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Russia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What separates European and Asian parts of Russia | Urals |
| What is the highest point of the Caucasus mountains | Mount Elbrus |
| Where does most of the Russian population live | Southern European plain |
| What bodies of water does Russia border | Arctic, pacific, Baltic, black, and Caspian seas |
| Works deepest freshwater lake | Lake baikal |
| What percent of the worlds freshwater does lake baikal provide | 20% |
| They farm on heat percent of land due to cold | 10% |
| Rich soil, fertile land, are from Ukraine -> southwestern Russia | Black earth belt |
| 1/5 of the worlds forested land and timber is in | Siberia |
| Cold temps created needs for | More oil, gas, wood, and coal to stay warm |
| Majority of the north European is | A piece of southern Siberia |
| steppe had | Long, cold, dry winters. Good for plants - rich soil |
| What percent of Russia was Russian ethnicity | 80% |
| How many ethnic groups were there | 100 |
| Eastern Europe hard what religion | Eastern orthodox Christianity |
| Name of the largest Turkish group | Tatars |
| Turks where in what areas | Caucas mountains, Siberia, and Volga |
| 75% live where in Russia | West |
| What year does the Soviet Union fall | 1991 |
| Eastern Orthodox religion until the | Bolshevik revolution in 1917 |
| common religion today | Eastern Orthodox |
| Islam is found where | Southern area |
| Buddhism is located in what 2 ethnic republics | Kalmykia near the Caspian Sea, and buryatia near lake baikal |
| Marc Chagall was a | Painter |
| Pyotr (peter) Tchaikovsky was a | Composer |
| Leo Tolstoy and food or Dostoevsky were | Novelist |
| Who inspired operas and ballets | Alexander Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova |
| All arts had to be centered around what | Communism |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn did what | He wrote about labor camps and was expelled from the soviet union |
| What was may day | Workers holiday |
| When Soviet Union broke up, what was celebrated again | Religious holidays |
| Slavic hunters and gathers settled where | By the north European plain Waterways |
| What happens in the 800s | Scandinavian warriors settled with the eastern Slavs, begin speaking the Slavic language and adapting the culture |
| Slav communities combine into groups of city-states called what | Kieran rus, ruled by princes |
| Name of center pop in t that controlled trade between the Baltic and black seas | Kiev |
| Eastern Slavic lands were controlled by what | Mongol miradors from Central Asia |
| Peter the great (late 1600s) wanted to | Modernize Russia, grow territory, develop a stone military, trade with Europe and west |
| What was considered the window of the west | St. Petersburg |
| Catherine (late 1700s) wanted to | Expand borders, use traditional Russian ways, nobles and enslaved serfs at odds |
| When was the Russian revolution/Bolshevik revolution | 1917 |
| People start to do what during the 1800s | Turn on government due to conditions |
| 1861 emancipation of the serfs | No education, limited economic opportunities |
| The black earth belt stretches from where to where | Ukraine to southwestern russia |
| What divides the border country | Mountains and plateaus |
| the black earth belt provides whats | Grains, sugar beets, and produce |
| What is the longest river in Europe | Volga, it is the 4th longest in Russia |
| What sea has no outlet | Caspian sea |
| Black Sea has a outlet to where | Mediterranean sea |
| Majority of the areas have what type of climate | Harsh, cold long winters and cool short summers |
| How many days of the year are snowy in the sub arctic | 250 |
| ethnicity is based on | Common language |
| Attacks on Jews were called | Pograms |
| Buddhism is considered a | Traditional religion |
| First czar ruler | Ivan IV |
| Socialist government lead to | Economic equality |
| Karl Marx led the what | Revolution of workers |
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