Russia Quiz

This river is known as the longest river in Europe located in Russia and a major shipping route and source of hydroelectric power

• Yeneisei River
• Volga River
• Ob River

These mountains separate Europe and Asia

• Ural
• Caucasus
• Kolyma

Capital of Russia

• Moscow
• Kiev
• Vladivostok

Cold empty land of barren plains and endless forests.

• Siberia
• Northern European Plain
• Moscow

After Ivan III seized control from the Mongols. In the 1540s, his grandson Ivan IV crowned himself czar. Ivan IV was called?

• Ivan the Magnificient
• Ivan the Good
• Ivan the Terrible

During their reign, Muscovy (Russia) they built a huge empire and Russia became a world power?

• Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
• Czar Peter the Great and later Czarina Catherine the Great
• Vladimir Lenin

In 1917, the czar lost support and was forced to give up the throne. This communist group seized power in the Russian revolution and later created the Soviet Union in 1922.

• The White Army
• The Provisional Government
• The Bolsheviks

First leader of the Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin
• Vladimir Lenin
• Nikita Khrushchev

After Lenin's death in 1924, this dictator ruled as a brutal dictator of the Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Leo Tolstoy

The Soviet Union sent people that were against the communist government into Soviet labor camps called?

• Nazi concentration camps
• Gulags
• Soviet camps only