Russian cities, found on the map

Every one on the map

Every place listed below can be asked in this game. Places you find in a passed round drop out of your remaining pool.

What the map tells you about each one

The paragraph the game shows when you find each one. Reading them first is not cheating.

Moscow

Moscow is a separate federal city, surrounded by Moscow Oblast.

Saint Petersburg

Founded in 1703, Saint Petersburg became the imperial capital and is a separate federal city.

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad Oblast is separated from the rest of Russia by other countries.

Murmansk

Murmansk is a major northern port beside the Barents Sea.

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk connects the Northern Dvina basin with the White Sea.

Petrozavodsk

Karelia’s capital stands on the western shore of Lake Onega.

Veliky Novgorod

The medieval city developed around the Volkhov River and its fortified centre.

Pskov

Pskov’s old fortress stands where the Pskova meets the Velikaya River.

Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl is a historic Volga city associated with the Golden Ring.

Vladimir

Vladimir’s medieval white-stone monuments form part of a UNESCO property.

Nizhny Novgorod

The city’s kremlin overlooks the meeting of two major rivers.

Kazan

Kazan is Tatarstan’s capital, with both Tatar and Russian cultural traditions.

Samara

Samara is an industrial and transport centre beside the great bend of the Volga.

Saratov

Saratov faces Engels across the Volga.

Volgograd

Formerly Stalingrad, the city commemorates the major Second World War battle.

Astrakhan

Astrakhan connects the lower Volga with its delta landscape.

Rostov-on-Don

The city is a transport centre near the lower Don and its delta.

Sochi

Sochi lies in Krasnodar Krai, between the Black Sea and Caucasus mountains.

Makhachkala

Makhachkala is Dagestan’s capital; Derbent lies farther south along the coast.

Ufa

Ufa is the capital of Bashkortostan, near the Belaya and Ufa rivers.

Perm

Perm is an industrial city on the Kama, a major tributary of the Volga.

Yekaterinburg

Sverdlovsk Oblast’s capital links European Russia with western Siberia.

Tyumen

Tyumen city lies in the southern part of Tyumen Oblast, outside its autonomous okrugs.

Omsk

Omsk lies where the Om River meets the Irtysh on the West Siberian Plain.

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk grew at a railway crossing of the Ob and is a major scientific centre.

Krasnoyarsk

The Yenisei runs through the city below the rock formations of Stolby.

Irkutsk

Irkutsk links the Angara valley with the western shore of Lake Baikal.

Ulan-Ude

Buryatia’s capital lies near the meeting of the Uda and Selenga rivers.

Yakutsk

Yakutsk is Sakha’s capital, in a landscape underlain by permafrost.

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk stands near the meeting of the Amur and Ussuri rivers.

Vladivostok

Vladivostok is the eastern terminus of the main Trans-Siberian route.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

The city stands beside a Pacific bay beneath the volcanoes of southern Kamchatka.

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