People and Their Environment
What is the west/Western Russian/European Russia?
The type of economy Russia had during the Soviet Era.
What is a communist/command economy?
The title of rulers or emperors of Imperial Russia, from the 16th century until the Russian Revolution; these were absolute monarchs until the 12th century.
What/Who is a Czar/Tsar?
This person was the longest running female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796.
Who was Catherine the Great?
Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground.
What is permafrost?
The town in Northern Ukraine that was abandoned after an accident at a nuclear power plant.
What is Chernobyl?
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The 1980's-1990 Russian leader who introduced both economic, social, and political reforms.
Russian leader involved in tearing down the Berlin Wall.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This fortified complex is at the heart of Moscow, Russia's capital. It overlooks the Moskva River, Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Red Square.
What is the Moscow Kremlin/Kremlin?
Born in 1672, this Russian leader ruled the Tsardom of Russia (later called the Russian Empire) from 1682 until his death; he ruled with his half-brother for a while.
Who was Peter the Great?
The name of Europe's longest river that runs throughout the Western part of Russia?
What is the Volga?
The by-product of producing nuclear power.
What is nuclear waste?
The first communist leader of Russia.
Who was Vladimir LENIN?
The largest ethnic, group in Russia.
Who are the Slavic Russians?
The first Communist leader of Russia; he was a revolutionary; his name was an alias; born in the 19th century.
Who was Vladimir LENIN?
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Vast areas of grasslands that make for good farmland in Russia.
What is taiga?
The name of the longest railway system in the world; it follows the entire length of Russia and some parts of Asia.
What is The Trans Siberian Railway?
In the Soviet Union, private farms were collected by the government to produce what the government wanted. What is this process called?
What is collectivization?
The percentage of the population that are Russian speaking Slavs.
What is 80%?
A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
Who or what is a Bolshevik?
The vast Russian landscape that span across Northern Asia, with tundra, taiga, and mountain ranges, including the Ural Mountains, Lake Baikal and stretches to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Siberia?
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The current president of the Russian Federation; is not always completely honest in his political policies.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Russia has now moved from command/communist economy to what kind of economy?
What is free-enterprise economy?
The dominant religion in Russia today.
What is Orthodox?
The Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547; known for being feared; he died in 1584.
Who was Ivan the Terrible/Ivan III?
A "nickname" for Lake Baikal?
What is the "deepest lake in the world"?