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Can you find the answer to each of these questions about Russia?
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What was the nationality of people who were executed in the Katyn Massacre?
Polish
What country was jointly invaded by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom in 1941?
Iran
What does "USSR" officially stand for?
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
What country shares the shortest border with Russia in Europe?
Norway
What term, starting with O, refers to a region of Russia?
Oblast
What is the name of the Russian national parliament?
Duma
What conqueror invaded Russia and forced it to burn Moscow in 1812?
Napoleon
What is the name of the national airline of Russia?
Aeroflot
What is the longest railway line in the world?
Trans-Siberian Railway
What city, starting with I, is also one of the places in the "Risk"?
Irkutsk
What is the most famous cathedral of Moscow?
St. Basil
What country did Russia invade in 1939 and is roundly repulsed despite
huge numerical superiority?
Finland
What foreign minister cynically signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939?
Vyacheslav Molotov
The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the war against what country in 1905?
Japan
What Communist faction seized power in 1917 after the Russian Revolution?
Bolsheviks
What person ruled the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953?
Joseph Stalin
What is the world's deepest lake?
Lake Baikal
What was the native language of Joseph Stalin?
Georgian
Who has been the first democratically-elected leader in Russian history?
Boris Yeltsin
What is the English term for someone from Moscow?
Muscovite
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Level 95
Aug 11, 2020
Excellent quiz and great mix of questions.
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Level 72
Aug 11, 2020
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
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Level 75
Aug 12, 2020
Agreed
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Level 20
Apr 8, 2024
The official Newspaper of the Soviet Union is Pravda not prava