Chapter 9 example #59553

The Russian domain includes which of the following countries?

The Russian domain provides the world's largest example of a high-latitude continental climate. Which of the following does this help to explain?

Which of the following is a major drainage system in Siberia?

Which of the following is one of the primary environmental issues in the Russian domain?

Along which of the following water features are many of western Russia's urban centers located?

During the Soviet era, what was the voluntary and involuntary resettlement of Russians into non-Russian areas known as?

During the Soviet era, a number of planned residential zones were built in newly urban areas in an effort to form self-contained communities. What were these large massed blocks of standardized apartment buildings called?

Which of the following is an aspect of the current Russian demographic crisis?

Approximately 80 percent of Russia's populations claim what linguistic identity?

Which of the following organized religions dominates in the Russian domain?

What was the plan from the 1980s, enacted by President Gorbachev, that was an economic restructuring of the Soviet Union to make production more efficient?

Which of the following regions is the only piece of territory or exclave that remains outside Russia's contiguous land area?

Which of the following is true about the geopolitical tensions that exist between the Ukraine and Russia?

According to the textbook, Russia has unresolved border issues with which of the following countries?

Which of the following is one of the lasting effects in Russia from the Soviet period?

Which of the following countries from outside the Russian domain is currently lobbying for more Russian pipeline projects?

Which of the following is true regarding Russia's post-Soviet economy?

Which of the following sectors of Russia's economy faces challenges due to falling prices and economic sanctions?

Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks, a faction of Russian communists?

Where are most immigrants in Russia's Far East from?

Who were the original founders of Russia?

The highest population densities in the Russian Domain are found in which part of the region?

What physical feature marks the eastern boundary of the cultural subregion known as "European Russia"?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the demography of Russia today?

The Russian Empire had its origins as a small principality in the vicinity of which Russian city?

In which region of the Russian Domain would you find reindeer, Siberian tigers, and leopards?

How has the geography of Russian oil and gas exports shifted since the break-up of the Soviet Union?

What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?

In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union's Gulag Achipelago located?

What was the policy of the former Soviet Union (USSR) regarding religion within its borders?

Agricultural development is limited in much of the Russian domain. Besides climate, what other characteristic of Russia's physical geography best explains this pattern?

Which body of water in the Russian Domain is the world's largest reserve of freshwater?

Who was the main architect of the Soviet Union?

Chernobyl is the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident.

What pull factors draw Chinese immigrants to the Russian Far East?

In which Union Republic was Russification most intense?

What is the primary destination for Russian petroleum products?

Who were the Bolsheviks?

By 2003, approximately what portion of Russian farmland had been privatized?

Most average Russians living in the city live in what kind of housing?

The Caucasus Mountains are located between which two bodies of water?

Which part of the Russian Domain has historically provided the most productive agricultural areas of the region?

Where has the Russian Domain dumped its nuclear wastes?

What is the language of the Volga Tatars of the Russian Domain?

On which of these landforms is the highest concentration of the Russian population found?

The highest concentration of population is found in which of these climate types?

Which of these is the most likely explanation for why the majority of the population has historically become concentrated in this region?

Which of the following is incorrect?

The region to which the majority of the economic migrants within the Russian Domain migrate possesses a non-Russian population of _____________.

What makes Russia distinctive?

Which of the following was NOT a former Soviet Republic?

During the Soviet era, the Soviet Union nuclear weapons program conducted many tests and produced much radioactive waste. Where did Russia dump the waste?

Most of Russia is dominated by which type of climate?

What is NOT an environmental issue in the Russian Domain?

What natural feature marks the divide between European Russia and Asian Russia?

Why do the authors of your text use the word "domain" when talking about "the Russian Domain"?

Which of the following countries is NOT considered to be within the Russian Domain?

Why is the city of Chernobyl well-known?

What was the distinctive skill for which Cossacks were well-known?

Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that thrives in the podzol soil region of the Russian Domain?

What is the one element that helps us to understand geographies of climate, vegetation, and agriculture in the Russian Domain?

What are the primary characteristics of a high-latitude continental climate, as illustrated by the Russian Domain?

What is the dominant climate type in the Russian Domain?

Why is development in Siberia limited?

Why is the Russian government constructing a concrete and steel arch around the destroyed nuclear reactor in Chernobyl?

Which city is NOT in the European Russian domain?

Which country is no longer part of the Russian Domain?

What is one of the sources of the nuclear threat in the Russian Domain?

Which of the following is the primary source of pollution damaging Russia's Lake Baikal?

Which of the following is NOT an effect Russia might see from climate change?

What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the USSR?

During the Soviet era, which place served as a repository for political dissidents and troublemakers?

What does the term "Russification" mean?

When was the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad completed in the Russian Domain?

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, which of the following groups of people would be least likely to emigrate from the Russian Domain?.

Eastward movement of Russians into Siberia

Urbanization in the Russian region

The Trans-Siberian Railroad

What Russian city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet era?

The architecture of St. Petersburg, Russia, is similar to that of which other part of the world?

What was the purpose of Russification (the Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the former USSR)?

What is the shape of the land-use zones in the Russian Domain?

What type of work do most Arctic residents undertake?

What language group dominates in the Russian Domain?

Who were the Cossacks of the Russian Domain?

Which of the following statements best reflects religion in the post-Soviet era?

What was socialist realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain?

In what Russian region has Islamic fundamentalism increased its presence?

The conquest of Siberia

Approximately what percentage of Russian citizens claim a Russian linguistic identity?

Where were most of Russia's major territorial gains in the nineteenth century?

In the Russian Domain, what non-Christian religion has the greatest number of believers?

What has become of democracy in Russia in the post-Soviet era?

What was the term that Winston Churchill gave to the boundary between Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?

What was the Russian policy enacted during the 1980s that meant for "greater openness"?

Glasnost...

One of Putin's early political moves was to crack down on dissidents in the Russian republic of

Which of the following countries is NOT a member of the Eurasian Economic Union?

What have many of Russia's internal autonomous areas been requesting?

Which of the following is NOT a condition of the "Russian Federation Treaty"?

What is perestroika?

Which of the following is TRUE of Russia?

The doctrine of communism was based on the writings of

What is NOT a reason for the ongoing crisis in Ukraine?

Which of the following is TRUE of the Russian mafia?

What happened to the economy in the Russian Domain after the demise of the former Soviet Union (USSR)?

Putin abruptly canceled the construction of the South Stream Gas Pipeline. He now wants to export the natural gas to

Russia is the world's largest gas exporter and has ________% of the world's natural gas reserves.

Russia has worked to maintain economic ties to former Soviet republics by creating a counterbalance to the European Union called

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, what has become of the policy of Russification within former Soviet republics?

One of Putin's early political moves was to crack down on dissidents in the Russian republic of____________

What happened to the economy in the Russian Domain after the demise of the former Soviet Union (USSR)?

In Siberia, Soviet central planners tended to situate industrial complexes at sites where two natural and human-made features intersected. Which ones? Choose the correct pair of one natural and one human-made landscape feature.

What animal is considered such a threat to domestic livestock that it prompted the governor of Siberian Yakutia to declare a state of emergency in 2013?

Which of the following measures did Soviet leaders adopt to restrict people's mobility?

Imagine you are traveling west between Lake Baikal and Moscow on the recently completed Baikal-Amur Mainline railroad. How would the characteristics of urban centers change as you got closer to Moscow?

Between 5 and 7 million immigrants, both legal and undocumented, have moved into Russia's Far East from which of the following countries?

Eighty percent of Russian citizens claim a Russian linguistic identity. Looking at Figure 9.25, however, you can see that in nearly 50 percent of the Russian landmass, non-Slavic (non-Russian) languages are dominant. What factors explain this apparent discrepancy?

Which of the following statements accurately describes how Soviet leaders dealt with issues regarding self-government and ethnic and religious differences in the Russian hinterlands?

Which of the following countries is ruled by President Alyaksandr Lukashenk, who is often referred to as "Europe's last dictator"?

Ukraine continues to rely heavily on Russia for_____.

Health care is a major social problem within the Russian domain. Life expectancies are the lowest in which of the following countries?

Which goal best describes the political motive behind the Soviet policy of Russification?

How do urban centers change as you get closer to Moscow?

What factors explain why 50% people in Russian landmass dominant language is non-Slavic?(Non-Russian)

Which statement describes how Soviet leaders dealt with issues regarding self-government ad ethnic and religious differences in Russian hinterlands?

How has geography of Russian oil and gas exports shifted since the break-up of the Soviet Union?

What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain?

Which of the following was not a former Soviet Republic?

What is one source of the nuclear threat in the Russian Domain?

Which two countries were the primary rivals in the Cold War?

Which geographic area of the Russian Domain dominates the region?

What Russian city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet Era?

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, what has become of the policy of Russification within the former Soviet republics?

When was the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad completed in the Russian Domain?

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, which of the following groups of people would be least likely to emigrate from the Russian Domain?

What are mikrorayons?