Who was the founder of St. Petersburg?
Peter I
What is the name of the largest Russian state-owned gas company?
Gazprom
What was the name of the first female cosmonaut to travel to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
What is the name of the famous square in Moscow, known for St. Basil's Cathedral?
Red Square
Which city is the capital of the Russian Federation?
Moscow
Which Russian composer wrote the famous ballets "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty", and "The Nutcracker"?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This Russian state corporation is one of the world leaders in the nuclear energy sector.
Rosatom
In what year did the Soviet Union launch the world's first artificial Earth satellite?
1957
Which museum in St. Petersburg, located in the Winter Palace, has one of the largest art collections in the world?
Hermitage
Which city on the Neva River is often called the "Northern Capital" of Russia?
Saint Petersburg
Who was the first President of the Russian Federation?
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Which Russian IT company is known for its "Kaspersky Lab" antivirus software?
Kaspersky Lab
What Soviet and Russian orbital complex was the world's first long-term inhabited space station?
Mir
What is the name of the world's deepest lake, located in Siberia?
Lake Baikal
Which million-plus city, located on the Volga River, is known for its Kremlin and is a major automotive center?
Tolyatti
This Russian military commander, who never lost a battle, is considered a national hero.
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov
Under what name is the largest search engine in Russia and one of the leading IT companies known?
Yandex
Which Russian physiologist was the first to receive the Nobel Prize for his work on digestion?
Ivan Pavlov
Which historic fortified complex is the heart of Moscow and the official residence of the President of Russia?
Moscow Kremlin
What is the westernmost Hero City of Russia, the former capital of East Prussia, which became part of the USSR after World War II?
Kaliningrad
Which Russian writer is the author of the five-volume epic "And Quiet Flows the Don", for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
This Russian mining and metals company is one of the world's largest producers of aluminum and alumina.
RUSAL
Which Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate is one of the creators of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb?
Andrei Sakharov
On which island in St. Petersburg is the prison that became a symbol of political repression in the Russian Empire and the USSR, and what is it called?
Peter and Paul Fortress
Which city, founded in 1723 on the Iset River, is the center of the Ural region and holds the unofficial title of the "Capital of the Urals"?
Yekaterinburg