Russia Exam Flashcards
A mountain range in Russia that extends 1,000 miles from the Artic Ocean to the Aral Sea
Ural Mountains
One of the worlds most fertile soil’s also known as black earth.
Chernozem
A term used to describe the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
Eurasia
A region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
Transcaucasia
A region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Central Asia
The part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia.
Siberia
A regions distance from the moderating influence of the sea.
continentality
A nearly continues belt of evergreen coniferous forests across the northern hemisphere , North America and Eurasia.
taiga
Rainfall not absorbed by the soil that runs into streams and rivers.
runoff
A railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok; built between 1891 and 1903.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
The countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Baltic Republics
Emperor of Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
czar
The revolt of 1917, in which the Russian Communist Party led by V. I. Lenin, took control of the government from the czars.
Russian Revolution
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991.
USSR
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after WW2, called “cold” because it never escalated into open warfare.
Cold War
A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production. Also called a planned economy.
command economy
An enormous farm in the a Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin’s reign.
collective farms
The name of the Soviet Union’s military.
RedArmy
Georgian (Russian) term for dinner party, with many dishes and courses, toasts, and short speeches.
supra
The 4,000 mile route between China and the Mediterranean Sea, named for the costly silk acquired in China.
SilkRoad
Struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for control of Central Asia in the 19th century.
Great Game
A person with no permanent home who moves according to the season from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
Nomads
A tent of Central Asia’s nomads.
yurts
A region that straddles the Caucasus Mountains that stretches between the Black and Caspian seas.
Caucasus
