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Transportation, vacation, or evacuation
Potpourri
100
A forested zone extending across parts of northern Russia.
What is tundra?
100
This is Europe's longest river, which drains into the Caspian Sea, is the _______________________. It also is a name of a town in South Dakota.
What is VOLGA?
100
Economic uncertainty and social pressures have caused the Russian birthrate in recent years to do this.
What is decline?
100
This is a popular vacation spot in Russia.
What is Black Sea?
100
This is the official currency of Russia, and was initially valued at US $1.75. Then is became a value of less than a penny.
What is ruble?
200
These two words were introduced into the world by Mikhail Gorbachev. One means to have a policy of openness and the other means plan for restructuring the Soviet economy that called for gradual change from a command system to private ownership.
What is glasnost and perestroika?
200
Russia's cold winters helped fend off or defeat invaders from two countries. Name the two countries.
What are Germany and France?
200
Siberia is rich in reserves or raw materials with: gold, silver, platinum, zinc, natural gas, and petroleum. My boss will pay a pretty ruble to help our company do this.
What is extracted or removed from Siberia?
200
This is used to transport materials such as oil and natural gas from Siberia to the western areas of Russia.
What is trains or railroads?
200
The rate at which the prices of goods and services are rising – had risen steadily in the United States over the 1970’s. After the increase in oil prices, ________reached a rate of more than ten percent per year.  
What is inflation?
300
This type of economy or system in which a central authority decides which goods will be produced.
What is command economy?
300
This country is the world’s largest country in terms of land area, and stretches across eleven time zones.
What is Russia?
300
In addition to major economic problems, Russia also has major problems with this.
What is the environment?
300
Some Russian Rivers become transportation arteries during frigid winters when __________________drive on them while they are frozen.
What are trucks?
300
This German Economist ideals were what started the Russian Revolution in 1917. It also put an end to czars and established communism. Some say I look like Charles Darwin.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This is south of the tundra. It’s a broad forested zone. The term means land of “little sticks” a reference to the fact that trees do not grow to a great size under the harsh conditions. They are not big, but they are plentiful.
What is taiga?
400
This Tzar or Czar or perhaps Czarina expanded Russian control to parts of Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine in the 1700s. My parents were from Poland, I loved to read, and culture was nice. But I only married once! I died of a stroke! My husband wasn't very swift, but I enjoyed expanding Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
GORBACHEV offered a plan for “PERESTROIKA” or __________________ which called for a gradual change from a command system to a private ownership. Under Perestroika, factory managers rather than central planners decided what kinds and quality of goods to produce and how much to charge.
What is economic restructuring?
400
More than 3 quarters of Russia's raw materials come from the isolated region of_______________. It also has a harsh climate, few people have moved there though it has a wealth of resources.
What is Siberia?
400
The two groups that established the first Russian state in the 800s.
Who are the Slavs and the Vikings?
500
In the Russian Steppe the soil is known as_____________, "which means black earth."
What is chernozem?
500
This country has been in the news lately, and was the first Russian state which was centered in and around Kiev.
What is Ukraine?
500
THis is where goods and services move unofficially with informal record keeping. Money under the table.
What is black market?
500
It was a good ride, but now I must give up my crown and my political authority.
What is abdicate?
500
I am 6'8, enjoy ship building, traveling incognito, working on teeth, naming my own city, modernization, westernization, and I saved a life, but then I died.
Who is Peter the Great?