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agricultural Amur Arctic Arkhangelsk ASSR Baku Baltic Basin Baykal Belorussia Black Sea CASPIAN SEA cent Central Asia Centre Region century Chelyabinsk chemical Chernozem climate coal COLD crops dairying density deposits desert Dnieper Donbass Donets Donets-Dnieper East eastern Economic Region electricity engineering European USSR fertilisers forest Gorkiy grain hydro-electric important increase industries Irkutsk iron irrigation KARA SEA Karaganda Kazakhstan Khabarovsk Kiev kmē Krasnoyarsk Kuybyshev Kuzbass Lake land LAPTEV SEA Leningrad Lowland machinery Macro-Region MEAN MONTHLY PRECIPITATION metallurgy million tonnes Moscow mountains Murmansk natural gas North Caucasus north-west northern Novosibirsk Oblast OKHOTSK permafrost pipeline plain plant population port PRECIPITATION IN MILLIMETRES production Republic River Russian Sea of Azov Siberia soils south-west southern Soviet Union steel steppe sugar-beet summer Sverdlovsk Tashkent Tatars tayga textiles timber towns Trans-Caucasia Trans-Siberian Railway transport tundra Ukraine upland USSR valley vegetation Vladivostok Volga Volgograd West Siberia western wheat winter Yenisey