Physical Geography
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Important Russians
Potpourri
100

A huge part of Eastern Russia known for dense forest and extremely cold temperatures.

What is Siberia?

100

It is the Russian word for a king.

What is Czar?

100

A fortress in Moscow which is the seat of the Russian Government.

What is the Kremlin?

100

He is the current president of Russia.

Who is Vladimir Putin?

100

This is the name for a Russian nesting doll.

What is "matryoshka"?

200

These mountains serve as the dividing line between Europe and Asia 

What are The Ural Mountains?

200

This was the name of St. Petersburg when Russia was the Soviet Union?

What is Leningrad?

200

These are the colors of the Russian flag.

What are white, blue and red?

200

He was the first man in space.

Who is Gagarin?

200

A unit of Russian currency.

What is rouble?

300

It is the world’s largest, deepest, and oldest freshwater inland body of water.

What is Lake Baikal?

300

A political group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

What is the Bolsheviks?

300

The number of stripes on the flag of Russia.

What is 3?

300

He was a world-famous Russian composer.

Who is Pyotr Tchaikovsky? 

300

The number of time zones in Russia.

What is nine?

400

Russia is spread across these two continents.

What is Europe and Asia?

400

This herb, used in cooking, is also a part of the name of the cathedral in Moscow's Red Square.

What is basil?

400

This Russian official lives and works in the Kremlin.

Who is the Russian President?

400

He was the last Czar of Russia.

Who was Czar Nicholas II?

400

Russian pancakes that are eaten with caviar, sour cream or honey.

What are blinys?

500

A vast evergreen forest that covers nearly half of Russia.

What is the Taiga?

500

This is what USSR used to stand for.

What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

500

The name of the Russian Parliament that comes from the verb "думать" (to think).

What is Duma?

500

He was a Russian tzar during the Middle Ages, bloodthirsty, cruel and mean.

Who was Ivan the Terrible?

500

The most popular non-religious holiday in Russia the way Russians call it.

What is Novy God?

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