Russian Physical Setting
The Dnieper and Don
Which two rivers flow into the Black Sea
This capital sits on the Dnieper river.
What is Kiev?
A name for the Swedish, or Rus, and intermarried with the Slavic people.
Who are the Varangians?
A faction of Russian communist representing industrial workers.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Separates European Russian from Siberia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
Baku that is home to 25% of the population.
What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Slavic speaking Christians that moved to Russia seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Cossacks?
Wrote the communist documents used to shape the views of the Bolsheviks. Communism is what replaced the Russian empire in 1917?
Who is Karl Marx?
A cold climate condition of unstable, seasonally frozen ground underlain by permanently frozen layer.
What is permafrost?
A key railroad passage to the Pacific that was completed in 1904.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
Who is Kim Kardashian?
Leader of the Russian communist who shaped the Soviet Union.
This type of fertile soil is also called, "Black Earth".
What is chernozem soils?
A 1,500 mile railroad that travels parallel to the Trans Siberian Railroad.
What is he Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM?
A state sponsored artistic movement devoted to depicting the workers heroically challenging nature or struggling against capitalism.
What is Socialist Realism?
This region on the Baltic Sea remains a part of Russia but is surrounded by EU and NATO countries.
What is Kaliningrad?
Typical of northern forest environments, this limits a regions ability to support a productive agricultural economy.
What is podzol soil?
A vast collection of political prisons in which inmates often disappeared.
What is the Gula Archipelago region?
The Russian name for Uzbek bread.
What is lepioshka?
The Soviet state controlled production targets and industrial output.
What is centralized economic planning?