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All-Russian Geographical Dictation 2015. Questions. Answers.

1. Name a phenomenon of global scale, which is distributed over 60% of the territory of Russia. It is most widely represented in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia. The greatest depth of distribution of this phenomenon (1370 m) is observed in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.

2. What are the names of hot springs that periodically emit fountains of hot water and steam, which are common in areas of volcanic activity, for example, on the Kamchatka Peninsula?

3. Name an indicator that characterizes the number of inhabitants per 1 km2 of territory and determines the demographic and economic potential of a country or region.

4. What is the process of urban growth and increasing the share of the urban population called?

5. On a 1:10,000 scale map, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance on the ground does this correspond to?

6. Name the oldest and deepest lake in the world, which contains 20% of all fresh water on the planet.

7. Name the northernmost continental point of Russia.

8. Name the largest entity by area Russian Federation, which is home to the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic linguistic group?

9. Name the city located in the Pacific Ocean where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is produced.

10. Name the subject of the Russian Federation in which the construction of the easternmost cosmodrome of Russia is underway.

11. Name the city in the Russian Federation in which, not far from the obelisk “Center of Asia”, at the confluence of Biy-Khem and Ka-Khem, the Yenisei begins.

12. Name the largest of the Siberian cities located beyond the Arctic Circle; it is the center of mining and smelting of copper and nickel.

13. Name the rocks - a UNESCO natural heritage site, located along the Lena River.

14. Name the highest volcano in Russia.

15. Name the only river flowing from Baikal.

16. Arrange the basins of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east: A) Khatanga; B) Indigirka; B) Onega; D) Nadym.

17. Select from the list a city located in the Kara Sea drainage basin: A) Yakutsk; B) Irkutsk; D) Naryan-Mar; D) Magadan.

18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from north to south: A) Republic of Kalmykia; B) Republic of Ingushetia; B) Republic of Mari El; D) Republic of Karelia.

19. Name the mountain system within which the wettest territory (in terms of average annual precipitation) in Russia is located.

20. What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when his friend vacationing on the shore of Peter the Great Bay says 5 a.m. on May 1st?

21. “In Kandalaksha, dazzling mountains covered the horizon with snowy domes. Near the roadbed, the Niva River with black transparent water roared like a continuous waterfall. Then Lake Imandra passed - not a lake, but a sea - all covered in blue ice, surrounded by steps of blue and white mountains. The Khibiny mountains slowly went south in flattened domes.” Which peninsula did K.G. write about? Paustovsky?

22. About this current millionaire city D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak wrote: “In the motley environment of Russian cities... it is truly a “living node”... At the pass itself, two large rivers almost meet - Isyot and Chusovaya. It was at this point that Tatishchev outlined the future city... The Isyot River... connected the mining region itself with the blessed [land] - a gold mine, where forests, pastures and steppe Siberian black soil were widely spread.”

23. “The conversations and description of Vaygach, which the Dutch call the Nassau Strait, heard in Holland, many nobles zealously undertook to send another large parcel to go to China and India... Barens was appointed leader on the largest of the two ships that were sent from Amsterdam... " What geographical object bears the name of the mentioned M.V. Lomonosov of the Dutch navigator?

24. “...Our guys... were flying at that moment on a small An-2 plane north of the New Siberian Islands, where there are dots of the De Long Islands: Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, and Zhokhov Island are also there...” (O.M. Kuvaev) . In which sea are the De Long Islands located?

25. “...This is a virgin and primeval forest, consisting of cedar, black birch, Amur fir, elm, poplar, Siberian spruce, Manchurian linden, Daurian larch, ash, Mongolian oak... cork tree... And all this is mixed up with a vineyard, vines and sultanas " What type of Russian forest does V.K. write about? Arsenyev

1. Permafrost.

2.Geysers.

3. Population density;

4. urbanization;

5. 1 km;

6. Lake Baikal;

7. Cape Chelyuskin on Taimyr;

8. Republic of Sakha-Yakutia;

9. Komsomolsk-on-Amur;

10. Amur region;

11. the city of Kyzyl - the capital of the Republic of Tyva;

12. city of Norilsk;

13. Lena Pillars;

14. Klyuchevskoy volcano as part of Klyuchevskaya Sopka - 4850 m;

15. Angara river; 16. Onega-Nadym-Khatanga-Indigirka;

17. Irkutsk;

18. Karelia-Mari-El-Kalmykia-Ingushetia;

19. northwestern Caucasus;

21. Kola Peninsula;

22. Ekaterinburg,

23. Barents Sea;

24. East Siberian Sea;

25. Far Eastern Ussuri taiga

Today, November 26, at 12:00 local time, the third Geographical Dictation started in all regions of our country and abroad.

This year, geographical knowledge is tested not only by all of Russia, but also by many foreign countries. The promotion takes place in 26 countries. In addition, if last year Dictation was written on 1,464 platforms, then in 2017 there were more than 2,300.

The leader in the number of educational campaign locations among foreign countries was China, where the Dictation was held in 10 cities at once. The largest venue abroad in terms of the number of seats was the branch of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov in the city of Baku, where 800 participants were able to write the Dictation.

In Russia, the leader in the number of sites was the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), where the Dictation was held in 308 organizations. Second place goes to the Republic of Bashkortostan - 209 sites, third place to the Krasnodar Territory - 122. Voronezh became the largest site in our country state university, where 2,000 participants were able to write a Dictation.

One of the most unusual sites of the action was the research vessel “Akademik Fedorov” of the Russian Antarctic Expedition, currently located in the Cape Town roadstead. The Dictation was also written on the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", which is currently a museum in Murmansk. Also, more than ten nature reserves and national parks, museums of Soviet slot machines in Moscow and St. Petersburg, All-Russian children's center"Smena" in the Krasnodar Territory, the Big Planetarium in Novosibirsk. In addition, the Dictation took place on the Strizh trains Nizhny Novgorod - Moscow and Moscow - Berlin.

For those who were unable to come to the venues, an online dictation was organized at dictant.rgo.ru. It started on November 26 at 14:00 Moscow time and will last until 14:00 November 30, 2017 Moscow time.

Anyone who speaks Russian can test their knowledge of geography.

The test consists of 30 questions, with 45 minutes to answer. The results will be available in a month - they will appear on the website of the Russian Geographical Society.

The questions were divided into three blocks: definition of geographical concepts and terms by their description; identification of geographical objects on the map and the ability to apply knowledge in practice; identification of geographical objects from a fragment of a literary work.

The highest score you can get for a dictation is 100 points.

Participants of the Dictation who completed it in person will be able to find out their personal results after December 25 on the website dictant.rgo.ru using the unique identification number received at the sites.

Those who took the Dictation online will see the results immediately after answering the questions.

Based on the results of the event, an analytical report will be prepared assessing the level of geographic literacy of the Russian population as a whole and its individual age groups, the results of the Dictation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and abroad.

The participants of the educational event differed in their opinions about the difficulty of the Dictation this year. Some site guests found the questions more difficult than in the past.

About dictation

On November 1, 2015, for the first time in the Russian Federation, a large-scale educational event aimed at assessing the level of geographic literacy of the population took place - the first All-Russian Geographical Dictation. The initiator of it was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, Vladimir Putin, and the organizer was the Russian Geographical Society.

The dictation took place in all regions of our country, at 210 specially prepared sites.The leaders in the number of organized sites were the Central, Ural and Volga Federal Districts, and among the regions– Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (32), Tver Region (18) and Moscow (15). In terms of the number of dictation participants, the leaders were the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (7026 people), Moscow (3343 people), Tver (1432 people) and Voronezh (1427 people) regions. In a number of other regions, attendance exceeded a thousand people.

How many people wrote?

Anyone could take part in the dictation, regardless of age, education and field of activity.To write a dictation"offline", came to regional sites 44,365 people. Of these, 43,567 submitted their work for verification. Another 27,564 people took the test online on the website of the Russian Geographical Society. Thus, the total number of dictation participants is about 72 thousand people.

Among them are people with a wide variety of education – from general primary education to postgraduate education with an academic degree. According to preliminary data, the largest group of participants were owners higher education, the smallest number – persons with primary general education. Thus, the average level of education of the dictation participants turned out to be higher than the statistical average for Russia.

Quests

The dictation included 25 test tasks, which were divided into three blocks. The first consisted of tasks on knowledge of geographical concepts and terms; the second was aimed at testing knowledge about the location of geographical objects on the map; the third - on knowledge of geographical descriptions.

One of the main principles of the action was anonymity. You didn’t have to indicate your name on the assignment and answer forms. Participants were asked to write only their age, occupation, attitude to geography (for example, student or teacher at a specialized university) and some other information. This information is necessary in order to assess and analyze the level of geographical knowledge of the residents of our country.

Excellent students, good students, poor students?

According to the organizers, it is too early to draw final conclusions based on the results of checking numerous works - specialists are still engaged in analytics and compiling the results.

According to preliminary statistics, among the dictation participants there are three main categories: schoolchildren, students and working citizens - approximately 30% each. The remaining categories of the population amounted to less than 10%. It is very pleasant that the majority of dictation participants are young people who strive to test their knowledge and, in the future, improve its level.

It is interesting that students in grades 5–9 answered questions completely differently from students in grades 10–11, while the answers of high school students differed little from the answers of adults. As for gender statistics, on average the scores of men's answers are two points higher than those of women.

The highest score that could be received for a dictation is 100 points, the lowest is 0. Unfortunately, 100-point results were not recorded in all regions, and the total number of works that earned the highest mark does not exceed 1%.

According to preliminary data, the average score for dictation in Russia is only 55 points, in school terminology– this is a three. It is even more sad that 48% of the participants wrote the dictation below the average level, that is, they received a C minus or a D. And this is against the backdrop of the fact that a significant part of the participants designated geography as their professional field of activity or classified themselves as active tourists.

The results of the dictation will be taken into account by the Russian Geographical Society when preparing a new concept of geographical education, which the Russian Geographical Society is developing jointly with the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.

How to find out your result?

Find out your personal results from the dictation participants who completed it "offline", can use a unique identification number obtained at the sites.

Dictation participants tell

Olga, technical university student, Moscow

– Many tasks seemed difficult to me. Because of the questions, as they say, “for knowledge,” I was not very upset - well, I don’t know the name of the city located in the Pacific Ocean, where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is produced! But the stupor at the question about the scale of the map unsettled me ( Ed.: we are talking about this question: “On a map at a scale of 1:10,000, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?” Correct answer: 1 kilometer. Answers received: 100, 1000, 100,000 km). It's really a shame to stumble over this! Now I’m sitting here, refreshing my cartography.

Maxim, engineer, Vologda

– I consider myself an educated person, so it was unpleasant to find out that, for example, I do not know the northernmost continental point of our country and the name of the highest active volcano in Russia... (Ed.: Cape Chelyuskin and Klyuchevskaya Sopka).

Valery Viktorovich, builder, pensioner

– I would like to draw your attention to the important social aspect associated with the distribution of printed questions to the dictation participants. It was this circumstance that allowed me, and perhaps many other visually or hearing impaired people, to become participants in face-to-face dictation.

I am 76 years old. Disabled person of the 2nd group. In 2004 he suffered an ischemic stroke. Even with a hearing aid, it is sometimes very difficult to understand the lecturer's words in the audience, which is why I do not participate in mass events. Before becoming familiar with the Regulations on face-to-face dictation, I considered only testing via the Internet as a possible form of participation. I received the news about the printed issues with delight. THANK YOU! This allowed me to take part in the dictation in person.

Andrey, schoolboy (11th grade), Moscow region

– I came to the dictation just for company with friends, but in the end I didn’t regret it. I was intrigued by the question about the climber with a watch, I couldn’t answer it. I came home, figured it out, and it was interesting ( Ed.: we are talking about this question: “What is the date and time on the watch of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when on the watch of his friend, resting on the shore of Peter the Great Bay, is 5 o’clock in the morning on May 1?” Correct answer: April 30, 22 hours).

Alla, employee, Nizhny Novgorod

– I didn’t answer most of the questions...

Yuri, student of a humanities university, Moscow

– Difficulties were caused by questions regarding geographical concepts and phenomena. For example, about a phenomenon of global scale, which is distributed over 60% of the territory of Russia and is most widely represented in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia... (Ed.: permafrost). [[("attributes":(),"fields":())]]

Among the issues that caused serious difficulties were the following:

- Name a phenomenon of global scale, which is distributed over 60% of the territory of Russia. It is most widely represented in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia. The greatest depth of distribution of this phenomenon (1370 m) is observed in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.

(Correct answer: permafrost. Acceptable answer: permafrost)

Answers received: snow, floods, spills, northern lights, earthquakes, nuggets.

- Name the northernmost continental point of Russia.

(Correct answer: Cape Chelyuskin)

Answers received: Northern Cape, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Dezhnev, Cape Fligeli, Lomonosov Archipelago.

- Name the largest subject of the Russian Federation by area, in which the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic linguistic group lives?

(Correct answer: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Answers received: Nanai Autonomous Okrug.

- Name the only river flowing from Lake Baikal.

(Correct answer: Angara River)

Answers received: Ob, Indigarka (correct: IndigIrka), Irtysh, Selenga, Lena.

- Name the mountain system within which the wettest territory (in terms of average annual precipitation) in Russia is located.

(Correct answer: Greater Caucasus)

Answers received: Altai, Ural, Sayan Mountains, Scandinavian Mountains, Sikhote-Alin, Khibiny Mountains. In dictation polls

What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, north of which polar night and polar day are possible during certain periods of the year?
show Answer: Arctic Circle
What is the name of the lowland formed by river sediments and cut through a network of branches and channels at the mouth of a river flowing into a shallow area of the sea or lake?
show Answer: Delta
What is the name of a historically established stable group of people, united by language, religion and characteristics of traditional culture?
show Answer: Ethnicity
What is the voluntary and long-term movement of population from one region of the country to another called?
show Answer: Migration
On a 1:50,000 scale map, the distance between points is 5 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?
show Answer: 2.5
Name the largest right tributary of the Volga
show Answer: R. Oka
Name the largest Russian-owned island in the Pacific Ocean.
show Answer: Sakhalin Island
On the territory of which subject of the Russian Federation does the only people in Europe professing Buddhism live?
show Answer: Republic of Kalmykia
This city on the Volga produces the Niva car and most of the Russian Lada cars.
show Answer: Tolyatti
This subject of the Russian Federation is home to the northernmost operating cosmodrome in the world.
show Answer: Arkhangelsk region
Name the largest freshwater lake in the European part of Russia.
show Answer: Lake Ladoga
Name the hero city and seaport where the Northern Sea Route begins.
show Answer: Murmansk
Name the mountain system - a UNESCO natural heritage site, which is also called the “Golden Mountains”; it is located on the borders of Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.
show Answer: Altai Mountains
Name the strait separating the Krasnodar Territory from the Republic of Crimea
show Answer: Kerch Strait
Name the southernmost millionaire city in Russia.
show Answer: Rostov-on-Don
Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east:
A) Neva; B) Don; B) Pechora; D) Volga.
show Answer: A) Neva; B) Don; D) Volga; B) Pechora
Select from the list a city that is located in the drainage basin of Lake Baikal:
A) Bratsk; B) Kyzyl; B) Blagoveshchensk; D) Ulan-Ude; D) Yakutsk.
show Answer: D) Ulan-Ude
Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from west to east:
A) Kamchatka region; B) Republic of Adygea; B) Udmurt Republic; D) Altai Republic.
show Answer: B) Republic of Adygea; B) Udmurt Republic; D) Altai Republic; A) Kamchatka region
Name the subject of the Russian Federation within which the wettest territory (based on average annual precipitation) in Russia is located.
show Answer: Krasnodar region
What is the date and time on the watch of a tourist climbing to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the watch of his friend vacationing on the Curonian Spit is 22:00 on May 31st.
show Answer: June 1 8 o'clock
“For the first time I saw from the distance of the sea... the entire solemn turn of its shores from Cape Fiolent to Karadag. For the first time I realized how beautiful this land is, washed by one of the most festive seas on the globe. We are approaching the shores, colored with dry and sharp colors... The vineyards were already blazing with rust, the snow-covered peaks of Chatyr-Dag and Ai-Petri were already visible.”
Which peninsula did K.G. write about? Paustovsky?
show Answer: Crimean peninsula. Acceptable answer: Crimea
In which city did M.Yu stay? Lermontov?
“I have a wonderful view from three sides. To the west, the five-domed Beshtau turns blue, like “the last cloud of a scattered storm”; Mashuk rises to the north like a shaggy Persian hat and covers the entire part of the sky; It’s more fun to look to the east: below in front of me... healing springs are rustling, a multilingual crowd is noisy, - and there, further, mountains are piled up like an amphitheater, increasingly blue and foggy, and on the edge of the horizon stretches a silver chain of snowy peaks, starting with Kazbek and ending with the double-headed Elbrus...”
show Answer: Pyatigorsk
“...In winter, the sea winds thaw, and with hardened earth those blowing with them bring frosts, because in St. Petersburg the western wind from the Baltic Sea, near the city of Arkhangelsk the north-west from Bely and Norman, in Okhotsk the eastern wind from the Kamchatka Sea breathes thaw.”
What sea M.V. Calls Lomonosov Normansky?
show Answer: Barents Sea
“Anadyr depression. It’s very flat, and the Anadyr wags along it like a huge boa constrictor... “The Anadyr is a yellow river,” that’s how the essay can be called later. Tundra and lakes throughout the depression. It’s difficult to understand what is more: either lakes or land” (O. Kuvaev).
Which sea does this river flow into?
show Answer: in the Bering Sea
“Huge trees formed a green tent. And underneath there are dense thickets of hazel, bird cherry, honeysuckle, elderberry and other shrubs and small trees. In some places a gloomy dark spruce forest was approaching. On the outskirts of the clearing, a large pine tree spread its branches, under the shadow of which a young Christmas tree nestled... And then again birch trees, poplar with its gray trunk, rowan, linden, the forest becomes thicker and darker.”
What type of Russian forest does L.M. write about? Leonov?
show Answer: Mixed forest

1. What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, north of which polar night and polar day are possible during certain periods of the year?

Answer: Arctic Circle

2. What is the name of the lowland formed by river sediments and cut through by a network of branches and channels at the mouth of a river flowing into a shallow area of the sea or lake?

Answer: Delta

3. What is the name of a historically established stable group of people, united by language, religion and characteristics of traditional culture?

Answer: ethnos

4. What is the voluntary and long-term movement of the population from one region of the country to another called?

Answer: migration

5. On a map at a scale of 1:50,000, the distance between points is 5 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?

Answer: 2,5

6. Name the largest right tributary of the Volga.

Answer: Oka river

7. Name the largest Russian-owned island in the Pacific Ocean.

Answer: Sakhalin Island

8. On the territory of which subject of the Russian Federation does the only people in Europe professing Buddhism live?

Answer: Republic of Kalmykia

9. The Niva car and most of the Russian Lada cars are produced in this city on the Volga.

Answer: Tolyatti

10. This subject of the Russian Federation is home to the northernmost operating cosmodrome in the world.

Answer: Arkhangelsk region

11. Name the largest freshwater lake in the European part of Russia.

Answer: Lake Ladoga

12. Name the hero city and seaport where the Northern Sea Route begins.

Answer: Murmansk

13. Name the mountain system - a UNESCO natural heritage site, which is also called the “Golden Mountains”; it is located on the borders of Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

Answer: Altai Mountains

14. Name the strait separating the Krasnodar Territory from the Republic of Crimea.

Answer: Kerch Strait

15. Name the southernmost millionaire city in Russia.

Answer: Rostov-on-Don

16. Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in the sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east: A) Neva; B) Don; B) Pechora; D) Volga.

Answer: A) Neva; B) Don; D) Volga C) Pechora

17. Select from the list a city that is located in the drainage basin of Lake Baikal:

A) Bratsk; B) Kyzyl; B) Blagoveshchensk; D) Ulan-Ude; D) Yakutsk.

Answer: D) Ulan-Ude

18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from west to east: A) Kamchatka Territory; B) Republic of Adygea; B) Udmurt Republic; D) Altai Republic.

Answer: B) Republic of Adygea; B) Udmurt Republic; D) Altai Republic; A) Kamchatka region

19. Name the subject of the Russian Federation within which the wettest territory (based on average annual precipitation) in Russia is located.

Answer: Krasnodar region

20. What is the date and time on the watch of a tourist climbing to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the watch of his friend vacationing on the Curonian Spit is 22:00 on May 31st.

Answer: Crimean peninsula. Acceptable answer: Crimea

Answer: Pyatigorsk

Answer: Barents Sea

Answer: in the Bering Sea

Answer: mixed forest

Option 2

1. What are the names of humus-rich, dark-colored soils formed in a temperate continental climate under steppe vegetation? In Russia, they are common in the south of European territory and Western Siberia.

Answer: Chernozem

2. What is the name of a vast area with low atmospheric pressure in the center, characterized by a system of winds blowing counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere?

Answer: Cyclone

3. What is the difference between the number of people born and the number of deaths over a certain period of time called?

Answer: natural population growth

4. What is the name of the system of nearby urban settlements interconnected by economic, transport, cultural and other connections?

Answer: urban agglomeration

5. On a map at a scale of 1:25,000, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?

Answer: 2,5

6. Name the mountain - the highest point in Russia.

Answer: Mount Elbrus

7. Name the northernmost millionaire city in Russia, where the headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society is located.

Answer: St. Petersburg

8. Name the subject of the Russian Federation that ranks first in the country in oil production. In it, the Irtysh River flows into the Ob River.

Answer: Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug

9. Name the city, located at the confluence of two large Russian rivers, where Gazelles are produced.

Answer: Nizhny Novgorod

10. Name the city located at the easternmost point of the Volga, where Soyuz launch vehicles are produced.

Answer: Samara

Answer: Yamal Peninsula

Answer: Novorossiysk

13. Name the island - a UNESCO natural heritage site through which the 180th meridian passes. This island is also called “the polar bear nursery.”

Answer: Wrangel Island

Answer: Mount Belukha

Answer: Novosibirsk city

Answer:

Answer: B) Tver

Answer:

Answer: Black Sea

21. “Starting somewhere right behind the Riphean ridge, ... the Chusovaya River cut through the ridge that a stale crust of bread - the only river that managed to overcome such a strong barrier - it rolled its stormy waters between the fighting rocks, near the cliffs, through the rapids , rifts and rifts and flowed into the Kama.” What is the name of the mentioned V.P. Astafiev mountain system?

Answer: Ural Mountains

22. “Four to five kilometers wide and seventy kilometers long, sheer cliffs on both sides, stretched almost strictly along the meridian, and between the rocks there is a kind of huge and transparent stone, shimmering with a cold light.” Which lake – “the pearl of Altai” – is described by S.P. Zalygin?

Answer: Lake Teletskoye

23. “With his tireless hand, military ships were brought to the White, Azov, Varangian and Caspian seas and Russian naval power was shown to all surrounding powers...”. What is the name of the Varangian Sea in our time, mentioned by M.V. Lomonosov in describing the merits of Peter I?

Answer: Baltic Sea

24. “Provideniya Bay is a typical fiord. The narrow and long bay is squeezed by the slopes of the hills. Their black cliffs hang over the water, and a little to the side, with a hellish interweaving of rocky ledges, gloomy towers and just some kind of black stone fingers sticking out into the sky, the Sorcerer Mountain rises... Eskimos and coastal Chukchi - seal hunters - settled here before anyone else" (O. Kuvaev). In what sea is this bay located?

Answer: In the Bering Sea

25. “Nothing in nature could be better; the entire surface of the earth seemed like a green-golden ocean, over which millions of different flowers splashed... an ear of wheat brought from God knows where was pouring in the thick... Hawks stood motionless in the sky, spreading their wings and motionlessly fixing their eyes on the grass...” What natural zone did N.V. write about? Gogol?

Answer: steppes

Option 3

Answer:

Answer: geyser

Answer: population density

Answer: urbanization

5. On a map at a scale of 1:10,000, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?

Answer: 1 kilometer

Answer: Lake Baikal

Answer: Cape Chelyuskin

Answer: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Answer: Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Answer: Amur region

11. Name the city of the Russian Federation in which, not far from the obelisk “Center of Asia” at the confluence of Biy-Khem?ma and Ka-Khem?ma, the Yenisei begins.

Answer: Kyzyl

12. Name the largest of the Siberian cities located above the Arctic Circle; it is the center of mining and smelting of copper and nickel.

Answer: Norilsk

13. Name the rocks - a UNESCO natural heritage site, located along the Lena River.

Answer: Lena pillars

14. Name the highest active volcano in Russia.

Answer: Klyuchevskaya Sopka

15. Name the only river flowing from Baikal.

Answer: Angara river

16. Arrange the basins of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east: A) Khatanga; B) Indigirka; B) Onega; D) Nadym.

Answer: C) Onega, D) Nadym, A) Khatanga, B) Indigirka

17. Select from the list a city located in the Kara Sea drainage basin: A) Yakutsk; B) Irkutsk; D) Naryan-Mar; D) Magadan.

Answer: B) Irkutsk

18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from north to south: A) Republic of Kalmykia; B) Republic of Ingushetia; B) Republic of Mari El; D) Republic of Karelia.

Answer: D) Republic of Karelia, C) Republic of Mari El,) Republic of Kalmykia, B) Republic of Ingushetia

19. Name the mountain system within which the wettest territory (in terms of average annual precipitation) in Russia is located.

Answer: Greater Caucasus

20. What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when his friend vacationing on the shore of Peter the Great Bay says 5 a.m. on May 1st?

Answer: Kola Peninsula

22. About this current millionaire city D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak wrote: “In the motley environment of Russian cities... is truly a “living node”... At the pass itself, two large rivers almost meet - Iset and Chusovaya. It was at this point that Tatishchev outlined the future city... The Iset River... connected the mining region itself with the blessed [land] - a gold mine, where forests, pastures and steppe Siberian black soil were widely spread."

Answer: Yekaterinburg

Answer: Barents Sea

24. “...our guys,..., were flying at that moment on a small An-2 plane north of the New Siberian Islands, where there are dots of the De Long Islands: Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, and Zhokhov Island are also there...” (O. Kuvaev) . In which sea are the De Long Islands located?

Answer: in the East Siberian Sea

25. “... this is a virgin and primeval forest, consisting of cedar, black birch, Amur fir, elm, poplar, Siberian spruce, Manchurian linden, Dahurian larch, ash, Mongolian oak... cork tree... And all this is mixed up with a vineyard, vines and sultanas." What type of Russian forest does V.K. write about? Arsenyev?

Answer: Ussuri taiga

Testing online

For those who for some reason were unable to take part in the dictation at the Russian Geographical Society, online testing was conducted on the portal. Those who decided to try their hand online were less fortunate than those who took part in the “live” dictation: the large educational event that we had been preparing for so long, so enthusiastically and seriously, found a different scenario. We, who know well that geography in recent years schools pay, to put it delicately, not the closest attention, and we could not have imagined that it would be so in demand, and the number of people wishing to assess their geographic literacy would be many times greater than our expectations!

Unfortunately, the RGS server could not withstand such a load (which, to be fair, we note, also happens with much larger, technically equipped organizations). On the one hand, this is, of course, very sad. But on the other hand...

Yes, all of us - both the organizers and, most importantly, the participants - are offended that the first geographical dictation in the history of the country did not go as planned. However, the fact that so many people responded to the “geographical call” and that there is a genuine interest in geography in society did not allow us to give up. And he clearly showed: everything we do is not in vain.

In the end, the problem was solved, and those who were partial to geography were able to write a dictation. In total, more than 27 thousand people took part in it.

Thank you to everyone who treated the current situation with understanding and patience and did not cower in the face of temporary difficulties!

The questions for the online test were combined from those tasks that were distributed to visitors of offline sites. We bring to your attention questions and answers online testing on.

Online option

Answer: permafrost

2. What are the names of hot springs that periodically emit fountains of hot water and steam, which are common in areas of volcanic activity, for example on the Kamchatka Peninsula?

Answer: geyser

3. What is the indicator that characterizes the number of inhabitants per 1 km? territory and determines the demographic and economic potential of a country or region.

Answer: population density

4. What is the process of urban growth and increasing the share of the urban population called?

Answer: urbanization

5. On a 1:10,000 scale map, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance on the ground does this correspond to?

Answer: 1 kilometer

6. Name the oldest and deepest lake in the world, which contains 20% of all fresh water on the planet.

Answer: Lake Baikal

7. Name the northernmost continental point of Russia.

Answer: Cape Chelyuskin

8. Name the largest subject of the Russian Federation by area, in which the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic linguistic group lives?

Answer: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

9. Name the city located in the Pacific Ocean where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is produced.

Answer: Komsomolsk-on-Amur

10. Name the subject of the Russian Federation in which the construction of the easternmost cosmodrome of Russia is underway.

Answer: Amur region

11. Name the peninsula located to the west of the Gulf of Ob, the depths of which contain rich reserves of natural gas.

Answer: Yamal Peninsula

12. The largest seaport in the south of Russia, located in this hero city, often suffers from strong cold winds rapidly “falling” from the mountains. Name this city.

Answer: Novorossiysk

13. Name the island - a UNESCO natural heritage site, which is divided in half by the 180th meridian. This island is also called “the polar bear nursery.”

Answer: Wrangel Island

14. Name the highest point of the Altai Mountains.

Answer: Mount Belukha

15. Name the city where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Ob River.

Answer: Novosibirsk city

16. Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in the sequence corresponding to the direction from east to west: A) Pechora; B) Pelvis; B) Kolyma; D) Hangar.

Answer: C) Kolyma, D) Angara, B) Taz, A) Pechora

17. Select from the list a city that is located in the drainage basin of the Caspian Sea:

A) Voronezh; B) Krasnodar; B) Tver; D) Kursk; D) Smolensk.

Answer: B) Tver

18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from east to west:

A) Chechen Republic; B) Kaliningrad region; B) Perm region; D) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Answer: D) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, C) Perm Territory, A) Chechen Republic, B) Kaliningrad Region

19. Name the sea or lake that washes the wettest (according to average annual precipitation) territory of Russia.

Answer: Black Sea

20. What is the date and time on the watch of a tourist climbing to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the watch of his friend vacationing on the Curonian Spit is 20:00 on June 12?

21. “For the first time I saw from the distance of the sea... the entire solemn turn of its shores from Cape Fiolent to Karadag. For the first time I realized how beautiful this land is, washed by one of the most festive seas on the globe. We are approaching the shores, colored with dry and sharp colors... The vineyards were already blazing with rust, the snow-covered peaks of Chatyr-Dag and Ai-Petri were already visible.” Which peninsula did K.G. write about? Paustovsky?

Answer: Crimean peninsula.

22. In what city did M.Yu. stay? Lermontov? “I have a wonderful view from three sides. To the west, the five-domed Beshtau turns blue, like “the last cloud of a scattered storm”; Mashuk rises to the north like a shaggy Persian hat and covers the entire part of the sky; It’s more fun to look to the east: below in front of me... healing springs are rustling, a multilingual crowd is noisy, - and there, further, mountains are piled up like an amphitheater, increasingly blue and foggy, and on the edge of the horizon stretches a silver chain of snowy peaks, starting with Kazbek and ending with the double-headed Elbrus...”

Answer: Pyatigorsk

23. “...In winter, the sea winds thaw, and those blowing from the hardened land bring frosts with them, because in St. Petersburg the western wind is from the Baltic Sea, near the city of Arkhangelsk the north-west from the Bely and Norman Seas, in Okhotsk the eastern wind is from the Kamchatka Sea they breathe the thaw.” What sea M.V. Calls Lomonosov Normansky?

Answer: Barents Sea

24. “Anadyr depression. It’s very flat, and the Anadyr wags along it like a huge boa constrictor... “The Anadyr is a yellow river,” that’s how the essay can be called later. Tundra and lakes throughout the depression. It’s difficult to understand what is more: either lakes or land” (O. Kuvaev). Which sea does this river flow into?

Answer: in the Bering Sea

25. “Huge trees formed a green tent. And underneath there are dense thickets of hazel, bird cherry, honeysuckle, elderberry and other shrubs and small trees. In some places a gloomy dark spruce forest was approaching. On the outskirts of the clearing, a large pine tree spread its branches, under the shadow of which a young Christmas tree nestled... And then again birch trees, poplar with its gray trunk, rowan, linden, the forest becomes thicker and darker.” What type of Russian forest does L.M. write about? Leonov?

Answer: mixed forest