Statistics for Russian cities: fun, strange and odd facts

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  • The average score is 9 of 15

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In 2024, a resident here was shocked to find a boa constrictor emerging from her toilet. This city was captured by Napoleon in 1812 and found to be deserted and ablaze.Moscow
85%
This is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle.Murmansk
85%
Due to starvation in the 1940s, residents of this metropolis ate all the cats, so it became plagued by rats. Later, cats were brought en masse from Siberia to tackle the infestation.St. Petersburg
85%
Lying on the river Lena, this Risk territory is the coldest major city in the world.Yakutsk
85%
Originally named Holmgård, this medieval powerhouse whose name means "new city" was a hub for fox and squirrel fur trading.Novgorod
77%
This tractor-making centre was called Tsaritsyn until 1925. It has a self-propelled floating church which navigates the river Volga.Volgograd
77%
Previously called Novgorod, and later Gorky, this major city has changed name three times.Nizhny Novgorod
62%
This muslim stronghold marks the furthest point which the Germans reached in WW2.Grozny
54%
The football club here, Anzhi, once had the world's highest-paid player.Makhachkala
54%
Another major stronghold of the past, this place was once part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Smolensk
54%
One of the Wombles characters takes his name from this male-sounding place in Siberia.Tomsk
38%
In 2018, a man in this Arctic town stole a tank and used it to ram-raid a shop to steal a bottle of wine.Apatity
31%
In 2004, authorities found a young boy from this Altai village who had been abandoned and then raised by wolves.Bespalovskoya
31%
The nuclear weapons stored near this large city are blessed by the Russian Orthodox church.Saratov
31%
Russian Tsar Boris Godunov once had the church bell of this town on the Volga removed, whipped in public then exiled to Siberia.Uglich
23%

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