GEOG 1001 Chapter : Russian Domain
Document Summary
Setting the boundaries: northern half of eurasia. Includes russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova, georgia, and armenia: rapid political and economic change, domain, persisting russian influence. Russia: world"s largest country, spans 11 time zones, most of region 50 -70 n, cold conditions. Ural mountains: natural boundary between europe and asia, ural mts. N. kazakhstan to arctic ocean: highly eroded exposed mineral wealth. Siberia: extreme continentality, siberia e. of urals, n. of kazakhstan, mongolia, & china, 77% of russia"s land; 30% of its pop. Siberia cont"d: underlain by permafrost; 3"-12", unstable, seasonally frozen ground. Island where soviets stored bioweapons: now a peninsula. 144 million: shrinking, other 5 countries in region 70 million total, highly urbanized, european core, pop. To fall by 1/3 by 2050: higher death rates (13. 65/1000; us 8. 26/1000) substance abuse, aids, males: 59 vs. women: 72, low fertility rates, out-migration. Demographic crisis: pyramid 2000, few children added, birth crash wwii, crisis in older males.
