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"War and Peace" written by Leo Tolstoy and first published in 1869, was set during the war with this country.
What is France?
This city is the largest Russian port and the largest port on the Black Sea.
What is Novorossiysk?
Beet soup of Ukrainian origin common in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
What is Borscht?
This is the longest railway line in the world starting from the Russian capital of Moscow, the largest city in Europe, and ending in Vladivostok, located on the Pacific coast.
What is Trans-Siberian Railroad?
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by this General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1937-1938. Estimated number of deaths run from the official figure of 681,692 to nearly 1 million.
Who is Stalin?
Written by the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, this is one of the most famous and popular ballets of all times.
What is "Swan Lake"?
This mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the regions of Europe and Asia and runs approximately from north to south through western Russia.
What is Ural Mountains?
The rarest and most expensive form of caviar comes from this critically endangered fish from the Caspian Sea.
What is Beluga Sturgeon?
This city, founded in 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, is historically and culturally associated with the birth of the Russian Empire.
What is Saint-Petersburg?
Nazis invaded Soviet Union in the summer of this year.
What is 1941?
"Crime and Punishment" was written by this Russian author in 1866.
Who is Dostoevsky?
This lake is the world's deepest lake as well as the world's oldest lake, at 25-30 million years.
What is Baikal?
Russian dumplings, which have been described as "the heart of Russian cuisine" and most likely have their origin in Siberia.
What are Pelmeni?
Russian longest-ruling female leader, who came to the Russian throne following a coup that overthrew her husband.
Who is Catherine the Great?
This was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the 1980s.
What is "Perestroika"?
This Russian film won the Academy Award (the "Oscar") for the "Best Foreign Language Film" in 1995.
What is "Burnt by the Sun"?
This river is the longest river in Europe and flows through Central and Sothern Russia into the Caspian Sea.
What is Volga?
Orthodox Christianity was made the state religion of Kievan Russia in 987 by Vladimir, Grand Prince of Kiev, who has selected it from this empire.
What is Byzantine Empire?
Grand Prince of Moscow, who was the first Moscow ruler to declare himself tsar of all Russia.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
On October 24, 1917, a blank shot from this Russian cruiser's gun signaled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace, which has marked the beginning of the October Revolution.
What is "Aurora"?
Soccer is the most popular sport in Russia. This is one of the most famous Russian football (soccer) clubs, which was founded almost 100 years ago in Moscow.
What is "Spartak"?
This Russian peninsula is one of the most active volcanic areas in the world and is home to a large number of historically active volcanos. It is also home to the highest active volcano on Eurasia.
What is Kamchatka Peninsula?
Moscow Metro was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. It opened in this year with one line and 13 stations. Now it consists of 276 stations and is the fifth-longest in the world and the longest outside of China.
What is 1935?
Crimea Peninsula was a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire for centuries until this year, when it was conquered and annexed by the Russian Empire.
What is 1783?
Putin has been in power as a prime minister or a president since this year.
What is 1991?