Chapter 6 Quiz Questions

Russians constitute the largest ethnic group in Kazan, but they account for only 50% of the city's population. What ethnic group constitutes 42% of Kazan's population

Tatars

Churches, museums, and palaces are landscape features that mark what era of Russian city development?

tsarist era

In Paris, land near the city center is most densely populated. In Moscow, land far from the city center is most density populated. Why?

In Russia, as opposed to France, land use has been determined by central planning

Which of these statements is not true about Moscow? -Moscow is vastly richer than most other parts of Russia. -The Kremlin is the historic core and is still occupied by the government -Inferior Soviet-era housing has now been all replaced by new privatized housing. -Moscow is in many ways the primate city of Russia.

Inferior Soviet-era housing has now been all replaced by new privatized housing.

In which of the following cities would you be most likely to find a new generation of mosques?

Kazan

What group of people was brought to Sakhalin Island during World War II to work the coal mines and now forms a distinct community in Yhzhno-Sakhalinsk?

Koreans

What city was shaped by its relative location near the headwaters of the Volga, Dvina, and Dnieper River systems, all of which flowed u=in different directions?

Moscow

Which one of these associations is incorrect? -Norilsk - Volga port -Vladivastock - Railroad terminus -St.Petersburg - Leningrad -Moscw - Soviet Capital

Norilsk - Volga port

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is:

an oil boomtown located in Russia's Far East.

"Closed cities" became a hallmark of Soviet-era urban geography. Such cities:

required permission to visit

Which one of the following statements is true of Russian cities today but did not apply during Soviet times? -Russian cities have resisted economic impulses to suburbanize -Russian cities are home to branches of European and Japanese banks -Russian cities are relatively isolated from the forces of globalization -Russian cities seek investment from Moscow banks but not foreign countries

Russian cities are home to branches of European and Japanese banks

Befor the Communist Revolutio in 1917, the capital of tsarist Russia was:

St. Petersburg

What city was built by the tsar to be Russia's "window on the west" in the early 1700s?

St. Petersburg

"Secret Cities" were built during the Soviet period but began to lose population in the 1980s as the Soviet economy grew weaker. Which one of the following is true of secret cities?

Their economic base was tied to nuclear research and missile production

Garbage-strewn landscapes surround many Russian apartment buildings for all of the following reasons except: -Consumption has increased markedly since ccommunism's end -Imported goods are more available, but often wastefully packaged -Public services such as trash pick-up have not kept up with development -There is little space for land fills

There is little space for land fills

What happened to many large mining cities such as Norilsk after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

They declined in population

With increasing consumption and lagging public services, what has happened to the landscapes around many Russian apartment buildings in the Post-Soviet era?

They have become littered with trash

Which one of the following does not apply to Vladivostock? -an important regional industrial center -a city center on UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites -home to the Russian Navy's Pacific fleet -an important commercial port

a city center on UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia experienced all of the following except:

a decrease in socioeconomic inequality and homelessness

Historical trading cities along the rivers of European Russia were each dominated by a fortress. The fortress was called:

a kremlin

Which one of the following has been a part of the transition from Soviet to Post-Soviet cities?

a shift from central planning to market-driven processes

What economic activities are of growing importance for those who remain behind in Russian cities that are losing population because of outmigration to larger urban centers?

agriculture on household plots of land, increased gathering of communal forest resources, hunting and fishing in the local countryside ALL OF THE ABOVE

Astana, capital of the Soviet successor state of Kazakhstan, has modeled itself on Dubai. What do both cities now have in common? -hosting international mega-events -Special Economic Zones -Hyper-modernity in architectural design -all of the above

all of the above

The growth of Kiev (or Kyiv) as the core of the first Russian state was linked to trade:

between the Baltic Sea and the Easter Mediterranean Sea

What type of economy shaped the landscape of Russian cities fro 1917 through 1991?

command economy

What was absent from Soviet planning principles?

concerns about the impact of urban development on the environment

An aspect of Soviet urban planning that grew out of socialist ideologies yet helps achieve the goals of urban sustainability today is Mocow's:

extraordinarily dense network of metro (subway) lines

An aspect of Soviet urban planning that grew out of socialist ideologies yet helps achieve the goals of urban sustainability today is Moscow's:

extraordinarily dense network of metro (subway) lines

The pattern in Russia is similar to the U.S>: existing central city buildings in poor condition but in goof locations are converted into upscale apartments, often displacing long-time residents. This process is known as:

gentrification

St.Petersburg:

has a city center that is a World Heritage site but also threatened by new development

In a microrayon, as developed during the Soviet period, in what kind of residential units did people live?

high-rise apartment buildings

The Muslim population of Moscow:

includes immigrants from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

During the Soviet period, "Progress" was narrowly conceptualized as:

industrialization

During the Soviet period, one way in which government tried to keep urban growth within projected levels was by:

requiring city residents to have a government-issued propiska in order to live a city

What was built on the spot in St.Petersburg where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated in 1881?

the Cu=hurch of Our Savior

Problems confronting the Russian urban system include all of the following except:

the continuing decline of the urban population throughout the nation

Moscow's rise to importance in Russia cannot be attributed to:

the rule of Tsar Peter