Topic 7: North Eurasia

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Across
  1. 2. 3 countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
  2. 4. Peter the _________; founded St. Petersburg
  3. 8. Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia in 2014
  4. 11. "openness"
  5. 12. replaced Lenin; led USSR through WWII
  6. 13. Vikings referred to themselves as ____ after the settled in what is now Russia
  7. 15. founded USSR in 1922
  8. 16. "Crime and Punishment"
  9. 17. the last Tsar of Russia
  10. 18. abbreviation for the 5 "stans"
  11. 19. "restructuring"
  12. 20. type of war between the USSR and USA
  13. 21. largest coniferous forest in the world
  14. 22. Russian is this type of language
  15. 25. "The Grandfather and His Little Grandson"
  16. 26. largest inland body of water in the world
Down
  1. 1. largest freshwater lake in terms of volume
  2. 3. Russian author who wrote about tragedy in the USSR
  3. 5. largest of the former soviet republics
  4. 6. largest freshwater lake in term of area
  5. 7. main religion of Azerbaijan
  6. 8. ________ the Great; governed Russia in 1776
  7. 9. Central Asian sea that has been drying up due to irrigation
  8. 10. first Christian nation in history
  9. 14. the first "Romanov"
  10. 18. Republics of the ________; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
  11. 23. type of economy in the Soviet Union
  12. 24. last leader of the Soviet Union