Russian Vocabulary
A portable tent used by nomads in Central Asia.
What is a yurt?
He's been prime minister or president since 1991, causing concern Russia's returning to an authoritarian dictatorship.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
20% of the world's supply of fresh water is located in this lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
The main economic activity on the Northern EUropean Plain.
What is farming?
The region in Russia where 80% of Russians live.
What is the Northern European Plain?
Rich topsoil found in the Northern European Plain.
What is chernozem?
Dictator of the Soviet Union and ally to the US and Britain during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This region of Russia is very important because its many natural resources have increased industry and trade for Russia.
What is Siberia?
The large Russian biome where timber is the major industry.
What is the taiga?
The site of an industrial accident that destroyed a nuclear power plant.
What is Chernobyl?
Emperor of Russia
What is a czar?
Russian czar who helped modernize Russia and created a new capital in St. Petersburg.
Who is Peter the Great?
A region that is culturally different because it has acted as a crossroads for Europe and Asia.
What is TransCaucasia?
This is the biggest barrier Russia has for using the natural resources in Siberia.
What is a harsh climate and vast distances?
The reason the Aral sea dried up.
What is redirecting its major rivers to irrigate crops in the desert?
A large forest of coniferous trees in northern Russia.
What is the taiga?
Russian czar who led the Muscovites in rebellion against the Mongols to win their independence.
Who was Ivan the Great?
This Russian river is a major transportation route for Russia's industry but is also very polluted.
What is the Volga River?
This has helped populate Siberia and transport its natural resources.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
The main religion of Central Asia that has become a unifying force region.
What is Islam?
A vast treeless region near the Arctic where the subsoil is permanently frozen.
What is tundra?
This former country was responsible for the disaster at CHernobyl
What is the Soviet Union?
These mountains have warm continental winds on the western side and a cooler, drier climate on the eastern side.
What are the Ural mountains?
Russia's two natural resources that are its largest exports?
What are oil and natural gas?
Although not responsible for the disaster at Chernobyl, this country has been stuck with the consequences of it when the Soviet Union fell.
What is Ukraine?