| Population | Region | Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| C | 1.2 million | Urals | made global headlines in 2013 when a superbolide meteor exploded over the city | Chelyabinsk | 90%
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| M | 13 million | European Russia | defined by the Kremlin, Red Square, and its world-famous, palace-like metro stations | Moscow | 90%
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| R | 1.1 million | European Russia | hub of Cossack culture and sits at the mouth of the Don River | Rostov-on-Don | 90%
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| S | 5.6 million | European Russia | founded by Peter the Great as a “Window to the West” famous for the Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg | 90%
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| N | 1.5 million | Siberia | major stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway | Novosibirsk | 86%
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| O | 1.1 million | Siberia | city where the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky spent four years in exile, an experience that inspired The House of the Dead | Omsk | 81%
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| U | 1.1 million | Urals | famous for its high-quality honey and its massive monument to the national hero Salavat Yulaev | Ufa | 81%
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| Y | 1.5 million | Urals | historically significant as the site where the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were executed | Yekaterinburg | 81%
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| P | 1 million | Urals | gave its name to a geological period (approx. 250–300 million years ago) | Perm | 76%
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| A | 476,000 | European Russia | world-famous for its black caviar and high-quality watermelons | Astrakhan | 71%
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| K | 3 million | Eastern Europe | famous for the golden domes of St. Sophia’s Cathedral and the massive Motherland Monument | Kyiv | 67%
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| V | 1 million | European Russia | where Peter the Great began building the first regular Russian flotilla in the late 1600s | Voronezh | 62%
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| D | 969,000 | Eastern Europe | major center for the aerospace and rocket industry on the banks of its country’s largest river | Dnipro | 57%
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| T | 847,000 | Urals | first Russian city in Siberia and is now a major center for the oil and gas industry | Tyumen | 57%
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| B | 631,000 | Siberia | gateway to the Altai Mountains, this city was one of Russia's first major industrial centers in the 18th century due to its silver mines | Barnaul | 52%
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| I | 623,000 | Urals | city where Mikhail Kalashnikov designed and produced the AK-47 assault rifle | Izhevsk | 43%
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| Z | 710,000 | Eastern Europe | home to the largest nuclear power plant in Europe | Zaporizhzhia | 43%
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| L | 496,000 | European Russia | major “Steel City” known for its metallurgical plants and its historic mineral water spas used by Russian royalty | Lipetsk | 33%
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| G | 501,000 | Eastern Europe | renowned for the stunning Palace of the Rumyantsevs and Paskeviches situated in a massive park | Gomel | 29%
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| F | 66,000 | Eastern Europe | home to a medieval Genoese fortress and the museum of marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky | Feodosia | 19%
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| H | 240,000 | Eastern Europe | major coal mining and chemical manufacturing hub in the Donbas region | Horlivka | 19%
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| E | 225,000 | Urals | location where Yuri Gagarin landed after his historic first flight into space | Engels | 14%
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