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A region where temperature is always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow.
What is tundra?
100
An emperor of Russia.
What is czar?
100
The currency of Russia.
What is ruble?
100
Russia's capital.
What is Moscow?
100
An economy system that is controlled by a single central government.
What is command economy?
200
Thinly scattered coniferous forests found in Europe and Asia.
What is taiga?
200
To surrender one's office, throne, or authority.
What is abdicate?
200
The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels.
What is black market?
200
Russia's second biggest city, close to Estonia.
What is St-Petersburg?
200
Highest mountain range in Russia.
What is the Caucasus?
300
A layer of soil just slow the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen.
What is permafrost?
300
In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils.
What is soviet?
300
Region that has seen intense resistance to Russian control.
What is Chechnya?
300
Russia's city to the far east, close to Japan.
What is Vladivostok?
300
Those mountains divide Europe from Asia.
What are Ural mountains?
400
A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia.
What is steppe?
400
A policy of openness introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's.
What is glasnost?
400
The railroad, completed in 1904, runs across those country some 9 300 kilometers.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
400
Russia's city next to Mongolia.
What is Irkutsk?
400
Asian expanse of Russia.
What is Siberia?
500
A rich topsoil found in Russia steppes and other mid-latitudes grasslands.
What is chernozem?
500
In the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring.
What is perestroika?
500
That many residents of Russia belong to non-Russia ethnic group.
What is 25 million?
500
Russia's city on the Irtysh river.
What is Omsk?
500
Year the Russian revolution started.
What is 1917?