History
A total of 24 of these ruled Russia from 1547 to 1917.
What is a Czar (Tsar)?
This is the name Russia adopted after the 1917 revolution.
What is the USSR?
This Russian river is the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga River?
These two cities are the largest cities in Russia.
What are Moscow and St. Petersburg?
This strait separates the United States from Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
Created in 1922, this union gave limited power to several republics.
What is the USSR? (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
***Bonus*** Who was the USSR created by?
This is the capital of Russia, where it's government is located.
***Bonus*** What is the name of fortress that represents Russian political power and influence?
This is the highest mountain in Europe.
What is Mt. Elbrus?
This mountain range divides Europe from Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
This peninsula extends out into the Pacific Ocean and contains 29 active volcanoes.
What is the Kamchatka Peninsula?
He was the second (and fourth!) president of post-Communist Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This is the name Russia and the other former Soviet Republics assumed after the fall of communism.
What is the CIS?
***Bonus*** What does CIS stand for?
This word describes the coniferous forests of Siberia.
What is the taiga?
This small republic broke away from Russia in 1991 and has caused trouble ever since.
What is Chechnya?
What is the name of the area in this region east of the Ural Mountains?
What is Siberia?
This leader of the Russian Revolution executed the last czar of Russia in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This is the name of the post World War II tension between Russia and America.
What is the Cold War?
The second most important river in Russia.
What is the Don River?
This railroad links Russia's European ports with its Pacific ports.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
This archipelago in the Arctic Ocean is a continuation of the Ural Mountain range.
What is Novaya Zemlya?
This successor of the first leader of the USSR led as dictator during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This is the new official name for the country of Russia.
What is the Russian Federation?
***Daily Double***
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The steppes (grasslands) in the Black Earth region of Russia have fertile soil that earned the area what nickname?
What is the "Breadbasket of Russia"?
Besides St. Petersburg, Russia only has this port on the Baltic Sea.
What is Kaliningrad?
A portion of these islands are undergoing a continuing dispute between Russia and Japan.
What are the Kuril Islands?