Geo Features
number of time zones that cover Russia.
What is 11?
one-fifth of the world's ____ are in Russia, producing products like paper and lumber.
What are forests?
two countries involved in a rivalry after the end of World War II.
What is the U.S. and USSR?
The abbreviation for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
What is USSR or CCCP?
Most Russians and Eastern Europeans speak a language related to _____.
What is Slavic?
longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga?
natural energy resources found in abundance in Siberia.
What is oil and natural gas?
type of conflict that might involve indirect but not direct confrontation between two or more countries.
What is a cold war?
He was the last leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Gorbachev?
this is what happens when prices rise and was the case right after the Soviet Union fell.
What is inflation?
a large flat landscape covered with grasses.
What is steppe?
agricultural region between the Baltic and Black Seas.
What is the fertile triangle?
a defensive alliance of countries allied to the U.S. established after World War II.
What is NATO?
It means openness and dealt with political reforms to allow more freedom of speech in the Soviet Union of the 1980s.
What was glastnost?
the name for a person in post-Soviet Russia who became wealthy buying formerly government property and uses that wealth to influence the government.
What is an oligarch?
large, flat region stretching from Western Europe into Western Russia.
What is the Northern European Plain?
amount of Russia's land suitable for agriculture.
What is one-sixth?
a defensive alliance of countries allied to the USSR established after the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
It means restructuring and dealt with reforming the Soviet economy in the 1980s.
What was perestroika?
Russia's current leader.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
the climate of most of Western Russia, with mild summers and long, cold winters.
What is Humid Continental or Continental?
an estimate of the total amount of a resource in an area.
What is a reserve?
the crisis that involved the U.S. and USSR and the latter's placing nuclear missiles 90 miles from Florida.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Vladimir Putin was an officer of the ___, a secret spy agency of the USSR.
What is the KGB?
the Russian city with the largest population.
What is Moscow?