Economic - Key Facts

Question 1

Number of Moscow Minsteries abolished in the Sixth Five Year Plan

Answer 1

60

Question 2

Number of economic regions in the USSR

Answer 2

105

Question 3

Percentage increase in industrial output under the Fifth Five Year Plan

Answer 3

84%

Question 4

Percentage increase in the number of consumer goods in the Fifth Five Year Plan

Answer 4

60%

Question 5

Name of the body that controlled the economy centrally

Answer 5

Supreme Economic Council

Question 6

Name of the Russian airline

Answer 6

Aeroflot Corporation

Question 7

Name of Russia’s first artifical satelite

Answer 7

Sputnik

Question 8

Name of the fist dog in orbit

Answer 8

Laika

Question 9

Name of the first man in space

Answer 9

Yuri Gagarin

Question 10

Name of the first women in space

Answer 10

Valentina Tereshkova

Question 11

Place where the Soviets were able to display their technology

Answer 11

Brussel World Fair

Question 12

Economic growth in 1964

Answer 12

7.5%

Question 13

Growth of consumer industries in 1964

Answer 13

2%

Question 14

Person who theorised many of Khrushchev’s argicultural policies

Answer 14

Trofim Lysenko

Question 15

Factional decrease in the number of collectivised farms

Answer 15

Halved

Question 16

Key Agricultural Campaigns under Khrushchev

Answer 16

• Chemical Fertiliser
• Maize
• Cornflakes
• Private Cows
• Virgin Lands Scheme

Question 17

Group that were encourage to take part in the Virgin Land Scheme

Answer 17

Komsomol

Question 18

Amount of land cultivated under the Virgin Land Scheme

Answer 18

35.9 Million Hectares

Question 19

Percentage of peasant income that private plots accounted for

Answer 19

50%

Question 20

Percentage of produce sold in the USSR that was from private plots

Answer 20

30%

Question 21

Percentage decrease in harvest from 1962 to 1963

Answer 21

9%

Question 22

Place were people protested in 1962

Answer 22

Novocherkassak

Question 23

Number of people killed in the 1962 riots

Answer 23

24