Physical Geography
This feature divides the European and Asian parts of Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The most prominent ethnic group in Russia.
What is Slavs?
The type of economy Russia had before it moved to a market economy.
What is a command economy?
This group of city states, or loose kingdom ruled the area that we know today as Ukraine and Russia.
The percentage of the world's clean water contained in Lake Baikal.
What is 20%?
This mountain is the tallest point in Russia.
What is Mt. Elbrus at 18,510 ft?
This belief was promoted in the time of Soviet rule in place of religion.
What is Atheism?
This is when government controlled entities are given over as private property.
What is privatization?
This city was built on the Moskva river.
What is Moscow?
The length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
What is 5,771 miles?
This is the largest stretch of flatland in the world.
What is the West Siberian Plain?
This religion has been central to Russia's culture and history for over 1000 years.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
What are three of Russia's big industries? (name at least two)
What are fishing, forestry, and oil?
The economic system used by the USSR in which the state runs the economy.
What is communism?
This was the coldest temperature ever recorded in Oymiakon.
What is 71.2 C (96.16 F)?
The village of Oymiakon is found in this region of Russia.
What is Siberia?
What region do the Caucasian people live in Russia
What is the Caucuses region?
What is the name of the railroad that stretches from one end of Russia to the other?
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
This was a competition between Russia and the US to see who could stockpile the most nuclear weapons.
What is arms race?
What is 2022?
This lake is the deepest freshwater lake in the world.
What is lake Baikal?
These are some causes of a lower life expectancy in Russia (name at least one).
What are pipelines?
What is Mikhail Gorbachev?
How far away is Russia from the US?
What is 55 miles?