Physical Geography
Demographics
History
Contemporary
Miscellaneous
100
What body of water contains the largest supply of unfrozen fresh water?
Lake Baikal
100
What language is spoken by the majority of people in this region?
Russian
100
Who was the Czar that defeated the Mongols
Ivan the Great
100
What type of economy did the soviet Union have?
Command Economy
100
What is the name of the famous Russian railroad?
Trans-Siberian Railroad
200
What physical feature contains most of Russia's natural resources?
Ural Mountains
200
What is the population of Russia?
140 million
200
Who was the vicious Soviet leader that carried out the Great Purge?
Joseph Stalin
200
What province recently rebelled against Russia?
Chechnya
200
What is the Soviet policy of sending ethnic Russians to territories under their control?
Russification
300
How many time zones does Russia cross?
Nine
300
What is TFR, and what is Russia's number?
Total Fertility Rate, 1.3
300
Who came up with the ideology known as Communism?
Karl Marx
300
What year did the Soviet Union collapse?
1991
300
Who was the first Soviet leader?
Vladimir Lenin
400
What percent of this regions people live in the Northern European plain?
75%
400
What is Pastoralism and in what area is it common?
Subsistence livestock herding, central Asia
400
What famous city was built by Peter the great and why was its location important? (must be specific!)
St. Petersburg, Gave Russia access to the Baltic Sea
400
What country did Russia invade in the 1980's?
Afghanistan
400
What is the name of the famous nuclear reactor meltdown that occurred in 1986, and in what country was it?
Chernobyl, Ukraine
500
What country is to the north of the Aral sea, which is to the south, and which has the money to clean it up?
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
500
Name the three primary groups in this region and name three countries for each group whose people are considered members.
Slavs- Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Turkic- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Caucasian- Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
500
Who was the last Soviet leader and what did he do?
Gorbachev, reformed the government
500
Name the Russian president who undermined the Russian democracy and name two ways he did it?
Vladimir Putin, named him self prime minister, and hand picked the new president
500
What is the name of the province of Russia that is not connected to Russia, and has the Russian government worried they may want to gain independence?
Kaliningrad
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