COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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Most people live in cites in the northern part of the country.
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Half of the people live in the northern part of the country, and half of the people live in the south.
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Most of the people live in cities in the southern part of the country.
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Most people live on farms in the eastern half of Russia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Climate factors have also shaped the distribution of Russia’s population. Most of Russia’s population lives west of the Ural Mountains where the climate is more temperate and there are more connections with Eastern Europe (see Figure 3.6).
Detailed explanation-2: -Melting permafrost will degrade infrastructure across 70 percent of Russia’s landmass (210). Droughts, floods, and extreme weather events will make parts of Russia less habitable and economically productive. This will drive economic migration, pushing rural populations into already crowded cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most well known feature of the Russian climate is its very cold winter, brought about by the country’s high latitudes (40-75°N), vast land mass and lack of any topographic obstructions to protect it from arctic winds sweeping across its long, north-facing and often frozen coastline.
Detailed explanation-4: -Russia’s climate ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia, and subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north. Winters vary from cool along the Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia. Summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along the Arctic coast.
Detailed explanation-5: -The vast majority of Russia’s population live in the western core area of the country, the region around the capital city of Moscow.