Russia is called this because its land lies on two continents, Europe and Asia.
What is Eurasia
100
The fertile plain area where 75% of Russians live.
What is North European Plain?
100
Russian use this sea to reach the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Black Sea?
100
During 800A.D. early Slavs built a civilization round this city.
What is Kiev?
100
In 1917 this Communist leader came to power and established the USSR.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
200
This mountain range forms the dividing line between Europe Russia and Asia Russia.
What is Ural Mountains
200
The capital of Russia?
What is Moscow.
Prior to Moscow and Communist control it was St. Petersburg.
200
This sea is about the size of California, it is the largest inland body of water in the world.
What is the Caspian Sea?
200
This czar of the 1500 used secret police and control every aspect of peoples lives.
Who is Ivan IV ("Ivan The Terrible")?
200
This was the communist leader during WWII who took complete control of the economy and "took care of" anyone who stood in his way.
Who Joseph Stalin?
300
Russia is so wide it shares a border with this many countries.
What is 14
300
A nearly treeless grasy plain that stretches through Ukraine.
What is the steppe?
300
This lake can be found in the Central Siberian Plateau, it is the world's deepest freshwater lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
300
This czar made Russia more European, established the Russian Navy, and established a new capital which he named in his honor.
Who is "Peter the Great"?
300
This was a period of great tension between the Soviets and United States which lasted from the end of WWII to the late 1980's.
What is the Cold War?
400
Since Russia has a long coastline along the Artic Ocean, which makes it frozen most of the year this task becomes difficult.
What is shipping?
400
The world's largest forest.
What is Taiga?
400
One major issue facing Lake Baikal today.
What is pollution?
400
1861 Czar Alexander II freed all the serfs shortly there after Russia began to do this, which means, to change an economy to rely more on manfacturing rather than farming.
What is industrialization?
400
In 1985 this was the final communist leader to come to power.
Who Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
The climate of western part of Russia
What is Humid Continental?
500
In south Russia one can find this high rugged mountain range.
What is Caucasus?
500
The longest river in Russia and a vital transportation route.
What is the Volga River?
500
In 1812 this French general invaded Russia and made it near Moscow before turning around due to the harsh Russian winter.
Who Napoleon Boneparte?
500
This was a policy which loosened the control of the Soviet economy and made the way for free enterprise in Russia.