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100
Nearly treeless grassy plain.
What is a steppe?
100
This word means relating to the city.
What is urban?
100
The world's deepest freshwater lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
100
This structure was the original fortress of Moscow.
What is the Kremlin?
100
The person in the Russian household who takes care of the cooking and cleaning and childcare.
What is a babushka?
200
A famous Russian author who wrote The Grandfather and the Little Grandson.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
200
A name given for Russian ruler.
What is a czar?
200
This mountain range is located in southwest Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
200
The number of time zones in Russia.
What is 11?
200
Irrigation in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan is causing this body of water to rapidly dry up.
What is the Aral Sea?
300
A finger of land with many active volcanos located on the eastern side of Russia.
What is the Kamchatka Peninsula?
300
This links Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
300
This busy trade route is located between China and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
300
The reason Russia is considered a Eurasian country.
What is it lies on two continents, Europe and Asia?
300
After the Soviet Union broke up, this was the largest republic.
What is Russia?
400
The largest continuous stretch of forest on earth.
What is the taiga?
400
This word means relating to the countryside.
What is rural?
400
This alphabet was developed to help the Slavs read and write in their own language.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
400
The name of an endangered species in southern Siberia.
What is the Siberian tiger?
400
This is the rank of Russia in size among world countries.
What is number 1 largest country?
500
A Russian jeweler who crafted priceless Easter eggs.
Who is Carl Faberge?
500
Permanently frozen lower layers of soil.
What is permafrost?
500
This region of Russia holds huge deposits of oil and natural gas.
What is Siberia?
500
These are Russian stories passed down orally from generation to generation.
What is skazki?
500
These are Silberia's resources.
What is oil and natural gas.