World Geo chapter 14 and 19 Russia and Central Asia

—————- has long been an important industry.

Fishing

Russia spans ——- time zones.

11

Russia borders ——- countries.

14

Today there are ——- independent countries, including Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

15

World War 1 began in ———-.

1914

Russian Revolution in ————.

1917

Russia is ——— million square miles.

6.6

———— river forms the border between Russia and China. Siberia's main food producing area.

Amur

Major resources in Central ————, oil and natural gas. Largest deposits are found under he Capsiun Sea.

Asia

Major resources in ——————-, peat, oil, and natural gas deposits.

Belarus

————— smallest of the three Slavic republics that were once part of the Soviet Union, 11,000 lakes.

Belarus

———- soil supports the production of wheat, barley, rye, oats, and other crops.

Chernozem

—————- important warm water sea flows into the Mediterranean.

Black Sea

———- revolutionaries who overthrew the czar and proclaimed a socialist Revolution in 1917.

Bolsheviks

1991, Russia has 1st democratic election; ————- elected president.

Boris Yeltsin

In World War 1 numerous strikes and demonstrations were organized by Russian workers who suffered hardships because of the war. Protested demanding "———————"

Bread and freedom

—————- largest inland body of water, really a salt water lake.

Capsian Sea

Empress ——— the Great, 1700s continued to expand Russia's empire and gained a long-desired warm-water port on the Black Sea.

Catherine

————-, western section, lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijani.

Caucasus

——————, run east to west along the southwestern portion of the country forming a natural barrier between Russia and countries of the south.

Caucasus Mountains

Fish eggs are eaten as ———- an expensive delicacy.

Caviar

—————— political and ideological war of Communist Soviet Union and the West, particularly the US. Tensions brought the world to the brink of NUCLEAR war and shaped modern economic and political policies.

Cold War

————- supreme rulers of Russia.

Czar

——————, limited reforms caused many former serfs to move to cities. Russification became govern,ent government policy, and people were required to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity to revive jobs and benefits.

Czar Alexander 2

—————- expanded into Siberia with the construction of the Trans- Siberian Railroad. 6,000 miles long, it connected Moscow to Vladivostok.

Czar Alexander 3

————— and his family were murder, signaling the demise of Europe's last absolute monarchy.

Czar Nicholic

—————-, 1600s came to power, determined to modernize Russia. Russia enlarged its territory built a strong military, a d developed trade with Western Europe.

Czar Peter

———— or —————- climate, kara kum and Kyzyl kum, shrub grasses.

Desert Semi desert

—————- river, Ukraine, the longest river in the country streacthing 609 drains into the Black Sea. Supplies water to Ukraine's through an intricately constructed series of canals.

Dnieper

The ———————-, reaching from the eastern shores of the Capsun Sea or China and Pakistan.( Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan).

Eastern section

Russia is located in ———- and ———-

Europe Asia

In 1991 a ————led to the collapse of the Soviet government and regions of the country began declaring their i independence .

Failed coup

———- is one fifth of the roles natural resources.

Forest

Policy of greater political openness

Glasnost

———————— 1st czar of Russia in the 1400s. Built the Kremlin.

Ivan the Great

——————-, leader after Lenin 1924, sought to make USSR worlds leading industrial power.

Joseph Stalin

—————- Peninsula, eastern Russia, has more than 100 volcanoes.

Kamchatka

————— or black sand desert, cover most of Turkmenistan.

Kara kum

—————— German philosopher and the founder of modern communism. Two principles: Public ownership of all land and means of production Classless society with an equal sharing of wealth.

Karl Marx

———— the leading city-state, controlled a prosperous trading route.

Kiev

A loose union of city-states

Kievan Rus

The ————-, fortified complex at the heart of Moscow include 5 palaces, 4 Cather trails, means "fortress inside a city". Official residence of the president(Red Square)

Kremlin

Some basins are vats, dune covered ———-, or deserts.

Kum

——————-, or red sand desert, blankets the western half of Uzbekistan.

Kyzyl kum

——————-, located in southeast Russia. Oldest lake in the world(25 million years) Deepest lake at 5,715 feet One of the most renowned Siberian lakes One fifth of all unfrozen freshwater found on the planet

Lake Baikal

———————-, Russian leader who began to lessen restrictions of communism in late 1980s. Enormous costs of military and inefficient economic policies weakened its role in the world.

Mikhail Gorbachev

————- 1200s, from, Central Asia invaded Kiev and many of the Slav territories. Allows the Slavs self rule, but they continued to control the stews militarily for more than 200 years.

Mongols

Slavs who fled the Mongol invasion eventually started the city of ————.

Moscow

The capital of Russia.

Moscow

—————, highest peak, which soars to 18,510 feet. Highest mountain in Russia and Europe.

Mount Elbrus

———————— is west of the Ural Mountains. The southern part has navigable waterways and rock black soil called CHEMOZEM that supports agriculture. This place has majority of Russia population living here.

Northern European Plain

————- arrears where underground water naturally comes to the surface.

Oasis

————— the raising of livestock(sheep, horses, camels, and cattle)

Patroralism

—————-, policy of economic restructuring.

Perestroika

————- a permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground.

Permafrost

—————- Soviet Union occupied much of Eastern Europe.

Post WW2

Russia has a semi ———— system.

President

Keivan Rus is ruled by ———-

Prince

—————, covers 40% of European Russia and extends into Siberia. Worlds largest coniferous forest.

Taiga

————————, royal family of Russia, continues expansion. Brought many non Russians under Russian rule.

Romanovs Dynasty

———— large petroleum deposits 16 percent of the worlds coal reserves Leading producer of natural gas Leads the world in nickel production Leading producer of hydroelectric power

Russia

————— has the longest continuous coast lines of any country in the world.

Russia

————— worlds largest country.

Russia

—————— program to make those peoples more "Russian"

Russification

Several countries in the region were controlled as ———- under Communsit rule.

Satellite

—————- controlled by the Soviet Union replaced their communist governments in 1989.

Satellites

————-, peasants who became enslaved workers under control of the nobility. (Poor conditions and low wages)

Serfs

—————-, fourth largest natural gas reserve in the world.

Turkmenistan

Ob' Yenisey and Lena rivers begin in the south of ———- and flows northward emptying into the article ocean. Frozen most of the years creating marshes and swamps when jr melts.

Siberia

—————- east of the Ural Mountains and extending to the Pacific Ocean.

Siberia

————-, AD 600s, farmers, hunters,and fishers settled near the waterways of the Northern European Plain.

Slav

—————— new capital and a major port city. Provides access to the Baltic Sea and giving Russia a "window to the west"

St. Petersburg

The suffix, ————- is an ancient Persian word that means "land of" or "place of". In most of these countries, the first part of the name identifies the major ethnic group living there.

Stan

—————- between the Black and Capsium seas and border desert regions. Wide, grassy plains with shrubs and short grasses.

Steppe

————- domineer climate in Russia. Snow covers the ground 3/4 of the year.

Subarctic

—————— farthest north climate zone and a covers about 10 percent of Russia.

Tundra

Major resource in ————- has iron and other ores.

Ukraine

————— second largest country in Europe, occupying the southwest portion of the Russian Plain.

Ukraine

Communist controlled —————————-( USSR) the Soviet Union.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

————- for,a a natural barrier between European Russia and Siberian Russia. Run in a north to south direction and span 1,230 miles from the Arctic Ocean almost to the Caspian Sea.

Ural Mountains

—————-, worlds fourth largest gold reserves.

Uzbekistan

———————— Bolshevik leader who started communism in Russia. Between 1917 and 1921, there was a civil war between the Reds(Bolsheviks) and the Whites (anti-Communists)

Vladimir Lenin

————— river one of the worlds greatest rivers. Drains most of western Russia, 2,293 miles making it the longest river in Europe. Starts in the valdai hills west of Moscow and travels across much of southern Russia before emptyrin into the capsian sea

Volga

——— Soviet Union played a pivotal role in the Allied victory over Germany.

WW2

——————, covers one third of Siberia and is one of the LARGEST LOWLYING FLATLANDS in the world. Harsh continental climate and the worlds largest

West Siberian plain