People
Introduced the Russians to Eastern Orthodoxy
Vladimir the Saint
"The Roof of the World"
Pamir Mountains
coldest city in the world
Yakutsk
his writings promoted Communisim
Karl Marx
deepest freshwater lake in the world
Lake Baikal
leader of the first Communist state in history
Vladimir Lenin
"Land of the Free"
Uzbekistan
world's largest landmass
Eurasia
first true national leader of a united Russia
Ivan III
world's largest landlocked country
Kazakhstan
last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
"one of the majority"
Bolshevik
desert that covers about 70% of Turkmenistan
Karakum
Soviet leader who supported the building of the Berlin Wall
the hemisphere Australia is in
Eastern
last leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Switzerland of Central Asia"
Kyrgyzstan
world's largest region of continuously level land
West Siberian Plain
Russian president whose goal was to reclaim all land that had once been part of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Putin
the hemisphere Europe is in
Eastern
Soviet leader during the Great Purge
Joseph Stalin
"sleeping land"
Siberia
Europe's longest river
Volga River
his plan was to restructure the Soviet Union's business and economy (perestroika)
Gorbachev
the hemisphere North America is in
Western