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