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Interesting Facts
100
The name of the low mountain range and the river that, with the Caspian Sea, separate the continents of Europe and Asia
What is Ural
100
The wide, slow-moving river that rises in the Valdai Hills and empties into the Caspian Sea, connected by canals to the Don River and the Baltic Sea
What is the Volga River
100
The treeless, barren land along the Arctic coast having a frigid, harsh climate
What is the tundra
100
Russia's largest city, serving as its capital and cultural center, and producing vehicles and textiles
What is Moscow
100
The federation formed from 11 of the 15 former republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.)
200
The high, rugged mountains stretching between the Black and Caspian seas that form the southern boundary between Europe and Asia
What is Caucasus Mountains
200
The world's largest lake, salty and below sea level, located in the dry sandy region south of the Urals
What is the Caspian Sea
200
Fertile grasslands extending from Ukraine to Siberia that are intensively farmed, especially with grains
What is the steppe
200
An ancient caravan city in Uzbekistan, now a center of the modern textile industry
What is Tashkent
200
The largest of the 11 republics in the C.I.S., containing two thirds of the land area and one half of the population
What is Russia
300
An unofficial region encompassing most of Asian Russia, known for its long, severe winters and rich mineral reserves.
What is Siberia
300
The southwestern body of water, bordered also by Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania, into which the Dnieper River flows
What is the Black Sea
300
The climatic region east of the Caspian Sea and along the south's mountainous border, where rivers are used to irrigate farmlands
What is desert
300
A Pacific port in southeast Siberia, kept open by icebreakers, that is a base for fishing fleets and is the eastern railroad terminal
What is Vladivostok
300
The three small republics on the Baltic Sea that declared their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
What is Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania
400
The type of land found in the western half of this region, broken only by the low Ural Mountains
What is a plain
400
The long river that flows from the southern mountains northward into the Kara Sea and that, with its tributary the Irtysh, drains the Siberian plain
What is the Ob river
400
The great coniferous forest belt from Norway to the eastern coast, where the climate is severe and soil poor
What is taiga
400
An important seaport and railroad and industrial center located on the Don River, near where it empties into teh Sea of Azov
What is Rostov
400
A southwestern lake, now shrunk to one third its former size through irrigation, around which much plant and animal life has been devastated
What is the Aral Sea
500
A long volcanic peninsula in the northeast that, with the Kuril Islands, encloses the Sea of Okhotsk.
What is Kamchatka Peninsula
500
The narrow body of water that joins the Bering Sea with the Arctic Ocean, and the point where Russia and the U.S. are only 50 miles apart.
What is the Bering Strait
500
The warm summer/cold winter type of climate in much of this region, becoming more extreme inland
What is continental
500
A rapidly growing city in western Siberia that is a center of transportation and industry
What is Novosibirsk
500
The year that the U.S.S.R. and Soviet Communism ceased to exist
What is 1991
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