1. 10/2/18 Physical Russia (notes) and study map for quiz tomorrow!
LT: I can describe the physical features of Russia.
BBC: dead after deadly earthquake/tsunami in Sulawesi
TODAY:
Physical Russia (notes) and study map for quiz tomorrow!
Hand out Unit Sheet and assign vocabulary due 10/11/18

2. RUSSIA
Russia

3. Balalaika--it descended from the domra, an instrument from the Caucasus region of Russia. There is also similarity to the Kazakh dombra, which has 2 strings, and the Mongolian topshur.

4. MC Cartney RED SQUARE
Thousands of Russians have packed Red Square to see rock legend Sir Paul McCartney perform his first-ever concert in the former Soviet republic. McCartney told the audience, "We have come here tonight to rock Red Square", before kicking off the show with the Beatles' classic All My Loving.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who earlier gave Sir Paul a personally-guided tour of the Kremlin, was among the audience.
The show marked the first time an ex-Beatle had played in the famous Moscow venue, after the band was prohibited from performing there by the former Soviet regime.

5. LOCATION 63.1252° N, 103.7540° E Northern & Eastern hemisphere
On European and Asian Continents
11 time zones

6. What does GMT stand for?
If it is 1:00 GMT, what time is it in the purple zone?

7. Time in Russia USZ1 Kaliningrad Time UTC+2 (MSK–1) MSK Moscow Time
    
USZ1
Kaliningrad Time
UTC+2
(MSK–1)
MSK
Moscow Time
UTC+3
(MSK±0)
SAMT
Samara Time
UTC+4
(MSK+1)
YEKT
Yekaterinburg Te
UTC+5
(MSK+2)
OMST
Omsk Time
UTC+6
(MSK+3)
KRAT
Krasnoyarsk Time
UTC+7
(MSK+4)
IRKT
Irkutsk Time
UTC+8
(MSK+5)
YAKT
Yakutsk Time
UTC+9
(MSK+6)
VLAT
Vladivostok Time
UTC+10
(MSK+7)
MAGT
Magadan Time
UTC+11
(MSK+8)
PETT
Kamchatka Time
UTC+12
(MSK+9)

8. Distance from RC
Distance-- 6,600 + miles
18-22 hours

9. Description Russia consists of broad plains and steppes.
Russia is 60 percent larger than the world's second-largest country, Canada.
(Who is 3rd?, 4th?)
Russia covers one eighth of the world.

10. Bordering Countries
Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine.

11. Climate There is a sub- tropical hot climate near the Black Sea.
There is a cold, arctic climate in the north
(Siberia)

12. Physical Features
North European Plain and the West Siberian Plain Ural Mountains , Altai Mts, Salan Mts, Verkhoyansk Mts, Kolyma Mts

13. Where is Ulaan Baatar? Altay (Altai) Mountains?

15. Be good or I’ll ship you to Siberia!

16. 10.
The majority of people that live in Russia live in the European area. ****What is that?
--All the cities on the
east side of the
Ural Mountains

17. People Russia is a multi-national state with over 185 ethnic groups.
Orthodox Christianity is Russia's largest religion with 75% of the population belonging to the Orthodox Christian Church.
Literature, philosophy, classical music, ballet, architecture, painting, cinema and animation are all traditions in Russia.

18. 16. Languages Russian Tatar (Tartar) Ukrainian Chuvash Bashir Mordvin
Circassian
Chechen

19. Similarity to neighboring countries
Russia and the boarding states all have many different ethnic people within their borders.

20. Old bromance vs New???

21. What happened to Putin?

22. Old allies and new???

23. Russia west of the Urals is often called European Russia
Landforms
Moving west to east, there is first the eastern extension of the North European Plain, including the plain of the Volga River, followed by the Ural Mountains.
Russia’s territories east of the Ural Mountains are usually called Siberia, and include the West Siberian Plain, followed by an upland zone called the Central Siberian Plateau, and finally, in the Far East, a series of mountain ranges bordering the Pacific
To the south there are mountains and uplands (the Caucasus and Central Asia) as well as semiarid grasslands, or steppes (in western Central Asia).
The eastern extension of the North European Plain tolls low and flat from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine and Romania, 1200 miles east to the Ural Mountains
Russia west of the Urals is often called European Russia

25. A vast, mostly marshy lowland, about the size of the eastern United States, drains toward the north in to the Arctic Ocean
Long, bitter winters mean that in the northern half of this area, has a layer of permafrost - permanently frozen soil lies just a few feet below the surface
Permafrost is formed when the ground warms up during the short summer, but the top layer of material insulates against this warming effect, leaving the subsurface always frozen
In the far north lies the tundra - a treeless area, where only mosses and lichens grow because of the extreme cold, the shallow soils, and the permafrost

29. Climate and Vegetation
No inhabited place on Earth has as harsh a climate as the northern part of the Eurasian landmass occupied by Russia
Siberia - winters are long and cold, with only brief hours of daylight. Summers are short and cool to hot, with long days. Precipitation is moderate, coming primarily from the west
The tundra lays vast, taiga - cold-adapted coniferous forest that stretches from northern European Russia to the Pacific (and from a global perspective, this coniferous belt also includes much of Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia).
The Globalization of Resources Extraction and
Environmental Degradation
Russia has the world’s largest natural gas reserves, major oil deposits and forests that stretch across the northern reaches of the continent.

30. Climate and Vegetation
No inhabited place on Earth has as harsh a climate as tnorthern p
Siberia - winters are long and cold, with only brief hours of daylight. Summers are short and cool to hot, with long days. Precipitation is moderate, coming primarily from the west
taiga - cold-adapted coniferous forest that stretches from northern European Russia to the Pacific (and from a global perspective, this coniferous belt also includes much of Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia).
Russia has the world’s largest natural gas reserves, major oil deposits and forests that stretch across the northern reaches of the continent.

33. 10/4/18
LT: Define terms related to Russia, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War.
BBC: Presidential Alert.
TODAY:
FINISH NOTES OVER PHYSICAL FEATURES
Extra Credit word search
Assignment #4, Map Lab—due at end of class

35. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many of the post-Soviet states inherited nuclear facilities and even nuclear weapons.
Remote areas of eastern Kazakhstan used to serve as a testing ground for Soviet nuclear devices.
Residents were sparsely distributed and no one took the trouble to protect them from nuclear radiation.
Kazakhstan has disarmed the nuclear warheads that it inherited from the Soviet Union and has worked with the U.S. authorities to safeguard remaining nuclear weapons material.