Check out this quiz to know how much you know about Russian history, geography, leaders, revolutions, wars, and events.
The longest river in the country is –
(a) Volga
(b) Yenisei
(c) Ob
(d) Irtysh
Which Soviet leader introduced “perestroika” and “glasnost” policies in the 1980s to reform the Soviet economy and political system?
(a) Leonid Brezhnev
(b) Yuri Andropov
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev
(d) Boris Yeltsin
What territory was sold under Tsar Alexander II in 1867 for about 1.9 per acre, a total of US $7.2 million?
(a) Romania
(b) Mongolia
(c) Poland
(d) Alaska
The parliament of Russia is
(a) Estates General
(b) Duma
(c) Loka Sabha
Who was the leader of the Mensheviks?
(a) Lenin
(b) Stalin
(c) Kerensky
(d) Sun Yat Sen
Which event in 1917 led to the downfall of the Russian Empire?
(a) The February Revolution
(b) The October Revolution
(c) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
(d) The Civil War
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The secret police of the Russian Tsars
(a) ISI
(b) RAW
(c) Cossacks
(d) FBI
An influence that spread from the Byzantine Empire to Early Russia was the
(a) Orthodox Christian religion
(b) use of the Latin alphabet
(c) beginning of democracy
(d) factory system
In which year did the Russian Empire officially adopt the Gregorian calendar?
(a) 1582
(b) 1752
(c) 1917
(d) 2022
Who was the first female ruler of Russia?
(a) Catherine the Great
(b) Mary I
(c) Elizabeth I
(d) Queen Victoria
Stalin became the Premiere of the USSR in
(a) 1938
(b) 1934
(c) 1924
(d) 1918
Who was the ruler of Russia at the time of the Revolution?
(a) Nicholas II
(b) Nicholas I
(c) Lenin
(d) Peter
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Lenin was succeeded by
(a) Boris Yeltsin
(b) Stalin
(c) Mussolini Benito
(d) Vladimir Lenin
Leningrad was built by
(a) Ivan III
(b) Nicholas I
(c) Alexander III
(d) Peter I
Who was a founder member of the Russian Populist Movement “Anarchism”?
(a) Mikhail Bakunin
(b) Gorkhy
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) Turganev
How many countries does Russia border with?
(a) 11
(b) 12
(c) 13
(d) 14
In 1877, Russia went to war with –
(a) Sweden
(b) Mongol
(c) Turkey
(d) Bulgaria
Which of these disappeared from his job at the British Foreign Office in 1951, at the same time as Donald MacLean, so both were suspected of spying for Russia?
(a) Anthony Burgess
(b) Burgess Meredith
(c) Guy Fawkes
(d) Guy Burgess
Georgy Malenkov became the Soviet Prime Minister after the death of –
(a) Boris Vladimirovich
(b) Stalin
(c) Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky
(d) Nikolai Bulganin
How many time zones are there in Russia?
(a) 7
(b) 9
(c) 11
(d) 13
Which empire introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Cyrillic alphabet to Russia?
(a) Mongol
(b) Byzantine
(c) British
(d) Gupta
From which city did the Russian Revolution begin?
(a) St. Petersburg
(b) Moscow
(c) Kazan
(d) Odessa
Which country does Russia have its shortest international border with?
(a) North Korea
(b) Ukraine
(c) Estonia
(d) Latvia
What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917?
(a) Hapsburg
(b) Stroganoff
(c) Romanoff
(d) Medici
In the thirteenth Century, Russia was overrun by –
(a) Mongols
(b) Persians
(c) Turks
(d) Ottomans
Rasputin belonged to which country?
(a) Russia
(b) Ukraine
(c) Belarus
(d) Kyrgyzstan
