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Russia
Russia
Facts
Location
Weather
Kazan
MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC
QUALITIES
LATITUDINAL EXTENT
Northernmost point: Rudolf Island in Franz
Joseph Land (82o)
Southernmost point: Grozny in west and
Vladivostok in east (44o)
Monmouth is 44.7727oN
LONGITUDINAL EXTENT
More than twice its maximum north-south
extent and extends through 11 time zones
Russia makes up 76.6% of the total territory
of the former USSR
RUSSIAS
REGIONS
RUSSIAN
CORE
SIBERIA
EASTERN FRONTIER
URALS
FAR EAST
EARLY 20TH
CENTURY
GROWTH OF THE
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
GROWTH OF THE
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
FORWARD CAPITAL
CLIMATOLOGY
CLIMATE
WEATHER
CLIMATOLOGY
RUSSIAN CLIMATE
Affected by 3 natural
conditions:
-- Latitudinal Position
-- Continental Position
-- Location of major mountains
CLIMATE
VEGETATION
Tundra
Taiga
Steppe
CLIMATE AS A
RESTRICTIVE
ELEMENT
AGRICULTURE
Short growing seasons
Drought prone
Erosion (accelerated via snow melt)
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS & TRANSPORTATION
INDUSTRY
High energy consumption
Specialized equipment and facilities
Extractive
permafrost
spring and fall mud
special equipment and facilities - $$$
AGRICULTURAL PATTERNS
PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
RUSSIAN PLAIN
URAL MOUNTAINS
PHYSIOGRAPHIC
REGIONS
(continued)
YAKUTSK BASIN
EASTERN HIGHLANDS
CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS
RUSSIAN
PLAIN
CENTRAL SIBERIAN
PLATEAU
Sparsely settled
Inaccessible
Restrictive
climate
Permafrost
Natural
resources
EASTERN HIGHLANDS
CENTRAL ASIAN
RANGES
CAUCASUS
MOUNTAINS
Pivot
Area
HEARTLAND THEORY
Heartland
SPYKMANS RIMLAND
Rim
Heartland
Land
POLITICAL FRAMEWORK
SOVIET LEGACY
Revolution (1905-1917)
Bolsheviks (majority) versus Mensheviks
(minority)
FEDERATION/FEDERAL STRUCTURE
RUSSIFICATION
SOVIET UNION
COMMAND ECONOMY
ECONOMIC
FRAMEWORK
MAJOR OBJECTIVES
Speed industrialization
Collectivize agriculture
SOVIET LEADERS
Czarism
(<1917)
Lenin
Stalin
Kruschev
Breshnev
Gorbachev
SOVIET LEADERS
Lenin (1918 - 1927)
SOVIET LEADERS
SOVIET LEADERS
Military/industrial economy
SOVIET LEADERS
Gorbachev (1985 - 1991)
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
Intensification of ethno-cultural
nationalism & separatism
CURRENT
ORGANIZATION
21 REPUBLICS
11 AUTONOMOUS REGIONS
(OKRUGS)
49 PROVINCES (OBLASTS)
6 TERRITORIES (KRAYS)
2 AUTONOMOUS FEDERAL CITIES
RUSSIAN ETHNICITY
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
10%
7%
5%
18%
55%
5%
FUEL RESOURCES
TRANSPORTATION LINKS
TRANSPORTATION
Rail
Inland Waterways
Marine Links
MANUFACTURING REGIONS
Russian
RUSSIAN
CORE
Core
URALS
ST PETERSBURG
MOSCOW
EASTERN FRONTIER
VAST
CHALLENGING
UNTAPPED
SIBERIA
VAST DISTANCES
COLD TEMPERATURES
ARCTIC WINDS
POOR SOILS
RESOURCE POTENTIAL
PRECIOUS MINERALS
METALLIC ORES
OIL AND NATURAL GAS
TIMBER
POOR ACCESSIBILITY
ASIAN FRONTIER?
FISHING PRIMARY INDUSTRY
FUTURE WITH JAPAN?
FAR EAST
TRANSPORTATION
LINKS
TRANSCAUCASI
A
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Armenia
CONTESTED
AREAS
RUSSIAS PROSPECTS
ECONOMIC
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES
TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
MANUFACTURING CAPACITY
POLITICAL