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Russian & Southwest Asia Vocabulary
Russian & Southwest Asia Vocabulary
Word
Definition
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Northern European A geomorphological
Plain
region in Europe,
mostly in Poland,
Germany, Denmark
and Netherlands
Chernozem
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.
Red Square
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.
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
Putin
Current president of
Russia
Federal Assembly
The National
Legislature of the
Russian Federation,
according to the
Constitution of
Russian Federation
Federation Council
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