Statistics for People Who Died or are Buried in Moscow

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This quiz has been taken 22 times
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Died	Age	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1924	53	A mausoleum was built in Red Square, Moscow over his body so that people could see it	Vladimir Lenin	89%
1968	34	First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	89%
2022	91	Last leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	83%
2007	76	He was the first President of Russia and the country's first elected leader	Boris Yeltsin	78%
1953	74	Chief architect of Soviet totalitarianism and led the Soviet Union into the nuclear age	Joseph Stalin	72%
1974	77	He was the most important and most successful Russian general in World War II	Georgy Zhukov	50%
1975	68	This composer renowned particularly for his 15 symphonies, many of them written under the pressures of government-imposed standards of Soviet art	Dmitri Shostakovich	44%
1990	60	Known as the "Black Spider" for his choice of all-black kit, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest football goalkeepers of all time	Lev Yashin	33%
1904	44	Author of "The Cherry Orchard" and "Uncle Vanya"	Anton Chekhov	22%
1940	48	Author of "The Master and Margarita"	Mikhail Bulgakov	22%
1950	48	He is noted in particular for his silent films "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "October"	Sergei Eisenstein	22%
1966	76	Described as the "Tragic Queen" of Russian poetry and considered among the country's most significant poets of 20th century	Anna Akhmatova	17%
1953	54	He was responsible for organizing purges such as the Katyn massacre	Lavrentiy Beria	17%
2007	80	Two days after the official fall of the Berlin Wall, he staged an impromptu performance of Bach's cello suites at the frontier	Mstislav Rostropovich	17%
1966	59	He was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union	Sergei Korolev	17%
1900	39	He was one of Russia’s most influential landscape artists and the founder of what has been called the “mood landscape.”	Isaac Levitan	11%
1968	60	He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superfluidity	Lev Landau	11%
1994	74	This film director is known for his sweeping period dramas, including the internationally acclaimed four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.	Sergei Bondarchuk	11%
1980	42	The raspy-voiced actor and performer who was considered “the voice of the heart of a nation.”	Vladimir Vysotsky	11%
1997	75	He was the main star of "The Diamond Arm"	Yuri Nikulin	11%