A) Brazil B) Russia C) Canada D) China
A) humidity B) dryness C) heat D) cold
A) Polar bear B) Giraffe C) Kangaroo D) Siberian tiger
A) Lake Superior B) Dead Sea C) Lake Victoria D) Lake Baikal
A) Arabic B) Russian C) Hindi D) Mandarin
A) Novosibirsk B) Irkutsk C) Krasnoyarsk D) Omsk
A) Europe B) Africa C) North America D) Asia
A) Mild B) Extremely cold C) Rainy D) Hot and humid
A) Devil's Island B) Robben Island C) Gulag D) Alcatraz
A) Russian Orthodoxy B) Hinduism C) Islam D) Buddhism
A) Ural River B) Volga River C) Yenisei River D) Ob River
A) 1700 B) 1800 C) 1600 D) 1582
A) Mongolia in 1750 B) Chukotka in 1778 C) China in 1800 D) Kazakhstan in 1825
A) 10 million square kilometres B) 5 million square kilometres C) 20 million square kilometres D) Over 13.1 million square kilometres
A) One-quarter B) One-half C) Two-thirds D) About three-quarters
A) Hot and humid summers B) Dry and arid conditions C) Long, harsh winters with a January average of −25 °C D) Mild and temperate year-round
A) 10% B) 50% C) 30% D) Over 85%
A) Evenks B) Inuit C) Nenets D) Yakuts
A) Far Eastern Federal District B) Ural Federal District C) Central Federal District D) The central one
A) Sibe B) Yugra C) Severia D) Sibirskoe Khanstvo
A) 'Sleeping land' (Sib-ir) B) 'Wild land' C) 'Dense forest' D) 'Northern lands'
A) From the Buryat language B) Derived from a Mongolic word sibir C) From the Sibe people D) From the Proto-Slavic word for 'north'
A) 'Sleeping land' B) 'Dense forest' C) 'Wild land' D) 'Northern lands'
A) Sibe people B) Ural tribes C) Nenets people D) Buryat tribes
A) Sihirtia or Sirtya (also Sypyr) B) Yugra C) Nenets D) Buryat
A) Anatole Baikaloff B) Jan Chyliczkowski C) Tokhtamysh D) György Kara
A) 'Water' B) 'Forest' C) 'North' D) 'Land'
A) 'Northern lands' B) 'Wild land' C) 'Dense forest' D) 'Sleeping land'
A) A mammoth B) A saber-toothed tiger C) An Ice Age horse D) A woolly rhinoceros
A) Wrangel Island and the Taymyr Peninsula B) The Sahara Desert C) The Andes Mountains D) The Alps
A) Homo erectus and Homo habilis B) H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, and the Denisovans C) Neandertals only D) Australopithecus afarensis
A) Their existence was disproven B) DNA evidence identified them as a separate species C) They were found to be identical to Neanderthals D) They were proven to be modern humans
A) Gravettian culture B) Clovis culture C) Afontova Gora D) Magdalenian culture
A) Indigenous Australians B) Native Polynesians C) Ancient East Asians D) Sub-Saharan Africans
A) The domestication of the horse B) Both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans C) The first modern humans in Europe D) The spread of agriculture
A) The Ottoman Empire B) The Mongol Empire C) The Roman Empire D) The Byzantine Empire
A) Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus alba, Acer saccharum B) Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Populus tremuloides C) Larix sibirica, Larix gmelinii, Picea obovata, Pinus pumila D) Eucalyptus globulus, Acacia pycnantha, Banksia integrifolia
A) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky B) Moscow C) Novosibirsk D) Vladivostok
A) 300,000 B) 516,841 C) 700,000 D) 400,000
A) Furs B) Silk C) Gold D) Spices
A) Olkhon B) Yakutsk C) Kamchatka D) Chukotka
A) Lack of water resources B) Extreme cold temperatures C) Short growing season D) Poor soil quality
A) The Tunguska event B) A flood C) An earthquake D) A volcanic eruption
A) 100,000 B) 230,000 C) 1,000,000 D) 500,000
A) Restoring grasslands by studying large herbivores' effects on permafrost B) Studying bird migration patterns C) Developing new agricultural techniques D) Analyzing soil erosion in Siberia
A) Lena-Tunguska Gas Field B) Yaraktin Oil Field C) Markovo Oil Field D) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field
A) Manganese B) Copper C) Gold D) Diamonds
A) Ozone B) Carbon monoxide C) Methane D) Nitrous oxide
A) About 5% B) Less than 3% C) Almost 9% D) More than 15%
A) Tomsk B) Omsk C) Krasnoyarsk D) Yekaterinburg
A) Black grouse B) Japanese quail C) Western capercaillie D) Hazel grouse
A) Approximately 500,000 persons B) Over a million persons C) Doubtful that it exceeded 300,000 persons D) Less than 100,000 persons
A) Lake Baikal B) Kamchatka Peninsula C) Verkhoyansk Range D) The Ukok Plateau
A) Tatars B) Slavic-origin Russians C) Buryats D) Yakuts
A) Rapid industrial growth B) Stable economic conditions C) Severe economic decline during Russia's transition to a market economy D) Immediate economic prosperity
A) Yakutsk B) Norilsk C) Irkutsk D) Krasnoyarsk
A) Primorye B) Southern Siberia C) West Siberia D) Sakha
A) Mid-17th century B) Early 16th century C) Late 18th century D) Early 19th century
A) Novgorod B) Moscow C) Kiev D) St. Petersburg
A) Ursidae B) Galliformes C) Artiodactyla D) Carnivora
A) Verkhoyansk fold belt B) Baykalian fold belt C) Taymr fold belt D) Markova-Angara Arch (anticline)
A) Tomsk Oblast B) Khanty-Mansiysk region C) Irkutsk Oblast D) Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
A) Steppe B) Desert C) Taiga D) Tundra
A) The Trans-Siberian Railway B) The Panama Canal C) The Suez Canal D) The Erie Canal
A) Kamchatka B) East Siberia C) Southern Siberia D) West Siberia
A) Ursidae B) Mustelidae C) Felidae D) Canidae
A) Polar bear B) Arctic hare C) Siberian tiger D) Grey wolf
A) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field B) Yaraktin Oil Field C) Markovo Oil Field D) Lena-Tunguska Oil Field
A) 2008 B) 1999 C) 2005 D) 2010
A) Agricultural production B) Tourism C) Industrial development D) Fishing industry
A) 500,000 B) 300,000 C) 200,000 D) 478,085
A) Kets B) Evenks C) Buryats D) Yakuts
A) Rugby World Cup B) Winter Universiade C) Summer Olympics D) World Bandy Championship
A) Permian sedimentary rocks B) Jurassic volcanic rocks C) Cenozoic alluvial deposits D) Carboniferous limestone
A) First Turkic Khaganate B) Khanate of Sibir C) Mongol Empire D) Xianbei state
A) Sevvostlag B) Magadan C) Krasnoyarsk D) Vorkuta
A) Sakha B) Primorye C) Kamchatka D) West Siberia
A) Imprisonment B) Sending internal exiles C) Fines D) Public shaming
A) Rugby B) Basketball C) Speed skating D) Bandy
A) Vendian Yaraktin Horizon B) Middle Devonian Baykalian Horizon C) Early Cambrian Osa Horizon bar-sandstone D) Proterozoic Parfenovo Horizon
A) 1204 B) 1032 C) 1453 D) 1492
A) St. Petersburg B) Moscow C) Tobolsk D) Novgorod
A) Novosibirsk B) Khabarovsk C) Krasnoyarsk D) Irkutsk
A) Kini'je B) Num-Torum C) Ak Ana D) Buddha
A) Irkutsk B) Krasnoyarsk C) Novosibirsk D) Kemerovo
A) Kemerovo B) Novosibirsk C) Irkutsk D) Khabarovsk
A) Tomsk B) Tobolsk C) Novosibirsk D) Irkutsk
A) STM Enisei B) Sibselmash C) Krasny Yar D) Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
A) Solyanka B) Pelmeni C) Borsch D) Stroganina
A) Omsk Refinery B) Krasnoyarsk Refinery C) Novosibirsk Refinery D) Tyumen Refinery |