World Cup Quiz: Can you name the 11 host cities in Russia?
World Cup Quiz: Can you name the 11 host cities in Russia?
The 2018 World Cup will certainly be the very first of its kind. The most watched sporting event in the world has never taken place over such a vast land mass before. Can you name all 11 host cities in Russia?
The 2018 World Cup will certainly be the very first of its kind. The most watched sporting event in the world has never taken place over such a vast land mass before. Can you name all 11 host cities in Russia?
Let's start with an easy one. It's the capital and Russia's most iconic city
Russia's second-largest city and it is an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea
It hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014, as well as the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix from 2014 until at least 2020
With 16 universities, it is considered one of the youngest and hippiest cities in the country
It is home to the Olympic training center and it has produced top performing athletes in race walking
Its economic prominence over the past few centuries has led it to become a bustling, modern technology hub
This city is the perfect example of the country’s cultural and religious diversity: both Tartar and Russian are spoken widely here, and is home to many mosques and cathedrals
A Russian enclave located between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. It only came to be part of the Russia after the German defeat in World War II
Located some 850 kilometres southeast of Moscow, it is a major economic and transportation hub on the Volga River
Formerly known as Stalingrad, it is home to the giant “The Motherland Calls” monument commemorating the 200-day battle in which Soviet troops stopped the advance of Nazi Germany’s army
The locals refer to their hometown as Nizhny, which distinguishes it from another Russian city, simply called Novgorod