Review Game

Russia is the world’s largest country. Russia and its Republics cover roughly

________ of the earth’s land surface area.

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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