Russia Largest country …. Russia On 2 continents What divides Europe & Asia?
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Russia• Largest country …
Russia • On 2 continents
• What divides Europe & Asia?
Europe / Asia Division • Black Sea• Caucasus Mtns.• Caspian Sea• Ural Mtns.
Caucasus Mtns. & Ural Mtns.• Highest Mountains…
– Mt. Elbrus
CAUCASUS MTNS
Caucasus Mtns. • Winter Olympics
– Sochi
Caucasus Mtns. • Rugged terrain• Diversity
– Chechnya
European Russia• Mostly flat
– Rivers
Volga River
Russia’s History• Russian Empire ‘til 1917
– Czars
Russian Empire• Expanded from Moscow• Conquered …
Russia’s History• Revolution in 1917
– Led by Vladimir Lenin
• Lenin - died in 1920s
Religion in Russia
Joseph Stalin• Soviet leader 1920s-1950s
• Gulag labor camps
• Industrialization• WWII
Soviet Industry• “Command Economy”
• Lack of competition/capitalism
Soviet Industry• Low priority:
– Environment
– Industrial Safety
• Chernobyl (Ukraine)
Soviet Union • Broke apart 1991
• Now 15 separate countries
Countries from former Soviet Union• Russia
• Est, Lat, Lith
• Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova
Russia’s Population• Russia: #___ in World• Population is Declining
Russia’s Economy• Oil• Mainly in Siberia • Global Warming
Russian Cities• Moscow
St. Petersburg• Capital
St. Petersburg• Built by …
St. Petersburg• “Venice of the North”
• “Leningrad”
St. Petersburg• Hermitage Museum
Moldova• 1991
• Language
Moldova • Religion
Moldova’s Economy• Agriculture
Ukraine• Was important part of Soviet Union
– Productive …
Ukraine’s Environment• Climate
• Black-soil– Agriculture
• Ukraine’s Flag…
GOOD-BYE EUROPE!