Russia Physical Geography
What is the vast expanse of land known for extremely cold temperatures, and permafrost
What is Siberia?
What is the Russian term for its emperor?
What is Tsar?
Most Russians worshiped Christianity until 1917 when The Bolshevik Revolution happened. Leaders then wanted people to convert to this belief of religion.
What is Atheism?
He is the current president of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Individuals compete with each other
What is capitalism?
This is the dividing line between Europe and Asia
What are The Ural Mountains?
During the Cold War, the USSR launched a satellite into space called Sputnik in 1957. This sparked a competition between the USSR and USA known as...
What is the Space Race?
In Russia the time period between 1945-1991 until the fall of the Berlin Wall is known as?
What is The Cold War?
He is the man took power after Vladimir Lenin died and who also killed 20 million of his own Russian people.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Individuals do not have private property
What is communism?
The world’s largest, deepest, and oldest freshwater inland body of water is___________.
What is Lake Baikal?
The radical Communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
This railway system connects Moscow to Eastern Russia and is the longest railway line in the world.
What is Trans-Siberian Railway?
This Tsar was known for modernizing Russia, expanding boundaries, building up military, and moving the capital city to St. Petersburg.
Who was Peter The Great?
Free enterprise
What is capitalism?
Russia is spread across the continents of _______ and _______.
What is Europe and Asia?
The name of the nuclear power plant where a radioactive disaster occurred in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
The Capital of Russia
What is Moscow?
He was the last Czar of Russia.
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
All basic needs are met (a positive of this economic system)
What is communism?
This river is Europe's longest river and runs from central Russia to the Caspian Sea in southern Russia.
What is the Volga River?
The letters USSR stand for what?
What is The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
He is known as the greatest musical composer in Russian history.
Who was Peter Tchaikovsky?
The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who later started up the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Government regulates the economy to create fairness (Ex: minimum wage, redistribution of wealth)
What is socialism?