| Clue | Russian | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Soviet leader who killed millions of his own people | Joseph Stalin | 94%
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| First Premier of the USSR | V. I. Lenin | 93%
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| Current President | Vladimir Putin | 93%
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| "Terrible" ruler and first tsar | Ivan the Terrible | 89%
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| "Great" tsar who built St. Petersburg | Peter the Great | 79%
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| "War and Peace" | Leo Tolstoy | 77%
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| Soviet leader with a famous birthmark | Mikhail Gorbachev | 77%
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| "Great” female tsar | Catherine the Great | 76%
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| Last tsar | Nicholas II | 71%
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| "Mad Monk" who was hard to kill | Rasputin | 70%
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| First man to orbit Earth | Yuri Gagarin | 69%
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| First post-Soviet Russian leader | Boris Yeltsin | 60%
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| Made dogs salivate with a bell | Ivan Pavlov | 58%
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| "Swan Lake" | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | 58%
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| "The Brothers Karamazov" | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 44%
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| All-time highest rated chess player (until 2014) | Garry Kasparov | 42%
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| Photogenic winner of 5 tennis Grand Slam titles | Maria Sharapova | 38%
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| Chelsea football owner | Roman Abramovich | 38%
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| "Lolita" | Vladimir Nabokov | 38%
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| "The Rite of Spring" | Igor Stravinsky | 19%
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| Famous male ballet dancer who defected to France in 1961 | Rudolf Nureyev | 19%
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| Google cofounder | Sergey Brin | 17%
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