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Holt Chapter 16

Russia and the Caucasus

TermDefinition
Ural Mountains stand here and be in two continents at once (Europe and Asia)
Caspian Sea east of the Caucasus Mountains
Caucasus Mountains between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan south of western Russia
Moscow Russia's capital city
Siberia area between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean
Kamchatka a peninsula in the far east of Russia
Volga longest river in Europe, empties into Caspian Sea
taiga vast forest of evergreen trees
Kiev capital city of Ukraine
Cyrillic a form of the Greek alphabet
czar an emporer
Bolsheviks a radical Russian Communist group
gulags harsh Soviet labor camps often located in Siberia
dachas Russian country houses
St. Petersburg formerly Russia's capital city, styled after Western cities, port city on Gulf of Finland
smelters factories that produce metal ores
Trans-Siberian Railroad runs from Moscow to Vladivostok, longest in the world
Chechnya Muslin area of major ethnic conflict
Tbilisi capital city of Georgia
Yerevan capital city of Armenia
Baku capital city of Azerbaijan
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