GEOG 002 Lecture 25: Geog 2 - LEC25
23 Dec 2020
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The russian core everything lying west of the urals mountains. Here much of the population is concentrated, and here lie its biggest cities, leading industries, densest transportation networks, most intensively cultivated farmlands, and other key components of the country. Core areas of long standing strongly reflect the imprints of both culture and history. The russian core, broadly defined, extends from the western border of the. Russian realm to the ural mountains in the east (fig. St. peters- burg, of the volga river and its industrial cities. Detroit where automobiles were made) and ivanovo (known for its textiles). But today, russia is less a diversified manufacturing country than a commodity producer and exporter (mainly oil and natural gas). The tall steel-and-glass towers you see rising above the central business districts for the most part belong to state-controlled energy companies such as gazprom. And the cars being built are likely to dis- play foreign names such as fiat or volkswagen.
