Across
- 6. Selling off state-owned industries to private owners.
- 8. Largest inland sea bordering Russia.
- 9. Collective farm in the Soviet Union.
- 10. Vast forested biome covering much of Russia.
- 11. Vast, cold region east of the Urals.
- 12. Russian Pacific port city near China.
- 18. Peninsula in Russia known for volcanoes.
- 20. Soviet economic restructuring under Gorbachev.
- 21. Peasant bound to land in Tsarist Russia.
- 22. World’s deepest freshwater lake, located in Siberia.
- 23. Mountain range dividing Europe and Asia in Russia.
- 25. Former Russian capital founded by Peter the Great.
- 26. Economic system focused on collective ownership.
- 28. Official Soviet stance on religion.
- 33. Political system that ruled the Soviet Union.
- 34. Permanently frozen ground covering much of Siberia.
- 35. Longest river in Europe, flowing through Russia.
Down
- 1. Mountain range separating Russia from the Middle East.
- 2. Process of enforcing Russian culture on diverse groups.
- 3. Educated elite in Russia, often political thinkers.
- 4. Treeless, frozen plain found in northern Russia.
- 5. Fertile black soil found in Russia’s steppes.
- 6. Organized attack on Jewish communities in Russia.
- 7. State-run farm in the Soviet era.
- 8. Title for Russian emperors before 1917.
- 13. Soviet policy of openness and transparency.
- 14. Head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 15. Eastern European nations under Soviet influence.
- 16. Sea bordered by Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 17. Type of power generated by water in Russia’s many rivers.
- 19. Site of a disastrous 1986 nuclear accident.
- 24. Russia’s capital and largest city.
- 27. Religious painting important in Orthodox Christianity.
- 29. A nation’s right to govern itself.
- 30. Russia’s northernmost region, covered in ice.
- 31. Grassland region ideal for agriculture in Russia.
- 32. Radical group that led the Russian Revolution in 1917.