| A | B |
|---|
| Czar | a ruler or king |
| Taiga | a swampy, evergreen forest bordering on the artic tundra |
| polar climate | a climate with long, cold winters |
| Atheist | a person who does not believe in God |
| pogrom | an organized killing of groups of people |
| command economy | an economy in which the government makes the key econopmic decisions |
| nuclear waste | the waste produced by atomic power plants |
| two seas bordering Russia | Baltic Sea and Bering Selarge Russian cities |
| Moscow, St.Petersburg, and Nizhniy | large Russian cities |
| largest region of Russia | Siberia |
| The Urals | mountains that contain huge mineral deposits of minerals |
| Central Siberian Plateau | undeveloped natural resources |
| plains | most common physical feature of Russia |
| largest forest in the world | taiga |
| Volga | huge river in Russia |
| Lake Baykal | famous Russian lake wit fresh water supply |
| Russians | largest ethnic grooup in Russia |
| widely spoken language | Russian |
| main religion | Russian Orthodox |
| Moscow | capital of Russia |
| Krelin | political center of Russia |
| Peter the Great | founded St. Petersburg, Russia |
| St. Petersburg, Russia | Russia's biggest seaport on the Baltic Sea |
| changed from command economy | to a market economy |
| Russia rich in | natural resources |
| three valuable resources | forest, furs, fish |
| Siberia | rich in deposits of minerals |
| 60% of the people | work in service industries |
| farmers grow | sugar beets andsoybeans |
| Russia is biggest | grower of sunflower seeds |
