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Biggest Cities in Russia

How many of Russia's 20 most populous cities can you name?
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First submittedNovember 7, 2011
Times taken79,855
Average score45.0%
Rating4.48
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Population
City
12,480,481
Moscow
5,398,064
Saint Petersburg
1,625,631
Novosibirsk
1,493,749
Yekaterinburg
1,257,391
Kazan
1,252,236
Nizhny Novgorod
1,196,680
Chelyabinsk
Population
City
1,156,659
Samara
1,154,507
Omsk
1,137,904
Rostov-on-Don
1,128,787
Ufa
1,093,771
Krasnoyarsk
1,058,261
Voronezh
1,055,397
Perm
Population
City
1,008,998
Volgograd
932,629
Krasnodar
838,042
Saratov
807,271
Tyumen
699,429
Tolyatti
648,146
Izhevsk
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89 Comments
zoidberg
+9
Level 40
Nov 7, 2011
yeah, hard. i got 5
DJ1
+5
Level 18
Dec 6, 2014
Quite hard. I got 20/24!
MaxForce
+5
Level 22
Jun 4, 2016
I got 100%
PacoGee
+2
Level 44
Jan 19, 2015
lol I got 5 too.

I could have cheated and cut and pasted them all because Ican't spell them worth anything lol

Devvik2
+3
Level 74
Dec 1, 2017
I got 21/24, but isn't Tyumen bigger than Irkutsk?
Devvik2
+3
Level 74
Dec 1, 2017
Tyumen's Population is 621,918, and Irkutsk's Population is 601,993
InfiniteBulk
+13
Level 71
May 24, 2021
Please, never cheat on JetPunk.
jajaco2017
+2
Level 56
May 1, 2017
so you did not copy paste ?
mariofan367
+20
Level 14
Nov 8, 2011
99% got moscow, and 98% got earth on the 8 planets quiz. Humans are weird!
zephyr226
+19
Level 55
May 24, 2021
Hate to be THAT guy buuuuuut....

The people who take the planets quiz, an easier quiz and in the realm of science, are a different set of people to those who take this quiz.

Barring some rarities the likelihood is the takers of this quiz are a subset of those who take the planets quiz. A subset particularly interested in Geography or Russia, and so very likely to get Moscow.

For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if 100% of the people who got Moscow, could also get the Earth as a Planet of the Solar System. But I would doubt that 100% of those who guessed Earth, would also know Moscow is the largest city in Russia.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Nov 5, 2025
Plus everyone is taking the quiz from earth and not everyone is taken this quiz from moscow. People tend to forget their own place. Or the thing that is default (like typing Spain for modern countries that made up the Spanish empire)
CrazyWombat
+9
Level 54
Apr 29, 2012
That was hard 18/24, and apparently Vodka isnt a Russian answer
DeusCaritasEst
+8
Level 54
Mar 28, 2016
Really? Because I was pretty sure vodka was a Russian answer. Maybe not to this quiz, but you know, in general.
selful
+1
Level 67
Jan 2, 2022
Stop being an idiot,every Russian human (including myself) are just straightforward sick and tired of hearing dyslexic stereotypes like this. "VoDkA PlAnEt Is RuSsIa"
abracadabrant
+1
Level 54
Nov 11, 2022
agreed
bluesdjben
+2
Level 74
Nov 23, 2012
The spellings aren't that tricky if you have seen the names written, but if you only remember them from hearing them, that's a little harder. For example, I got 17/24, but I also knew Voronezh. It's just that I typed Veronezh but didn't think to try Voronezh.
Epicx
+1
Level 22
May 6, 2014
I got most because i understand but can you use yekaterinburg as yekarinburg
TanithEdgley
+4
Level 35
Aug 25, 2014
Got all. My girlfriend is Russian.
kalbahamut
+26
Level 80
Aug 25, 2014
See? That's why I need to get a Russian girlfriend.
tschutzer
+15
Level 94
Aug 25, 2014
That ain't the only reason.
mf3
+19
Level 90
Mar 24, 2017
I get emails about that all the time.
kalbahamut
+12
Level 80
Dec 24, 2017
They ought to advertise on this website
JackintheBox
+3
Level 82
Mar 22, 2020
@kal They do now.
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 59
Apr 25, 2022
@tschutzer yeah it is
ILikeQuizes
+3
Level 62
Mar 2, 2017
Never had a girlfriend of any nationality other than American, but my physics professor is Russian (he actually shares his last name with one of these cities). Didn't help much on the quiz. 6/24
Tramp
+30
Level 78
Dec 9, 2018
Mr. Saint Petersburg was your teacher too?
Potterhead67
+1
Level 42
Mar 9, 2025
I wish I had a Saint teaching me...
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot
+2
Level 56
Aug 25, 2014
20/24. Almost got Ulyanovsk as well - I thought it was Ulyanov or Ulyevsk. Also missed Perm, Saratov and Voronezh.
Moosefight
+12
Level 59
Aug 27, 2014
Let's see. Moscow. St. Petersburg. Um... What were those Risk territories?
brandybuck96
+3
Level 83
Oct 4, 2015
Ha yes, I tried putting in all the Risk places I could think of. The only other one I actually got was Nizhny-Novgorod, because it's in Michel Strogoff by Jules Verne.
MammothSammoth15
+5
Level 31
Sep 22, 2014
Got all on first try because I lived in Kazan for five years as a bartender. My wife is Russian too, so naturally that helps ha.
rawe
+3
Level 68
Oct 24, 2014
I always thought that Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk where the same city but in different languages.
rawe
+2
Level 68
Dec 18, 2014
Got 17, but I always forget Rostov!
Packerswin14
+12
Level 86
Apr 1, 2015
Can't believe Springfield didn't work. Typing all the words from the Risk board helped.
Skamps
+5
Level 40
Nov 6, 2015
How are some of these even pronounceble?
ShievaAndGolly
+3
Level 59
Apr 25, 2022
Russian
xzythe
+2
Level 44
Jan 22, 2016
got 22, 1 was misspelled, so pretty much that's 23... yea, it's hard, even for russian, after like 15 i just started guessing...
kalbahamut
+4
Level 80
Jul 20, 2016
seriously need many more spellings for yekaterinburg
eibi
+2
Level 80
May 10, 2017
only one: Sverdlovsk ;)
JWatson24
+9
Level 71
May 24, 2021
The 3 banes of my JetPunk existence: Yakaterinburg, Antananarivo, Yamoussoukro.
Inferno46
+3
Level 54
May 13, 2022
Massachusetts is pretty bad yes, but Ouagadougou you just have to type in Ouaga and you get it, and for Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte you can type in just Sri Kotte.
Nickelz
+2
Level 68
Apr 10, 2024
or just spell it right
AlfieJMD
+2
Level 39
Jul 22, 2016
I got 11, I mean how are these even possible to pronounce? Annoyed I missed Chelyabinsk :/
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Apr 23, 2025
With the tongue.
vindem
+2
Level 67
Feb 9, 2017
There should be Khabarovsk, with 611 thousand inhabitants, the city certainly bigger than Irkutsk, Vladivostok or Yaroslavl
MyMindWentBlank
+2
Level 61
Apr 3, 2017
According to Google and Wikipedia it's closer to 590 thousand, but that's still big enough to make the list.
TravisKewley
+3
Level 25
Jun 27, 2017
I got 2, Ima boss!!!!!
selful
+2
Level 67
Jan 2, 2022
Probably St.Petersburg,and Moscow?
DrIlluminati123
+4
Level 33
Sep 24, 2017
I only got Moscow. Only city in Russia I knew without looking at the Atlas.
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 74
Jan 27, 2023
Not even St. Petersburg?? The historic capital of Russia, the birthplace of Lenin and Putin, the siege of Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg), Catherine the Great, the culture hotspot of Russia, the 6th biggest city in all of Europe?

THERE IS EVEN A CITY IN FLORIDA CALLED THE SAME NAME

Kingsfisher
+1
Level 68
Sep 17, 2025
Actually, Lenin (Ulyanov) was born in Simbirsk. Simbirsk was even renamed Ulyanovsk in honor of that, and has a huge memorial center of Lenin. To be honest, this is the only thing that makes this city notable, so Ulyanovsk citizens would be angry if they see your comment
SturmZebra
+2
Level 40
Nov 4, 2017
Wow, I thought I was way below average with 8.
Angbo
+3
Level 66
Jun 2, 2021
Me too.

But I'm a Taiwanese Junior High School Student!

Pinoccio
+2
Level 28
Nov 24, 2017
Try the type-in version here
blizzrd33
+2
Level 80
Dec 22, 2017
Will you accept Novgorod for Nizhny Novgorod?
lucd13
+7
Level 70
Dec 24, 2017
No - when 'Novgorod' is used by itself, it usually refers to Veliky Novgorod. Two very different cities
Jorissie
+2
Level 93
Dec 22, 2017
Only knew #1, 2 and 3 :(
imfrombritain
+2
Level 39
Mar 11, 2018
i got 3
kalbahamut
+2
Level 80
Jun 1, 2018
I've only been to Moscow and St Petersburg (and Peterhof), and the long mostly empty stretches of highway between, but both cities were lovely.
IsleAuHaulte
+14
Level 92
Jul 22, 2018
Could you accept Barn Owl for Barnaul?
GeographyGeek42
+3
Level 65
Sep 26, 2018
[bərnɐˈul] and /ˈbɑɹn ˌaʊəl/ are 2 different pronounciations.
bassdude
+2
Level 15
Oct 5, 2018
haha!
Balkanija
+3
Level 31
Mar 21, 2019
Reading how hard the Spelling is... But when you are a slav you just replace č with ch š with sh j with y and you are done. I see how it is hard to you Like chinese is to me.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
Jun 8, 2019
This time missed Izhevsk, Tolyatti, Samara, and... Novosibirsk. >_
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
May 24, 2021
2 years later using my own comment to cheat I picked up the 3 that I was still missing this time around... at least I remembered Samara on my own...
pinkysbrain
+2
Level 86
Aug 22, 2020
only got 4 but got one point . knew the big two got one from soccer and one from an infamous 1980 /90s serial killer ( Rostov ripper ) .
filiphoset
+3
Level 63
Oct 8, 2020
What about Smolensk?
Fresco3
+2
Level 70
Dec 3, 2020
Is it bad that I only know half of these because of air crash investigation? Yaroslavl, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Irkutsk, Omsk, Kazan...
HyperGeography
+2
Level 41
Dec 28, 2020
I got 6/24 I forgot like 5 Russian cities that I knew
Zylco
+2
Level 44
Jan 2, 2021
Wikipedia now has a 2020 population version.
brianbohn
+2
Level 98
Apr 24, 2021
LOL got them all but only 4 /5 points, first time I've seen that happen!
paulus1
+3
Level 73
Apr 25, 2021
Please accept voronesh for voronezh
mf3
+5
Level 90
Apr 29, 2021
Why? It's two completely different Cyrillic letters. Sh is ш and zh is ж. Not a transliteration problem. Similarly, "Noscow" should also not be accepted. :)
paulus1
+2
Level 73
May 12, 2021
Why ? Because they sound similar. Leonid Brezhnev and Leonid Breshnev are both accepted in another quiz.
Mountbatten26
+1
Level 61
May 24, 2021
Kiev ?
michaelngwa
+13
Level 61
May 24, 2021
Kiev is in Ukraine mate.
3nchiladas
+6
Level 69
Sep 17, 2022
You sound like Putin.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
Oct 20, 2022
Not even close.
codylitboigeo
+2
Level 32
May 24, 2021
i got moscow st petersburg and perm :/
Fishyyy
+1
Level 61
May 24, 2021
Please accept Oof a for Ufa.
AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 76
Nov 6, 2021
Odd, I thought Vladivostok should have made it since it's an important city. But apparently, it's population is just over 600k, which is less than I expected.
AxolotlSucksGeo
+1
Level 44
Nov 23, 2021
12,480,481Moscow

100%

100%

5,398,064Saint Petersburg

98%

100%

1,008,998Volgograd

64%

100%

1,493,749Yekaterinburg

62%

100%

1,252,236Nizhny Novgorod

60%

100%

1,257,391Kazan

54%

100%

1,625,631Novosibirsk

53%

100%

1,137,904Rostov-on-Don

50%

100%

1,154,507Omsk

47%

100%

1,128,787Ufa

42%

100%

1,055,397Perm

41%

100%

1,156,659Samara

40%

100%

1,196,680Chelyabinsk

37%

100%

932,629Krasnodar

35%

100%

1,058,261Voronezh

28%

100%

1,093,771Krasnoyarsk

27%

100%

838,042Saratov

25%

100%

699,429Tolyatti

17%

100%

807,271Tyumen

16%

100%

648,146Izhevsk

12%

EcceHomo
+2
Level 85
Aug 7, 2024
Why do this?
Baseballnerd
+1
Level 37
Feb 4, 2025
Bro gave away the answers
RussiaIsChunk
+1
Level 45
May 24, 2022
I guessed Kyiv. Says a lot about our society.
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Feb 4, 2025
I think it says more about you in particular.
Unimportant
+1
Level 73
Feb 28, 2023
I always think Volgograd is bigger than it actually is
F1GridMaster
+1
Level 27
Aug 4, 2025
3/24:/
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Nov 5, 2025
Apparently I can name 6, but I know 10 (the top 9 guessed plus Perm, which actually only differs 1 % with nr 10, so another time it might be the top 10 guessed)
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