Geography and Environment
What is also known as "black earth"?
chernozem soils
Eurasia is home to how many residents?
200 million residents
What is the name for the northern branch of the Indo-European ethnolinguistic family?
Slavic peoples
What year did the Soviet Union rise from the ashes of the Russian Empire?
1917
What are typical northern forest environments?
podzol soils
What is the key railroad passage to the Pacific?
Siberian Railroad
What form of Christianity did the Russians convert to?
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
What term is also known as "greater openness"?
glasnost
The vast European Plains dominate what areas?
Russian, Belarus, and Ukraine.
What is the collection of political prisons where inmates sometimes disappear or spend years removed from their families?
Gulag Archipelago
Belarusians
What were the members of the nation's military and security forces called?
Siloviki
What lake in Siberia was cleaned in order to show environmental awareness?
Lake Baikal
What are the two largest urban cities inside the Russian city?
Moscow and St. Petersburg
This term is given to the Slavic-speaking Christians who migrated to the region looking for freedom in ungoverned steppes.
Cossacks
True or false. The global economy multiplied after the downfall of the Soviet Union.
True
Since 2010, a growing number of commercial vessels have negotiated what?
The northern sea route.
What are large Soviet-era housing projects of the 1970's and 1980's called?
Mikrorayons
What is the Russian name for Uzbek bread baked in clay ovens?
Lepioshka
What do the women in Eurasia most commonly face?
human trafficking