Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Natural Environments
Russia History & Culture
The Region Today
100
These are ships that can break up ice in frozen waterway.
What are icebreakers?
100
This means to resign.
What is abdicate?
100
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus make up about this percent of the world’s land area...
What is 12%?
100
Slavic people from Russia originate from these countries or areas...
What is Mongolia, China, and Central Asia?
100
This involves manufacturing based on metals
What is heavy industry?
200
This is a forest of mainly evergreen trees that covers half of Russia.
What is a taiga?
200
This is a system in which a country tries to produce ll the goods that it needs.
What is autarky?
200
Russia is so large that it takes up two continents...the name of the Russian continent is known as
What is Eurasia?
200
This city was founded by merchants
What is Moscow?
200
These are factories that process metal ores
What are smelters?
300
This is a Latin word for emperor or king.
What is czar?
300
This a network of labor prison camps in the Soviet Union.
What are gulags?
300
This is another name for frozen soil and keeps from building in Siberia.
What is permafrost?
300
Ivan IV gave him self this title and later become known as this as well...
What is crowned himself czar and became known as Ivan the terrible?
300
This city in Russia is called or known as the Venice of the North...
What is St. Petersburg?
400
These are poor peasant farmers bound to the land
What are serfs?
400
This is a zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts.
What is a shatter belt?
400
This is the deepest lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
400
This group of people overthrew the republic in Russia and killed czar Nicholas II and his family to gain power...
Who are the Bolsheviks?
400
The region is mainly this religion
What is eastern orthodox Christianity?
500
These are local governing bodies of the Soviet Union.
What are soviets?
500
This is an industry that focuses on the production of consumer goods. Examples includes clothing or housewares.
What is light industry?
500
The eastern half of Russia is called.
What is Siberia?
500
He led the Bolsheviks in their revolution and became leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
500
This is the percent of the population that lives in Europe Russia.
What is 80%?
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