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100
Town in northern Ukraine abandoned after an accident at a nuclear power plant
What is Chernobyl?
100
The type of economy Russia had during the Soviet Era.
What is a command economy?
100

A group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics.

What is an ethnic group?

100
This was the union of kingdoms in early Russian history.
What is Kievan Rus
100
Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground.
What is permafrost?
200

An area in Russia so cold that there are few cities and little population. 

What is Siberia?

200

A former leader that increased the size of Russia by 200,000 sq. mi., and is the longest reigning woman in Russia.

Who is Catherine the Great?

200

A mountain range separating Europe from Asia.

What are the Ural Mountains?

300
The by-product of producing nuclear power.
What is nuclear waste?
300

The second communist leader of Russia who would take farms and much of Russia's industries for the government.

Who was Josef Stalin?

300

Large, distinct group within a country that shares language, celebrations, foods, etc...

What is a culture?

300
In czarist Russia, an attack on Jews carried out by government troops or officials.
What is pogrom?
300

The longest river in Russia. 

What is the Volga?

400

The last leader (of Soviet Russia) that introduced both economic and social political reforms. 

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

400

The percentage of people who are ethnically Russian.

What is 80%?

400
A member of the communist party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917.
Who is a Bolshevik?
400

The deepest lake in the world.

What is Lake Baikal?

500
In the Soviet Union, a large farm owned and run by the state.
What is sovkhoz?
500
The dominant religion in Russia today.
What is Eastern Orthodox?
500

The leader who united the Kievan principalities and wanted Russia to be more westernized.

Who was Peter the Great?

500

A part (peninsula) of eastern Russia that contains 29 active volcanoes. 

What is the Kamchatka Peninsula?