Geography
What is the Volga?
Author of War & Peace
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
Considered unlucky to do indoors
What is to whistle?
What vodka is made from
What are potatoes?
The other meaning of the word поправиться besides get healthier
What is to get fatter?
Frozen treeless area of northern Russia
What is the tundra?
Artist style represented by Ilya Repin
What is realism?
Allowed behavior in Christianity that is supposedly why Russians chose it over Islam
What is being able to drink alcohol?
The color COCA-COLA® was when it first arrived in the Soviet Union
What is clear?
What some wealthy Russians use to avoid Moscow traffic
What is an ambulance?
Deepest lake in the world
What is Lake Baikal?
Most famous Russian pioneer of abstract art
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
Most commonly purchased Russian souvenir
What are matryoshka dolls?
What Russians usually put on their blini [pancakes]
What are caviar and sour cream?
Number of women for every 1,000 Russian men
What is 1,159?
Russian city closest to Korea
What is Vladivostok?
Most iconic building in Russia
What is St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow?
What many Russians hang on their walls to make them more soundproof
What are rugs?
Skewered meat popular in former Soviet Union
What is shashlik?
Longest railroad line in the world
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
Mountain range that separates Russia from the Middle East
What are the Caucasus?
Composer of the Nutcracker
Who is Pyotr Tchaikovsky [Пётр Чайко́вский]?
What smiling is considered a sign of in Russia
What is weakness?
Most iconic soup of Russia & Eastern Europe
What is borscht?
Coldest inhabited place on earth
What is Oymyakon [Оймякон]?