2Russian-operated port in Syria:

7Irkutsk is a large industrial city on Siberia's Lake ___.

8A pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil runs through ___, Chechnya's capital.

10World's largest inland sea, really a big lake:

11U.S. President ___ told Soviet President Gorbechev to "Tear down this wall!"

15The seat of Russian power:

16Mountains with the same name as their peninsula, aka Dinaric Alps:

17Former German capital, except for Cold War years, now premier again:

22Russia's space program facility in the Kazakh desert:

24Large industrial city on the Ob River:

27Nicolaus Copernicus, Frederic Chopin, and Marie Curie are among the famous ___.

30Russian port on the Kola Peninsula (ice free!):

31Choke point between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean:

33Most of Kazakh and Uzbek former Soviet Central Asia is ___.

36The "Velvet Revolution" happend here in 1989, creating two new states:

38Once the site of the Winter Olympics, this Balkan city in Bosnia was ruined by civil war and "ethnic cleansing:"

40The Danube empties into the ___ Sea.

42From the 1300s to WWI, ___ controlled the southern countries of Eastern Europe.

46History's worst genocidal maniac, Joseph ___:

47Rock band that persuaded the Red Army choir to perform with it:

48Yugoslovian strongman who held the country together for decades after WWI:

50Tsar Peter the Great wanted Russia to be more ___.

51The most ethnically diverse country in the former Yugoslavia:

52Russian port city on the Baltic:

54Under the Tsars, Russia was a Christian monarcy. Under the Soviets, it was an ___ state.

55Russia's vast area of Koppen's "D" climates support ___.

56St. Petersburg under the Soviets:

57Large Russian port on the Sea of Japan:

58Serbian genocidal maniac, ___, arrested for war crimes, died in The Hague.

59A ___ anti-Soviet uprising was violently put down in 1956.

61Eastern European cities that straddle the Danube:

62The ___ Empire controlled most of Eastern Europe's territory from 1867 to 1918.

1The Soviet satellite, ___, spurred the U.S. space race.

3Site of the Polish "solidarity" independence movement:

4Nizhniy Novogorad used to be known as ____.

5Russia's revolutionary leader.

6Mountains that stretch from the Caspian to the Black Sea:

9Croatia's capital:

12Putin fears NATO membership for this former Caucasian SSR:

13Adriatic country that formed a Cold War alliance with China:

14North European Plain, slavic speaking people, controlled by many adjacent empires:

18Islands at the northern extent of the Urals; one of the world's most radioactive places.

19Putin fears NATO membership for this former Eastern European SSR:

20Separates European and Asian Russia:

21This Christian religion is dominant in Eastern European countries:

23The Soviets invaded ____ to back up a communist regime and fight the Mujahideen. Bad mistake.

25Eastern European country speaks a Latin-based Romance language:

26The Cold War era airport for the Berlin air drop, ___, is now used for refugee support.

28Former imprisoned dissident poet & playwright, ___ was the hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

29Large numbers of ____ live in Bosnia, Albania, and Macedonia.

32Dracula is set in these Romanian Mountains:

34Russia's Black Sea fleet is based here:

35___ led Russia's greatest southward expansion.

37Said something like "we will bury you!" referring to the U.S. in 1956

39The Romani, aka ___, are a too commonly despised ethnic group in Eastern Europe, who originated in India.

41In 2014, Ukraine lost the ____ to the Russians.

43Railway built by Nicholas, the last Tsar, connects 11 time zones:

44Northern Kazakhstan continues to be ___.

45Ukrainian nuclear disaster was here:

49Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania were the Soviet ____ SSRs.

53Most important Eastern European river:

60The ___ Sea has experienced the worst man-made desertification in Central Asia, maybe in the world.