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Exploring Moscow: A Quiz on Landmarks and History

A quiz to test your knowledge about Moscow's landmarks, history, and significant locations.

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1 What does the following picture show?  The Bolshoi Theatre during an April 2005 performance   'Aerobus' residential building under construction   The Khodynka Arena ice palace, built in 2006.   Entrance to the Moscow Zoo.

2 [72] ________ is the leading airport in Russia in terms of passenger throughput, and is the primary gateway to long-haul domestic and CIS destinations and its international traffic rivals Sheremetyevo's.

3 What does the following picture show?  Main building of Plekhanov Russian Economic University   Grand Sport Arena of Luzhniki Stadium, as seen from Sparrow Hills.   Ostankino Palace.   The Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Currently under threat of demolition, the tower is at the top of UNESCO's Endangered Buildings list and there is an international campaign to save it.[36]

4 When was the Moscow?

5 What is the leader of Moscow called?

6 What does the following picture show?  GUM department store exterior facing Red Square   Time zones of Europe   The Moscow Skyline as seen from Sparrow Hills   The upper trading rows at GUM near Red Square

7 Who of the following is/was the leader of Moscow?

8 The Olympic Stadium was the world's 1st indoor arena for ________ and hosted the Bandy World Championships twice.

9 Which of the following titles did Moscow have?

10 What does the following picture show?  Entrance to the Moscow Zoo.   Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, demolished during the Soviet period, was reconstructed from 1990–2000.   Moscow State University main building   "Stone flower" fountain in All-Russia Exhibition Center.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the relics of Moscow's founder, Yuri Dolgoruki, were buried beneath the baptistery of the Church of the Saviour at Berestove (pictured).
  • the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire style mansions in Moscow (Khrushyov House pictured).
  • the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29, 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia.
  • the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade (logo pictured) to be held today (9 May), will be the first Victory Day Parade to include foreign troops marching on Moscow's Red Square.
  • the Moscow Pantheon (proposal pictured) was a Soviet project to construct a monumental memorial tomb for prominent Communist figures.
  • the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010.
  • it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934.
  • more than 30 km² of the Losiny Ostrov National Park forest fall within the boundaries of Moscow.
  • the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovsky, and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses.
  • the Don Cossack rebel Stenka Razin was quartered alive at the Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow on June 6, 1671.
  • the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists.
  • the Iberian Gate and Chapel in Moscow were destroyed on behest of Stalin in order to make room for heavy armored vehicles driving through Red Square during military parades.
  • the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, on 22 March 2010.
  • the first legitimate flea market in downtown Moscow was held in Shkolnaya Street in 2007.
  • the historical medical campus Maiden's Field (clinic pictured) in Moscow started as a court garden for medicinal herbs.
  • the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government.
  • the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon.
  • the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night.
  • the Preobrazhenka Cemetery in Moscow originated in 1771 as an Old Believer monastery under the guise of a plague quarantine.
  • the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia has 1.7 million coins in its collection.
  • the Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman was awarded the Stalin Prize at the period when he was not allowed to live in Moscow owing to his "criminal record".
  • it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge, which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow.
  • four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935.
  • Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front.
  • Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance".
  • Inteco, a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina, controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow.
  • Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage.
  • Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919.
  • Bogdan Saltanov, the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia, was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow.
  • Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture.
  • American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison.
  • American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921.
  • Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876.
  • Manege Square (pictured) replaced a maze of tippling houses and taverns, traditionally known as "the belly of Moscow".
  • Mikhail Roshchin's play Valentin and Valentina was written in 1971 and performed the same year by theatre director Valery Fokin in Moscow.
  • after Moscow mayor Nikolay Alekseyev was mortally wounded by an insane gunman, he bequeathed 300,000 rubles of his personal money to a psychiatric hospital he had built.
  • after being sent to the GULAG, Ukrainian writer Hryhorii Epik continued to write and sent one of his works to the NKVD in Moscow before his execution during the Great Purge in 1937.
  • at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games.
  • four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU-Russia summit in May 2005.
  • according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova, who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government.
  • William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment.
  • Quirinus Kuhlmann, a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689.
  • Raisa Gorbacheva is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow's third-most popular tourist destination.
  • Viktor Nogin, mayor of Moscow during the Bolshevik Revolution, is buried in the Kremlin in Red Square, Moscow.
  • Moscow is home to an estimated 35,000 stray dogs, about 500 of which live in the metro stations.
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