| Clue | City | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| M | Russia's capital city | Moscow | 94%
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| S | Largest coastal city, known for the Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg | 86%
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| N | Largest city in Siberia—its name even means "New Siberia" | Novosibirsk | 84%
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| K | Russian exclave city near Poland and Lithuania, previously called Königsberg by the Germans | Kaliningrad | 80%
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| V | Previously named Stalingrad, it was the site of a major battle during WWII | Volgograd | 80%
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| Y | Known as Sverdlovsk from 1924–1991 | Yekaterinburg | 80%
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| O | City at the confluence of the Om and Irtysh rivers | Omsk | 76%
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| P | Also the name of a curly hairstyle | Perm | 76%
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| R | City on the Don River | Rostov-on-Don | 73%
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| C | City impacted by a meteor explosion in February 2013 | Chelyabinsk | 69%
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| G | Capital of the controversial Chechen Republic | Grozny | 61%
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| U | City established by Ivan the Terrible in 1574 | Ufa | 61%
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| B | Means "White city" just like Serbia's capital of Belgrade | Belgorod | 55%
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| A | City on the Volga River delta | Astrakhan | 49%
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| I | Capital of Udmurtia, known for having a high redhead population | Izhevsk | 41%
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| T | Second largest city in the Samara Oblast—AvtoVAZ headquarters | Tolyatti | 37%
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| L | Like Leipzig, this city's name derives from linden trees | Lipetsk | 35%
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| D | City 35 kilometers west of Nizhny Novgorod | {Dzer}zhinsk | 24%
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| E | Capital of the Republic of Kalmykia | Elista | 24%
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| Z | Steel manufacturing city on the Ay River, west of city C | {Zla}toust | 20%
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| F | Scientific town northeast of Russia's capital | {Frya}zino | 12%
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