Geography
This mountain range separates European Russia from Siberian Russia
What is the Ural Mountains?
Title held by the ruler of Russia before the 1917 revoultion.
What is Czar?
During the Soviet era, the government promoted this non-belief in religion/God?
What is atheism?
Where scare products are bought and sold illegally, typically at inflated prices.
What is the black market?
Two of the three educational subjects focused on during the Soviet Era.
What are math, science, and engineering?
The longest river in Europe and important source of hydroelectric power.
What is the Volga River?
Warlike steppe peoples that invaded and destroyed the Kievan Rus in 1200s C.E.
Who are the Mongols?
The majority of the Russian population lives west of this mountain range.
What are the Ural mountains?
Type of economy set up by the Soviet government where the government controls key industries and makes all major economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
Family type that consists of two parents and their children living in the same household. Becoming more popular in Russia.
What is the nuclear family?
The deepest lake in the world, found in southern Siberia.
What is Lake Baikal?
Ukrainian town where a nuclear power plant accident occurred in 1986
What is Chernobyl?
The full-time employment of women has led to a ________ birth-rate in Russia.
What is decreasing/declining?
Russia is the world leader in the production of this natural resource.
What is nickel?
Russian cities saw population ______ after the downfall of the Soviet Union.
What is increase?
A rich, black topsoil found in the southern regions of Russia.
What is chernozem?
Russian Czar who helped modernize Russia and it's military, established the city of St. Petersburg.
Who is Peter the Great (Peter I)?
Practice during the Soviet Era where the government limited artistic expression.
What is Socialist Realism?
Ukraine's major economic industry.
What is agriculture?
Gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet government and economy.
What is Perestroika?
The tallest mountain in Europe, found in the Caucasus mountain range.
What is mount Elbrus?
First leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Due to a shortage in housing, especially after WWII, the Soviet government erected these easily produced housing complexes.
What are apartment blocks?
Huge fishing ships that tow very large nets, can catch up to 40 tons of fish per day.
What are supertrawlers?
Gorbachev's social reform policy that aimed to provide openness in areas of politics, social issues, and media.
What is glasnost?