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I built St. Petersburg and moved the capital from Moscow.
Who is Peter the Great?
100
The Kievan Rus civilization was built by early groups of people called?
Who were the Slavs?
100
People freely elect their leaders in a ____________.
What is a democracy?
100
The Trans-Siberian Railroad connects Moscow with _______________.
What is Vladivostok?
200
I tried to make Russian modern and more like Europe.
Who is Catherine the Great?
200
The Russian victory over Napoleon.
What is the 1812 Overture?
200
In this type of government power is shared between the nation and the states.
What is federal republic?
200
The Kievan Rus civilization was built by early groups of _____________.
Who are the Slavs?
300
I drove the Mongols out of Moscovy and became the first Czar of Russia.
Who is Ivan III?
300
What ethnic group is trying to become independent from Russia?
Who are the Chechens?
300
People, not the government, run businesses in this type of government.
Free market economy
300
The leader who set up a communist state in 1917 was _____________.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
400
My name is Ivan IV and I was not a very good ruler of Russia. The people nicknamed me _____________.
Who is Ivan the terrible?
400
Controlled atomic reactions create _______________.
What is Nuclear energy?
400
This group made up the majority of the Russian population and were mostly farmers.
Who were serfs?
400
During WWII the Soviet Union fought on the side of the _______________.
What is the United States and Great Britain?
500
I was known as the "Czar-Liberator."
Who is Alexander II?
500
The ___________________ is the most popular church in Russia.
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
500
This was an alphabet developed by St. Cyril to help the Slavs read and write their own language, according to legend.
What is Cyrillic?
500
In communism the ____________ controls businesses.
What is government?