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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Yekaterinburg

Can you answer these multiple-choice questions about Yekaterinburg?
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Last updated: March 25, 2025
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1. In what mountain range does Yekaterinburg lie?
Carpathian
Altai
Ural
Caucasus
2. What important trade route runs through Yekaterinburg?
The Silk Road
The Siberian Route
The Northwest Passage
Hinterland Highway
3. Yekaterinburg was NOT named for Catherine the Great, but for which ruler’s wife?
Peter I
Vlad the Impaler
Ivan the Terrible
Saint Nicholas II
4. Which of these historical figures died in Yekaterinburg?
Vladimir Lenin
Grigori Rasputin
Nicholas II
Leon Trotsky
5. This building was built where that person died. What is it called?
Tomb of the People’s Traitor
Cathedral of Blood
Church of the Holy Communist
Mausoleum of the Massacred
6. From 1924-1991, what did the Soviet government change Yekaterinburg’s name to?
It was named for Soviet politician Yakov Sverdlov.
Petrograd
Sverdlovsk
Trotsk
Stalingrad
7. What name is shared by a Yekaterinburg district, a Soviet factory, and the criminal gang that rose to power there in the 1990s?
The Uralmash factory was taken over by the Uralmash Gang, which was one of Russia’s most feared gangs in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
VIZ
Uralmash
Botanichesky
Pionersky
8. Who’s the only national leader who came from Yekaterinburg?
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Putin
Joseph Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
9. What does Yekaterinburg’s Stenograffia festival celebrate?
Yekaterinburg is known for all these things, but Stenograffia is for street art. Graffia… graffiti…
Independent filmmaking
Street art, wall murals
Neo-constructivist architecture
Rock and roll
10. Which of these structures is not part of Yekaterinburg’s eclectic architectural mosaic?
Yekaterinburg Circus, Uralmash White Tower, a Qatar stadium, and the Ural Federal University.
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3 Comments
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Level 73
Mar 25, 2025
Nice MCCQ!

I somehow managed to get 7/10

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Level 83
Mar 25, 2025
Thanks. I am terrible at these quizzes (2 or 4/10 usually) so I probably made my quiz easier than most.
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Level 78
Mar 25, 2025
TIL from #3 I’ve been lied to my whole life.