unit 5 russia and eastern europe
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Russia
Physical Geography
• Northern European Plain• Chernozem• Moscow
• Saint Petersburg• Kiev• Ural Mountains
Political Geography
Eurasia
• Central Siberian Plateau• Russian Far East• Transcaucasia
Central Asia
• The Stans
Amu DaryaSyr Darya
Vegetation
Resources
• Timber• Hydroelectric
power• Siberia• Thermal
pollution
Climate
• Continentality• Permafrost• Tundra
• Forest– Steppe– Desert
Taiga
Human Environment Interaction
• Disappearing Lake
• Amu Darya and the Syr Darya
• Runoff• Siberian
winters• General
Winter
Trans Siberian Railroad
Chernobyl
Vikings
The Mongols
Ivan The terrible
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
• The Window to the West
The Russian Revolution
The Soviet Union
U.S.S.R.
V.I. Lenin
Josef Stalin
The Cold War
The Cold War
The Duma
The Economy
• Command economy• Collective farms
Effects of the command economy
Culture
• Ethnicity• Religion
Culture
• Ethnicity• Religion
Notable figures
• Baryshnikov
Notable figures
• Tchaikovsky
Notable figures
• Pushkin• Dostoyevs
ky
Tradition
• Kasha• Vodka
Tradition
• Banya
Transcaucasia
• “Jabal al Alsun”–Mountain of
Language
Nagorno-Karabakh
Chechnya
Georgia
Economic Potential of Transcaucasia
• Grapes• Tea• Fruits
• Oil– “The Land of Flames
Azerbaijan– The Caspian Divide
Culture
• Educated• Hospitable– supra
Central Asia
• The Silk Road• Samarkand
The Great Game
Economics in the Region
• Nuclear testing• Semey• Petro and prosperity
Cultures divided
Regional Conflict
• The Caucuses
• Chechnya• Georgia• Armenia
Azerbaijan– Nagorno-Ka
rabakh
Tradition
• Nomads– Lake Son-
Kol
• Yurts
Economic Reform
• Privatization• Distance
decay• Putin• The Federal
Districts of Russia
• Organized crime