Map Assignment: Eastern Europe and
the
former Soviet Union
Physical Landscape
Mountains: Ural, Caucasus,
Tien Shan,
Altai
Rivers: Volga,
Ob’,
Yenisey, Lena, Amur
Major Physical Features: Kola
Peninsula, West Siberian Plain, Central Siberian Plain, Kamchatka
Peninsula
Major Bodies of Water: Black Sea,
Baltic Sea,
Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Lake Balkhash, Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of
Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea
Human Landscape
Identify the fifteen former Soviet
Republics
Identify the following places: Tallinn,
Riga, Vilnius,
Minsk, Kiev,
St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Moscow, Astana, Ashgabat, Tbilisi, Omsk,
Novosibirsk,
Almaty, Tashkent, Yakutsk