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What event in the history of Russia took place on 22 June 1941?
The Great Patriotic War began.
Who founded St Petersburg?
Peter the Great
The son of this figure skater is often called Dwarf Dwarfych?
Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko
Who is the author of the saddest piece of writing about a man with a disability and his pet?
Ivan Turgenev
What happened on the 4th of October 1957?
Sputnik 1, sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Which tsar captured Kazan?
This athlet has become extremely popular among countrymen in 2018 during The FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Artem Sergeyevich Dzyuba
Who is the author of a novel about the war of 1812 and the lives of the nobility at the same time?
Leo Tolstoy
What happened on the 12th of April 1961?
Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight and the first human orbital spaceflight in history.
Which Soviet leader is best known for his campaign to introduce a corn crop on a national scale?
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
This athlete is called "the Russian Rocket".
Alexandra "Sasha" Vyacheslavovna Ignatova
This writer faced the problem of gambling addiction. He spent a lot of time in European casinos, often losing large sums of money. This experience became the basis for one of his novels.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Who was the Russian tsar from 1533 to 1584?
Ivan the Terrible
Who ruled the USSR during "Era of Stagnation" from 1964 to 1986?
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Which football club has won the national championship more often than any other in its history?
The spouse of this author was arrested and executed by the Cheka. Their son died at the front.
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova
What year was the Tatar-Mongol yoke overthrown in?
1480, The Great Stand on the Ugra River
Vladimir the Great, 988AD
Who is your English teacher's favourite athlete?
This writer was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov