| Hint | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Horn Bay, "ruler of the East", American troops marched the streets in 1918 | Vladivostok | 91%
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| Peter the Great's wife, Iset river, drug city | Yekaterinburg | 83%
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| coldest major city on Earth, Lena river, many UNESCO schools e.g. Korean, French... | Yakutsk | 70%
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| name in Russian meaning "fearsome" or "menacing", Sunzha river, capital of Chechnya | Grozny | 65%
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| also known as Yagoshikha and Molotov, Finno-Ugric name now, Kama river | Perm | 65%
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| Port of 5 seas since 1952, Anton Chekhov, Delta of Don | Rostov | 65%
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| Tatarstan, world heritage site Kremlin, Millennium bridge, the Golden Horde political center | Kazan | 61%
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| Kola Bay, Lenin icebreaker museum ship, Monument of Sailors, Arctic Bridge plan terminus | Murmansk | 61%
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| Fyodor Dostoyevsky's place of exile, 2nd largest city East of Ural mountains, Irtysh river | Omsk | 57%
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| Chkalov stairs, Strigino Airport, Volga river | Nizhny Novgorod | 52%
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| Monument of Glory, LADA model manufactured 1984-2013 known as LADA Sputnik in Russia, Volga and ______ rivers | Samara | 52%
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| the oldest university in Siberia, center of the White movement, Tom river | Tomsk | 48%
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| closed to all foreigners until 1991, the largest Lenin's head in the world, Ude river | Ulan-Ude | 43%
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| to Vikings: Bjarmaland, White Sea, biblical title of Michael | Arkhangelsk | 39%
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| Trans-Siberian railway junction, Yenisei river, Russian Empire political exiles 'home' | Krasnoyarsk | 39%
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| founded by Ivan the Terrible as Tura-Tau, Akbuzat racecourse, Salavat Yulaev ___ KHL | Ufa | 39%
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| Caspian Sea, "the Pearl Fortress", Islam, the capital of Dagestan | Makhachkala | 30%
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| rural locality in Sakha Republic, "coldest inhabited place on Earth", Indigirka river | Oymyakon | 30%
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| Russian navy's pride Goto Predestinatsia (1700), Platonov Arts Festival, VASO aircraft manufacturing | Voronezh | 26%
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| used to be in Sweden, used to be in Finland, Karelian isthmus | Vyborg | 22%
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