| Question | Answer |
| How many different ethnic groups are there? | 120 |
| What is the Soviet Era? | The period between 1922 and 1991 |
| After the fall of the Soviet Union, several of the larger republics became what? | Independent countries |
| Ethnic Russians are apart of a larger ethnic group called what? | Slavs |
| Who are Slavs? | A major ethnic group, or nationality. Slavs are also a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples; Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians |
| Large group of diverse peoples are classified as who? Why? | Caucasian, because they live in the Caucaus region |
| Caucasian groups include who? | Chechens, Dagestanis, Ingushitans |
| Where do Turkish People live? | In the Caucaus region and in the middle Volga area. |
| The Turkic people of Russia include who? | Tatars,Chuvash,Bashkirs,Sahka |
| The most numerous of the Turkic people are who? Where do they live? | Tatars whom many live in Tatarstan |
| Since when did Russia rule Tatarstan? | mid- 1550s |
| Tatarstan like any other republic have limited amount of what? | sovereignty |
| Who are the Sahka? Where do they live? | A combination of local groups and Turkic peoples who originally settled along the middle Lena River. |
| The Sahka were formerly what and expanded from where to where? | Seminomadic and from southern Siberia into northeastern Russia |
| What % of people live in western Europe? | 80 |
| Why do people like to live in western Europe more than the east? | Rich soil, waterways, a milder climate |
| What is the main industrial city? | Moscow |
| Population is more disperse where? | east of the Ural Mountains |
| What is the % rate that people live in Siberia? How much land area does it take up from Russia? | 20%, and two-thirds |
| What are the physical features in Siberia like? | Frozen tundras, mountains, and forests making Russia unsuitable for farming |
| What happened to migration during the early years of the Soviet union then after the 1970s? | Russians migrated to non-Russian republics then reversed |
| After the fall of the Soviet Union what has Russia been going? | Going back to their homeland |
| Most people settle where in Russia? | Moscow, St. Petersburg, and southwestern Russia |
| What is greater? People moving in or out of Russia? | People moving in |
| Since the downfall of the Soviet Union what has Russia been rediscovering? | Faiths and traditions |
| How many languages are spoken in Russia today? | More than 100 |
| What family language do the Turkic people speak? | Altaic |
| What language do the Sahka speak? | Russian and Turkic languages |
| The Soviet government strictly discourages what? | religious practices |
| What is Atheism? | belief there is no god or superior being |
| Missonaries caused lawmakers to do what? | place restrictions on newly established religious groups |
| What four religions were allowed full liberty? | Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism |
| What church has been the center of Russian culture? | the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| In 988, who of the Kievan Rus adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity as it's official religion? | Prince Vladimir |
| In 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the center of the Eastern Orhtodox Church had fallen, and Russia assured it's claim to what? | Claim as leader of the Orthodox Christian world |
| Islam is the what largest religion in Russia? | 2nd |
| Where do the people who practice Islam live? | Caucasus region and between the the Volga river and the Urals |
| Most Muslims follow the what branch? | Sunni |
| Where is Islam practiced? | Arab countries, Turkey, and Afghanistan |
| In czarist times how was it for the Jews? | Hard because of persecutions, could only settle in certain areas, and could not own land. |
| Where did Jews migrate to because of tragic events? | the United States or Israel |
| What are the Republics of Buddhism and where do they live? | Tuva, Buryatia, and Kalmykia. Near the Caspian Sea |
| Small numbers of Buddhist lived where? | St. Petersburg and Moscow |
| During the Soviet Union what were there main subjects to learn in school? | Math, Science, and Engineering |
| What didn't they emphasize on in school? | Language, History, and Literature |
| Technology focused on what? | the government |
| What made up the Soviet intelligence and intelligence elite? | Government Officials, promising educators, writers, and artists |
| How has education changed? | It began to emphasize on language, history, and literature |
| Why do teachers abandon their job? What does it cause students to do? | low pay and morale. It causes students to quit their education to find a job |
| What of health care has worsened? | quality and quantity |
| What threatens the well being of the people? | disease,lifestyle choices, and inefficent healthcare systems |
| Why does the government lose medical staff? | low pay |
| Art was focused on what? | religion |
| When did art change? | 1700s when Peter the Great introduced culture |
| What is social realism? | artist duty to glorify the government |
| What is May Day? | more of a Spring Festival |
| When was Christmas an official holiday for Russia? | 1918 |
| Where did Russia stretched from? | From Europe to the Pacific Ocean. |
| What did regional political boundaries often reflect? | The locations of major ethnic groups, or nationalities. |
| How many ethnic groups have their own republics? | 32 |
| Life expectancy in Europe? | 68 years |
| Deaths per birth | 9 for every 1000 |
| When was Russia's golden stage? | Between the early 1800s and into the 1900s |
| Who are the painters? | Viktor Vasnetsov |
| Who are the composers? | Peter Tchaikovsky |
| Who are the poets? | Aleksandr Pushkin, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. |
| Who are the novelist? | Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky made Russian literature famous. |
| What is the evidence that you will get punished if you dont follow socialist realism? | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago |
| In the mid 1980s activity in the arts renewed as loosening government controls allowed what? | Printing of previously unpublished works and new materials. |
| Why do the people live in large apartment blocks? | Housing shortages. |
| What is entertainment in Russia like? | Concerts, ballet, and the theater all provide popular entertainment. |
| What are popular sports in Russia? | Tennis, track and field, and ice hockey as well as skaters and gymnasts all had success. |
