URP3001 CHAPTER 6

Moscow's rise to importance in Russia cannot be attributed to:

During the Soviet period, "progress" was narrowly conceptualized as:

"Closed cities" became a hallmark of Soviet-era urban geography. Such cities:

What was absent from Soviet planning principles?

Which of these statements is not true about Moscow? Inferior Soviet-era housing has now been all replaced by new privatized housing. Moscow is in many ways the primate city of Russia, Moscow is vastly richer than most other parts of Russia, The Kremlin is the historic core and is still occupied by the government.

Changes on the urban landscape since the break-up of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism include all of the following except: Horizontal city expansion with minimal vertical development of multistoried buildings The suburbanization of housing along roads leading into urban centers, An increasing number of cars leading to new developments on urban peripheries, The emergence of real estate markets and the densification of urban cores

Astana, capital of the Soviet successor state of Kazakhstan, has modeled itself on Dubai. What do both cities now have in common?

What city was shaped by its relative location near the headwaters of the Volga, Dvina, and Dnieper River systems, all of which flowed in different directions?

What economic activities are of growing importance for those who remain behind in Russian cities that are losing population because of outmigration to larger urban centers? Agriculture on household plots of land, increased gathering of communal forest resources, hunting and fishing in the local countryside all of the above

Which one of the following statements is true of Russian cities today but did not apply during Soviet times?

During the Soviet period, one way in which government tried to keep urban growth within projected levels was by:

What was built on the spot in St. Petersburg where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated in 1881?

The growth of Kiev (or Kyiv) as the core of the first Russian state was linked to trade:

Historical trading cities along the rivers of European Russia were each dominated by a fortress. The fortress was called:

In a microrayon, as developed during the Soviet period, in what kind of residential units did people live?

Churches, museums, and palaces are landscape features that mark what era of Russian city development?

Before the Communist Revolution in 1917, the capital of tsarist Russia was:

St. Petersburg:

Problems confronting the Russian urban system include all of the following except: The continuing decline of the urban population throughout the nation The pull of Asia on cities in the Russian Far East, The huge distances between cities, The harsh physical environment)

When the Soviet Union collapsed, what happened to Moscow?

Which one of the following has been part of the transition from Soviet to Post-Soviet cities?

The pattern in Russia is similar to the U.S.: existing central city buildings in poor condition but in good locations are converted into upscale apartments, often displacing long-time residents. This process is known as:

An aspect of Soviet urban planning that grew out of socialist ideologies yet helps achieve the goals of urban sustainability today is Moscow's:

Kazan is in the Russian Federation, but it is also the capital city of a "republic" of its own. What is the name of the republic where Kazan is located?

The urbanization of Siberia:

In which of the following cities would you be most likely to find a new generation of mosques?

"Secret cities" were built during the Soviet period but began to lose population in the 1980s as the Soviet economy grew weaker. Which one of the following is true of secret cities?

With increasing consumption and lagging public services, what has happened to the landscapes around many Russian apartment buildings in the post-Soviet era?

Russians constitute the largest ethnic group in Kazan, but they account for only 50% of the city's population. What ethnic group constitutes 42% of Kazan's population?

What city was built by the tsar to be Russia's "window on the west" in the early 1700s?

Which one of these associations is incorrect?

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is: