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31 Cards in this Set
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Cucasus Mts.
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stretch from Black to Caspian Sea, contains Mt. Elbrus
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3 parts of Far Eastern Russia
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Kamchatka Penninsula, Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Islands
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Taiga
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a forest of evergreen trees growing south of the tundra in Russia
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Steppe
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a wide, flat grassland region that stretches from Ukraine to Kazakhstan
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Rus
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Viking traders from Scandanavia, gave russia it's name
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Cyrillic Alphabet
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form of the Greek Alphabet
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Tatars
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Mongol invaders
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Muscovy
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strongest state
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Ivan IV
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Ivan the terrible, first russian czar (song)
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Czar
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emporer of the Russian Empire
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Vladmir Lenin
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Leader of the Bolsheviks, overthrew the russian government(song)
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Bolsheviks
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communist groups (song)
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Josheph Stalin
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Lenins succesor (song)
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Allies of WWII
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UK and US
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consumer goods
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products used at home and in everyday life
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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last soviet leader (song)
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CIS
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commonwealth of Indepentant states
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Nicholas II
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last russian czar(song)
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Russification
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making non ethnic russians become russian by learning language and culture
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Peter Tchaikovsky
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composed music for the Nutcracker (song)
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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wrote about russia under communism (song)
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Russian Heartland
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European section of Russia
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Kremlin
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center of the russian government offices
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Smelter
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Factories that process metal ores
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Matryoshka
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nesting doll
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Habitation fog
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caused by fumes and smoke trapped over siberian cities by very cold weather
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BAM
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Baikal-Amur Mainline(railroad)
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5 natural recources of Siberia
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timber, diamond, coal, oil, and natural gas
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Kuzbas
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one of siberisas most industrial areas
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Lake Baikal
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worlds deepest lake
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Far East Russia's 2 island areas
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Sakhalin and Hokkaido
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