Russia

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What happened after Ivan the Terrible's reign?

The country faced foreign invasion, economic devline and social upheaval

How did Bloody Sunday end?

With 1000 people dead

Where is Kalmykia?

near the Caspian Sea

Where do the Caucasus Mountains lie?

the Black Sea and Caspian Seas

What do the Ural Mountains mark?

The traditional boundary between European Russia and Asian Russia.

What did the Bolsheviks do?

Took over industry, distribution, established an eight hour workday, reform the army

Where does Russia stretch to?

Two continents- Europe and Asia

What connects Moscow to the Caspian Sea?

Volga River

What does chernozem support?

Wheat, Barley,Rye, Oats

How did the Soviet Union fall?

When Gorbachwev's presidency ended

What did Communism support in Russia?

Atheism

What moderates temperature to some extent?

Atlantic Ocean's warm air current

Why are roads in Siberia impassable?

Because of the harsh winters

What provides Russia with warm water?

Black Sea

South Slavs include?

Bulgarians, Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes

What is the largest inland body of water?

Caspian Sea on Russia's southwestern border

What are nationalities?

Major ethnic groups

What did many ethnic Russians do in the Soviet era?

Migrated to non- Russian republic of the Soviet Union

What forms a boundary between Russia and China?

Mountain ranges

What religion do Caucasians celebrate?

Muslim

What is at the southern part of the North European Plain?

Navigable waterways and rich black soil called chernozem

Where is Buryatia?

Near Lake Baikal

What is most of European russia a part of?

North European Plain

Where does 75% of Russian population live?

Northern European Plain.

What are ethnic Russians?

People who follow Russian customs

Before the later 1600's what did Russian artist and architects find inspiring?

Religion

What did Boris Yeltsin do?

Removed 90% of price controls and encouraged privatization

Russification?

Required everyone to speak Russian and follow Christianity

What is the largest country in the world?

Russia

What is the main language?

Russian

East Slavs include?

Russians, Ukranians and Belarusians

What area has the least amount of people per square mile?

Sakha in the east of Russia

Who adopted Slavs language and culture in 800?

Scandinavian warriors or Varangians

What is sovereignty?

Self rule

What did my peasants become by 1650?

Serfs, a virtually enslaved workforce

What is an ethnic group?

Shares a common ancestry, language, religion

How long has Russia rules Tatarstan?

Since the mid 1500 until 1994 when Russia granted limited sovereignty

How many languages are spoken?

100

What is on the Kamchatka Peninsula?

100 volcanoes, 23 that are active

What is the population of Russia?

144.4

Who decided what and how much to produce and how to produce it in the Soviet Union?

Gosplan

West Slavs include?

Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks

Who adopted Easgern Othodox Christianity as Russia's offical religion??

Prince Vladimir, 988

Who was Ivan 3?

Prince of Muscovy who brought many Slav territories under control

What do most Russian Muslims belong to?

Sunni Islamic

How did Moscow form?

Slavs fled and settled near the Moskva River

What group are ethnic Russians a part of?

Slavs includes Poles, Serbs, Ukranians

What are kolkhozes?

Small farms worked by farmers who shared in the farm's production and profits

What had most of the countries in the region of eastern Europe become?

Soviet satellites

Where was the new capital located?

St. Petersburg was located along the Gulf of Finland

How were farms organized during the Soviet system?

State controlled kolkhozes

What is different about Russia's coastline?

Streches 23400 miles, touches both of the Artic and Pacific Oceans

What is a czar?

Supreme ruler

Who made up the Soviet intelligentsia?

Technology focused jobs, educators, writers and artsts

When did nonreligious themes become popular?

Early 1700's

How much does the West Siberian Plain cover?

1 million square miles

What does the vast distance give Russia?

11 time zones, 9 mountain ranges, and 13 seas,3 oceans, and 14 other countries.

What portion of Russia's water traffic travels along the Volga?

2/3

What percent of the worlds remaining forest lands lie in Russia?

20

What is the average height of Ural?

2000 feet

How many Russian soldiers and civilians died while pushing out the invading Germans?

27 million

By the 1990's what percent of Russia's vast territory was under ecological stress?

40

How much land does it cover?

6.6 million square miles

What is the area of Russia?

6.6 million square miles

What is the greatest east to west extent for Russia?

6200 miles

Russia is what rank of population in the world?

6th

What percentage of Russians live between Belarus and Ukraine borders and the Ural Mountains?

75

What percentage of all pregnant women develop a serious health problem?

75

What percent of the population are ethnic Russians?

80

What do rivers supply?

84 percent of water as well as electric power

What happened in the town of Chernobyl?

A 1986 fire in a nuclear reactor released tons of radioactive particles

Who are the Bolsheviks?

A revoulutionary group led by Lenin

Where do other coast lie?

Along an arm of Baltic Sea and along the Black and Caspian Seas

Where did the East Slav people settle?

Along the Dnieper River in the west

What was the black market?

An illegal trade in which scare or illegal goods are sold at very high prices

What did the Soviet government limit?

Artistic expression, the only art allowed was socialist realism to glorify achievements of Soviet communism

How did Gorbachev reconstruct Russia

Changed it from a command economy to a market economy

What does the Volga do to the eastern part of the Norther European Plain?

Drains it

Where is the climate harsh in Russia?

East of the Ural Mountains

Where are the coldest winter temperatures?

Eastern Siberia

What happens in the Caspian Sea?

Evaporation that leaves salts that make the water saltier

What is at the northern part of the North European Plain?

Flat and poorly drained, swamps and lakes

Socialism?

Greater economic equality in society

What did the Soviet gorvernment emphasize?

Heavy industry

What does the Volga river provide?

Hydroelectric power

What is a task facing Russia in the years ahead?

Improving health care

Where do the Turkic people live?

In the Caucasus area, in Siberia

How was the country divided?

Into the Red Army and the White Army

Who were targets of organized persecution known as pogroms?

Jewish

Where did the Mongols attack first?

Kiev

What are sovkhozes?

Large farms run more like factories, with the farm workers recieving wagese

What kind of climate does most of Russia have?

Long winters with cool summers.

What was Kievan Rus?

Loose union of city states

What did Gorbachev begin?

Perestroika- a policy of economic restructuring

What is Russia's most important industry?

Pertroleum extraction and processing


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