Physical Geography
This is the world’s largest country by land area.
What is Russia?
This is Russia’s capital city.
What is Moscow?
This is the most widely practiced religion in Russia.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
The ruler of Russia before the 1917 revolution was called this.
revolution was called this.What is a Tsar (or Czar)?
Russia is one of the world’s top producers of this fossil fuel.
What is oil (or natural gas)?
This long mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
These were used in Soviet Russia as camps and often reflect present Russian Prisons
What is a Gulag
This is Russia's most recent holiday, which occurs on June 12.
What is Russian Independence Day?
This revolution in 1917 ended centuries of monarchy.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Much of Russia’s farmland is found in this fertile region between the Black and Caspian Seas.
What is the steppe?
The vast Region between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean
What is Siberia?
This Landmark can be found in Moscow's Red Square, and is considered a symbol of Russia
This famous composer wrote the “Nutcracker Suite.”
Who is Pyotr (Peter) Tchaikovsky?
After the revolution, Russia became part of this larger nation.
What is the Soviet Union?
This nuclear disaster in nearby Ukraine (then part of the USSR) affected Russian territory too.
What is Chernobyl?
This river, the longest in Europe, flows through central Russia.
What is the Volga River?
This famous lake is the deepest in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
What is a Faberge egg?
This leader introduced reforms called Perestroika and Glasnost in the 1980s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The taiga forest mainly consists of these types of trees.
What are coniferous (pine) trees?
Russia has this type of climate over much of its land: long, cold winters and short summers.
What is a subarctic climate?
This city on the Neva River was built by Peter the Great as a “window to the West.”
What is St. Petersburg?
Russia celebrates this winter holiday on January 7th instead of December 25th.
What is Orthodox Christmas?
Russia’s current government is this type of system, led by a president and prime minister.
What is a federal semi-presidential republic?
One major challenge facing Russia’s environment is the melting of this frozen ground layer.
What is permafrost?