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100
This percentage of Russia's land can support agriculture.
What is 10%
100
This type of fish is found in teh Volga River and is sought for its eggs.
What is stuergeon
100
This religion is the second - largest religion in Russia today.
What is Islam
100
This group believed in communism and wanted a new society led by workers.
What is Bolsheviks
100
This percentage of Russia's population use cell phones
What is 25%
200
This type of soil found in the stepp region is losing some of its fertility because of overgrazing.
What is chernozem soil.
200
In World War II, Hitler's army retreated from this Russian city because of the frigid cold.
What is Moscow
200
Russias historical roots date all the way back to what time period? 400's, 600's, 800's, or 1000s.
What is 600's
200
In the 1600's, under this man, Russia added territory, strengthened the military, and increased trade.
What is Peter the Great
200
Russia became a part of this trade organization in 2006
What is World Trade Organization
300
This is the main food-producing area of of Siberia.
What is the Armur River Valley
300
This type of forest is important to Russia's economy because it produces about one-half of the world's soft timber.
What is taiga
300
This Russian holiday celebreates the coming of spring.
What is Maslenitsa
300
This man's ideas are the basis for commuinism
What is Karl Marx
300
Today Russia's major trading partners include these three countries/organizations.
What is Japan, the European Union, and the United States.
400
This river connects Moscow with the Caspian Sea.
What is The Volga River
400
This waterway is Russia is controlled by the Turks.
What is the Dardanelles
400
This ethnic group forms the second-largest family of ethnic groups in Russia
What is the Turkic peoples
400
This man was the first crowned czar or Russia in 1533
What is Ivan the Terrible
400
This number of nuclear explosions were set off by the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1987.
What is 600
500
This peninsula is known for having more than 100 volcanoes.
What is the Kamchatka Peninsula
500
This canal connexcts Moscow to the Sea of Asov and the Black Sea
What is Volga-Don canal
500
Russia refused to give this country autonomy because several important oil and gas pipelines run through it.
What is Chechnya
500
The letters USSR stand for what?
What is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
500
When this man came into power he expanded on Gorbacheve's plan toward a market economy.
What is Boris Yeltsin.