Russian Geography
a mountain range that separates European Russia from Asia Russia
What is the Ural Mountains?
Another word for grassland
What is Steppes
This connects Moscow with the city of Vladivostok on the Pacific
What is Trans-Siberian Railroad
a founding trading post that became a city
What is Kiev
overthrew the Golden Horde
Who was Ivan III
The Asian part of Russia
What is Siberia
permanently frozen soil
What is Permafrost
The last tsar
Who was Nicholas II
This city became a city of importance as the Eastern Orthodox Church moved there.
What is MoscowMoscow
The first Romanov emperor
Who was Peter the Great
This river forms the border between Russia and China
What is the Amur River
public works
What is Infrastructure
took control of Russia.
Who were Lenin and the Bolsheviks (workers party)
Where state offices, palaces and Churches are in Moscow.
What is the Kremlin
called himself tsar
Who was Ivan III
This lake holds 20% of the earth’s fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal
An emperor
What is a Tsar
a new political and social system was put in place in Russia .
What Communism
a cultural center
What is St. Petersburg
transformed St. Petersburg into a cultural center
Who was Catherine the Great
This peninsula has 160 volcanoes
What is Kamchatka Peninsula
Means Caesar
What is Tsar
took control in 1924.
Who Josef Stalin
forced labor camps
What is a Gulag
The overthrow of the Golden Horde
What was 1480