Chapter 16 Vocabulary - Russia and The Caucasus

a mountain range in Russia that separates Europe and Asia

• Mt. Elbroos

• Ural Moutains

• Caucasus Mountains

• Trans-Siberian

an inland sea located between Europe and Asia; it is the largest inland body of water in the world

• Black Sea

• Arctic Sea

• Volga River

• Caspian Sea

a mountain system in southeastern Europe between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea

• Mt. Elbroos

• Ural Moutains

• Caucasus Mountains

• Trans-Siberian

the capital of Russia

• Kiev

• Siberia

• St. Petersburg

• Moscow

the vast area between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean

• Kiev

• St. Petersburg

• Siberia

• Moscow

the longest river in Europe and Russia's most important commercial river

• Black Sea

• Arctic Sea

• Volga River

• Caspian Sea

a forest of mainly evergreen trees covering much of Russia

• tundra

• taiga

• steppe

• farms

capital of Ukraine

• Kiev

• Baku

• Yerevan

• Tbilisi

a form of the Greek alphabet

• Acrylic

• Cyrillic

• Dachas

• Czar

a radical Russian Communist group

• Rus

• Slavs

• Bolsheviks

• Cyrillic