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20 Cards in this Set
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Name of road that linked China and Europe
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Silk Road
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Name of Russian stories passed down orally from generation to generation
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Skazki
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Name of the world's largest forest (it is found in Russia)
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taiga
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What is the head of the Russian Orthodox Church called?
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patriarch
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The dviding line between Europe and Asia is formed by what?
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Ural Mountains
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One of the world's largest producers of cotton
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Uzbekistan
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Day that Russians honor Russian workers
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May Day
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Name the three republics of the Caucasus
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Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
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Only Russian port that remmains free of ice year round
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Kaliningrad
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Name of Tolstoy's navel that celebrated the Russian victory over Napoleon Bonaparte
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War and Peace
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What is most of Kyrgyzstan made up of?
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mountains
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Compared to its Asian part, is Russia's European part warmer or colder?
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warmer
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Region that holds the largest supply of mineral in Russia
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Siberia
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Russian city called the Venice of the North
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St. Petersburg
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Name two mountain ranges that rise up in western Russia
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Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains
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Russian composer who wrote the Nutcracker Suite
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Pete Tchaikovsky
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World's deepest freshwater lake
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Lake Baikal
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One of the world's largest reserves of natureal gas liess in this country
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Turkmenistan
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For two months out of the year in northern Siberiak the sun stays visible/not visible most of the night.
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visible
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Most of what country Turkmenistan is made up by what desert?
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Garagum desert
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