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Russia is the world’s largest country. Russia and its Republics cover roughly
________ of the earth’s land surface area.
1/6
Under Joseph Stalin in the 1930’s and 1940’s, millions of people who were deemed “enemies of the state” were
executed or sent to the _____________________, or prison camps,
in Siberia.
Gulags
After the Revolution in 1917, Russia then organizes a diverse population of peoples in the Russian empire and forms the USSR or ___________________ of _________________ _________________ __________________.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The________________ are the natural boundary that separates Europe from
Asia.
Ural Mountains
In 1986, disaster struck when a nuclear reactor melted down in a power plant in
_____________________, Ukraine. The resulting explosion and fire sent
radioactive material into the atmosphere.
Chernobyl
__________________________ is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the
world. It is over one mile deep!
Lake Baikal
Name this building:
The Kremlin
Russia’s center for government.
_______% of Russians live in Western or European Russia.
75%
Following the collapse of the USSR, the small republic of __________ remained under Russian control. The people in
this region differ ethnically and spiritually from Russians. Many people
have taken arms and have been fighting Russian occupation, yearning
for their independence.
Chechnya
Eastern Russia, more commonly known as ________________ consists of
approximately 77% of the land but only 25% of the people live there.
Siberia
Under the reign of Czar Nicholas II, the people of Russia were afraid the czar
was becoming too influenced by ___________, an uneducated, mystic, holy
man.
Grigori Rasputin
The leader of the Bolshevik party that overthrew the Russian government in
1917 was named ______________________. After his death in 1924, his body was preserved and put on public display.
Vladimir Lenin
Infamous for being the 8th and last ruler of the Soviet Union before its collapse in
1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev