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Russia 9th Grade
Question | Answer |
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Moscow | largest city in Europe (15 million people); capital of Russia |
Trans | Siberian Railroad |
Czars | Title of the rulers of Russia from 1547 |
Oblast | a large region or administrative district similar to a state or providence |
St. Petersburg | largest port city/ 2nd largest city in Russia (5 million people) |
Novosibirsk | largest city in Siberia (1.5 million people) |
Cyrillic | Russian orthodox Slavic alphabet |
Hill of Crosses | Place where Roman Catholics who were opposed to the soviet union atheistic government would place crosses. In Lithuania |
Mount Elburus | highest mountain among the mountains on the southern border |
Vladimir Lenin | led Russian revolution in 1917, and executed last czar in 1918 |
Federation Assembly | the legislature |
Don River | associated with black earth region |
Kuril Islands | extend in a chain from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan. Disputed territory between Russia and Japan |
Mount Klyuchevskaya | Siberia’s highest peak |
Serfs | farm laborers attached to land, few could read or write |
Lake Baykal | Deepest lke in the world |
CIS | (Commonwealth of Independent States) formed to retain economic tie among the former soviet states by Yeltsin |
Cossacks | Independent nomads who live on the Don River drainage basin and are known for living on steppes (Russian grasslands) |
Bering Strait | body of water that separates Russia and USA |
Siberia | all of Asian Russia east of the Urals |
Ural Mountains | Forms a geographic border between Europe and Asia |
How many czars rules Russia before the revolution? | 24 |
Longest river in Europe | Volga |
Siberia’s largest port | Vladivostok |
Last czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
Major Religions of Russia | Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, Atheism |