Russian & Southwest Asia Vocabulary By: Amber Johnson

Word
Definition
Picture
Northern European A geomorphological
Plain
region in Europe,
mostly in Poland,
Germany, Denmark
and Netherlands

Chernozem

Fertile black soil rich

in humus, with a
lighter lime-rich
layer beneath.

Ural Mountains

A mountain range in
the W Russian
Federation,
extending N and S
from the Arctic
Ocean to near the
Caspian Sea,
forming a natural
boundary between
Europe and Asia.
Europe and Asia
considered together
as one continent.

Eurasia

Transcaucasia

A region in central
Asia, south of the
Caucasus Mountains
between the Black
and Caspian Seas in
Georgia, Armenia,
and Azerbaijan

Siberia

Black Sea

Kremlin

Region of Russia
stretching from
north-central to
northeastern Asia.

Sea between Europe

and Asia, bordered
on the north by
Moldova and
Ukraine, on the
northeast by Russia,
on the east by
Georgia, on the
south by Turkey, and
on the west by
Bulgaria and
Romania.
A citadel within a
Russian town

Red Square

A large open area in

central Moscow
bordered by the
Kremlin

Trans-Siberian
Railroad

Is a network of
railways connecting
Moscow with the
Russian Far East and
the Sea of Japan.

Baltic Republic

European countries
bordering
the Baltic Sea.

Czar

An emperor of
Russia before 1917.

Russian Revolution

A series of
revolutions in the
Russian Empire
during 1917.

USSR

Abbreviation for
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics

Cold War

A constant
nonviolent state of
hostility between
the Soviet Union and
the United States.

Command
Economy

An economy in
which production,
investment, prices,
and incomes are
determined centrally
by a government

St. Basils
Cathedral

A church in Red
Square in Moscow,
Russia.

Peter the Great

Czar of Russia who

introduced ideas
from western Europe
to reform the
government

Lenin

A Russian
revolutionary leader
of the early
twentieth century,
highly honored in
the former Soviet
Union as the founder
of the modern
Soviet state.
The doctrines of
Karl Marx and his
associate Friedrich
Engels on
economics, politics,
and society.

Marx

Gorbachev

The last president of

the Soviet Union,
Gorbachev came to
power in 1985.

Putin

Current president of
Russia

Federal Assembly

The National
Legislature of the
Russian Federation,
according to the
Constitution of
Russian Federation

Federation Council

The Upper House of

the Federal
Assembly of Russia

Duma

A legislative body in
the ruling assembly
of Russia and of
some other
republics of the
former Soviet Union

Orthodox
Christianity

The form of
Christianity
maintained by the
Eastern Orthodox
Church