Statistics for 50 Famous People from Russia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution	Vladimir Lenin	98%
President of Russia from 1999 until 2008 and since 2012	Vladimir Putin	88%
Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin	85%
Last leader of the USSR from 1985 until 1991	Mikhail Gorbachev	82%
Empress of All Russia (1762-1796) – the country's longest-ruling female leader	Catherine the Great	79%
Self-proclaimed mystic who gained considerable influence in the court of Tsar	Grigori Rasputin	79%
Writer of the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	79%
Last Emperor of Russia, who abdicated during Russian Revolution of 1917	Nicholas II	79%
First President of Russia from 1991 to 1999	Boris Yeltsin	78%
First Tsar of all Russia from 1533 until 1584, nicknames "Grozny"	Ivan the Terrible	75%
Leader who was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev	69%
Novelist and author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	68%
Composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker	Pyotr Tchaikovsky	68%
Russian Tsar in the late 17th century, who is known for his extensive reforms	Peter the Great	65%
Female tennis player who won all four Grand Slams	Maria Sharapova	62%
Grand Duchess who was killed at age of 17 by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918	Anastasia Nikolaevna	54%
Communist who helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army	Leon Trotsky	53%
Chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion from 1984 until 2005	Garry Kasparov	52%
Chemist who discovered the periodic law and created the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleyev	51%
Author of controversial novel Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	50%
Billionaire businessman and politician the owner of Chelsea FC	Roman Abramovich	47%
USSR General and Marshal who led the Red Army in some of WWII battles	Georgy Zhukov	40%
Writer of science fiction works Foundation and Earth and I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	40%
Playwright and author of Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard	Anton Chekhov	39%
Considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin	Alexander Pushkin	34%
Opposition leader who was poisoned during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in 2020	Alexei Navalny	34%
Regarded by many as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport	Lev Yashin	34%
First Russian laureate who won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine	Ivan Pavlov	33%
Russian-American actor who starred in The Magnificent Seven (1960)	Yul Brynner	33%
Tennis player who reached No. 1 on ATP rankings in 2022	Daniil Medvedev	32%
Model and former partner of Cristiano Ronaldo and actor Bradley Cooper	Irina Shayk	30%
Composer who created The Rite of Spring, Symphony in C and The Rake's Progress	Igor Stravinsky	28%
Tennis player who is married to Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias	Anna Kournikova	27%
First woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 in 1963	Valentina Tereshkova	26%
Nicknamed "Ovi" widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time	Alexander Ovechkin	24%
Last Tsarevich of Russia who famously had haemophilia	Alexei Nikolaevich	23%
Chess player who played the Match of the Century against Bobby Fisher in 1972	Boris Spassky	21%
Novelist and political prisoner who helped raise awareness of the Gulag forced-labor camps	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	18%
Basketball player who spent 13 years in the NBA playing most games for Utah Jazz	Andrei Kirilenko	15%
Russian-American ballet dancer who choreographed several iconic pieces	Mikhail Baryshnikov	15%
Director who won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for movie Burnt by the Sun	Nikita Mikhalkov	15%
Poet, who was in a state of depression and committed suicide by hanging	Sergei Yesenin	12%
Racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2014–2017 and 2019–2020	Daniil Kvyat	11%
Mixed martial artist known for holding the longest active undefeated streak in MMA	Khabib Nurmagomedov	11%
Poet who wrote A Cloud in Trousers and Backbone Flute	Vladimir Mayakovsky	11%
Soviet sniper who played an important role during the Battle of Stalingrad	Vasily Zaytsev	8%
Widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time	Yelena Isinbayeva	8%
Actor who starred in the films Burnt by the Sun and The Barber of Siberia	Oleg Menshikov	5%
Ballerina star who was the central figure in the history of classical dance	Maya Plisetskaya	2%
One of the most successful female gymnasts of all time	Svetlana Khorkina	2%