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People of Russia
Space and Russia
100

Russia is what direction of Europe

What is East

100

Country homes owned by wealthy Russians

What is dachas

100

What year did Germany invade the Soviet Union

What is 1941

100

Ancestors of Modern Russians

What is Slavs

100

Why is it called the "international" space station?

What is Russia and the United States both have astronauts who go there

200

Russia is what direction of Asia

What is North

200

A group of Communist countries that included most of Eastern Europe

What is Warsaw Pact

200

What year did Mikhail Gorbachev become the Soviet Leader

What is 1985

200

German political thinker

Who is Karl Marx

200

What is getting added to the space station?

What is two more labs

300

St. Petersburg is what direction of Moscow

What is North

What is North West

300

Famous Ballet company in St. Petersburg

What is Kirov

300

What is the primary means of transportation in Russia in Soviet era?

What is railroads

300

Russia's largest ethnic group

What is Slavs

300

Two spacewalking astronauts successfully rewired half of the international space station

What did the astronauts do at the space station?

What is rewiring

400

What body of water became part of Russia between 1533 and 1689?

What is Lake Baikal

400

What policy aimed to rebuild the Soviet economy?

What is perestroika

400

What is the major religion in Russia today?

What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity

400

Composer of The Firebird Suite

Who is Igor Stravinsky

400

What is the name of the program involved with space exploration?

What is NASA

500

Kievan Rus prospered from river trade between Scandinavia and what empire?

What is the Byzantine Empire.

500

What Russian czar freed the serfs

What is Czar Alexander II

500

What does U.S.S.R stand for

What is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
500

What ruler overthrew Mongol rule

What is Ivan III

500

Where would the powering down of the space station come from?

What is NASA flight controllers from the ground