1. Russia
Unit 5

2. Regional Atlas
Chapter 14

3. Kamchatka Peninsula

4. The Rivers
The Amur River… The Volga River…

5. 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

6. Climates Subarctic… Tundra… Highland… ~ Taiga ~ “Treeless plain”
~Siberia
~Many weeks of darkness and few weeks of light
Highland…

7. Land and soil
Permafrost… Chernozem…

8. Lakes
Caspian Sea… Lake Baikal…

9. Ural Mountains

10. Dardanelles
~A strait that provides access to the Mediterranean sea

11. Russian Size
Largest geographic nation the world

12. Culture and History
Chapter 15

13. Ethnic Groups
The Slavs…
~most influence
Caucasians…
Turkic people…

14. Language and Religion Languages… Religions…
~over 100 languages spoken, but mainly Russian spoke
Religions…
~Russian Orthodox

15. Russian Revolution

16. Karl Marx

17. Soviet Union- The USSR

18. Cold War

19. Fall of The Soviet Union
Glasnot and Perestroika…
December 25,1991

20. Chechnya

21. Trans-Siberian Railroad
Constructed between 1891 – 1916
Moscow to Vladivostok (5,800 miles)

22. Economy, Leadership, and Nuclear Weapons
Chapter 16

23. Soviet Command Economy
Under Communism, The Soviet Union was a Command Economy
~Unemployment was nearly nonexistent but wages were low

24. Market Economy
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin…

25. Privatization 90% of price controls removed
~Change to private ownership of property
Many Russians invested out of Country

26. The Black Market in Russia
Illegal trade and High Prices

27. The Russian Ruble
0.016 US dollars are equal to 1 Russian Ruble

28. Vladimir Putin October 7, 1952 (age 63) in Saint Petersburg
Putin has been the Prime Minister ( ) ,President of Russia ( ) , Prime Minister ( ) and again President (2012-current)

29. 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

31. Nuclear Weapons
High Stockpile left over from Cold war