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This is the best description of the longitudinal range of the Russian Federation.
11 time zones
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The Russian Plain extends from __________ in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
Belarus
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Which river flows through western Siberia?
Ob
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Why are the sedimentary formations of Central Asia economically important?
petroleum deposits found there
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This is the best description for the climates in most of the Russian Federation.
continental
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Which Central Asian republic cannot be characterized as desert and semi-desert?
Kyrgyzstan
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Which vegetation type found in the Russian Federation represents a cold -resistant, coniferousforest?
taiga
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This is a low-growing, cold-resistant vegetation type found in the Siberian Plain.
tundra
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This vegetation type of drought-resistant grasses also refers to a very dry climate,characteristic of southern Russia, Ukraine, and northern Central Asia.
steppe
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The most fertile soils would be found under which natural form of vegetation in the RussianFederation?
steppe
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This is the best description for most of Russia, including Siberia.
flat plains
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Which gives the correct location of the Kamchatka peninsula?
extreme northeast, near Alaska
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This is the most likely place in the Russian Federation to observe active volcanoes.
Kamchatka
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What is permafrost?
permanently frozen subsurface material
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What is chernozem?
particularly fertile soils of the steppes
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What country or region has experienced the greatest environmental impact from the nuclearreactor accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986.
Belarus
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Lithuania, Belarus, southern Latvia, and western Ukraine became part of the Russian Empireduring this personʹs reign.
Catherine the Great
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Which one of the following countries was once part of the Russian Empire?
Finland
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This was the origin of the modern state of Russia in the Middle Ages.
the small principality of Muscovy
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Who was the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Nikolai Lenin
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What was the foundation of Stalinʹs industrialization drive?
collectivization of agriculture
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Stalinʹs major goal for the Communist Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) wasfor Eastern European countries to __________.
become economically self sufficient
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On what were the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union based?
predominant ethnicity within that territory
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Who changed Stalinʹs original plan of CMEA?
Nikita Khruschev
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This is the best description of the mikrorayon concept in the Soviet Union.
urban communities of 8000 to 12000 people
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The Soviet system excelled in several forms of industrial technology, but did not adequatelydevelop this technology.
computer-based information handling
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What were krays in the Soviet system?
metropolitan districts
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Which of the following was NOT a founding member of the Commonwealth of IndependentStates?
Estonia
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The term ʺSlavicʺ denotes both ethnicity and __________.
a language group
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What is the significance of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh?
it is disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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For the Russian people, the ʺnear abroadʺ signifies:
the non-Russian territories of the former Soviet Union
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Moscow and Petersburg are best characterized as:
gateway regions
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The European north of Russia, Siberia, and the Russian Far East are best characterized as:
resource-poor peripheral regions
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Chelyabinsk, Samara, Saratov, and Voronezh are best characterized as:
high-tech manufacturing regions
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All of these are regions of armed territorial conflict, except: Siberia, Ingushetia, Nagorno-Karabak, Tajikistan
Siberia
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The original resource base of the Urals region was:
iron ore and coal
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The city of Karabash in the Urals region has suffered for decades from the pollution caused by:
copper mining
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Most of the industrialization of Siberia has occurred in:
Western Siberia
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What is the sukhovey?
a hot, drying wind characteristic of Central Asian deserts
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Ethnic Russians are most closely related to:
Poles
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The most important crop grown under irrigation in Central Asia is:
cotton
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