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What is the most powerful state during the monogol rule?

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Muscovy

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What was the main ethnic group to settle in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus?

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Slavs

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Who was the first czar of Russia?

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Ivan the terrible

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What group helped Russia to expand eastward

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Cossacks

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Who started the Russian Revolution

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Bolsheviks

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What is autarky

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A country tried to make all the goods it needs

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What is Russia’s most important transportation link

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Trans-Siberian railroad

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Why have some Russians chosen to move to Siberia

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Higher wages

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Where is Russia’s industrial heartland

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Volga river baey

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What is Russia only ice free Arctic port

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Murmansk

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Who were serfs

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Farmers who were bound to the land

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What contributes to Siberia’s harsh winters

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Lack of moderating ocean winds

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What is the largest swap in Europe

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The pripet marshes

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What type of biome is located along the northern coast of Russia

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Tundra

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What climate types are found in Russia Belarus and Ukraine

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Subarctic
Semi arid
Tundra
Humid continental

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Where Can large oilreserves be found in Russia

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Ural mountains & the ob river

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What city became an important center for trade between the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea areas in A.D. 800s?

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Kiev

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Who were the Rus?

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Scandinavian traders

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Who’s the reign saw the inclusion of many non-Russian peoples into the Russian Empire in the late 1700s?

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Catherine the great

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Who took control of the Soviet Union after a Lenin died

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Joseph Stalin

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What is the capital of Belarus

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Minsk

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What is borscht?

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Beet soup

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Which country still uses peat as an important fuel source

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Belarus

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What made the transition from communism difficult

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High unemployment, crime rate, and disappearing health care system

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Where is Russia’s heavy industry located

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Ural Mountains & Volga river

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What are the important industries in Siberia

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Mining, lumber & oil

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Which city has been called the Venice of the north?

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st Petersburg

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What are the common crops in Ukraine?

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Wheat, sunflower seeds, & sugar beets

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Network of labor camps in the old Soviet Union

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Gulag

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The production of consumer goods

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Light industry

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Islands between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific ocean

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Kuril Islands

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Ships that can break up ice and frozen water ways

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Icebreakers

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Factories that produces metal ores

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Smelters

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To resign as a monarch

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Abdicate

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City located on the sea of Japan

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Vladivostok

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Forest region composed of evergreen trees

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Taiga

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A zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts

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Shatter belt

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Location of Russia’s first geothermal power station

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Kamchatka

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What are the Dnieper the Don, and Volga? Why are they important to the region?

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Rivers- shipping channels, hydroelectricity, and they are the largest south flowing rivers

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What factors contributed to the end of the Russian Empire

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Food shortages, economic depression, ww1

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Why is it that Russia cannot take full advantage of its rich natural resources

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Pollution & because they can’t get to it

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Why might a communist country wants to follow a policy of autarky

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So the country doesn’t have to depend on other countries

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How has Society changed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union

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Unemployment has gone up, big crime rate. Richer people are getting richer

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What are the major religious groups found in the region

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Eastern orthodox Christian
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Muslim

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