Chapter 17 Flashcards
What is the most powerful state during the monogol rule?
Muscovy
What was the main ethnic group to settle in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus?
Slavs
Who was the first czar of Russia?
Ivan the terrible
What group helped Russia to expand eastward
Cossacks
Who started the Russian Revolution
Bolsheviks
What is autarky
A country tried to make all the goods it needs
What is Russia’s most important transportation link
Trans-Siberian railroad
Why have some Russians chosen to move to Siberia
Higher wages
Where is Russia’s industrial heartland
Volga river baey
What is Russia only ice free Arctic port
Murmansk
Who were serfs
Farmers who were bound to the land
What contributes to Siberia’s harsh winters
Lack of moderating ocean winds
What is the largest swap in Europe
The pripet marshes
What type of biome is located along the northern coast of Russia
Tundra
What climate types are found in Russia Belarus and Ukraine
Subarctic
Semi arid
Tundra
Humid continental
Where Can large oilreserves be found in Russia
Ural mountains & the ob river
What city became an important center for trade between the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea areas in A.D. 800s?
Kiev
Who were the Rus?
Scandinavian traders
Who’s the reign saw the inclusion of many non-Russian peoples into the Russian Empire in the late 1700s?
Catherine the great
Who took control of the Soviet Union after a Lenin died
Joseph Stalin
What is the capital of Belarus
Minsk
What is borscht?
Beet soup
Which country still uses peat as an important fuel source
Belarus
What made the transition from communism difficult
High unemployment, crime rate, and disappearing health care system
Where is Russia’s heavy industry located
Ural Mountains & Volga river
What are the important industries in Siberia
Mining, lumber & oil
Which city has been called the Venice of the north?
st Petersburg
What are the common crops in Ukraine?
Wheat, sunflower seeds, & sugar beets
Network of labor camps in the old Soviet Union
Gulag
The production of consumer goods
Light industry
Islands between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific ocean
Kuril Islands
Ships that can break up ice and frozen water ways
Icebreakers
Factories that produces metal ores
Smelters
To resign as a monarch
Abdicate
City located on the sea of Japan
Vladivostok
Forest region composed of evergreen trees
Taiga
A zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts
Shatter belt
Location of Russia’s first geothermal power station
Kamchatka
What are the Dnieper the Don, and Volga? Why are they important to the region?
Rivers- shipping channels, hydroelectricity, and they are the largest south flowing rivers
What factors contributed to the end of the Russian Empire
Food shortages, economic depression, ww1
Why is it that Russia cannot take full advantage of its rich natural resources
Pollution & because they can’t get to it
Why might a communist country wants to follow a policy of autarky
So the country doesn’t have to depend on other countries
How has Society changed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union
Unemployment has gone up, big crime rate. Richer people are getting richer
What are the major religious groups found in the region
Eastern orthodox Christian
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Muslim
