1. When did Ukraine declare independence?
a) 7 March 1984
b) 11 April 1976
c) 24 August 1991
d) 14 November 1975
2. Which of the following countries is not to the west of Ukraine?
a) Slovakia
b) Hungary
c) Poland
d) Russia
3. Which is the longest mountain in Ukraine?
a) Danube
b) Donets
c) Dnieper
d) Dniester
1. When was Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of Communist Party of USSR?
a) 1953-1964
b) 1982-1983
c) 1985-1991
d) 1964-1982
2. When was Mikhail Gorbachev born?
a) 2 March 1931
b) 4 April 1932
c) 15 August 1928
d) 30 December 1934
3. Where was Mikhail Gorbachev born?
a) Petrograd
b) Privolnoye
c) Tashkent
d) Vladivostok
1. What was Vladimir Lenin’s real name?
(a) Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
(b) Joseph Stalin
(c) Nicholas II
(d) Leon Trotsky
2. In which country was Vladimir Lenin born?
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Russia
(d) Great Britain
3. Lenin was a key figure in which major historical event?
(a) American Revolution
(b) Russian Revolution
(c) French Revolution
(d) Industrial Revolution
1. What was Joseph Stalin’s birth name?
(a) Josef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili
(b) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(c) Leon Trotsky
(d) Nicholas II
2. In which city was Stalin born?
(a) Moscow
(b) St. Petersburg
(c) Gori, Georgia
(d) Berlin
3. What was Stalin’s early education path?
(a) Military Academy
(b) Seminary
(c) School of Engineering
(d) Apprenticeship in Shoemaking
1) When was Nikita Khrushchev born?
a) 22 February 1876
b) 17 April 1894
c) 21 July 1896
d) 31 December 1900
2) Where was Nikita Khrushchev born?
a) Tbilisi
b) Kalinovka
c) Bratislava
d) Prague
3) Which party did Nikita Khrushchev join?
a) Menshevik Party
b) Liberal Party
c) Russian Communist Party
d) Royalist Party
1) When was Yuri Andropov born?
a) 31 January 1901
b) 15 June 1914
c) 14 August 1912
d) 21 December 1916
2) Where was Yuri Andropov born?
a) Talinn
b) Nagutskoye
c) Helsinki
d) Warsaw
3) On which river did Yuri Andropov work as a boatman?
a) Thames
b) Danube
c) Rhine
d) Volga
Vyacheslav Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat.
1. What was Vyacheslav Molotov’s original surname?
a) Ulyanov
b) Skryabin
c) Safin
d) Bulganin
2. When was Vyacheslav Molotov born? (Date of birth according to calendar prevalent in Russia.)
a) 25 February 1890
b) 19 April 1898
c) 12 July 1900
d) 3 December 1894
3. Where was Vyacheslav Molotov born?
a) Omsk
b) Tyumen
c) Kukarka
d) Baku
1. When did Boris Yeltsin president of Russia?
a) 1964-1982
b) 1990-1999
c) 1982-1984
d) 2004-2008
2. When was Boris Yeltsin born?
a) 1 February 1931
b) 18 April 1926
c) 23 August 1929
d) 30 November 1925
3. Where was Boris Yeltsin born?
a) Minsk
b) Tashkent
c) Sverdlovsk
d) Dushanbe
1. What was Svetlana Alliluyeva’s original name?
a) Galina Ulanova
b) Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
c) Nadezhda Konstantina Krupskaya
d) Fanny Kaplan
2. When was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) 28 February 1926
b) 16 May 1922
c) 14 August 1928
d) 21 December 1924
3. Where was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Yekaterinburg
c) Moscow
d) Tashkent