History
This scientific effort showed how tense the relations were between Russia and the USA. It resulted in one of the most remarkable feats in human history.
What is the Space Race?
Full name of the country
What is the Russian Federation?
This was the residence of the tsars of Russia for almost 200 years.
What is the Winter palace?
This funny looking grazing animal is critically endangered and lives almost exclusively in Russia.
What is the Saiga Antelope?
Russia includes this many time zones
What is 11?
Also called the Bolshovik Revolution, this Revolution was led by Lenin to overthrow the post-tsar government.
What is the October Revolution?
The land mass of Russia is larger than this planet.
What is Pluto?
This place is in Moscow and contains the official residence of the President of Russia. It is often considered to be the central square of Moscow.
What is the Red Square?
This dancing company is known throughout the world and is the leading company of its kind in Russia
What is the Bolshoi Ballet?
Russia and the USA are only this far away from each other at their closest point
What is 4 km or less than 3 miles?
This happened mostly peacefully but led to significant economic crisis. Led to the creation of 15 new independent states.
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
The official language of Russia has its own alphabet called this.
What is Cyrillic?
This building was built by Ivan the Terrible and is considered a major symbol of Russia.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
This person invented the periodic table and helped to organize the elements in a way that grouped them according to properties
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
Russia borders this many other countries.
What is fourteen?
Russia's current economy is a combination of what two schools of thought?
What are communism and oligarchy?
Russia is on two continents separated by these.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This is the longest single rail line in the world
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
This person is the Russian version of Santa Claus and literally translates to "Grandfather Frost"
Who is Ded Moroz?
This is the longest river in Europe
What is the Volga?
This leader followed Lenin in leading the Soviet Union. He is known for strict rules, hard labor camps, and his secret police.
Who is Stalin?
This is the largest forested area in the world
What is the Siberian Taiga?
The Klyuchevskaya Sopka is known for being the tallest of these in Eurasia.
What is active volcano?
Known for his contributions to rocket scientist, this person helped lead Russia to successfully launch satellites and people into space.
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
Russia is the largest exporter of this important resource
What is natural gas or oil?