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100
In Leo Tolstoy's 1867 novel War and Peace, Russia is at war with this country
France
100
This famous church in Moscow is Russia's most famous landmark
Saint Basil's Cathedral
100
This year marked the collapse of the Soviet Union
1991
100
м_ _ _ _о
молоко
100
The deepest lake in the world, located in Siberia
Lake Baikal
200
This character from Russian folklore is a witch that lives in a hut on chicken legs
Baba Yaga
200
This early psychologist ran classical conditioning experiments on dogs
Ivan Pavlov
200
The first democratically elected president of Russia
Boris Yeltsin
200
Name of Russian Parliament, from the word "to think"
Дума / Duma
200
This mountain range separates Asia and Europe
Ural Mountains
300
This author is known as the national poet of Russia
Aleksandr Pushkin
300
Igor Sikorsky was a Russian-American inventor who pioneered which aircraft
The helicopter
300
The most famous Russian empress Catherine the Great, was of this nationality
German
300
Russian word for sandwich
бутерброд / buterbrod
300
These two seas are found in the south of Russia
Black Sea and Caspian Sea
400
This 1869 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is the best selling novel in Russia
The Idiot
400
The periodic table of elements was invented by this scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
400
The October Revolution began on the birthday of this famous Bolshevik leader
Leon Trotsky
400
к_ _ _ _т
Russian word for resort
курорт
400
This narrow body of water separates Eastern Russia from Alaska
Bering Strait
500
The name of the talking cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's 1967 novel The Master and Margarita.
Бегемот / Begemot
500
This famous 19th century realist painter frequently painted scenes from Russian history and folklore
Ilya Repin
500
Ivan the Terrible belonged to this royal dynasty
Rurikid Dynasty
500
Spetsnaz is an abbreviation of these two words
специальное назначение / spetsial'noye naznacheniye (special purpose)
500
The third most populous city in Russia, after Moscow and St. Petersburg
Novosibirsk