- What is the name of an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, to the north of which, at certain periods of the year, polar night and polar day are possible?
show Answer: Arctic Circle - 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 section of a sea or lake?
show Answer: Delta - What is the name of a historically established stable group of people, united by language, religion and features of traditional culture?
show Answer: Ethnos - What is the name of the voluntary and long-term movement of the population from one area of the country to another?
show Answer: Migration - 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?
show Answer: 2.5 - Name the largest right tributary of the Volga
show Answer: river 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 who profess Buddhism live?
show Answer: Republic of Kalmykia - In this city on the Volga, the Niva car and most of the Russian Lada cars are produced.
show Answer: Togliatti - In this subject of the Russian Federation, there is the northernmost of the operating spaceports in the world.
show Answer: Arhangelsk region - Name the largest freshwater lake in the European part of Russia.
show Answer: Ladoga lake - Name the hero city and the 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 that separates 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 Territory; B) the Republic of Adygea; B) the Udmurt Republic; D) Republic of Altai.
show Answer: B) the Republic of Adygea; B) the Udmurt Republic; D) Republic of Altai; A) Kamchatka Territory - Name the subject of the Russian Federation, within which the wettest (according to the average annual precipitation) territory in Russia is located.
show Answer: Krasnodar region - What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the clock of his friend, resting on the Curonian Spit, 22 hours on May 31.
show Answer: 1 June 8 hours - “For the first time I saw from the sea distance ... 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 aflame with rust, the snow-covered peaks of Chatyr-Dag and Ai-Petri were already visible.
What peninsula did K.G. Paustovsky?
show Answer: Crimean peninsula. Possible answer: Crimea - In what city did M.Yu. Lermontov?
“The view from three sides is wonderful. 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 rustle, a multilingual crowd rustles, - and there, further, mountains are piled up like an amphitheater, bluer and foggier, and on the edge of the horizon stretches a silver chain of snowy peaks, starting with Kazbek and ending with the two-headed Elbrus ... ".
show Answer: Pyatigorsk - “... In winter, the sea winds thaw, and from the mother earth they bring frosts with them, because in St. Petersburg the western wind from the Baltic Sea, near the city of Arkhangelsk northwest from the White and Norman Sea, in Okhotsk the east wind from the Kamchatka Sea breathe a thaw ".
Which sea M.V. Lomonosov calls Normansky?
show Answer: Barents Sea - Anadyr depression. It is very flat, and Anadyr wags a huge boa constrictor along it ... “Anadyr is a yellow river,” - you can call the essay like that later. Tundra and lakes throughout the depression. It is difficult to understand what is more: either lakes or land” (O. Kuvaev).
What sea does this river flow into?
show Answer: in the Bering Sea - “Huge trees formed a green tent. And under it - dense thickets of hazel, bird cherry, honeysuckle, elderberry and other shrubs and small trees. In some places, a gloomy dark spruce forest has moved in. On the outskirts of the clearing, a large pine tree spread its branches, under the shade of which a young Christmas tree nestled ... And then again birches, poplar with its gray trunk, mountain ash, linden, the forest is getting thicker and darker.
What kind of Russian forest is L.M. Leonov?
show Answer: Mixed forest
On March 10, at the headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society, Dmitry Peskov spoke not as a press secretary of the President of Russia, but as chairman of the Media Council of the Russian Geographical Society. And he wasn't talking about politics. Although the topic was no less important - the knowledge of the Russians of their homeland. Together with the First Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society Nikolai Kasimov and the President of the Interregional Association of Teachers of Geography Alexander Lobzhanidze, Dmitry Peskov spoke about the results of the first All-Russian geographical dictation. On November 1, 2015, at the initiative of Vladimir Putin, this action took place in all 85 subjects of the Federation. 71,929 people took part in it.
191 people wrote the dictation excellently. - said Dmitry Peskov. - Most of the people who received 100 points are in Moscow - 34 people. The rest of the excellent students from the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia and the Tyumen region.
Speaking in general, participants from the Urals and Northwestern federal districts coped best with the tasks.
Approximately every second person completed the tasks. Moreover, most of the mistakes were in questions that required the practical application of geographical knowledge.
Experts have noticed that the younger generation knows geography worse than those who studied it before 2000. To remedy the situation, three steps are needed: increasing the number of hours for geography in school, popularizing this science through books and school trips, and attracting young geographers to teach.
There is a fourth step, which is already being implemented. In order to raise the level of knowledge, the Russian Geographical Society decided to conduct a geographical dictation every year, and experts even put forward the idea of creating a single textbook.
It is more difficult to create a unified view of history, but it is possible to create a unified view of geography, - Nikolai Kasimov noted.
The next All-Russian geographical dictation will be held in autumn 2016 and Dmitry Peskov wished success to its future participants:
Everyone who decides to test their knowledge is already a winner, - says the Chairman of the Media Council of the Russian Geographical Society. - This means that a person is interested in the geography of his country and wants to learn something new.
BY THE WAY
Dmitry Peskov on the results of the All-Russian geographical dictation.
Dmitry Peskov also spoke about the launch of 16 regional grant projects of the Russian Geographical Society. Among them is the Komsomolskaya Pravda expedition to the Great Kureysky waterfall. Our group will have to measure this miracle of nature and confirm its status as the largest waterfall in Russia. And as part of this campaign, it is planned to install a memorial sign for Russian researchers in the polar regions of the Yenisei.
Previous KP expeditions in the framework of cooperation with the Russian Geographical Society ended with the creation of several films and books. By the way, the most recent of them is “Vitim. A Geographical Book about the Legendary Ugryum River” and “Charskaya Hollow - a Unique Geographical Region of Russia” have already arrived in specialized stores of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
CHECK YOURSELF
Questions from the All-Russian geographical dictation - 2015
1) What is the subject of the Russian Federation, within which is the wettest (according to the average annual precipitation) territory of Russia?
2) What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the tops of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the clock of his friend, resting on the Curonian Spit, 22 hours on May 31?
3) Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east: a) Neva; b) Don; c) Pechora; d) Volga.
Answers:
1) Krasnodar Territory
3) a) Neva; b) Don; d) Volga; c) Pechora.
About dictation
On November 1, 2015, for the first time in the Russian Federation, a large-scale educational campaign was held aimed at assessing the level of geographical literacy of the population - the first All-Russian geographical dictation. The initiator of its holding was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society Vladimir Putin, and the organizer was the Russian Geographical Society.
The dictation was held in all regions of our country, at 210 specially prepared venues.The leaders in the number of organized venues 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 participants in the dictation, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (7026 people), Moscow (3343 people), Tverskaya (1432 people) and Voronezh (1427 people) regions were in the lead. In a number of regions, attendance exceeded a thousand people.
How many people have written?
Everyone could take part in the dictation, regardless of age, education and field of activity.To write a dictation"offline" came to regional venues 44,365 people. Of these, 43,567 submitted their work for review. Another 27,564 people took the test online on the website of the Russian Geographical Society. Thus, the total number of participants in the dictation is about 72 thousand people.
Among them are people with a wide variety of education - from general primary to postgraduate with a degree. According to preliminary data, the largest group of participants were those with higher education, and the smallest were those with primary general education. Thus, the average level of education of the dictation participants turned out to be higher than the average for Russia.
Tasks
The dictation included 25 test tasks, which were divided into three blocks. The first consisted of assignments for 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 the knowledge of geographical descriptions.
One of the main principles of the action was anonymity. On the forms of tasks and answers it was possible not to indicate your name. Participants were asked to write only their age, occupation, attitude to geography (for example, student or teacher of a specialized university), and some other information. This information is necessary in order to assess and analyze the level of geographical knowledge of the inhabitants of our country.
Excellent students, good students, losers?
According to the organizers, it is too early to draw final conclusions based on the results of checking numerous works - experts are still engaged in analytics and summarize the results.
According to preliminary statistics, there are three main categories among the participants in the dictation: schoolchildren, students and working citizens - about 30% of them each. Other categories of the population accounted for less than 10%. It is very pleasant that the majority of participants in the dictation are young people who seek to test their knowledge, and in the future to improve their level.
It is interesting that students in grades 5–9 answered the questions in a completely different way than students in grades 10–11, while the answers of high school students differed little from the answers of adults. With regard to gender indicators of statistics, on average, the response score of men is two points higher than that of women.
The highest score that could be obtained for the dictation was 100 points, the lowest - 0. Unfortunately, 100-point results were not recorded in all regions, and the total number of works that deserved the highest score does not exceed 1%.
According to preliminary data, the average score for dictation in Russia is only 55 points, in school terminology.– it's a trio. It is even sadder that 48% of the participants of the action wrote a dictation below the average level, that is, they received a three with a minus or a two. And this is against the background 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 is being developed by the Russian Geographical Society together with the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
How to know your result?
To find out their personal result, the participants of the dictation who performed it "offline", can by a unique identification number obtained on the sites.
The participants of the dictation tell
Olga, student of a technical university, 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 basin, in which the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is produced! But the stupor on the question about the scale of the map unsettled me ( Ed.: We are talking about this question: "On a map with 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). Really ashamed to stumble on this! Now here I sit, refreshing 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 draw your attention to an important social aspect related to the distribution of printed questions to the participants of the dictation. It was this circumstance that allowed me, and possibly many other visually or hearing impaired people, to become participants in a 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 make out the words of a lecturer in the audience, which is why I do not participate in mass events. Before I got acquainted with the Regulations on face-to-face dictation, I considered only testing via the Internet a possible form of participation for myself. I received the news of the printed questions with delight. THANKS! This allowed me to take part in the dictation in person.
Andrey, schoolboy (11th grade), Moscow region
- I came to the dictation simply for the company of friends, but I didn’t regret it. I was hooked by a question about a climber with a watch, I couldn’t answer it. Came home, figured it out, and it was interesting ( Ed.: We are talking about this question: "What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when on the clock of his friend, resting on the shores of Peter the Great Bay, 5 o'clock in the morning on May 1?" Correct answer: 30 April 22 hours).
Alla, employee, Nizhny Novgorod
I didn't answer most of the questions...
Yuri, student of a humanitarian university, Moscow
– Difficulties were caused by questions concerning geographical concepts and phenomena. For example, a manifestation of a 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 a global scale, which is spread 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 noted in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.
(Correct answer: permafrost. Valid answer: permafrost)
Responses received: snow, flood, spills, northern lights, earthquakes, nuggets.
- Name the extreme northern mainland point of Russia.
(Correct answer: Cape Chelyuskin)
Answers received: Cape Severny, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Dezhnev, Cape Fligeli, Lomonosov Archipelago.
- What is the largest subject of the Russian Federation in terms of area, in which the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic language group lives?
(Correct answer: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Responses 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 (according to the average annual precipitation) territory in Russia is located.
(Correct answer: Greater Caucasus)
Answers received: Altai, Urals, Sayans, Scandinavian mountains, Sikhote-Alin, Khibiny. In dictation polls
3 option
1. nameglobal phenomenon,whichdistributed 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 noted in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.
2. What is the name ofhot springs, periodically ejecting fountains of hot water and steam,whichcommon in areas of volcanic activity, for example, on the Kamchatka Peninsula?
3. nameindicator that characterizes the number of inhabitants per 1 square kilometer of territory and determines the demographic andeconomic potentialscountriesor region.
4. What is the name ofthe process of urban growth and an increase in the proportion of the urban population?
5. On a map at a scale of 1:10,000, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance on the ground does this correspond to?
6. namethe 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. namethe biggestby area subject of the Russian Federation,whereinlives the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic language group.
9. namecity, locatedthin the Pacific Ocean,whereinThe Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is being produced.
10. namesubject of the Russianfederation,whereinidyoconstruction of the easternmost cosmodrome in Russia.
11. Name the city of the Russian Federation, in which, not far from the obelisk "Center of Asia" at the confluence of Biy-Khem and Ka-Khem, Yenisei begins.
12. namethe largest of the Siberian cities,located beyond the Arctic Circle, iscenterohmmining and smelting of copper and nickel.
13 . nameThe rocks are a UNESCO natural heritage site, locatedennse along the Lena River.
14. Name the highest active volcano in Russia.
15. Name the only river flowing from Lake 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 drainage basin of the Kara Sea:
A) Yakutsk; B) Irkutsk; D) Naryan-Mar; D) Magadan.
18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from north to south:A) the Republic of Kalmykia; B) Republic of Ingushetia; C) the Republic of Mari El; D) Republic of Karelia.
19. Name the mountain system within which the wettest (according to the average annual precipitation) territory in Russia is located.
20. What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when on the clock of his friend, who is resting on the shores of Peter the Great Bay, 5 am on May 1?
21. "In Kandalaksha dazzling mountains covered the horizon with snow domes. At the roadbed, the Niva River roared like a continuous waterfall with h yo clear clear water. Then Lake Imandra passed - not a lake, but a sea - yo in the blue ice yo by steps of blue and white mountains. Khibiny slowly went to the south with smoothed domes. What peninsula did Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky write about?
22. About this current millionaire city, Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak wrote:“In the motley environment of Russian cities ... is really a“ living knot ”... At the pass itself, two large rivers almost meet - the Iset and Chusovaya. It was at this point that Tatishchev outlined the future city ... The Iset River ... connected the actual mining region with the blessed [land] - a golden bottom, where forests, pastures and steppe Siberian black soil were widely scattered ” .
23. “Conversations and descriptions of Vaigach, which the Dutch call Nassava Strait, hearing 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 Dutch navigator mentioned by Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov?
24. “... our guys, ..., were flying at that moment on a small An-2 plane north of the New Siberian Islands, where there are points of the De Long Islands: Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, and Zhokhov Island are also there ... " (Oleg Mikhailovich Kuvaev). In which sea are the De Long Islands located?
25. “... this is a virgin and primeval forest, consisting of cedar, h yo rnoy b yo cuts , Amur fir, elm, poplar, Siberian spruce, Manchurian linden, Daurian larch, ash, Mongolian oak ... cork tree ... And all yo it got mixed up with vineyard, creepers and sultanas" . What kind of Russian forest is Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev writing about?
" Live" dictationt
On November 1, the inhabitants of Russia took part in the All-Russian geographical dictation. To conduct a unique educational campaign of the Russian Geographical Society, 220 sites were organized and three options for tasks were prepared, each of which consisted of 25 questions.
The main purpose of the action is to check how well the inhabitants of our country know their homeland. Not their region in which they live, but Russia as a whole. Therefore, the specialists compiled three different versions of questions for three groups of districts: residents of the Siberian and Ural federal districts answered the questions of the 1st option; Option 2 was prepared for the Far Eastern Federal District; and option 3 - for the rest of Russia's districts.
Each version of the task included questions that were not related to the place of residence of the participants in the dictation.
Another reason for preparing different versions of tasks was to exclude the possibility of cheating during the dictation. Since the dictation started across the country at 12:00 local time, residents of those regions that answered the questions first (due to the time difference) could post the correct answers on the Internet. Having prepared three variants of questions, the organizers of the dictation were able to keep the intrigue for all the inhabitants of Russia.
Today we bring to your attention not only the questions of the All-Russian geographical dictation, but also the correct answers to them!
We remind you that you can find out your result on December 10, 2015 on the website using the unique identification number that you received during the assignments. The works of Russians will be checked only by professional geographers.
1 option
1. What is the name of an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, to the north of which polar night and polar day are possible at 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 section of a sea or lake?
Answer: Delta
3. What is the name of a historically established stable group of people, united by language, religion and features of traditional culture?
Answer: ethnos
4. What is the name of the voluntary and long-term movement of the population from one area of the country to another?
Answer: migration
5. On a map with 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: river Oka
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 who profess Buddhism live?
Answer: Republic of Kalmykia
9. In this city on the Volga, the Niva car and most of the Russian Lada cars are produced.
Answer: Togliatti
10. In this subject of the Russian Federation, there is the northernmost of the operating spaceports in the world.
Answer: Arhangelsk region
11. Name the largest freshwater lake in the European part of Russia.
Answer: Ladoga lake
12. Name the hero city and the 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 that separates 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 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) the Republic of Adygea; B) the Udmurt Republic; D) Republic of Altai.
Answer: B) the Republic of Adygea; B) the Udmurt Republic; D) Republic of Altai; A) Kamchatka Territory
19. Name the subject of the Russian Federation, within which the wettest (according to the average annual precipitation) territory in Russia is located.
Answer: Krasnodar region
20. What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the clock of his friend, resting on the Curonian Spit, 22 hours on May 31.
Answer: Crimean peninsula. Possible answer: Crimea
Answer: Pyatigorsk
Answer: Barents Sea
Answer: in the Bering Sea
Answer: mixed forest
Option 2
1. What is the name of dark-colored soils rich in humus, formed in a temperate continental climate under steppe vegetation? In Russia, they are distributed in the south of the 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?
Answer: Cyclone
3. What is the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths in 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 ties?
Answer: urban agglomeration
5. On a map with 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: Mountain 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, which ranks first in the country in terms of oil production. In it, the Irtysh River flows into the Ob River.
Answer: Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
9. Name the city located at the confluence of two large Russian rivers, in which Gazelles are produced.
Answer: Nizhny Novgorod
10. Name the city located at the easternmost point of the Volga, in which Soyuz launch vehicles are manufactured.
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: city Novosibirsk
Answer:
Answer: B) Tver
Answer:
Answer: Black Sea
21. “Beginning somewhere right behind the Riphean ridge, ... the Chusovaya river cut through that ridge that the stale hump of bread is the only river that managed to overcome such a strong barrier - it rolled its stormy waters between the rocks-fighters, near the cliffs, through the rapids , shiver 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, elongated almost strictly along the meridian, and between the rocks there is, as it were, a huge and transparent stone, shimmering with cold light.” Which lake - the "pearl of Altai" - is described by S.P. Zalygin?
Answer: teletskoye lake
23. "His indefatigable hand brought military ships to the White, Azov, Varangian and Caspian Seas and showed Russian naval power to all neighboring 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. “Providence 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 black stone fingers sticking into the sky, the Sorcerer Mountain rises ... The Eskimos and the seaside Chukchi, seal hunters, settled here first of all ”(O. Kuvaev). What sea is this bay in?
Answer: In the Bering Sea
25. “Nothing in nature could be better; the entire surface of the earth seemed to be a green-golden ocean, over which millions of different colors splashed ... the wheat ear, brought in God knows where, poured into the thick ... In the sky, the hawks stood motionless, spreading their wings and motionlessly fixing their eyes on the grass ... ". What natural zone did N.V. Gogol?
Answer: steppes
3 option
Answer:
Answer: geyser
Answer: population density
Answer: urbanization
5. On a map with 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: The 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-Khe?ma and Ka-Khe?ma, the Yenisei begins.
Answer: Kyzyl
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.
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 drainage basin of the Kara Sea: 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) the Republic of Kalmykia; B) Republic of Ingushetia; C) the 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. What is the name of the mountain system within which the wettest (in terms of average annual precipitation) territory 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 on the clock of his friend, resting on the shores of Peter the Great Bay, 5 am on May 1?
21. “In Kandalaksha, dazzling mountains covered the horizon with snow domes. At the roadbed, the Niva River with black clear water roared like a continuous waterfall. Then Lake Imandra passed - not a lake, but a sea - all in blue ice, surrounded by steps of blue and white mountains. Khibiny slowly went to the south with smoothed domes. What peninsula did K.G. Paustovsky?
Answer: Kola Peninsula
22. About this current city-millionaire D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak wrote: “In the motley environment of Russian cities ... is really a“ living knot ”... 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 actual mining region with the blessed [land] - a golden bottom, where forests, pastures and steppe Siberian black soil were widely scattered.
Answer: Yekaterinburg city
23. “Conversations and descriptions of Vaigach, which the Dutch call Nassav Strait, hearing in Holland, many nobles zealously undertook to send another large parcel in order to pass 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?
Answer: Barents Sea
24. “... our guys, ..., were flying at that moment on a small An-2 plane north of the Novosibirsk Islands, where there are points 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 was mixed up with vineyards, lianas and sour." What kind of Russian forest is V.K. Arseniev?
Answer: Ussuri taiga
Online testing
For those who for some reason could not take part in the dictation at the RGS venues, 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 big educational campaign that we had been preparing for so long, so enthusiastically and seriously, acquired a different scenario. We, who are well aware that in recent years geography has been given in schools, delicately speaking, not the closest attention, and could not think that it is so in demand, and the number of people who want to evaluate their geographical literacy will many times exceed our expectations!
Unfortunately, the RGS server could not withstand such a load (which, in fairness, we note, happens with much larger, technically equipped organizations). On the one hand, it is, of course, very sad. But on the other...
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 "geographic call" that there is a genuine interest in geography in society did not let us give up. And he clearly showed that everything we do is not in vain.
In the end, the problem was solved, and those who were not indifferent to geography were able to write a dictation. In total, more than 27 thousand people took part in it.
Thanks to everyone who treated the current situation with understanding and patience and did not shy away from temporary difficulties!
Questions for the online test were combined from those tasks that were distributed to visitors to offline sites. We bring to your attention questions and answers online testing on.
Online option
1. Name the phenomenon of a global scale, which is spread 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 noted in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.
Answer: permafrost (permafrost)
2. What are the names of hot springs that periodically throw out 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 the country or region.
Answer: population density
4. What is the name of the process of urban growth and increase in the proportion of the urban population?
Answer: urbanization
5. On a map with a scale of 1:10,000, 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 extreme northern mainland point of Russia.
Answer: Cape Chelyuskin
8. What is the largest subject of the Russian Federation in terms of area, in which the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic language group lives?
Answer: The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
9. Name the city located in the Pacific Ocean, where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is manufactured.
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 subsoil of which contains the richest reserves of natural gas.
Answer: Yamal Peninsula
12. The largest seaport in southern Russia, located in this hero city, often suffers from strong cold winds that rapidly “fall” 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 in which the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Ob River.
Answer: city Novosibirsk
16. Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from east to west: A) Pechora; B) Taz; B) Kolyma; D) Angara.
Answer: C) Kolyma, D) Angara, B) Taz, A) Pechora
17. Select from the list a city that is located in the catchment area 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) the Chechen Republic; B) Kaliningrad region; C) 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 the 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 clock of his friend, who is resting on the Curonian Spit, 20:00 on June 12?
21. “For the first time I saw from the sea distance ... 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 aflame with rust, the snow-covered peaks of Chatyr-Dag and Ai-Petri were already visible. What peninsula did K.G. Paustovsky?
Answer: Crimean peninsula.
22. In what city did M.Yu. Lermontov? “The view from three sides is wonderful. 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 rustle, a multilingual crowd rustles, - and there, further, mountains are piled up like an amphitheater, bluer and foggier, and on the edge of the horizon stretches a silver chain of snowy peaks, starting with Kazbek and ending with the two-headed Elbrus ... ".
Answer: Pyatigorsk
23. “... In winter, the sea winds thaw, and from the mother earth they bring frosts with them, because in St. thaw breathe." Which sea M.V. Lomonosov calls Normansky?
Answer: Barents Sea
24. Anadyr depression. It is very flat, and Anadyr wags a huge boa constrictor along it ... “Anadyr is a yellow river,” - you can call the essay like that later. Tundra and lakes throughout the depression. It is difficult to understand what is more: either lakes or land” (O. Kuvaev). What sea does this river flow into?
Answer: in the Bering Sea
25. “Huge trees formed a green tent. And under it - dense thickets of hazel, bird cherry, honeysuckle, elderberry and other shrubs and small trees. In some places, a gloomy dark spruce forest has moved in. On the outskirts of the clearing, a large pine tree spread its branches, under the shade of which a young Christmas tree nestled ... And then again birches, poplar with its gray trunk, mountain ash, linden, the forest is getting thicker and darker. What kind of Russian forest is L.M. Leonov?
Answer: mixed forest
