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50 Famous People from Russia - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution | Vladimir Lenin | 97%
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| President of Russia from 1999 until 2008 and since 2012 | Vladimir Putin | 90%
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| Empress of All Russia (1762-1796) – the country's longest-ruling female leader | Catherine the Great | 84%
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| Last leader of the USSR from 1985 until 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 84%
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| Self-proclaimed mystic who gained considerable influence in the court of Tsar | Grigori Rasputin | 83%
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| Writer of the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 83%
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| Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space | Yuri Gagarin | 83%
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| Last Emperor of Russia, who abdicated during Russian Revolution of 1917 | Nicholas II | 79%
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| First President of Russia from 1991 to 1999 | Boris Yeltsin | 74%
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| First Tsar of all Russia from 1533 until 1584, nicknames "Grozny" | Ivan the Terrible | 74%
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| Novelist and author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 71%
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| Composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | 70%
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| Russian Tsar in the late 17th century, who is known for his extensive reforms | Peter the Great | 68%
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| Leader who was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev | 64%
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| Communist who helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army | Leon Trotsky | 60%
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| Grand Duchess who was killed at age of 17 by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918 | Anastasia Nikolaevna | 56%
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| Author of controversial novel Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 55%
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| Chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion from 1984 until 2005 | Garry Kasparov | 54%
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| Female tennis player who won all four Grand Slams | Maria Sharapova | 53%
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| Chemist who discovered the periodic law and created the periodic table of elements | Dmitri Mendeleyev | 50%
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| Opposition leader who died in the prison in 2024 | Alexei Navalny | 47%
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| Billionaire businessman and politician the owner of Chelsea FC | Roman Abramovich | 45%
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| Writer of science fiction works Foundation and Earth and I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | 43%
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| USSR General and Marshal who led the Red Army in some of WWII battles | Georgy Zhukov | 42%
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| Considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | 36%
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| Playwright and author of Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 36%
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| Regarded by many as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport | Lev Yashin | 33%
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| Tennis player who is married to Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias | Anna Kournikova | 32%
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| Model and former partner of Cristiano Ronaldo and actor Bradley Cooper | Irina Shayk | 31%
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| Tennis player who reached No. 1 on ATP rankings in 2022 | Daniil Medvedev | 30%
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| Novelist and political prisoner who helped raise awareness of the Gulag forced-labor camps | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 26%
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| Nicknamed "Ovi" widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time | Alexander Ovechkin | 26%
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| Composer who created The Rite of Spring, Symphony in C and The Rake's Progress | Igor Stravinsky | 26%
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| First woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 in 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova | 24%
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| Last Tsarevich of Russia who famously had haemophilia | Alexei Nikolaevich | 23%
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| Russian-American actor who starred in The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Yul Brynner | 22%
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| Chess player who played the Match of the Century against Bobby Fisher in 1972 | Boris Spassky | 21%
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| Russian-American ballet dancer who choreographed several iconic pieces | Mikhail Baryshnikov | 17%
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| First Russian laureate who won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | Ivan Pavlov | 16%
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| Basketball player who spent 13 years in the NBA playing most games for Utah Jazz | Andrei Kirilenko | 13%
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| Mixed martial artist known for holding the longest active undefeated streak in MMA | Khabib Nurmagomedov | 13%
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| Poet who wrote A Cloud in Trousers and Backbone Flute | Vladimir Mayakovsky | 10%
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| Widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time | Yelena Isinbayeva | 10%
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| Racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2014–2017 and 2019–2020 | Daniil Kvyat | 9%
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| Poet, who was in a state of depression and committed suicide by hanging | Sergei Yesenin | 9%
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| Director who won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for movie Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | 8%
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| Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history | Aleksandr Popov | 7%
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| Soviet sniper who played an important role during the Battle of Stalingrad | Vasily Zaytsev | 6%
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| Actor who starred in the films Burnt by the Sun and The Barber of Siberia | Oleg Menshikov | 3%
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| One of the most successful female gymnasts of all time | Svetlana Khorkina | 3%
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