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This short film features a hedgehog in poor weather conditions
What is Ёжик в тумане? (Hedgehog in the Fog)
Tallest mountain in Russia
What is Mt. Elbrus? (Caucasus Mountains)
The alphabet Russian uses
What is cyrillic?
Most famous poet in Russia
Who is Alexander Pushkin?
Не учи...
... учёного. (Don't teach the learned.)
This pop duo's song "All the Things She Said" gained international fame in 2002
Who is t.A.T.u.?
Third largest city in Russia by population
What is Novosibirsk?
Rumor has it Dostoevsky wrote this book in only 26 days to pay off his gambling debts
What is "The Gambler" (Игрок)?
You measure this many times before you cut
What is 7? (Семь раз отмерь, один раз отрежь)
A popular movie people watch on New Year's Eve
What is "Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром"/"The Irony of Fate"
The number of republics the USSR was made up of
What is 15? (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
This exclusive and difficult occupation requires its employees to learn basic Russian
What is astronauts?
Who is Alexei?
Нет худа без...
... добра (There is no misfortune without a blessing in it)
This rock band was named after an English novelist
What is Agatha Christie?
Russia switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in this year
The closest documented language relative to Russian
What is Old East Slavic? (древневосточный славянский)
This author coined this literary principle: "If you introduce a gun in the first act, it must go off in the next."
Who is Anton Chekhov?
Не откладывай на завтра...
... то, что можешь сделать сегодня. (Don't put off for tomorrow what can be done today.)
The most popular singer-songwriter in the 70s
Who is Vladimir Vysotsky?
The name "Rus" comes from this phrase
What is "men who row"? (Old Norse)
This verb in the English language in present tense does not exist in Russian
What is "to be"? (“She is a student” --> "Она студентка")
This book heavily inspired George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley’s "Brave New World". It was banned in Russia.
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s "We" (Мы)
Дарёному коню́...
...в зу́бы не смо́трят
(Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth)