| A | B |
|---|
| viking tribe from whom Russia got its name | Rus |
| Russian title which means "emperor" | czar |
| person who believes there is no God | atheist |
| first czar of Russia | Ivan the Terrible |
| French emperor who occupied Moscow and withdrew because of bitter, cold weather | Napoleon |
| last czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
| founderof communism | Marx |
| leader of the first communist state in history | Lenin |
| one of the most brutal rulers of all time | Stalin |
| most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union | Yeltsin |
| capital of Russia | Moscow |
| capital of Ukraine | Kiev |
| capital of Belarus | Minsk |
| capital of Poland | Warsaw |
| capital of Czech Republic | Prague |
| capital of Slovakia | Bratislava |
| capital of Hungary | Budapest |
| capital of Romania | Bucharest |
| capital of Bulgaria | Sofia |
| capital of Albania | Tirane |
| largest country in the world | Russia |
| Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov were early Russian what? | writers |
| traditionally nomadic people, have one of the largest settlements in Russia | Gypsies |
| Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are called Baltic States because of their location on what? | Baltic Sea |
| mountains that divide European Russia from Asian Russia | Ural |
| Europe's longest river | Volga |
| Europe's highest peak | Mt. Elbrus |
| largest level region in the world | Western Siberian Plain |
| world's deepest freshwater lake | Lake Baikal |
| two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea | Bosporus and Dardanelles |
| first true national leader of united Russia | Ivann III |
| name given to early Russian followers of Marx | Bolsheviks |
| system of governement that says there is no God and allows people no freedom | communism |
| war Russia lost to England, France, Turkey and Sardinia | Crimean War |
| name given to Stalin's reign of terror | Great Purge |
| use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something | propaganda |
| term meaning "restructuring" | perestroika |
| term meaning "openness" | glasnost |
| organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace | United Nations |
| famous Russian food | black caviar |
