Fun Facts
Deepest Lake in the world
Name of the capital of the Kyivan Rus.
Kyiv
Czar who was not very good (hint: what's another name for bad)
Ivan the Terrible
Name of the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin.
The largest country in the world, geographically.
Russia
Name of the Soviet Leader who visited the US and had a "kitchen debate", or named "Kukuruznik"
Kruschev
The group of people who conquered much of modern day Russia in the medieval era.
Mongols
Accepted Answers: Golden Horde
Czar Peter the Great (Romanov)
National Symbol of the USSR (think, what is on their flag).
Hammer and Sickle
Capital of Russia.
Moscow
Name of the Russian colony which was sold to the United States in 1867
Alaska
the name of the royal advisors, the "elites" within palace life
Boyars (Boyarini)
Empress of Russia from 1762-1768 during the enlightenment.
Catherine the Great.
Year in which the Bolshevik revolution happened.
1917.
2nd largest city in Russia and the old Capital
St. Petersburg
Accepted answer: Leningrad, Petrograd
Name of the first Satellite sent to space
Sputnik
First Principality to convert to Orthodox Christianity
Dynasty before the Romanovs.
Rurikid dynasty.
Name of the first person in space (Cosmonaut)
Largest river in Russia
Volga River
Name of the coldest-inhabited city, with average winter temperatures going below -50F
Oymaykon
Name of the Kyivan leader who became a Saint
St.Olga of Kyiv
Name of the first Romanov tsar
Name of the city next to which the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened (main city where people lived and worked at the Chernobyl plant)
Pripyat'.
Yekaterinburg