Physical Geography
What is the name of the longest river in Europe?
Volga River
What is the name for a Russian emperor?
czar
What are factories that produce metal ores called?
Smelters
What is the capital of the country of Georgia?
Tbilisi
The radical Communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution was
the Bolsheviks
What two continents meet in Russia’s Ural Mountains?
Europe and Asia
What ethnic group do about 80% of Russians belong to?
Slavs
What is the longest single rail line in the world?
Trans-Siberian Railroad
What is Azerbaijan’s economy based on?
oil
The name for the Russian legislature is the
Federal Assembly
The vast forest that covers much of Russia is called the
Taiga
What is the form of the Greek alphabet used in Russia today called?
Cyrillic
What are Russian country houses called?
dachas
Of the countries in the Caucasus Region, the only one that is landlocked is
Armenia
Under Stalin’s rule, people who spoke against the government were often sent to labor camps called
gulags
The area between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean is
Siberia
Who were the Mongol invaders who conquered Kiev?
Tartars
Russia’s capital and largest city is
Moscow
What government body is appointed to run each government of the Caucasus countries today?
Prime Minister
Peter the Great founded this city which served as the capital of Russia for 200 years
St. Petersburg
This sea is the world's largest inland sea
Caspian Sea
What was the name of the city that the first Russian state centered around?
Kiev
The Soviet government did little to prevent...
pollution
What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan
During the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader was
Mikhail Gorbachev