Russia Geography Quiz - Questions and Answers

1. Which city replaced Moscow as the capital of Russia for more than 200 years?

a) Volgograd

b) St. Petersburg

c) Omsk

d) Novgorod

2. How many time zones does Russia have?

a) 10

b) 11

c) 12

d) 13

3. Which of these rivers of Asiatic Russia does not flow into the Arctic Ocean?

A) Ob

B) Lena

C) Yenisei

D) Amur

4. The Song of the Volga Boatmen is a folk tune about workers on a river in which nation?

A) Russia

B) Kazakhstan

C) Serbia

D) Poland

5. The Sakha Republic is by area the largest subnational governing region in the world, and is located in?

A) The Russian Far East

B) Antarctica

C) Northern Canada

D) Sub-Saharan Africa

6. Which sea bordering Iran and Russia is considered the world’s largest lake?

A) Salton Sea

B) Caspian Sea

C) Aral Sea

D) Sea of Azov

7. Siberia is found in which of these areas?

A) Asiatic Russia

B) Southern China

C) North Africa

D) Middle East

8. Saint Basil’s Cathedral is located near the Kremlin in which city?

A) Vladivostok

B) Helsinki

C) Copenhagen

D) Moscow

9. Russia maintains an exclave on the Baltic Sea known as the ________ Oblast? 

A) Chukchi 

B) Kamchatka 

C) Chechnya 

D) Kaliningrad

Anwers:

1 - B

2 - B

3 - D

4 - A

5 - A

6 - B

7 - A

8 - D

9 - D