THIS A PPT THAT I Created it talks about russia it was made for geography class task for 8th grade by bill kb

1. Russia

2. Facts…
With a land area of 6.5 million sq. miles, Russia is
the largest country in the world
Population estimates – 148 million people
Russia is one of the most sparsely populated
countries in the world
The population is predominantly urban
Russia is so large, that the climate varies greatly
throughout the country
Russia has 11 time zones

3. LocationRussia is bounded by the Arctic and Pacific
Oceans
Ural mountains divide Eurasian continent – and
Russia - to Europe and Asia (78% live west of
Urals)
Boundaries with 13 countries

4. Weather
Central Russia has a continental climate
Summers are hot and short, while the winters
are cold and long.
A Russian winter is famous for its frigid
temperatures.
Much of Russia is covered by snow six months
of year.
It has to be lived through to be really appreciated.
 Winter starts in October and continues through
March (November-January are the darkest months)

5. Brief History Summary
862 – founding of Kievan Rus by Viking Rurik,
the birth of what became the Russian state
Mid-13th century – Mongol Horde invasion
1480 – Moscow liberated from Tatar (Mongol)
yoke
1613 – Rurik dynasty ended, Romanov dynasty
begins (ends 1917)
1812 – Napoleon failed in his attempt to
conquer Russia (after occupying Moscow)

6. RUSSIA-US SIZE COMPARISON

7. REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN REALM

8. CLIMATOLOGY
CLIMATE
AVERAGE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR A GIVEN AREA
OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME
WEATHER
REFERS TO THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AT A
SPECIFIC PLACE AND TIME
CLIMATOLOGY
A BRANCH OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
CONCERNED WITH:
SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CLIMATE OVER THE SURFACE OF
THE EARH
PROCESSES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISTRIBUTION

10. Main geographical

11. Russian plain
EASTWARD CONTINUATION OF NORTH
EUROPEAN LOWLAND
CORE AREA (MOSCOW BASIN)

12. Ural mountains
2,000 MILES LONG (NORTH-
SOUTH)
YIELD A VARIETY OF

13. Eastern highlands
RANGES, RIDGES,
PRECIPITOUS VALLEYS,
VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS, LAKE
BAYKAL

14. SOVIET LEADERS
Czarism (<1917)
Lenin
Stalin
Kruschev
Breshnev
Gorbachev

15. POLITICAL FRAMEWORK
SOVIET LEGACY
Revolution (1905-1917)
Bolsheviks (majority) versus Mensheviks
(minority)
The Red Army v. the White Army
V.I. Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
Capital: Petrograd to Moscow (1918)
FEDERATION/FEDERAL STRUCTURE
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) -
1924
SSRs, ASSRs, Autonomous Regions

16. Lenin (1918 - 1927)
Introduced Marxist philosophy
Replaced private with public ownership
Developed national economic plans
Established Soviet political structure based on
ethnic identities

17. Stalin (1927 - 1953)
All assets nationalized
Creation of huge centralized state machine over all
aspects of Soviet life
Purges of dissidents (30-60 million)
Collectivized farming (sovkhoz)
Concentration on heavy industry at expense of
agriculture

18. Greater emphasis on agriculture
VirginLands Program - pastures into irrigated wheat fields
Ultimately led to Aral Sea environmental disaster
Breshnev (1964 - 1982)
Height of the ColdWar
Military/industrial economy
Khrushchev (1953 - 1964)

19. Initiated economic and political reform
PERESTROIKA
Restructuring
Intended to produce major changes to both
the economic and political system
Economic aim: to catch up with western
economies
Political aim: reform of the Communist Party
GLASNOST
Policy of encouraging greater openness in both
Gorbachev (1985 - 1991)

20. Orthodox
Muslim
Protestant
Roman Catholic
Jewish
Other
RELIGIOUS GROUPS

21. Russia is famous for the non ordinary
church design

22. TRANSPORTATION
Trans-Siberian Railroad (Baltic to Pacific)
Baikal-Amur Line
BAM railway line links central Siberian
Russia with the Pacific.
The BAM parallels the Trans-Siberian
Railway but passes north rather than south
of Lake Baikal. It is 1,928 miles (3,102 km)
long, with 1,987 bridges. Its eastern
terminus is Sovetskaya Gavan on the Tatar
Strait.
Inland Waterways
Under-used, problematic flow and orientation

23. MOSCOW
ST PETERSBURG

25. adjective, sparser, sparsest.
1.thinly scattered or distribute
d sparse population.
having
ascendancy, power,
authority, or influence