Russia Unit 5
Regional Atlas Chapter 14
Kamchatka Peninsula
The Rivers The Amur River… The Volga River…
Climates Steppe… Humid Continental… ~dry summers and long, cold, and dry winters ~Rich soil Humid Continental… ~Temperatures range from 9 degrees to 14 degrees (January to June) and 66 degrees to 99 degrees (July to December) ~fertile grasslands and forests
Climates Subarctic… Tundra… Highland… ~ Taiga ~ “Treeless plain” ~Siberia ~Many weeks of darkness and few weeks of light Highland…
Land and soil Permafrost… Chernozem…
Lakes Caspian Sea… Lake Baikal…
Ural Mountains
Dardanelles ~A strait that provides access to the Mediterranean sea
Russian Size Largest geographic nation the world
Culture and History Chapter 15
Ethnic Groups The Slavs… ~most influence Caucasians… Turkic people…
Language and Religion Languages… Religions… ~over 100 languages spoken, but mainly Russian spoke Religions… ~Russian Orthodox
Russian Revolution
Karl Marx
Soviet Union- The USSR
Cold War
Fall of The Soviet Union Glasnot and Perestroika… December 25,1991
Chechnya
Trans-Siberian Railroad Constructed between 1891 – 1916 Moscow to Vladivostok (5,800 miles)
Economy, Leadership, and Nuclear Weapons Chapter 16
Soviet Command Economy Under Communism, The Soviet Union was a Command Economy ~Unemployment was nearly nonexistent but wages were low
Market Economy Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin…
Privatization 90% of price controls removed ~Change to private ownership of property Many Russians invested out of Country
The Black Market in Russia Illegal trade and High Prices
The Russian Ruble 0.016 US dollars are equal to 1 Russian Ruble
Vladimir Putin October 7, 1952 (age 63) in Saint Petersburg Putin has been the Prime Minister (1999-2000) ,President of Russia (2000-2008) , Prime Minister (2008-2012) and again President (2012-current)
Chernobyl 1986- a fire in the town released radioactivity, 400 times more powerful than the bomb dropped at Hiroshima Prevailing winds made other countries suffer too Millions continue to suffer, thousands died and 350,000 were displaced because the Soviets were slow to alert
Nuclear Weapons High Stockpile left over from Cold war