The Big Guys
The Land
Historical Events
Major Facts
Попурри
100
The last emperor of Russia?
Who was Tsar Nicholas II?
100
The largest fresh water lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
100
Often dated from 1947 to 1991, this was a sustained state of political and military tension between the U.S.A. and USSR.
What is The Cold War?
100
The city on the Neva River.
What is St. Petersburg?
100
True or False: Russia is the second largest country in the world.
What is False? It is the largest!
200
The theoretical influence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels deeply impacted this first Leader of The Soviet Union.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
200
The landform barrier between European Russia and Asia Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
200
The first of the two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
What was the February Revolution?
200
His most important achievement was the emancipation of serfs in 1861.
Who was Alexander II?
200
This peninsula has around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
What is Kamchatka?
300
The first "Tsar of all the Russias", had a complex personality. Intelligent, yet prone to outbreaks of uncontrollable rage.
Who was Ivan IV The Terrible?
300
The world's largest coniferous forest that stretches 4,000 miles. It is the world's largest land biome, and makes up 29% of the world's forest cover.
What is the Taiga?
300
The event in St. Petersburg/Petrograd that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.
What was the October Revolution?
300
The founder of St. Petersburg?
Who was Peter The Great?
300
The ideological system where everyone works according to his ability and receives according to his need.
What is communism?
400
The most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 – 17 November 1796 until her death at the age of sixty-seven.
Who was Catherine The Great?
400
Farm laborers who were "tied to the land" and could be bought or sold.
What are serfs?
400
In February 1613, with the chaos ended from False Dimitri's and the Poles expelled from Moscow, a national assembly, composed of representatives from fifty cities and even some peasants, elected Michael the first Tsar of this dynasty.
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
400
This mountain range runs from the eastern Black Sea to the western Caspian Sea.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
400
The fish now being illegally captured that provides the eggs for the delicacy caviar.
What is Sturgeon?
500
The "Man of Steel".
Who was Stalin?
500
The longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga?
500
This was enforced under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour.
What is Collectivization?
500
An emergency government set up when a political void is made because of the collapse of a government.
What is a provisional government?
500
Ivan the Terrible himself acted as pallbearer and carried this "fool's" coffin to the cemetery.
Who is St. Basil?
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