Russian Geography A-Z

Can you guess these facts about Russian geography, one for each letter of the alphabet?

Excluding the letter X.

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Last updated: June 23, 2017

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	Hint	Answer
A	River in the Russian Far East, 10th longest in the world	Amur
B	Sea to the southwest, popular tourist destination	Black Sea
C	Site of a 2013 meteor explosion	Chelyabinsk
D	River famous for its Cossacks	Don
E	Highest mountain (5,642 m)	Elbrus
F	Full name of the country: Russian _________	Federation
G	Bordering country, fought a war against Russia in 2008	Georgia
H	Communist symbol still in use on some federal subjects' flags	Hammer and Sickle
I	Large city near the Baikal Lake	Irkutsk
J	Country that claims some of Russia's Kuril Islands	Japan
K	Peninsula famous for its volcanoes	Kamchatka
L	Mostly frozen sea in the Arctic Ocean	Laptev Sea
M	The Third Rome	Moscow

	Hint	Answer
N	Biggest city in Siberia	Novosibirsk
O	Longest river in Russia, 7th in the world	Ob
P	Body of water that forms Russia's eastern boundary	Pacific Ocean
Q	Russia is the largest importer of this mineral, used in jewelry and watches	Quartz
R	Large city on the banks of D	Rostov
S	Second biggest city, capital of the Russian Empire	Saint Petersburg
T	World's longest railway line	Trans-Siberian Railway
U	Mountain range between Europe and Asia	Urals
V	Russia's "mother" river, the longest in Europe	Volga
W	Arctic sea, the location of the major port of Arkhangelsk	White Sea
Y	Russian territory larger than Argentina, famous for extremely cold winters	Yakutia
Z	Arctic archipelago, site of the biggest nuclear test in history: Novaya _____	Zemlya