Russia and Eurasian Republics
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Grade 6 Unit 6, Lesson 2
Review from the last lesson:
• Russia had a king (Czar)
• Russia had a revolution and replaced the Czar with a different form
of government.
• Leader: Lenin; Communism (totalitarian government)
• Name change: Russia to U.S.S.R.
• Size change: small to big to bigger (many small countries around the
Soviet Union soon became forcefully part of the Soviet Union.
• Their ethnicity was different but the people did not have the means
or power to “take on” the powerful Soviet Union.
• They were forced to follow the Soviet Unions way of life, and some
people felt like they lost their identity.
• Change would soon follow after 1991, when ethnic groups in some
of the Russian Republics (states) broke away from Russia.
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What is an ethnic group?
• Ethnicity: belonging to a group that has a
common language, religion, same cultural
traditions.
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Russia and Eurasian Republics
(Relative Location to the rest of Asia)
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Caspian
Sea
Black Sea
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Russian Topography
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Ethnic Map of Russia
Light Brown: Russian, Green: Turkic, Yellow: Caucasian, Blue: Iranian, Beige: Mongolian
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Outline of Russia and Eurasian Republics
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Russian Republics
1. Adygea
2. Altai
3. Bashkortostan
4. Buryatia
5. Dagestan
6. Ingushetia
7. Kabardino-Balkaria
8. Kalmykia
9. Karachay–Cherkessia
10. Karelia
11. Komi
12. Mari El
13. Mordovia
14. Sakha (Yakutia)
15. North Ossetia–Alania
16. Tatarstan
17. Tuva
18. Udmurtia
19. Khakassia
20. Chechnya
21. Chuvashia
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Resources
Natural Resources
Department of Defense (manufacture,
distribution, etc.)
Petroleum Deposits
Oil and Gas Pipelines
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CULTURE: RUSSIA AND EURASIAN
REPUBLICS
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Russian Culture
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