People and Their Environment
Town in northern Ukraine abandoned after an accident at a nuclear power plant.
What is Chernobyl?
The type of economy Russia had during the Soviet Era.
What is a communist/command economy?
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A group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics.
What is an ethnic group?
This STATE was the union of two kingdoms (Scandinavians and East Slavs) in early Russian history. Name this state.
What is Kievan Rus?
Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground.
What is permafrost?
A town named for a great Tsar that wanted to westernize Russia, to keep up with the Europeans.
What is Saint. Petersburg?
The 1980's-1990 Russian leader who introduced both economic, social, and political reforms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The first Russians were from what ethnic group?
What is East Slavs?
In the 1400's a Prince of Muscovy overthrew the Mongols and made himself Tsar/Emperor of the Russian state.
Who is Ivan III?
Europe's longest river
What is the Volga?
The by-product of producing nuclear power.
What is nuclear waste?
The first communist leader of Russia.
Who was Vladimir LENIN?
The largest ethnic, group in Russia.
Who are the East Slavic Russians?
In the 18th century, a woman took power and greatly expanded the territory of Russia through wars.
Who is Catherine the Great?
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Russian term for the vast subarctic forest, mostly evergreens, that covers much of Russia and Siberia
What is taiga?
The name of the railway system that travels across the length of Russia?
What is The Trans Siberian Railway?
In the Soviet Union, private farms were collected by the government to produce what the government wanted. What is this process called?
What is collectivization?
The percentage of people who are ethnically Russian.
What is 80%?
Russia's monarchy collapsed during World War I. The Revolution of November 1917 saw Tsar Nicholas II and his family murdered. A political group, that called for worker control, then took over the government. They were called...
Who or what is a Bolshevik?
The vast, cold territory on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains.
What is Siberia?
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The current President of Russia?
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Russia has now moved from command/communist economy to what kind of economy?
What is free-enterprise economy?
The dominant religion in Russia today.
What is Russian Orthodox Christians?
The Soviet dictator that ruled his own people with terror, from 1929-1953.
Who was Josef Stalin?
A "nickname" for Lake Baikal?
What is the "deepest lake in the world"?