and most of the continent of Eurasia belongs to it. Russia shares borders with eighteen countries, including by sea. In the sea, we border the United States and Japan.

Russia has a large number of reservoirs, rivers, and lakes. If we talk about the number, this figure will be about 2.8 million rivers. The biggest rivers flowing on the territory of Russia: Volga, Yenisei, don, Ob and Lena. And only in our country there is the cleanest lake and the deepest on earth – lake Baikal. Russia has the largest sea in the world - the Caspian sea.

The capital of Russia is the city of Moscow, where the infrastructure is developed, the city is rich in its history.