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Siberia, Land of Exile

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Asia - Regions : Siberia, Land of Exile

Introduction:
"Siberia is not only a land of exile, but, despite its often tragic history, a spectacularly beautiful and unforgettable place..."


1. Which mountain range divides European Russia from Siberia?
    Carpathians
    Pamirs
    Urals
    Sayan mountains


2. Siberia was opened up largely thanks to the building of the Trans-Siberian railway line. From which Moscow railway station do the Trans-Siberian trains depart?
    Yaroslavsky station
    Kievsky station
    Byelorussky station
    Pavelyetsky station


3. The remoteness of Siberia has made it a favoured place of exile throughout Russia's history. Dostoyevsky was exiled for four years in which Siberian city?
    Tobolsk
    Irkutsk
    Omsk
    Yekaterinburg


4. Eastern Siberia contains the world's largest freshwater lake. What is it called?
    Lake Issyk-Kul
    Lake Ladoga
    Lake Balaton
    Lake Baikal


5. Lake Baikal is home to many species of plant and animal which are found nowhere else on earth. One is a fish which locals consider a tasty delicacy. What is it called?
    golomanka
    sturgeon
    omul
    pike


6. In December 1825 a group of noblemen revolted against the Tsar. The uprising was suppressed, and many of its instigators exiled to Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia. What was the group known as?
    Whites
    Decembrists
    Bolsheviks
    Republicans


7. Much of Siberia is covered by vast swathes of mainly coniferous forest. What is it called in Russian?
    taiga
    permafrost
    tundra
    steppes


8. Many of the most notorious Soviet labour-camps were scattered throughout Siberia. Many thousands of prisoners died in the gold and uranium mines of which area?
    Kamchatka Peninsula
    Kolyma Peninsula
    Yakutia
    Vorkuta


9. Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 in a Western Siberian city which was subsequently named after the official who ordered their execution. After the fall of the Soviet Union it reverted to its pre-revolutionary name. What is it?
    Krasnoyarsk
    Yekaterinburg
    Omsk
    Bratsk


10. The Eastern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk stands on a river which is, in volume, the largest in Russia, and is 4129 kilometres long. What is it called?
    Lena
    Irtysh
    Yenisei
    Angara


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