Chapter 7 Russia

Study Guide

Terms
Czar Federal district
Autocrat Kremlin
Devolution Steppes
Oblast Russian Orthodox
Okrug USSR
Krais Centralized Socialist Government
Autonomous republic CIS

People
Karl Marx
Cossacks
Vladmir Lenin

Places
Volga River
Mount Elbrus
Ob-Irtysh River
Mount Klyuchevskaya
Bering Strait
St. Petersburg

Concepts
-Know the key ports on the following bodies of water: Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Lower
Volga, Sea of Azov (Don River), Sea of Japan (Pacific Ocean).
-Main Crop of Northwest Russia.
-First Russian City
-Economic activity north of the Arctic Circle
-7 Federalist Districts and their main features
-Russian Legislature
-Disputed claims with Japan over islands off the Pacific coast

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