1. Review Game

3.  Russia is the world’s largest country. Russia
and its Republics cover roughly ________ of
the earth’s land surface area.

4.  1/6

5.  Under Joseph Stalin in the 1930’s and 1940’s,
millions of people who were deemed
“enemies of the state” were executed or
sent to the _____________________, or
prison camps, in Siberia.

6.  Gulags

7.  After the Revolution in 1917, Russia then
organizes a diverse population of peoples in
the Russian empire and forms the USSR or
___________________ of _________________
_________________ __________________.

8.  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

10.  The________________ are the natural
boundary that separates Europe from Asia.

11.  Ural Mountains

12.  In 1986, disaster struck when a nuclear
reactor melted down in a power plant in
_____________________, Ukraine. The
resulting explosion and fire sent radioactive
material into the atmosphere.

13.  Chernobyl

14.  __________________________ is the largest
and deepest freshwater lake in the world. It
is over one mile deep!

15.  Lake Baikal

17.  Name this building:

18.  The Kremlin
 Russia’s center for government.

19.  _______% of Russians live in Western or
European Russia.

20.  75%

21.  Following the collapse of the USSR, the small
republic of __________ remained under
Russian control. The people in this region
differ ethnically and spiritually from
Russians. Many people have taken arms and
have been fighting Russian occupation,
yearning for their independence.

22.  Chechnya

24. Eastern Russia, more commonly known as
________________ consists of approximately
77% of the land but only 25% of the people
live there.

25.  Siberia

26.  Under the reign of Czar Nicholas II, the
people of Russia were afraid the czar was
becoming too influenced by ___________, an
uneducated, mystic, holy man.

27.  Grigori Rasputin

28.  The leader of the Bolshevik party that
overthrew the Russian government in 1917
was named ______________________. After
his death in 1924, his body was preserved
and put on public display.

29.  Vladimir Lenin

31.  Infamous for being the 8th and last ruler of
the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1991.

32.  Mikhail Gorbachev