Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1130 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Russia: Size, Cold, and Russification
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The idea
Russia holds one-eighth of the world's land across eleven time zones but about one hundred forty-three million people, mostly western; Kaliningrad is an exclave. Cold limits settlement and farming. Muscovy's expansion built the empire; Russification made non-Russians adopt Russian language and culture: cultural assimilation.
In practice
Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place.
Where people slip
The sixth-largest economy, as the anchor ranks it, undated.
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