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Chapter 14
Physical Geo. Of Russia
• Caucasus Mts
– Mt. Elbrus, highest point in
Russia
– Good climate, high population
• Largest country in the world (6.6
million square miles)
- (could fit 2 USA in Russia)
• N. European Plain
– Swampy, poor drainage in N
– S has good rivers & soil
– 75% of all pop.
• Mostly flat w/mts in areas
- Urals – short but iron ore, oil,
gas deposits
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• Russia has the
longest continuous
coastline of any
country
• Black Sea is the
warm water outlet
• Caspian Sea is the
largest inland body of
water in the world
(water comes in, does
not flow out –
evaporation takes it
out)
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• Lake Baikal deepest freshwater lake in
the world (20% of Earth’
Earth’s total
freshwater; all 5 Great Lakes have about
20%)
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• LOTS of resources
– Minerals
– Fossil Fuels (16% world’
world’s coal)
– Hydroelectric power
• 10% of land is arable
- Permafrost
- Black Earth Belt – fertile land
- 1/5 of world’
world’s forests in Russia
(75% in Siberia)
• Most rivers start in Siberia
• Volga River
– Connects Moscow to Caspian Sea
– Connects to Baltic Sea (via canals)
– Very polluted b/c of traffic
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• CLIMATE REGIONS
Works Cited
– Create a chart (like page 364, #4) to
describe Russia’
Russia’s climate region and the
natural vegetation that grows there.
Climate Region
High Latitude:
Tundra
Subarctic
Midlatitude:
Midlatitude:
Humid Continental
Steppe
• http://www.zin.ru/projects/caspdiv/biodiver
sity_report.html
• http://pinterest.com/pin/882424739212075
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• http://gailscruiseholidays.wordpress.com/2
011/12/15/451/
Characteristics
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- 85% of pop. live in West
- Siberia is 2/3 of country, 15% of pop. –
why?
Russia – History & Culture
Cultural Geography
- 80% of pop. are Russian (ethnically
Slavs)
- 32 ethnic
groups
w/in Russia
in own
republics
(states)
- Soviets promoted atheism
- Since it’
it’s fall…
fall…
- Russian Orthodox – main; R.C. &
Prot. emerging
- Islam – 2nd largest, near Caucasus
Mts.
- Judaism –
traditionally
persecuted
- Buddhism
near Caspian
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Education & Health Care
- Soviets stressed math & science
- schools now are more balanced; low
budgets make $ hard to find for ed.
- Avg. life exp. is 66 years
- Inf. Mortality is 12/1000 births
- Are in a NEGATIVE population growth
cycle – what does that mean?
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ARTS
-early on, inspired by
religion
onion domes
represented heaven
• Tchaikovsky - (#1) (#2)
• Pushkin (poem)
• Tolstoy & Dostoyevsky (@4 minutes)
-1700’
1700’s – art became
secular (Peter the Great
intro. Western culture)
Socialist realism
– glorify the govt
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HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
-Varangians (from Scandanavia)
Scandanavia) settles
w/the Rus
-power struggles made areas weak
Red – trade w/Volga area
-1200’
1200’s Mongols
Purple – trade w/Greeks
Orange – other trade
invade;
allowed Slavs
selfself-rule
(some still
fled to
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Muscovy area)
• 1613 – Romanov rule
• Czar Peter I – enlarged Russia
– Created strong military, traded
w/West, created St. Petersburg
• Empress Catherine (1700’
(1700’s)
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• Ivan the Great rallies Slavs & fought
Mongols
• Ivan the Terrible (grandson), further
strengthened area and became first czar
(tsar)
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• Mid 1800’s brought problems:
– Freed serfs moved to cities, causing
overcrowding, job strain, etc.
– Russification caused trouble for nonRussians, esp. Jews
• Many turned to socialism (video @2 min)
– Secured the warm water port
• Alexander III
– Connected Moscow to
Vladivostok w/RR
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– Karl Marx, father of
communism said socialism
was first w/govt take over;
true communism would
come after a struggle by
the people
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• Two parties emerged:
• WWII made things worse; people asked
for “bread and freedom”
• Czar Nicholas abdicates throne; a year
later he & his family are
executed (last
absolute rulers
of Europe)
– Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, believed they
needed to force communism
– Mensheviks believed communism would
eventually happen
• Who won???
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• Bolsheviks…
– Took Russia out of WWI (lost land to
Germany)
– Took over industry, food distribution
– Established USSR in 1922
– Regained land
– Stalin took over after Lenin & made USSR an
industrial giant
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• US & USSR had a cold war
– Weapons were words & propaganda
• 1985 – large differences between workers &
leaders
– Gorbachev was leader
– Perestroika, restructuring economics, and
glasnost, period of greater political openness
• 1991 – breakdown of USSR
• Many issues, including accounting for weapons, poor
economy, questionable leadership
• Recently, leadership has taken steps away from
democracy
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WORKS CITED
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http://www.ephotopix.com/russia_political_map.html
http://www.sbras.ru/en/cmn/general.html
http://home.comcast.net/~DiazStudents/whistory_units1.htm
http://caelumetterra.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/the-beauty-of-your-house-russian-onion-domes/
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/pushkin_a/pushkin_a.html
http://www.biography.com/people/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-9503375
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-brief-lives-leo-tolstoy/
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/1235552h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
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http://www.biography.com/people/ivan-the-terrible-9350679
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=bergen&book=russi
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Empress_Catherine_The_Great_1787_(Mikhail_Shibanov).JPG
http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/en/people/alexander_iii.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Marx.jpg
http://afrussianrevolution.wikispaces.com/The+reign+of+Czar+Nicholas+II
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Anna_Anderson
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/vladimir%20ilyich%20lenin
http://was-stalin-a-rothschild.blogspot.com/
http://ukrmap.su/en-wh10/1265.html
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