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Buchmans

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Chernozem   rich black soil that supports grain production  
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Taiga   huge area that contains coniferous forests  
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Steppe   grassland area  
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Permafrost   permanently frozen subsoil  
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Tundra   area whose name means “barren land”  
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North European Plain   area that is home to most of Russia’s people  
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Caspian Sea   body of water that has no outlet to the ocean  
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Caucasus Mountains   area in which Russia’s highest point is found  
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Ob-Siberia River   river in siberia  
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Russification   program that required everyone to speak Russian  
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Intelligentsia   intellectural elite in the Soviet Union  
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Cold War   struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States for world influence  
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Communism   form of government in the Soviet Union  
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Atheism   belief that there is no God or other supreme being  
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Petroleum Extraction   Russia’s most important industry  
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Kolkhoz   a small Soviet farm where the farmers shared in the farm’s profits  
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Market Economy   system under which businesses are privately owned  
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Soviet Industrialization   source of environment damage to Russia’s air, soil, and water  
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Perestroika   Gorbachev proposal for “restructuring” Russia  
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