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Exercise 8
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many Soviet Socialist Republics existed in the Soviet Union? | 15 |
| What the Soviet planners called their system | Federation |
| Most of the Russian pop. is found in | the western part of the country |
| Describes an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies | continentiality |
| Russia falls under the letter _, a humid cold climate region. | D |
| Coniferous forest on the equator side of the tundra | taiga |
| Persistently frozen ground | permafrost |
| Mnt. chain in west-central Russia, boundary between Europe and Asia | Urals |
| Russian imperialism in the 19th century was aimed chiefly at | Central Asia |
| Consolidated Russia's gains and made a European-style state | Peter the Great |
| Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition was aimed toward | Black Sea |
| Refers to a huge state farm and literally means "a grain and meat factory" | sovkhoz |
| Not found in Russia west of the Urals | the Kuznetsk Basin |
| St. Petersburg | Leningrad |
| Not an important Russian manufacturing region | Donbas Region |
| The Soviet Detroit | Nizhniy Novgorod |
| Povolzhye was not helped by | Virgin Island Scheme |
| Forms the eastern limit of the Russian Core | Ural Mnt. |
| Leading oil center of Azerbaijan | Baki |
| 3 manufacturing regions form the anchors of the Russian Core Area | Central Industrial, Volga, Ural |
| Faces the Caspian Sea, contains 30 distinct nationalities, located next to the Chechen Republic, and is dominated by agriculture and oil | Dagestan |
| Exclave of Armenia, located within Muslim-Azerbaijan | Nagorno-Karabakh |
| Breakaway territory of Georgia | Abkhazia |
| People who look across the border to Iran because they share a common Shi'ite faith | Azeris |
| Territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia | Nagorno-Karabakh |
| The industrial area just to the east of the Kuzbas is centered near | Lake Baykal |
| Japanese investment in Russia's Far East has been held up by a longstanding dispute over | four tiny Kurile Islands |