Can you name the most populous cities in Russia?

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Cities of Russia Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: October 7th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 42,222

Tags: City Quizzes, rank, russia, populous

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	Wagon:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:15 GMT	8 points
	Interesting distribution of cities

	JohnJF:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	34 points
	Most geography quizzes I feel like I miss something obvious, but in this case of getting two, it seems about right.

	cjcourt:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	10 points
	I feel like a complete dork for noticing this - but including the ranking in the "clickable" answer on the results page means that you won't be redirected to the right Wikipedia page.

	pete:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	5 points
	There is a problem with the Nizhny Novgorod answer. It accepts "Nizhny Novgo" or something like that, but I typed a misspelled version of "Nizhny Novgorod" and then fixed it, and it wasn't accepted.

	bean:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	4 points
	Was guessing names I knew from a Russian history course. Unfortunately we're not at their modern names yet...

	hscer:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:32 GMT	10 points
	Never before has a gap between #2 and #3 been so vast and the reason so obvious.

	Doctor_Tom:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:33 GMT	5 points
	This quiz is so helpful because we're studying Russia right now and memorizing their cities is a pain.

	AtomicIce:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	5 points
	Great quiz. Would it be possible to have Togliatti as an alternate accepted spelling? I typed that in and when nothing came up, I thought it wasn't in the top 20.

	RedLIon:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	6 points
	This kind of quiz and the provinces/states quizzes are my favorite kind on this whole site.

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	Tir_McDohl:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	22 points
	I'm surprised, no Vladivostok or Kaliningrad.

	Tir_McDohl:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	18 points
	@Osprey39: and Chernobyl is in Ukraine.

	smarty:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	7 points
	@Osprey39 i don't know if this is one of the "obvious reasons" you're talking about... but chernobyl is in the ukraine.

	quita37:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	9 points
	Great quiz! It would be great if Rostov-na-Donu was an acceptable alternate spelling for Rostov-on-Don, since that's its name in Russian.

	caramba:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:16 GMT	1 point
	Trying to remember all the major city names from playing "Fire In The East" 15 years ago - Rostov-na-Donu was there, as well as Smolensk, Archangelsk, Maikop, Grozny, Gorkiy, Yaroslavl, Kalinin, Tula... Will have to check how many are changed names and how many just don't make the grade anymore. Now I want to play again!

	Slugma:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	3 points
	got 8 thanks to russian soccer teams and the amazing race, lol

	MikeSang:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	23 points
	in Soviet Russia, quiz sucks at YOU

	pbysr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:59 GMT	18 points
	Football helped me get Kazan but to my consternation I discovered that Torpedo, CSKA, Lokomotiv, Saturn, and Spartak are not cities.

scaryice:

Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:03 GMT

9 points

The part of Russia next to Lithuania should be in white too.

	Rhys:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	11 points
	I bet all the people (me included) that got Volgograd, typed in Stalingrad and hoped for the best.

	santosaurus:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	5 points
	Ridiculous. I knew I shouldn't have started this quiz!

	confused:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 07:51 GMT	2 points
	I felt incredibly dumb until I saw that 75% of test takers were right with me. OK, here goes (rolls up sleeve, reaches for "try again" button)...and again...

	nge101:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 08:08 GMT	12 points
	Rostov should be accepted as well as "Rostov on Don" Everyone in Russia just calls it Rostov!!

	xander:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 08:14 GMT	5 points
	I feel like I should be complaining with everyone else on the whole 'rostov' thing since I too tried it. However I can't really be upset since I only put those letters in because they sounded Russian-y, had no idea I was so close to an actual city...

	maekd:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	7 points
	I think "Nizhny" should be acceptable for Nizhny Novgorod, since that's what most people call it there. But I guess if you know it, you know the Novgorod part, so it doesn't matter. But it's definitely not "Nizhny Novgo..." ;) Good quiz!

	bigal4:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 09:40 GMT	3 points
	I think I played this before and Gorky was acceptable for Nizhny Novgorod. I agree about Rostov too. Also, is Volgograd in the right place on the map? It looks way too close to Moscow on mine.

	davidr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 09:47 GMT	5 points
	@osprey: Chernobyl, aside from being in Ukraine, only had a population of 14,000 before 1986.

	GeordieGordie:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 09:49 GMT	-1 points
	Nizhny seemed to work for me. I thought it was Ykatinberg, not the way its spelled here. Since Russian characters are not the same as UK/US perhaps these spellings are arbitrary anyway?

	davidr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:05 GMT	-1 points
	Re the Rostov thing. This quiz is actually one of mine and I didn't accept `Rostov' for Rostov-on-Don because there is a separate town called Rostov. Rostov, also known as Rostov Veliky, is a town of 34,000 people about 150 miles north-east of Moscow; Rostov-on-Don is a city of a million people near the Sea of Azov. Obviously, people close to Rostov-on-Don will call it `Rostov' but are people sure that, Russians in general routinely say `Rostov' to mean Rostov-on-Don rather than Rostov Veliky?

	davidr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:24 GMT	2 points
	@GeordieG.: The alternative spelling is `Yekaterinburg', which is accepted.

	redsxfenway:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:24 GMT	4 points
	I've heard of exactly three of these cities.

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:26 GMT	3 points
	Where do Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok fit in the rankings I wonder. Also, many of the largest Russian (Soviet) cities I remember from my youth are now in different countries (Kiev, Minsk, Tashkent, etc.)

	newenglander:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:37 GMT	1 point
	yekaterinburg should be acceptable for ekaterinburg

	nymous:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:40 GMT	1 point
	I think it's a good quiz but the accepted spellings are not well done at all. Rostov should really be acceptable. Also, you know you're going to get a lot of mis-spelled answers so why not accept some mis-spellings, it's not a spelling quiz after all and Russian spellings are different anyway? I knew the city so I tried Nizhni Novgorod, Nizny Novgorod, Nizhy Navgorod, etc until I ran out of time.

	davidr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 12:37 GMT	3 points
	@newenglander: `Yekaterinburg' is accepted!

	rockgolf:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:04 GMT	5 points
	After this yak-off, I want to drink Smirnoff.

	ronnymexico:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:11 GMT	3 points
	Volgograd seems to be a bit misplaced on the map as it appears as almost a southern suburb of Moscow rather than much farther south where it belongs.

	davidr:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:24 GMT	3 points
	@ronny: Yeah, Volvograd is way off, and a couple of others are somewhat out. There are also a couple of errors on the base map: the Sea of Azov is coloured as land (which means that Rostov-on-Don is in the wrong place) and North Korea, Nagorno-Karabakh and Syunik province in Armenia are coloured as water. I've mailed a fix off to the admins.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:27 GMT	9 points
	How hard must the Russian edition of Scrabble be?

	jcos444:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:57 GMT	7 points
	UGH HOW COULD I MISS KRASNOYARSK!!! im such an idiot!