Geography study-guide 13

10 large sparsely populated areas mostly in the north are called?

What period was known as the time when both the Us and USSR feared the other power would attack?

The whole system did NOT collapsed in 1991, as the leaders declared INDEPENDENCE.

What mountain forms a geographic border between the continents of Europe and Asia?

What is all of Russia east of the Ural Mountains, broadly termed as?

Who led the Russian Revolution in 1917 and bought in Communist principles?

What mountain divides Europe from Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?

What brought more free market policies and some private ownership of property?

What is the LARGEST RUSSIAN REPUBLIC?

Russia produces 13% of the worlds platinum.

What has been a major center for SHIPBUILDING since 1704?

Which of these corresponds to the Don River Basin?

What railway links various populous regions?

Who was Lenin’s brutal successor who extended the empire deeper into Europe than any other Czar could have dreamed?

What canal has successfully linked Karelia’s Arctic coast to St. Petersburg, and reduces the trip by 2500 miles!!?

Russia has lots of ports with access to oceans and world trade.

Most of the power resides in what branch?

USSR expanded what type of influence?

Russia is the FOURTH largest producer of what?

Russia’s supply of mineral and fuel is amongst the greatest in the world.

What was considered a standard business practice and accepted as the cost of doing business in Russia?

Which of these is north of the Arctic circle and is the worlds largest northernmost city?

The czars and czarinas were autocrats.

What is Russia’s SHIPPING HUB?

***BONUS*** Moscow developed 3 River systems, which is one?

What is the HIGHEST mountain along the southern border.

What was the murder rate, that was double the rate in the US?

The same person passed the laws, interpreted laws, and enforced the laws.

What is the LARGEST city in all Europe with about 11.5 million people?

Who created the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (USSR)?

Most of the power resides in what branch, which is led by whom?

What River is the longest River in Europe at 2193 miles long?

The czars and czarinas had no established _______ on their authority and power.

The KRAIS or......

Who instituted the reforms known as PERESTROIKA?

What is the LARGEST CITY in Siberia?

A large region or administrative district similar to state or providence. Russia has 50 of these.

What opened up the Soviet Union to the WEST?

Sakha would be the 7TH largest country in the world

The USSR was able to gain a total of 15 republics all the way up to Germany, this was known as...

Possibly the LARGEST PLAIN in the world.

Who was the last CZar?

The ______ government has generally been centralized throughout its history.

Instead of managing the land, the Soviet’s abused it for their own immediate desires.

What is Russia’s SECOND largest city, and is the main port?