RUSSIA

Geography assessment
Where is it?

• Spread in half Asia and Europe

• 82km from Alaska in USA across
a sea known as Bering Strait
• Russian exclave called
Kaliningrad
• Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
Forms the USSR (Soviet Union)
controlled from Moscow but
broke in 1991
• Crimea is a part of Ukraine but
run by Russia
What’s it like?
• 17.1 million sqkm
• Has 11 time zones
• 146 million population
• Landscapes of Russia are
tundras, volcanoes and grassy
plains.
• Natural resources oil, gas,
timber, coal, diamond, metals
are natural resources of Russia
• Emperors of Russia called Tsars
 Russia’s main
physical
features
• The natural border between Europe
and Asia are Ural mountains
• The highest peak is Mount Elbrus,
it’s 5642 metres
• East European Plain – Have less
harsh climate, best farmland and
most population lives there.
• West Siberian Plain – It has
coniferous forest, frozen tundra. This
plain is low and flat. It also has the
gas and oil reserves.
• Central Siberian Plate – This area is
rich in: diamonds, silver, Platinum,
copper, gold, oil, coal, gas, nickel,
iron etc. It’s an upland area, flat I
some places.
Lakes and seas
• Lake Baikal is deepest lake. It holds
1/5th of earth liquid fresh water.
• Baltic Sea bordered by Kaliningrad,
it joins the North sea.
• Black sea flows into Mediterranean
sea .

Rivers
• Volga is the longest river in Europe.
• River Amur forms a natural border
between Russia
Climate zones and
biomes
• Russia’s climate dictated by latitude, altitude and distance from the sea.
Russia’s Biome
1. Tundra is covered in snow in winter. In summer the soil thaws.
2. Taiga biome is coniferous forest
3. Temperature forest is a mixture of trees: oak, deciduous trees.
4. Steppe biome is grassland, only few trees and fertile soil.
5. Mountain forest/ mountain steppe – higher you go colder it is, soil gets
thinner.
Interviewing the
president
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