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Mountains
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Highest mountain in Europe, which last erupted in 50 AD
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Mount Elbrus
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Mountain range stretching into Mongolia and source of the Ob river
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Altai Mountains
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Mineral-rich mountains that split the Russian SFSR into its European and Asian portions
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Ural Mountains
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Tajik mountain and highest one in the Soviet Union
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Communism Peak
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Central Asian mountain range whose name translates to 'heaven mountain'
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Tian Shan
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Battles
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Major tank battle which ended the possibility of further major Nazi offensives on the Eastern Front
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Battle of Kursk
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Yearlong Soviet offensives nicknamed a 'meat grinder' due to their heavy casualties
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Battles of Rzhev
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Battle in 1944, leading to Soviet capturing a major Estonian city
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Battle of Narva
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Key battle in the Russian Revolution, known as the 'Red Verdun' due to the Bolshevik resistance
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Battle of Tsaritsyn
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Battle fought at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, where three Soviet armies were encircled
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Battle of Smolensk
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Failed Axis offensive into the southern Soviet Union to capture oil fields
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Case Blue
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Japanese incursion near a small lake along their border with the USSR, fought in 1938
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Battle of Lake Khasan
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People
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First President of an independent Russia, who famously gave a speech on a tank
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Boris Yeltsin
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World War II General and Minister of Defense and recipient of countless medals and awards
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Georgy Zhukov
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Composer who partly wrote his Seventh Symphony whilst the city he was in was being besieged
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Military engineer who designed firearms such as the AK-47
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Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Brutal leader of the secret police, who was executed in 1953
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Lavrentiy Beria
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Cosmonaut onboard the Vostok 6, thus becoming the first woman in space
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Valentina Tereshkova
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who visited Washington D.C. in 1973
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Latvian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to Canada in 1974
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Marshal of the Soviet Union in WWII and Polish Minister of National Defense
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Konstantin Rokossovsky
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Author who wrote about political suppression in the USSR and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR for almost 25 years until being removed by Gorbachev
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Dinmukhamed Kunaev
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Minister of Foreign Affairs who signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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Commander of the Soyuz 19 who performed the first spacewalk
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Alexei Leonov
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Key physicist in the Soviet nuclear programme and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Andrei Sakharov
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Rival of Khrushchev and leader of the USSR for a short period of time
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Georgy Malenkov
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Russian singer, poet and guitarist who frequently criticised the government
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Vladimir Vysotsky
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Chess world champion who lost to the Deep Blue supercomputer
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Garry Kasparov
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Lieutenant colonel who is said to have 'saved the world' for noticing the missiles on the warning system were a false alarm
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Stanislav Petrov
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Siberian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1984-1985
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Konstantin Chernenko
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Male ballet dancer and first Soviet artist to defect during the Cold War
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Landmarks
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Tallest statue in the world at the time, dedicated to the casualties in a major Second World War battle
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The Motherland Calls
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Burning gas field possibly ignited by Soviet engineers in 1971
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Darvaza gas crater
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Sculpture of a male and a female holding a hammer and sickle, originally made for the 1937 World's Fair
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Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
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Building complex in Yerevan known for its gardens and staircases
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The Cascade
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Titanium statue in Ukraine which depicts a woman holding a sword and shield
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Mother Ukraine
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Main test site of Soviet nuclear weapons, located in Kazakhstan
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Semipalatinsk Test Site
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Town square in the Russian capital, where Victory Day parades take place
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Red Square
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Miscellaneous
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Faction which split from the Bolsheviks, whose name translates to 'the minority'
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Mensheviks
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Executive authority that had supreme control over the USSR's government
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Politburo
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Stereotypical fur hat with Soviet insignia at the front
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Ushanka
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Secret police organisation from 1934-1946 and predecessor of the KGB
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NKVD
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Continuously inhabited space station and largest artificial satellite at the time
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Mir
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First national anthem of the Soviet Union, originally written by a Frenchman
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The Internationale
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Meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, held on Soviet soil
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Yalta Conference
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Sources/Credits
• I used this as a source for the city populations along with double-checking with citypopulation.de and Wikipedia
• This was my main source for the borders of the subdivisions of the Soviet Union
• This map was used as a source for international borders at the time
Feel free to give any feedback :)
Poland when??
Thanks for taking the quiz and for the feedback!
I only know I normally type in Krakov and Krakow to get the Polish city in the South and the Ukrainian city, so I think that is the default :D