Cities of Russia

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1. What is the capital city of Russia? St. Petersburg Kiev Moscow Minsk

2. Situated on the Lena River in the far east of Siberia and the second coldest city in the world, many dissidents were exiled here during the communist era? Volgograd Yakutsk Kazan Vladivostok

3. Known as Sverdlovsk during most of the 20th century, this city was the infamous site of the execution of Czar Nicholas and his family in 1918? Yekaterinburg Nizhni Novgorod Mumansk St. Petersburg

4. Formerly known as Leningrad and founded near the mouth of the Neva River in 1703, this city is the second largest in Russia? Moscow Odessa Kiev St. Petersburg

5. Named from a Sami word meaning 'the edge of the earth' this is the largest city inside the Arctic Circle and Russia's only major ice-free port in the west? Murmansk Vladivostok St. Petersburg Novosibirsk

6. Known as 'Stalingrad' during much of the communist era, this city was destroyed during World War II and represented the farthest point of the German advance? Moscow Volgograd St. Petersburg Nizhni Novgorod

7. Situated on the Ob River in southern Siberia, this city is a major point on the Trans-Siberian railway and is regarded as the cultural capital of eastern Russia? Omsk Novosibirsk Irkutsk Yekaterinburg

8. Situated on Russia's Pacific coast, this city has been a major port and naval base and was occupied by Japanese troops after the Russian Revolution until 1922? Yakutsk Vladivostok Novosibirsk Murmansk

9. Founded originally on the Volga River by Mongol invaders and nowadays capital of the Tatarstan Republic, this city was a source of trouble for a succession of Russian administrations until finally subdued in 1774? Nizhni Novgorod Noril'sk Yakutsk Kazan

10. Known as 'Gorky' during the communist era and long a centre of trade and commerce, this city is located at the confluence of the Volga and Oka Rivers and is one of the largest cities in Russia? Novosibirsk Rostov Chelyabinsk Nizhni Novgorod