Geography study-guide 13

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

What railway links various populous regions?

What is the LARGEST RUSSIAN REPUBLIC?

The KRAIS or......

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

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

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

The ______ government has generally been centralized throughout its history.

Russia produces 13% of the worlds platinum.

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

What is the LARGEST CITY in Siberia?

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

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

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

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

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

Who was the last CZar?

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

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

Which of these corresponds to the Don River Basin?

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

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

What is Russia’s SHIPPING HUB?

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

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

Who instituted the reforms known as PERESTROIKA?

USSR expanded what type of influence?

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

What opened up the Soviet Union to the WEST?

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

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

What has been a major center for SHIPBUILDING since 1704?

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

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

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

Possibly the LARGEST PLAIN in the world.

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

Russia is the FOURTH largest producer of what?

Sakha would be the 7TH largest country in the world

Most of the power resides in what branch?

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

The czars and czarinas were autocrats.

What is the HIGHEST mountain along the southern border.

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

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