Unit 5 Russian Vocab

Rich, black, top-soil found in the North European Plain; especially in Russia and the Ukraine.

• Chernozem

• Czar

• Bolshevik

• Perestroika

Ruler of Russia until the 1917 Revolution.

• Chernozem

• Czar

• Bolshevik

• Perestroika

A revolutionary group in Russia led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

• Chernozem

• Czar

• Bolshevik

• Perestroika

In Russian, “restructuring”; part of Gorbachev’s plan for reforming the Soviet government.

• Chernozem

• Czar

• Bolshevik

• Perestroika

Electrical energy created by falling water.

• Hydroelectric Power

• Sovereignty

• Satellite

• Serf

Self-rule

• Hydroelectric Power

• Sovereignty

• Satellite

• Serf

A country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union by the end of World War II.

• Hydroelectric Power

• Sovereignty

• Satellite

• Serf

Laborer obligated to remain on the land where he or she works.

• Hydroelectric Power

• Sovereignty

• Satellite

• Serf

Vast, treeless plains in cold northern climates, characterized by permafrost and small, low plants, such as mosses or shrubs.

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Steppe

• Russification

Russian term for the vast subarctic forest, mostly evergreens, that covers much of Russia and Siberia.

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Steppe

• Russification