Geography:
Russia is the largest country with a land size of 6,592,812 Square Miles, 17,075,400 Square Kilometers (The USSR had a land mass of 8,144,228 Square Miles). Russia occupies most of Eastern Europe to North Asia. It stretches all the way from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea/Caucus Mountain Region. Russia is bordered by North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Norway. Russia resides in 11 time zones. Russia’s highest peak is Mount Elbrus: 5,642 m with the Caspian Sea (-28 m) is its lowest point.
People: Russia is made up of over 185 ethnic groups, with Russians and being the largest. The
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After the Mongols destroyed Kiev, Russia was split into many different kingdoms. Ivan IV “the Terrible”, was the first Muscovite czar and is considered to have created the first Russian state in the 1500s. During the late 1600s and early 1700s, Peter the Great started western reformations of Russia and extended Russian territory to the west after defeating the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. Alexander I defeated Napoleon during his invasion of Russia in 1812-13. He then created the Holy Alliance witch destroyed the Liberal European Movement. Then his successor, Alexander II, expanded the Russian border to the Pacific Ocean and into Central Asia. The USSR emerged on Dec. 30, 1922 and was dissolved in the early 1990s. During the history of the USSR, Stalin emerged as one of the most important leaders, mostly due to WWII. Though involved with Nazi Germany in the early years of the war, Russia quickly joined the allies after an attack by Germany on Russia. Germany pressed into Russia until it suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad, which became a major turning point in the war. After WWII Russia and the United States entered into the Cold War, which only turned hot in conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam. After the fall of the USSR, Russia entered financial turmoil and entered in many small scale conflicts with neighboring countries. But in 2000, after Yeltsin resigned, Putin rose to power and brought Russia under political
Being the world’s largest country by land area, nearly twice the size of Canada, Russia’s population ranks sixth in the world, and is spread across 5,000 miles from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. Russia borders 14 other countries, spans 11 time zones and has a wide range of environments that include deserts, deep forests, and an arctic tundra. Russia contains Europe’s longest river, the Volga River, as well as its largest lake, Lake Ladoga. Its climate can be described as highly continental, from extreme cold in its northern regions and Siberia to subtropical in areas along the Black Sea. Russia’s capital and largest city is Moscow, followed by St. Petersburg. These cities combined are Russia’s most prominent
War had a huge political impact on Russia from 1856 to 1964, but it was not the only factor that brought about political change. Political change was influenced by many aspects. A big part of what brought about political change was the different wars that took place which included; The Crimean war of 1853, The Russo-Japanese war of 1904 and lastly the First World War that began in 1914. These Wars were all significant in motivating political change for Russia from the years 1856 to 1964, but again they cannot be seen as the only factor which had led to a political turning point. Reforming leaders such as Alexander II, Nicholas II, Stalin and Khrushchev all played significantly big roles in also bringing about some political change for Russia. Although events such as War and the acts of leaders did accelerate political change for Russia, we must not forget the impact that Revolutionary movements such as the Murder of Alexander II and the Bolsheviks revolution had.
From its vast mountains to its extending rivers, Russia has been blessed with a variety of geographical features which have aided its preeminence in history. These features have immensely affected how Russia developed throughout the years. Russia is known to be the largest country in the world: it stretches about six thousand miles across Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. Because of its vast size and abundance of land, Russia has various different geographical features. It consists of the Eurasian steppes, the Dnieper, Neva, and Volga Rivers, and the Ural Mountains (Vodovozov). These geographic features have served as natural barriers, physical boundaries, and for agricultural purposes.
by the East Slavs who had pagan beliefs, but in the 10 th century adopted the
The Russian history from 1922 to 1991 was actually history of the Soviet Union, which encompassed Russia, Ukrainian Byelorussian, and Transcaucasia republics. Communism was the main government for the first few years, which appeared to not work as they tried to centralize the economy during the
Between 1900-1960 CE, Russia/Soviet Union had undergone major developments in which their political ideologies progressed from an absolute monarchy to communism. Another major development in Russia was the change in the status of religion as the power of religion progressively decreased as communism arose. Although Russia’s political ideologies and the status of religion has changed, the forms of governance in Russia generally remained the same. Russia at the time were faced with millions of casualties from both World War I and World War II, this caused their government to be in turmoil which then lead to the major changes in the Soviet Union.
Before Russia even became a nation it began as empire instead of creating colonies outside of it region they started at home.By banding together and creating a stronger region by compiling resources from their territory.
Before the nation of Russia became the international powerhouse that we knew as the USSR, it was first the small backwater country, whose economy ran on the use of serfs, Czar 's ruled every aspect, and the chance of growth was limited; however, once the year 1917 came along, the entire aspect of what was to be the Russia nation changed into a very strange and new one, called the United of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union was, at one point, second only to the United States of America and had the power to destroy the entire planet with the single acknowledgement of their leader, because of their nuclear capabilities and their political power. The Russian country became the great Communist powerhouse after a great revolution in
In 1237 Batu Khan launched an invasion into Kievan Rus '. Over the next three years the Mongols destroyed almost all of the major cities. For the next century or so it was pretty quiet. Around the 14th century, the city of Moscow started growing in influence. To show the city 's importance the patriarchate of Russian Orthodox Church moved to the city. In 1598, Boris Godunov was made Tsar. Following this, invading armies from Poland led by people claiming to be Dmitre failed to take Moscow. In June of 1812, Napoleon began his Russian invasion. An army of half a million started the march to Moscow. The Russians knew they couldn 't take the army head on and decided to mount a defensive campaign of strategic retreat, devastating the land as they fell back and harassing the flanks of the French. By September the French army had been reduced by two thirds. When Napoleon 's army arrived in Moscow on September the 14, they found it depopulated and void of resources. That night buildings in Moscow caught fire leaving the French troops without shelter. By the time the troops returned, only ten thousand men survived. This war ensured Russia 's status as a power in Europe after Napoleon. In 1894 Nicholas II took the throne. He wasn 't the smartest leader, and his ministers were almost all reactionaries. In 1905 the Japanese attacked Russia. Russia suffered several defeats that dissolved any
Chapter one in our textbook taught me much about Russia’s geography and people. The chapter creatively described Russia’s characteristics so that it can be easily imagined. The chapter described how Russia remains the largest country in the world, it is almost twice the size of the United States. The exact length of Russia from east to west is about 10,000 kilometers, and from north to south measures more than 4,000 kilometers. Some of the physical features of Russia include many large rivers and lakes. The longest rivers include are the Siberian ones, the Lena, the Irtysh and the Ob. Another unique characteristics of Russia is climate. Due to Russia’s extreme northern location, it has caused its climate to be brutal. Average winter temperatures
Russia has become the world’s largest country, expanding across 11 different time zones while covering 17 million sq km.
Russia is a huge landmass and covers a vast amount of the earth’s surface area. Being so large, Russia contains a huge variety of different geographical features. There are several mountains, rivers, bodies of water, climate zones, and population centers in Russia. Most of the development in Russia is located in its core area, east of the Ural Mountains. There are several countries around Russia that used to be parts of a larger union called The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, however, in 1991, the USSR broke apart into several other independent states. The new states that were formed are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
The most powerful entities of Russia (one of the main Soviet Union creators) took control when they began to spread the motto "all power to the soviets." It is at this time that the monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II was threatened and finally destroyed in 1917. From this year, began the establishment of a social state and free of exploiters was consolidated until more than a dozen countries were they joined him.
Russia, known by most as the Russian Federation, is a federal state in Eurasia. Russia is the largest country in the world at 17,075,200 square kilometres by surface area, covering more than one eighth of Earth 's inhabited land, and the ninth most populous, with over 146.6 million people as of end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the East, with almost eight-tenths of the population living within the European region of Russia. Russia 's capital, Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe and the world. Its ohter major urban cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
Russia is a country in Northern Eurasia, bordered by the Arctic Ocean, and numerous countries such as China, Mongolia, and Georgia. The total area of Russia is 17,098,242 square kilometers (CIA.gov), making it the largest country in the world. The terrain of the country is “broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions” (CIA.gov) with a climate that ranges from humid and warm places to extremely frigid regions varying on its location. Russia is a federation