Russia

Physical Geography

• Northern European Plain• Chernozem• Moscow

• Saint Petersburg• Kiev• Ural Mountains

Political Geography

Eurasia

• Central Siberian Plateau• Russian Far East• Transcaucasia

Central Asia

• The Stans

Turan Plain

• Kara Kum• Kyzyl Kum

Amu DaryaSyr Darya

Vegetation

Resources

• Timber• Hydroelectric

power• Siberia• Thermal

pollution

Climate

• Continentality• Permafrost• Tundra

• Forest– Steppe– Desert

Taiga

Human Environment Interaction

• Disappearing Lake

• Amu Darya and the Syr Darya

• Runoff• Siberian

winters• General

Winter

Trans Siberian Railroad

Chernobyl

Vikings

The Mongols

Ivan The terrible

Peter the Great

St. Petersburg

• The Window to the West

The Russian Revolution

The Soviet Union

U.S.S.R.

V.I. Lenin

Josef Stalin

The Cold War

The Cold War

The Duma

The Economy

• Command economy• Collective farms

Effects of the command economy

Culture

• Ethnicity• Religion

Culture

• Ethnicity• Religion

Notable figures

• Baryshnikov

Notable figures

• Tchaikovsky

Notable figures

• Stravinsky

Notable figures

• Pushkin• Dostoyevs

ky

Tradition

• Kasha• Vodka

Tradition

• Dacha• Banya

Tradition

• Banya

Transcaucasia

• “Jabal al Alsun”–Mountain of

Language

Nagorno-Karabakh

Chechnya

Georgia

Economic Potential of Transcaucasia

• Grapes• Tea• Fruits

• Oil– “The Land of Flames

Azerbaijan– The Caspian Divide

Culture

• Educated• Hospitable– supra

Central Asia

• The Silk Road• Samarkand

The Great Game

Economics in the Region

• Nuclear testing• Semey• Petro and prosperity

Cultures divided

Regional Conflict

• The Caucuses

• Chechnya• Georgia• Armenia

Azerbaijan– Nagorno-Ka

rabakh

Tradition

• Nomads– Lake Son-

Kol

• Yurts

Economic Reform

• Privatization• Distance

decay• Putin• The Federal

Districts of Russia

• Organized crime