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Novosibirsk is the third - most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St . Petersburg . It is the most populous city in Asian Russia , with a population of 1 , 473 , 754 as of the 2010 Census . It is the administrative ___MASK49___ of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District . The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley , near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant , and occupies an area of . Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each ___MASK6___ of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales and the eleventh - largest city in the United Kingdom . The city is the country ' s chief commercial ___MASK91___ , the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions , the Welsh national media , and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales . The unitary authority area ' s mid - 2011 population was estimated to be 346 , 100 , while the population of the Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 861 , 400 in 2009 . The Cardiff metropolitan area makes up over a third of the total population of Wales , with a mid - 2011 population estimate of about 1 , 100 , 000 people . Cardiff is a significant tourist ___MASK91___ and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18 . 3 million visitors in 2010 . In 2011 , Cardiff was ranked sixth in the world in National Geographic ' s alternative tourist destinations . Marina Kuzina ( born 19 July 1985 in Moscow ) is a Russian basketball player who competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics , winning the bronze medal . She was also part of the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian team who missed out on a bronze medal , losing the bronze medal match 74 - 83 to Australia . She is 6ft 5in tall . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the ___MASK6___ of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . The 2012 Summer Olympics , formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012 , was a major international multi - sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games , as governed by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ). It took place in London and to a lesser extent across the United Kingdom from 25 July to 12 August 2012 . The first event , the group stage in women ' s football began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , followed by the opening ceremonies on 27 July . 10 , 768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) participated .