Statistics for Top 70 most important and famous people from Russia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
President from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012	Vladimir Putin	90%
Novelist, author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	83%
Writer, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	83%
Leader of the Revolution, head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924	Vladimir Lenin	83%
Final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991	Mikhail Gorbachev	78%
Composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	75%
First president of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999	Boris Yeltsin	73%
The first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin	73%
Mystic and self-proclaimed holy man known for having befriended with the royal family of the last Emperor of Russia	Grigori Rasputin	70%
King, considered the unifier of Russia	Ivan III	70%
The First Tsar, who launched the Massacre of Novgorod	Ivan the Terrible	70%
The greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, author of Boris Godunov	Alexander Pushkin	68%
Chemist known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	65%
The last Tsar	Nicholas II of Russia	65%
Leader of Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 who stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin's crimes	Nikita Khrushchev	65%
Empress, key figure of renaissance of culture and sciences, and led to the founding of many new cities, universities, and theatres	Catherine the Great	63%
Tsar, key figure of the modernisation of the country, transforming it into a European power	Peter the Great	63%
Tsar of the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as the Liberator	Alexander II	60%
Tennis player, winner of US Open in 2021	Daniil Medvedev	58%
President from 2008 to 2012	Dmitry Medvedev	58%
Physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904	Ivan Pavlov	58%
Writer, author of Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	58%
Writer, author of Doctor Zhivago, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958	Boris Pasternak	48%
Painter credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art	Wassily Kandinsky	48%
Playwright one of the key figures in the birth of early modernism	Anton Chekhov	45%
Marshal who organized the defense of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He participated in planning several major offensives, including the Battle of Kursk and the Battle of Berlin	Georgy Zhukov	45%
Writer, author of The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	43%
One of the most important and influential composers of the XX century and a pivotal figure in modernist music	Igor Stravinsky	43%
Writer, known for his hard science fiction stories	Isaac Asimov	43%
Director of the Ivan's Childhood, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky	40%
Writer, author of The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	40%
Oligarch and politician. The former owner of Chelsea	Roman Abramovich	40%
Composer known for the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as one of the greatest composers of XX century	Dmitri Shostakovich	38%
Footballer, goalkeeper who won the Ballon d'Or in 1963	Lev Yashin	38%
The first woman to journey into outer space	Valentina Tereshkova	38%
Actor famous for his roles in The Ten Commandments, Anastasia and The Magnificent Seven. Winner of Academy Award in 1957	Yul Brynner	38%
Composer of Flight of the Bumblebee and Scheherazade	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	35%
Composer of The Love for Three Oranges, Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet and Peter and the Wolf	Sergei Prokofiev	35%
Writer, author of A Sportsman's Sketches, a milestone of Russian realism and Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	33%
Russian-French painter, early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles	Marc Chagall	33%
Composer and one of the best pianists of early XX century	Sergei Rachmaninoff	33%
Opposition leader and activist against current government	Alexei Navalny	30%
One of the greatest medieval painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescos	Andrei Rublev	30%
Female tennis player, winner of 5 Grand Slam titles	Maria Sharapova	30%
Ice hockey player of Washington Capitals, one of the greatest goal scorers of all time	Alexander Ovechkin	28%
Leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949	Vyacheslav Molotov	28%
Painter of Barge Haulers on the Volga and Religious Procession in Kursk Province	Ilya Repin	25%
Scientist, one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	25%
Field Marshal who defeated Napoleon using attrition warfare in the Patriotic war of 1812	Mikhail Kutuzov	25%
Painter considered one of the greatest masters of marine art	Ivan Aivazovsky	23%
Polymath of XVIII century who made important contributions to literature, education and science. His famous discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions	Mikhail Lomonosov	23%
Miner became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system	Alexei Stakhanov	20%
Nuclear physicist, dissident and activist for nuclear disarmament, peace, and human rights. Winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1975	Andrei Sakharov	20%
Novelist, author of And Quiet Flows the Don, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	20%
Composer of In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor	Alexander Borodin	18%
Painter the most important artist in Russian Symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art	Mikhail Vrubel	18%
One of the greatest female ballet dancers of all time	Maya Plisetskaya	15%
Female poet, author of Requiem, her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror	Anna Akhmatova	13%
Writer, the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism	Mikhail Lermontov	13%
Philosopher, utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism	Nikolay Chernyshevsky	13%
Prince of the Russian Empire and the last Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, considered one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history and one of the great generals of the early modern period	Alexander Suvorov	10%
Painter of The Last Day of Pompeii	Karl Bryullov	10%
Philosopher and revolutionary who advocated anarcho-communism	Peter Kropotkin	10%
Prime Minister from 1906 to 1911, considered the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was stopped by his assassination	Pyotr Stolypin	10%
Mathematician known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry	Nikolai Lobachevsky	8%
Two times winner of Olympic gold medal, considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time	Yelena Isinbayeva	8%
The main Russian Symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age	Alexander Scriabin	5%
Philosopher, the father of Russian Marxism	Georgi Plekhanov	5%
Philosopher, played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the XIX century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early XX century	Vladimir Solovyov	3%
Gymnast, he held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 until Michael Phelps surpassed him	Nikolai Andrianov	0%