1	RUSSIA I (CHAPTER 2: 96-109)
2	MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES IMMENSE TERRITORIAL STATE NORTHERNMOST LARGE AND POPULOUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD A FORMER WORLD COLONIAL POWER A COMPARITIVELY SMALL (<145 MILLION) AND CONCENTRATED POPULATION CONCENTRATED DEVELOPMENT MULTICULTURAL STATE MINIMAL PORTS
3	RUSSIA’S DIMENSIONS SPANS 11 TIME ZONES GULF OF FINLAND TO ALASKA (WEST TO EAST), AND WELL ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE TO SALT LAKE CITY (NORTH TO SOUTH) TWICE THE SIZE OF THE US OR CHINA SIBERIA: “SLEEPING LAND”
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5	SIZE, LOCATION AND SPACE RELATIONSHIPS LATITUDINAL EXTENT NORTHERNMOST POINT: RUDOLF ISLAND IN FRANZ JOSEPH LAND (82^O) SOUTHERNMOST POINT: GROZNY IN WEST AND VLADIVOSTOK IN EAST (44^O) LONGITUDINAL EXTENT MORE THAN TWICE ITS MAXIMUM NORTH-SOUTH EXTENT AND EXTENDS THROUGH 11 TIME ZONES RUSSIA MAKES UP 76.6% OF THE TOTAL TERRITORY OF THE FORMER USSR (17,075,400 KM--ALMOST TWICE THE SIZE OF THE US).
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8	CLIMATOLOGY CLIMATE AVERAGE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR A GIVEN AREA OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME WEATHER REFERS TO THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AT A SPECIFIC PLACE AND TIME CLIMATOLOGY A BRANCH OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY CONCERNED WITH: SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CLIMATE OVER THE SURFACE OF THE EARH PROCESSES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISTRIBUTION
9	RUSSIAN CLIMATE AFFECTED BY 3 NATURAL CONDITIONS: -- LATITUDINAL POSITION -- CONTINENTAL POSITION -- LOCATION OF MAJOR MOUNTAINS
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12	CLIMATE AS A RESTRICTIVE ELEMENT AGRICULTURE SHORT GROWING SEASONS DROUGHT PRONE EROSION (ACCELERATED VIA SNOW MELT) SETTLEMENT PATTERNS & TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY HIGH ENERGY CONSUMPTION SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES EXTRACTIVE PERMAFROST SPRING AND FALL MUD SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES - $$$
13	EARLY 16^TH CENTURY (IVAN THE TERRIBLE- 1547-1584)
14	END OF THE 17^TH CENTURY (PETER THE GREAT- 1682-1725)
15	EARLY 20^TH CENTURY
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20	PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS RUSSIAN PLAIN EASTWARD CONTINUATION OF NORTH EUROPEAN LOWLAND CORE AREA (MOSCOW BASIN) URAL MOUNTAINS 2,000 MILES LONG (NORTH-SOUTH) YIELD A VARIETY OF MINERALS WEST SIBERIAN PLAIN WORLD’S LARGEST UNBROKEN LOWLANDS PERMAFROST
21	PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS (continued) CENTRAL SIBERIAN PLATEAU SPARSELY POPULATED, TEMPERATURE EXTREMES, PERMAFROST YAKUTSK BASIN MOUNTAINOUS, HIGH RELIEF EASTERN HIGHLANDS RANGES, RIDGES, PRECIPITOUS VALLEYS, VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS, LAKE BAYKAL CENTRAL ASIAN RANGES RISE ABOVE THE SNOW LINE, GLACIATED CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS EXTENSIONS OF THE ALPINES
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29	RUSSIA I (CHAPTER 2: 96-109)