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This is a form of the Greek alphabet used in Russia today.
What is Cyrillic?
This is the capital of Georgia.
What is Tbilisi?
The Caucasus region has lowlands along the shores of these bodies of water.
What are the Black Sea and Caspian Sea?
During the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader was this man.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This city is the primary seaport and fishing center in the Russian Far East.
What is Vladivostok?
This is the name of the city that the first Russian state centered around.
What is Kiev?
This is the body of water located off the coast of Siberia.
What is the Sea of Okhotsk?
Siberia is best described as this.
What is a vast area with a harsh climate.
This was the radical Communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Of the countries in the Caucasus Region, this is the only one that is landlocked.
What is Armenia?
These were the Mongol invaders who conquered Kiev in the 1200s.
Who were the Taters?
This is the longest single rail line in the world.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
This is Russia’s capital and largest city.
What is Moscow?
As czar, Ivan IV was such a cruel and savage ruler he became known as this.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
Under Stalin’s rule, people who spoke against the government were often sent to these labor camps.
What are gulags?
These are factories that produce metal ores.
What are smelters?
About 80 percent of Russians belong to this ethnic group.
What are the Slavs?
The Caucasus Mountains form a border between Russia and these two nations.
What are Georgia and Azerbaijan?
Azerbaijan’s economy is based on this.
What is oil?
This government position is appointed to run each government of the Caucasus countries today.
What is a prime minister?
These are Russian country houses.
What are dachas?
This is the name for a Russian emperor.
What is a czar?
These two continents meet in Russia’s Ural Mountains.
What are Europe and Asia?
The Russian Federation is governed by an elected president and a legislature called this.
What is the Federal Assembly?
The vast forest that covers much of Russia is called this.
What is the taiga?