The Russian Core Crossword

Mountain range that forms a natural border between European Russia and Siberian Russia.
Rich, black soil that supports agriculture
This river system is an important commercial, transportation, and hydroelectric resource for millions of Russians.
In nineteenth and twentieth century Russia and the Soviet Union, a government program that was started to make new peoples of Russia more "Russian".
Under ______________, Russia expanded into Siberia with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
After World War I, many countries in eastern Europe were controlled as ______ under Communist rule.
By 2000 the population of ethnic Russians began to decline due to a greatly reduced ________
Women have always had a very important role working in ______.
a shift to private ownership—of state-owned companies
Russia’s most important industry is __________ extraction and processing
Russia depends on _________ and waterways for much of its transportation needs.
A fire in a nuclear reactor in this town north of Kiev, Ukraine, released tons of radioactive particles into the local environment, killing millions of people.
As a result of commercial logging, illegal poaching of trees, and wildfires, Russian __________ shrink by almost 40 million acres each year.