Question: When was the current name for Russia added to the Russian constitution?
Answer: April 21, 1992

Question: When was Russia renamed the Russian Federation?
Answer: December 25, 1991

Question: What event led to Russia being renamed the Russian Federation?
Answer: the collapse of the Soviet Union

Question: When was Russia made an official state name of the Russian Federation?
Answer: April 21, 1992

Question: What 1993 document confirmed Russia as an official state name of the Russian Federation?
Answer: 1993 Constitution of Russia

Question: Which country did the RSFSR border on the west?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the northwest?
Answer: Norway and Finland

Question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the southeast?
Answer: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolian People's Republic, and the People's Republic of China

Question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the south?
Answer: Azerbaijan, Georgian and Kazakh SSRs

Question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the west?
Answer: the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs

Question: What country borders Russia on the west?
Answer: Poland

Question: Along with Norway, what country borders the RSFSR on the northwest?
Answer: Finland

Question: In the USSR, what SSR did the RSFSR border along with the Kazakh SSR?
Answer: Georgian

Question: Along with the Mongolian People's Republic and the People's Republic of China, what country did the RSFSR border to its southeast?
Answer: Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Question: When did the Soviet regime first become powerful?
Answer: November 7, 1917

Question: Which government was in power before the Soviet regime?
Answer: the Russian Provisional Government

Question: Which revolution led to the Soviet regime's rise to power?
Answer: the October Revolution

Question: How long was the state of the Soviet regime unrecognized by other countries?
Answer: five months

Question: What was the name of the republic the Russian Provisional Goverment ruled?
Answer: the Russian Republic

Question: When did the Soviet government assume power?
Answer: November 7, 1917

Question: What event led to the assumption of power by the Soviet government?
Answer: the October Revolution

Question: What body governed Russia prior to the Soviet government?
Answer: the Russian Provisional Government

Question: In months, for how long was the new Soviet state unrecognized?
Answer: five

Question: Which official name was Russia given at the start of 1918?
Answer: the Soviet Russian Republic

Question: To which country did Russia give land during World War I?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which treaty did Russia sign in order to give land and gain peace during World War I?
Answer: the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question: What war resulted in Russia shrinking further during 1918?
Answer: the Russian Civil War

Question: What numbered meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets occurred on January 25, 1918?
Answer: third

Question: On January 25, 1918, what was the official name given to the Soviet state?
Answer: the Soviet Russian Republic

Question: What did Russia receive in return for signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Answer: peace in World War I

Question: On what date was the country renamed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
Answer: July 10, 1918

Question: During what 1918 conflict did states secede from Russia?
Answer: the Russian Civil War

Question: Which oblast was broken up in 1943?
Answer: Karachay Autonomous Oblast

Question: Where were the Karachays sent after their oblast was broken up?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: Which SSR received the land of the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: the Georgian SSR

Question: Who broke up the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: Who eliminated the Karachay Autonomous Oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast ended?
Answer: 1943

Question: To where were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: Why were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: alleged collaboration with the Germans

Question: What republic was the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred to?
Answer: Georgian SSR

Question: On what date was the RSFSR established?
Answer: November 7, 1917

Question: What event led to the establishment of the RSFSR?
Answer: October Revolution

Question: In what year was the Constitution adopted?
Answer: 1918

Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed in what year?
Answer: 1922

Question: How much of the USSR's electricity was produced in the RSFSR?
Answer: two-thirds

Question: What two countries produced more petroleum than Russia in 1961?
Answer: the United States and Saudi Arabia

Question: How many students were in institutions of higher education in Russia in 1974?
Answer: 23,941,000

Question: How many institutions of higher education did Russia possess in 1974?
Answer: 475

Question: In how many languages were students in institutions of higher education being educated in 1974?
Answer: 47

Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty adopted?
Answer: June 12, 1990

Question: Who became president on June 12, 1991?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Question: On what date were the Belavezha Accords signed?
Answer: December 8, 1991

Question: When did the Russian Parliament ratify the Belavezha Accords?
Answer: December 12

Question: What agreement did the Belavezha Accords supersede?
Answer: 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

Question: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991?
Answer: Russian Federation

Question: On what date was the USSR dissolved?
Answer: December 26, 1991

Question: What body was responsible for the dissolution of the USSR?
Answer: Soviet of Nationalities

Question: What house of the Supreme Soviet was not functioning as of December 26, 1991?
Answer: Soviet of the Union

Question: What was one right of the Soviet government that the government of Russia assumed?
Answer: UN membership

Question: On what date was the state named the Soviet Russian Republic?
Answer: January 25, 1918

Question: What body renamed the state the Soviet Russian Republic?
Answer: All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Question: When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed?
Answer: March 3, 1918

Question: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceded land to what state?
Answer: Germany

Question: What document renamed the state the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
Answer: Russian Constitution of 1918

Question: What treaty resulted in the recognition of the RSFSR by Latvia and other states?
Answer: Treaty of Tartu

Question: Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state recognized the RSFSR in 1920?
Answer: Irish Republic

Question: What was the common name of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Russia

Question: Technically, what type of state was Russia?
Answer: republic

Question: What was the largest republic in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Russia

Question: What percentage of the RSFSR was made up of plains?
Answer: 70%

Question: In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly exist?
Answer: the east

Question: Along with petroleum and iron ore, what resource was abundant in the RSFSR?
Answer: natural gas

Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR passed?
Answer: December 30, 1922

Question: What body passed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?
Answer: First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR

Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state joined Russia to form the Soviet Union?
Answer: Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic

Question: On what date was the 1924 Soviet Constitution adopted?
Answer: January 31, 1924

Question: What body adopted the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR