This mountain range separates the Asian half of Russia with the European half.
What are the Urals?
100
This Russian fortress in Moscow contains Russia's government headquarters.
What is the Kremlin?
100
The Russian equivalent for states is called
What are oblasts?
200
The deepest lake in the world is located in Russia's Asian side is
What is Lake Baykal?
200
The City that has the White Nights and is a replica of Venice is
What is St. Petersburg?
200
What is the tallest mountain in the Caucasus range?
What is Mount Elbrus?
200
For over 1500 years, Russians were ruled by these leaders.
What are czars or tsars?
200
This structure began in Moscow and ends in Vladivostok
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
300
The Caucasus Mountains are sandwiched between these two bodies of water.
What are the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
300
This city is known for its submarine graveyard and deep, warm water port that does not ice over.
What is Murmansk?
300
The Kuril islands extend from this peninsula.
What is Kamchatka?
300
The Russian houses of Congress are called by this four letter word.
What is the DUMA?
300
The term for a Russian beef soup made with beets that is sometimes eaten cold is?
What is Borscht?
400
What river runs through Russia's heartland and has a canal that connects to the Volga River?
What is the Don River?
400
This city has Russia's largest naval fleet for the Pacific Ocean.
What is Vladivostok?
400
The Russian-Asian city of Yakutsk sits on the Lena River and runs through this plateau.
What is the Central Siberian Plateau?
400
Vladimir Lenin started this political party that literally means the Majority party, but it was actually the minority Party.
What is the Bolshevik Party?
400
President Gorbachev presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union in what year?
What is 1991
500
This canal that runs through St. Petersburg connects the White Sea with the Baltic Sea is called?
What is White Sea-Baltic Canal?
500
This city sits along the Volga River and was formerly known as Stalingrad.
What is Volgograd?
500
This region is where many Russian dissidents were banished to the gulags, because it is remote and its territory extends north of the Arctic Circle.
What is Siberia?
500
He is the current leader of Russia. President ____________.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
500
This term became a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union prior to the Fall of the USSR.