List of Russian people - Quiz
List of Russian people
  • 1. Who was the first human to travel into space?
A) Alexei Leonov
B) Yuri Gagarin
C) Pavel Belyayev
D) Gherman Titov
  • 2. Which cosmonaut is known as the oldest human to go into space by date of birth (1921)?
A) Georgy Beregovoy
B) Valery Bykovsky
C) Konstantin Feoktistov
D) Boris Yegorov
  • 3. Who holds the record for the longest solo spaceflight?
A) Valery Bykovsky
B) Valeri Polyakov
C) Gherman Titov
D) Sergei Krikalyov
  • 4. Who was the first human to die during a space mission?
A) Pavel Belyayev
B) Vladimir Komarov
C) Alexei Leonov
D) Yuri Gagarin
  • 5. Which cosmonaut accumulated the most time in space, totaling 803 days?
A) Vladimir Titov
B) Musa Manarov
C) Sergei Krikalyov
D) Valeri Polyakov
  • 6. Who was the first person to perform a spacewalk?
A) Alexei Leonov
B) Svetlana Savitskaya
C) Anatoly Solovyev
D) Yevgeny Khrunov
  • 7. Who performed the longest continuous spaceflight of 437 days?
A) Sergei Krikalyov
B) Musa Manarov
C) Vladimir Titov
D) Valeri Polyakov
  • 8. Who was the first woman and first civilian to travel into space?
A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Alexei Leonov
C) Valentina Tereshkova
D) Svetlana Savitskaya
  • 9. Who is the youngest cosmonaut to have gone into space?
A) Gherman Titov
B) Boris Yegorov
C) Valery Bykovsky
D) Yuri Gagarin
  • 10. Who was the first physician in space?
A) Yevgeny Khrunov
B) Valeri Polyakov
C) Konstantin Feoktistov
D) Boris Yegorov
  • 11. Which cosmonaut holds the record for the most time spacewalking?
A) Svetlana Savitskaya
B) Anatoly Solovyev
C) Yevgeny Khrunov
D) Alexei Leonov
  • 12. Who was the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
A) Svetlana Savitskaya
B) Alexei Leonov
C) Anatoly Solovyev
D) Valentina Tereshkova
  • 13. Who were the participants of the first dual spacewalk and crew transfer?
A) Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev
B) Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev
C) Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov
D) Vladimir Komarov and Boris Yegorov
  • 14. Which two cosmonauts participated in the first parallel flight?
A) Valery Bykovsky and Vladimir Komarov
B) Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov
C) Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov
D) Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich
  • 15. Who was the author of The ABC of Communism?
A) Nikolai Bukharin
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Vladimir Lenin
  • 16. Which Soviet leader presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Nikita Khrushchev
  • 17. Who led the August Coup that attempted to depose Gorbachev?
A) Boris Yeltsin
B) Nikolai Bulganin
C) Gennady Yanayev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 18. Who served as the head of the NKVD during the Great Purge?
A) Nikolai Yezhov
B) Georgy Malenkov
C) Yakov Sverdlov
D) Anatoly Lunacharsky
  • 19. Who served as the first Chairman of Gazprom?
A) Yegor Gaidar
B) Viktor Chernomyrdin
C) Mikhail Fradkov
D) Sergei Kiriyenko
  • 20. Who launched the controversial shock therapy reforms in Russia?
A) Dmitry Medvedev
B) Viktor Chernomyrdin
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Yegor Gaidar
  • 21. Who is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia?
A) Yevgeny Primakov
B) Sergey Lavrov
C) Boris Gryzlov
D) Sergei Stepashin
  • 22. Who served as the Mayor of Moscow and helped found United Russia?
A) Gennady Zyuganov
B) Anatoly Sobchak
C) Yury Luzhkov
D) Boris Yeltsin
  • 23. Which leader backed the progress of the early Soviet space program?
A) Mikhail Kalinin
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Nikita Khrushchev
  • 24. Who was the first de jure head of the Russian SFSR?
A) Yakov Sverdlov
B) Mikhail Kalinin
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Nikolai Bukharin
  • 25. Who is the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993?
A) Gennady Zyuganov
B) Vladimir Zhirinovsky
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 26. Who is traditionally considered the first ruler of Russia and the progenitor of the Rurikid Dynasty?
A) Igor the Old
B) Oleg the Seer
C) Rurik
D) Vladimir I
  • 27. Which ruler is famous for conquering Kiev and founding Kievan Rus'?
A) Ivan the Great
B) Oleg the Seer
C) Rurik
D) Yaroslav the Wise
  • 28. Which ruler is famous for the Battle of Neva and the Battle of the Ice?
A) Dmitry Donskoy
B) Alexander Nevsky
C) Peter the Great
D) Oleg the Seer
  • 29. Who was known as 'the Moneybag' and served as the chief tax collector for the Golden Horde?
A) Simeon the Proud
B) Ivan III
C) Ivan I
D) Boris Godunov
  • 30. Which ruler brought Renaissance architecture to Russia and ended the Mongol yoke?
A) Ivan I
B) Ivan IV
C) Ivan III
D) Peter I
  • 31. Who was the first Tsar of Russia?
A) Boris Godunov
B) Mikhail Romanov
C) Ivan IV
D) Peter I
  • 32. Who founded the Russian Navy and the city of Saint Petersburg?
A) Nicholas II
B) Peter I
C) Alexander I
D) Ivan III
  • 33. Which empress was German-born and ruled during the Age of Enlightenment?
A) Catherine II
B) Olga
C) Elizabeth
D) Catherine I
  • 34. Which ruler enacted the 'Great Reforms' and the emancipation reform of 1861?
A) Alexander III
B) Alexander I
C) Alexander II
D) Nicholas II
  • 35. Which ruler was known as 'the Peacemaker' because Russia fought no major wars during his reign?
A) Nicholas II
B) Alexander II
C) Alexander III
D) Alexander I
  • 36. Who was the last actual emperor of Russia?
A) Nicholas II
B) Alexander III
C) Peter I
D) Ivan IV
  • 37. Who was the ruler during whose reign Kievan Rus' reached the zenith of its cultural flowering?
A) Oleg the Seer
B) Yaroslav I
C) Vladimir II Monomakh
D) Vladimir I
  • 38. Which ruler died of the Black Death?
A) Ivan I
B) Boris Godunov
C) Dmitry Donskoy
D) Simeon the Proud
  • 39. Who is the saint and war hero famous for the Battle of Kulikovo?
A) Dmitry Donskoy
B) Vladimir I
C) Alexander Nevsky
D) Ivan IV
  • 40. What is the nickname of Vsevolod, the Grand Prince of Vladimir?
A) the Big Nest
B) the Wise
C) the Great
D) the Proud
  • 41. Who was the Minister of War under Alexander I and organized military-agricultural colonies?
A) Mikhail Speransky
B) Sergei Witte
C) Pyotr Stolypin
D) Aleksey Arakcheyev
  • 42. Which general of Black African origin was the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin?
A) Franz Lefort
B) Fyodor Golovin
C) Abram Gannibal
D) Grigory Orlov
  • 43. Who abolished rank priority in the military and concluded the Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686?
A) Vasily Golitsyn
B) Aleksandr Menshikov
C) Nikolay Rumyantsev
D) Kirill Razumovsky
  • 44. Who was the first Russian field marshal and the first to receive the Order of St. Andrew?
A) Aleksandr Menshikov
B) Fyodor Golovin
C) Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky
D) Franz Lefort
  • 45. Who oversaw the foundation of the Russian Navy and was a tutor to Peter the Great?
A) Fyodor Golovin
B) Aleksandr Menshikov
C) Vasily Golitsyn
D) Franz Lefort
  • 46. Who was the first Governor of Saint Petersburg and generalissimus?
A) Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky
B) Aleksandr Menshikov
C) Franz Lefort
D) Fyodor Golovin
  • 47. Who concluded the Treaty of Aigun and the Treaty of Beijing with China?
A) Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
B) Fyodor Golovin
C) Alexander Gorchakov
D) Karl Nesselrode
  • 48. Who was a leading European conservative statesman of the Holy Alliance under Alexander II and Nicholas I?
A) Karl Nesselrode
B) Mikhail Speransky
C) Alexander Gorchakov
D) Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  • 49. Which favourite of Catherine the Great founded the Free Economic Society?
A) Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky
B) Vasily Golitsyn
C) Aleksandr Menshikov
D) Grigory Orlov
  • 50. Who served as the Éminence grise of Alexander III's imperial politics?
A) Konstantin Pobedonostsev
B) Pavel Milyukov
C) Mikhail Speransky
D) Sergei Witte
  • 51. Who founded the cities of Sevastopol and Yekaterinoslav?
A) Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
B) Grigory Orlov
C) Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky
D) Aleksandr Menshikov
  • 52. Who was the last Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks?
A) Kirill Razumovsky
B) Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky
C) Vasily Golitsyn
D) Aleksandr Menshikov
  • 53. Who initiated the Stolypin reform and served as Prime Minister?
A) Alexander Kerensky
B) Pyotr Stolypin
C) Sergei Witte
D) Ivan Goremykin
  • 54. Who was a director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences and founder of the Russian Academy?
A) Kirill Razumovsky
B) Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
C) Mikhail Speransky
D) Nikolay Rumyantsev
  • 55. Who was the most successful female sniper in history according to the text?
A) Lyudmila Pavlichenko
B) Nadezhda Durova
C) Roza Shanina
D) Maria Bochkareva
  • 56. Which commander is known as the 'Cavalry Maiden'?
A) Roza Shanina
B) Lyudmila Pavlichenko
C) Maria Bochkareva
D) Nadezhda Durova
  • 57. Who founded the Women's Battalion of Death during World War I?
A) Roza Shanina
B) Nadezhda Durova
C) Maria Bochkareva
D) Lyudmila Pavlichenko
  • 58. Who is the only marshal of the Russian Federation mentioned in the text?
A) Georgy Zhukov
B) Ivan Konev
C) Igor Sergeyev
D) Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • 59. Which historical figure was a merchant who helped lead the struggle against Poland-Lithuania?
A) Grigory Romodanovsky
B) Aleksei Shein
C) Dmitry Pozharsky
D) Kuzma Minin
  • 60. Who is recognized as a major developer of radiolocation and cybernetics?
A) Nikolay Krabbe
B) Aksel Berg
C) Stepan Makarov
D) Andrey Popov
  • 61. Who was the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet?
A) Naum Senyavin
B) Cornelius Cruys
C) Grigory Spiridov
D) Fyodor Apraksin
  • 62. Which admiral is famous for the insubmersibility theory?
A) Vladimir Kornilov
B) Stepan Makarov
C) Pavel Nakhimov
D) Vladimir Istomin
  • 63. Which pilot is one of the world's two female fighter aces from World War II?
A) Yekaterina Budanova
B) Valentina Grizodubova
C) Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya
D) Marina Raskova
  • 64. Which pilot is the only woman to have performed and died in an aerial ramming?
A) Yevgeniya Rudneva
B) Zinaïda Kokorina
C) Lydia Litvyak
D) Yekaterina Zelenko
  • 65. Who designed the first true Russian battleship named Pyotr Velikiy?
A) Andrey Popov
B) Mikhail Lazarev
C) Fyodor Ushakov
D) Nikolay Krabbe
  • 66. Who was the first woman to become a military pilot in 1925?
A) Marina Raskova
B) Zinaïda Kokorina
C) Yekaterina Budanova
D) Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya
  • 67. Who founded the city of Odessa?
A) Samuel Greig
B) Fyodor Ushakov
C) José de Ribas
D) Dmitry Senyavin
  • 68. Which Soviet pilot is the prototype for 'The Story of a Real Man'?
A) Nikolai Gastello
B) Alexey Maresyev
C) Mikhail Devyatayev
D) Victor Talalikhin
  • 69. Who was the saintly Metropolitan who ruled Russia during Prince Dmitry Donskoy's minority?
A) Metropolitan Macarius
B) Metropolitan Alexius
C) Patriarch Nikon
D) Patriarch Job
  • 70. Which Metropolitan attempted a reunion with the Roman Catholic Church?
A) Metropolitan Macarius
B) Metropolitan Alexius
C) Metropolitan Isidore
D) Metropolitan Philaret
  • 71. Who was the last Metropolitan and the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia?
A) Patriarch Sergius
B) Patriarch Job
C) Patriarch Tikhon
D) Patriarch Nikon
  • 72. Which saint was a prominent iconographer?
A) Metropolitan Philaret
B) Metropolitan Isidore
C) Metropolitan Macarius
D) Metropolitan Alexius
  • 73. Which Patriarch introduced reforms that led to the Raskol schism?
A) Patriarch Job
B) Patriarch Tikhon
C) Patriarch Philaret
D) Patriarch Nikon
  • 74. Who was the principal Russian theologian of the 19th century?
A) Metropolitan Macarius
B) Metropolitan Isidore
C) Metropolitan Alexius
D) Metropolitan Philaret
  • 75. Which Patriarch acted as the de facto ruler of Russia during his son Tsar Mikhail's minority?
A) Patriarch Tikhon
B) Patriarch Nikon
C) Patriarch Job
D) Patriarch Philaret
  • 76. Which Patriarch oversaw the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'?
A) Patriarch Sergius
B) Patriarch Alexy I
C) Patriarch Pimen
D) Patriarch Kirill
  • 77. Which leader headed the Church during World War II when militant atheism was scaled down?
A) Patriarch Alexy I
B) Patriarch Sergius
C) Patriarch Pimen
D) Patriarch Tikhon
  • 78. Who was the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia after the restoration of the Patriarchate in the early Soviet era?
A) Patriarch Sergius
B) Patriarch Job
C) Patriarch Tikhon
D) Patriarch Pimen
  • 79. Who is the author of the famous icon 'The Trinity'?
A) Sergius of Radonezh
B) Maximus the Greek
C) Ioakim Korsunianin
D) Andrei Rublev
  • 80. Which cathedral on Red Square is named after Basil Fool for Christ?
A) Trinity Sergius Lavra
B) St. Basil's Cathedral
C) Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
D) Saint Sophia Cathedral
  • 81. Which explorer is credited with the discovery of Lake Baikal?
A) Vladimir Obruchev
B) Kurbat Ivanov
C) Ivan Chersky
D) Pyotr Beketov
  • 82. Which explorer discovered the Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka?
A) Ivan Yevreinov
B) Tatyana Ustinova
C) Vladimir Atlasov
D) Stepan Krasheninnikov
  • 83. Who was the first Russian to sail down the Amur River?
A) Yerofey Khabarov
B) Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
C) Vassili Poyarkov
D) Vladimir Atlasov
  • 84. Who authored the first large format cartographic atlas of Siberia?
A) Kurbat Ivanov
B) Ivan Yevreinov
C) Semyon Remezov
D) Stepan Krasheninnikov
  • 85. Who organized the Great Northern Expedition?
A) Gavriil Sarychev
B) Aleksei Chirikov
C) Vitus Bering
D) Mikhail Lazarev
  • 86. Who authored the first detailed map of the Aleutian Islands?
A) Gerasim Izmailov
B) Gavriil Sarychev
C) Vitus Bering
D) Aleksei Chirikov
  • 87. Who discovered the Pribilof Islands?
A) Yuri Lisyansky
B) Gavriil Pribylov
C) Otto von Kotzebue
D) Mikhail Lazarev
  • 88. Who provided the first detailed description of the inner areas of Alaska?
A) Ivan Fyodorov
B) Alexander Baranov
C) Lavrenty Zagoskin
D) Mikhail Gvozdev
  • 89. Which explorer discovered Kotzebue Sound on Alaska?
A) Aleksei Chirikov
B) Mikhail Gvozdev
C) Ivan Fyodorov
D) Otto von Kotzebue
  • 90. Who led the circumnavigation on the frigate Pallas?
A) Yevfimy Putyatin
B) Mikhail Lazarev
C) Ivan Unkovsky
D) Konstantin Posyet
  • 91. Which explorer is known for his work in Papua New Guinea and as an anti-racist?
A) Pyotr Kozlov
B) Alexander Bulatovich
C) Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai
D) Yuri Senkevich
  • 92. Who wrote 'A Journey Beyond the Three Seas'?
A) Alexander Nevsky
B) Ivan Petlin
C) Nikolai Przhevalsky
D) Afanasy Nikitin
  • 93. Which TV show did Yuri Senkevich host for 30 years?
A) Voyages of Ra
B) Travelers' Club
C) Russian Geographical Society
D) Central Asia Explorer
  • 94. For how many years was Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky head of the Russian Geographical Society?
A) 40 years
B) 20 years
C) 30 years
D) 50 years
  • 95. Who was the first photographer of Tibet?
A) Nikolai Przhevalsky
B) Nicholas Roerich
C) Pyotr Kozlov
D) Gombojab Tsybikov
  • 96. Who is credited with the discovery of Antarctica?
A) Boris Vilkitsky
B) Faddey Bellingshausen
C) Dmitry Laptev
D) Semyon Dezhnyov
  • 97. Which explorer is known for discovering Cape Chelyuskin, the northern extremity of Eurasia?
A) Pyotr Anjou
B) Semion Chelyuskin
C) Khariton Laptev
D) Dmitry Ovtsyn
  • 98. Who led the Arktika 2007 expedition and was the first to reach the seabed under the North Pole?
A) Artur Chilingarov
B) Ivan Papanin
C) Otto Schmidt
D) Georgy Sedov
  • 99. Who was the first female Arctic explorer?
A) Tatiana Pronchishcheva
B) Faddey Bellingshausen
C) Maria Klenova
D) Yakov Sannikov
  • 100. Who founded the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute?
A) Mikhail Somov
B) Rudolf Samoylovich
C) Otto Schmidt
D) Pyotr Shirshov
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