MAP IT OUT

1. name three countries that border Russia.- Mongolia,China, North Korea

2. Moscow is about how many kilometers from Saint Petersburg?

3. Name one crop grown between the Ob River and the Volga River.-Grain

4. What job might a worker living on Sakhalin Island have?

5. Russia is part of two continents. Which two? -Europe in the west, Asia in the east

 

 

 

RUSSIA'S HISTORY

1. For how many years did Czar Alexander II rule? what did he accomplish?

- 26 years / frees the serfs, or peasant farmworkers

2. When was the U.S.S.R. formed? whatdo the initials stand for?

- 1992/ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

3. Which leader took the U.S.S.R into World War II?

-Joseph Stalin

4. Who was the first man in space? How many years ago did he accomplish this feat?

-Yuri A. Gagarin

5. Who was Mikhail Gorbacev? What impact did he have on Russia?

- Restructed the government.