Russia
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
