russia’s landscape and history

Chapter 8

*Russia’s Landscape and History

*A Vast Landscape

Section 1

*Russia’s Climate

*Russia is the world’s largest country.*Ural Mountains*Borders 14 other countries and includes

11 time zones.*Russia’s south border is in the middle

latitudes where the northern border is in the Arctic Circle.

*European Russia

*North European Plain*Moscow*St. Petersburg*Steppe*Caucasus Mountains

*East of the Urals

*Siberia*Tundra*Permafrost*The taiga*Southern Siberia*The Kamchatka Peninsula

*Inland Water Areas

*Black Sea*Caspian Sea*Lake Baikal*The Volga River

*P. 242 #2-8

*Bellringer for 11/8/12

*Describe the geography of Russia, 3-5 sentences

*A Troubled History

Section 2

*Early Russia

*Kiev*Kievan Rus

*Muscovy*Ivan III*Ivan the Great

*Rise of the Czars

*Czars*Ivan the Terrible*Ivan IV

*Catherine the Great*Peter the Great*St. Petersburg

*Dramatic Changes

*1812*Napoleon Bonaparte*1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky

*Industrialize

*The Soviet Era

*1917*Russian Revolution*Vladimir Lenin

*Growth of Soviet Power*Union of Soviet Socialist Republics*Joseph Stalin

*Cold War

*Soviet Collapse

*Mikhail Gorbachev*Perestroika*Free enterprise system*glasnost

*P. 242 #2-8*P. 249 #2-8

*Bellringer for 11/9/12

*Name three landforms that are found in Russia

Chapter 9

*The New Russia and Independent Republics

*From Communism to Free Enterprise

Section 1

*Difficult Changes in Russia

*Communism vs Free Enterprise

*Russia’s Economic Regions

*The Moscow Region*Port Cities*Kaliningrad*St. Petersburg*Murmansk*Vladivostok

*Siberia*The Volga and Urals Region

*Environmental Issues

*Nuclear energy*Air pollution*Life expectancy*Water pollution

*Russia’s People and Culture

Section 2

*Political Challenges

*Today, Russia is a democracy*Also a Federal Republic*Russia’s President*1st Boris Yeltsin*2nd Vladimir Putin*Both strengthened the economy.

*Ethnic Challenges

*Majority group*Slavs who speak Russia

*Minority groups*100 other ethnic groups

*Chechnya

*Daily Life

*Urban and Rural Life*75% of population live in cities

*Religion*Russian Orthodox Church

*Celebrations, foods and sports*Borscht*Shchi*piroshki

*Rich Cultural Traditions

*Skazki*War and Peace*Tchaikovsky*Sleepin gBeauty*The Nutcracker

*The Republics Emerge

Section 3

*Republics of the Caucasus

*Armenia*Erevan

*Azerbaijan*Baku*Cash crops

*Georgia*T’bilisi

*Central Asian Republics

*Kazakhstan*Steppe*nomads

*Uzbekistan*Tashkent*Aral Sea

*Central Asian Republics

*Turkmenistan*Garagum*Ashgabat

*Kyrgyzstan* Tian Shan* Elevation*Bilingual*Bishkek

*Tajikistan* Ismail Samani Peak*Dushanbe