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All-Russian geographical dictation 2015. Questions. Answers.
1. Name the phenomenon of a global scale, which is widespread on 60% of the territory of Russia. It is most widely represented in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia. Deepest the spread of this phenomenon (1370 m) is noted 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. What is the indicator that characterizes the number of inhabitants per 1 km2 of territory and determines the demographic and economic potentials country or region.
4. What is the name of the process of urban growth and the increase in the proportion of urban population?
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?
6. What is the oldest and deepest lake in the world, which contains 20% of all fresh water planets.
7. Name the extreme northern mainland point of Russia.
8. What is the largest subject in terms of area? Russian Federation, in which the most eastern of the peoples of the Turkic language group lives?
9. Name the city located in the basin The Pacific, which produces the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft.
10. Name the subject of the Russian Federation in which the construction of the easternmost cosmodrome in Russia is underway.
11. Name the city of the Russian Federation, in which the Yenisei begins at the confluence of Biy-Khem and Ka-Khem not far from the "Center of Asia" obelisk.
12. Name the largest Siberian city located in the Arctic Circle, it is the center of the mining and smelting of copper and nickel.
13. Name the rocks - a UNESCO natural heritage site, located along the Lena River.
14. What is the highest volcano in Russia?
15. Name the only river flowing from Lake Baikal.
16. Arrange the basins of the Russian rivers in the sequence corresponding to the direction from west to east: A) Khatanga; B) Indigirka; C) 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; E) Magadan.
18. Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in sequence from north to south: A) Republic of Kalmykia; B) the Republic of Ingushetia; C) Republic of Mari El; D) Republic of Karelia.
19. Name the mountain system that contains the wettest (in terms of average annual precipitation) territory in Russia.
20. What is the date and time on the clock of a tourist climbing to the top of Elbrus, when his friend, who is resting on the shores of Peter the Great Bay, is on the clock at 5 am on May 1?
21. “In Kandalaksha, dazzling mountains covered the horizon with snow domes. Near the roadbed, the Niva River with black transparent water roared like a continuous waterfall. Then Lake Imandra passed - not a lake, but the sea - all in blue ice, surrounded by steps of blue and white mountains. The Khibiny slowly left to the south in flattened domes ”. What peninsula did K.G. Paustovsky?
22. About this current city-millionaire D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak wrote: “In the motley environment of Russian cities… it is really a“ living knot ”… At the pass itself, there are almost two large rivers - 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] - the golden bottom, where forests, pastures and the steppe Siberian black soil were widely spread. "
23. “The conversations and description of Vaigach, which the Dutch call the Nassav Strait, when they heard in Holland, many noblemen zealously ventured to send another large parcel to go to China and India ... ". Which geographic feature bears the name of the aforementioned M.V. Lomonosov of the Dutch navigator?
24. “... Our guys ... were flying at that moment on a small plane An-2 north of the Novosibirsk Islands, where there are points of the De Long Islands: Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, and Zhokhov Island is also there ...” (OM 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 was mixed up with vineyards, lianas and raisins ". What kind of forest in Russia does V.K. Arseniev
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 Tuva;
12. the city of Norilsk;
13. Lena Pillars;
14. Klyuchevskaya volcano as part of Klyuchevskaya Sopka - 4850 m;
15.the Angara river; 16. Onega-Nadym-Khatanga-Indigirka;
17. Irkutsk;
18. Karelia-Mari-El-Kalmykia-Ingushetia;
19. Northwest Caucasus;
21. Kola Peninsula;
22. Yekaterinburg,
23. Barents Sea;
24. East Siberian Sea;
25. Far Eastern Ussuri taiga
So, on November 20, 2016, the All-Russian Geographical Dictation-2016, organized by the Russian Geographical Society, took place throughout the country. This year, the number of participants who have been tested in absentia is about 95 thousand people. This is more than 3 times the number of participants in the 2015 online dictation.
For those who wanted to take part in the educational action in person, on November 20 at 12:00 local time in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, sites were organized in universities, schools, libraries, research institutes, children's centers and other institutions.
So, a total of 94,947 people from different regions of our country took part in the online dictation.
Of them highest mark(100) received 329 people (0.35% of the number of those who wrote online dictation). Congratulations!
4,838 people (5.1% of the number of those who wrote online dictation) scored 90–99 points.
10,052 people (10.59%) wrote a dictation with 80–89 points.
13 616 people (14.34) wrote to 70-79.
The average rating of those who wrote the dictation online is 60–69 points (the majority of its participants passed the test for this rating - 15,578 people - 16.41%).
15 149 people wrote with 50-59 points (15.96%).
13,024 people wrote with 40-49 points (13.72%).
9,828 people wrote with 30-39 points (10.35%).
6,770 people wrote 20-29 points (7.13).
3,557 people wrote 10-19 points (3.75%).
The smallest number of points, from 1 to 9, was scored by 1,484 people (1.56%).
True, there were those who did not answer any question and received, respectively, 0 points - there are 722 people (0.76%).
Russian geographic society Congratulations to everyone who took part in the dictation for their genuine interest in geography, and to everyone who helped spread information about the event!
Well, to everyone who, for some reason, could not participate in writing the dictation, but is interested in geography, and wants to test themselves - we offer questions and correct answers of the second All-Russian Geographical Dictation-2016 - options for those who wrote the dictation "in person" on the sites of their city, and for those who wrote the geographic dictation on the Internet online.
To obtain the result, you must use the unique identification number assigned to you when registering at the regional dictation site.
The maximum score is 100 points.
Option I
1. Determine a point on the earth's surface, in relation to which the entire territory of Russia is located strictly in the south.
Answer: North Pole
2. What are the names of steady winds that change direction twice a year and largely determine the climate Of the Far East Russia?
Answer: Monsoons
3. Name one of the types of large rural settlements in the Cossack regions North Caucasus, South Urals and Siberia.
Answer: Stanitsa
4. What is the name of the set of processes of physical and chemical destruction of rocks under the influence of temperature fluctuations, freeze-thaw cycles and chemical attack water, atmospheric gases and organisms?
Answer: Weathering
5. Indicate the correct combination of natural zones and soils found on the territory of the Southern Federal District:
A) humid subtropics - yellow soils; B) mountain meadows - sierozem;
C) dry steppes - brown soils.
Answer: A) humid subtropics - yellow soils
6. Select from the list the object with the highest water salinity: A) Caspian Sea; B) the Kara Sea; C) Lake Elton; D) Lake Ilmen.
Answer: C) Lake Elton
Answer: Source (key, spring)
8. Arrange mountain systems ascending their maximum absolute height: A) Khibiny; B) Altai; C) Western Sayan; D) Sikhote-Alin.
Answer: A-D-B-B
9. Name the indigenous mountain people of the Caucasus, whose population on the territory of Russia is about 470 thousand people, living mainly in the south of Dagestan, who became famous for the dances widespread in the Caucasus.
Answer: Lezgins
10. Name one of the traditional Russian centers ceramics, where the famous white-cobalt tableware is produced, which has become the same symbol of Russia as the balalaika and matryoshka. Mikhail Lomonosov spoke highly of the quality of the clays mined here.
Answer: Gzhel
11. What are the names of the clouds of vertical development, which are associated with heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, hail, squally wind?
Answer: Cumulonimbus (counts cumulus)
12. Name the natural zone of Russia where cloudberries and dwarf birches grow, lemming and reindeer live.
Answer: Tundra, forest-tundra
13. Arrange settlements in the direction from north to south: A) Syktyvkar; B) Ufa; C) Arkhangelsk; D) Perm.
Answer: C – A – D – B
14. Name the extreme mainland point of Russia, which is located in the Western Hemisphere.
Answer: Cape Dezhnev
15. Choose from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight: Petrozavodsk, Vorkuta, Veliky Ustyug, St. Petersburg.
Answer: Vorkuta
16. The distance in a straight line from the Botik of Peter I near Pereslavl-Zalessky to the Museum of Gramophones and Records is 200 meters. What will it equal on a 1: 100,000 scale map? Give the answer in centimeters.
Answer: 0.2 cm.
17. Select the subject of the Russian Federation, within which there are territories with a subtropical climate:
A) Rostov region; B) Krasnodar Territory; C) Astrakhan region; D) Stavropol Territory.
Answer: B) Krasnodar Territory
18. Name a large river in Russia, a tributary of the Volga, on the banks of which the hero Ilya Muromets and the poet Sergei Yesenin were born.
Answer: Oka
19. Indicate in which city from the list the sunrise comes before the others in the summer: A) Bryansk; B) Lipetsk; C) Samara; D) Penza.
Answer: C) Samara
20. Name the subject of the Russian Federation in which the day ends 2 hours later than in Astrakhan and Samara.
Answer: Kaliningrad region
21. Select from the list and indicate the river, the lower reaches of which are shown on the satellite image: A) Ob; B) Don; C) Pechora; D) Volga.
Answer: B) Don
22. Name one of the oldest cities in Russia, a hero city located at the western borders of the country on the banks of the Dnieper.
Answer: Smolensk
23. Name the shallowest sea in Russia, its average depth is 8 meters, the largest is 15 meters, and the area is 11 times less than the Black Sea.
Answer: Azov
24. Select from the list a couple of objects that are not geographically related to each other: A) Onega River - Lake Onega; B) the Okhota River - the Sea of Okhotsk; C) the Chukotka Peninsula - the Chukchi Sea; D) Lake Taimyr - Taimyr Peninsula.
Answer: A) Onega river - Lake Onega
25. Name one of the oldest cities in Russia, founded on the Volga River in the XI century, which is included in the tourist route "The Golden Ring of Russia". His coat of arms depicts a bear with an ax.
Answer: Yaroslavl
26. “The surroundings ... are characterized by miserable vegetation. Bora maims and kills everything. Only dry grass and bushes of a thorny tree can survive ... The first gusts of wind hit the decks of ships ... The wind quickly gains full strength, and in two or three hours a fierce hurricane is already gushing from the mountains to the bay and the city. It raises water in the bay and carries it to houses with showers ... Bora blows when the sky is clear. In winter, it is always accompanied by a hard frost. Ships turn into blocks of ice. Ice, breaking off the tackle, cripples and kills sailors ... ".
About the outskirts of what Russian city did Konstantin Paustovsky write about?
Answer: Novorossiysk
27. Learn the city - the regional center of Russia by the lines from its anthem:
“When the sun wakes up over the Northern Dvina
And fogs will fall on the forests as dew,
... will smile at us broadly
And it will conquer with its discreet northern beauty ”.
Answer: Arkhangelsk
28. Name the river to which Mikhail Lermontov's poem is dedicated:
“His cry is like a storm,
Tears are splashing.
But, scattering across the steppe,
He assumed the form of the crafty one
And, affectionately caressing,
Murmurs to the Caspian Sea ”.
Answer: Terek
29. Name the city of Russia about which the song is sung:
“There is a native city on the Volga,
Baptized with fire and sword
The whole world flew around, the whole world went around
Answer: Volgograd
30. Name the traveler depicted on the postage stamp, whose name was given to the sea, first described in detail during the expedition on the boat "St. Gabriel".
Answer: Vitus Bering
Option II
1. What is the name of the conventional line dividing the surface of the globe into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Answer: Equator
2. What is the name of the area of high atmospheric pressure, with the formation of which in winter in many cities of Siberia is associated with dry frosty weather and temperature inversion in the surface layer?
Answer: Anticyclone
3. What is the name of a small settlement, consisting of a separate peasant farmstead with a separate farm? In the southern regions of Russia, this was the name given to settlements located outside villages and stanitsas, regardless of the number of households.
Answer: Khutor
4. What are the names of positive landforms formed under the influence of wind on the sandy shores of lakes and seas? In Russia, the highest of them are located on the territory of Dagestan and the Kaliningrad region.
Answer: Dunes
5. Choose a combination of natural zones and soils that is correct for the Siberian region: A) coniferous forests - gray soils; B) forest-steppe - chernozems; C) tundra - yellow soil.
Answer: B) forest-steppe - chernozems;
6. Select from the list the object with the highest water salinity: A) Lake Chany; B) the Kara Sea; C) Lake Baskunchak; D) Kulundinskoe lake.
Answer: C) Lake Baskunchak
7. What does this conventional sign, which is often found on topographic maps Western Siberia?
Answer: Swamp (impassable and impassable)
8. Arrange mountain systems in descending order of their maximum absolute height: A) Ural; B) the Caucasus; C) Altai; D) Eastern Sayan.
Answer: B-C-D-A
9. Name the people, the number of which on the territory of Russia is about 500 thousand people, living mainly in the republic in the south of Eastern Siberia, as well as in the Irkutsk region and the Trans-Baikal Territory. The spiritual center of the Buddhists of Russia is located in this republic.
Answer: Buryats
10. This folk craft originated in the Urals in the 19th century and represents artistic cast iron, usually covered with black paint of a special recipe - the so-called "Dutch soot". Name the city in Chelyabinsk region where this plant of architectural and artistic casting is located.
Answer: Kasli
11. What is the name of the solid atmospheric precipitation that can cause significant damage to agriculture?
Answer: Hail
12. Name the natural zone in Russia where feather grass and fescue grow, marmot and saiga live.
Answer: Steppe, semi-desert, temperate desert
13. Place the settlements in the direction from the most northern to the most southern: A) Salekhard; B) Dudinka; C) Yekaterinburg; D) Omsk.
Answer: B-A-C-D
14. In which federal district is the northernmost mainland point of Russia located?
Answer: Siberian
15. Select from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight: Yekaterinburg, Ulan-Ude, Verkhoyansk, Volgograd.
Answer: Verkhoyansk
16. Distance in a straight line from the monument to V.I. Chapaev in the city of Samara to the Time Capsule with a message to the descendants of 2057 is 280 meters. What will it be equal to on a map with a scale of 1: 10,000? Give the answer in centimeters.
Answer: 2.8 cm
17. Select the subject of the Russian Federation, which is characterized by a temperate monsoon climate: A) Irkutsk region; B) Primorsky Territory; V) Krasnoyarsk region; D) Republic of Khakassia.
Answer: B) Primorsky Territory
18. Name one of the largest rivers in Russia and the world, in the upper reaches of which camels live, and in the lower reaches - polar bears. Its main right tributary is notable for its abundant water and great hydropower potential, a cascade of large hydroelectric power plants has been built on it, poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dedicated his poem "Depth" to it.
Answer: Yenisei
19. Indicate in which city from the list the sunrise comes first: A) Tomsk; B) Chelyabinsk; C) Tyumen; D) Kazan.
Answer: A) Tomsk
20. Name a large constituent entity of the Russian Federation, partially located beyond the Arctic Circle, where the time differs from Moscow by 4 hours.
Answer: Krasnoyarsk region
21. Select from the list and indicate the river, the lower reaches of which are shown on the satellite image: A) Ural; B) Cupid; C) Lena; D) Volga.
Answer: C) Lena
22. Name the hero city, on the territory of which there are the remains of an ancient Greek settlement that existed for two thousand years until the end of the 14th century, included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Answer: Sevastopol
23. The Valley of Geysers is located on the territory of this peninsula. The temperature of the water in the geysers is from plus 94 to plus 99 ° C, the duration of the eruption of water is from 1 to 20 minutes. Name the peninsula.
Answer: Kamchatka
24. Select from the list a couple of objects that are not geographically related to each other: A) Kamchatka River - Kamchatka Peninsula; B) Baltic Spit - Baltic Sea; C) Tatar Strait - Republic of Tatarstan; D) Okhota River - Sea of Okhotsk.
Answer: C) Tatar Strait - Republic of Tatarstan
25. Name a city in the Moscow region, included in the tourist route "The Golden Ring of Russia", where the Trinity-Sergius Lavra is located.
Answer: Sergiev Posad
26. “This island is mountainous, long and narrow; to the west ... it descends more gently and presents many glades among the sparse forest, while to the east ... it drops off steeply and is covered with dense forest. Buryat settlements are scattered across the glades - small uluses and individual yurts; the small population of the island is engaged in cattle breeding and fishing. On the western shore, I visited the Shaman cave in the white marble of a rocky promontory. "
What island did Vladimir Obruchev write about?
Answer: O. Olkhon
“... The edge of earthly treasures is immense.
Through the dawn mist
The volcano is smoking again
And the ocean calls the fishermen ...
... The Day of Russia starts here ... ".
Answer: Kamchatka Krai
28. “January 1920 ended. The storm splashed against the windows of the low port buildings. Heavy rain rustled through the streets of Petrovsk. The mountains were smoking. To the north from Petrovsk to Astrakhan, the sea lay under ice ”(Konstantin Paustovsky).
In 1921 Petrovsk was renamed. State the current name of this city.
Answer: Makhachkala
29. Name the city to which the poem by Vladimir Zhukov is dedicated:
"Golden bunches streams
The shine of lights at the khan's palace,
But he can't sleep at midnight.
There legends flow endlessly.
And the fountain of love and tears flows,
Enchanting the heart with beauty ...
And tears flow from bowl to bowl
For so many years on cold marble
And there are two fragrant roses,
Without losing the original color ... ".
Answer: Bakhchisarai
30. Name the traveler depicted on the envelope, one of the most famous explorers of Central Asia (China, Mongolia, Tibet), after whom the subspecies of the wild horse is named.
Answer: N.M. Przhevalsky
III option
1. What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, connecting the North Pole with the South Pole, according to different sides which local time differs by a day?
Answer: Date line
2. Name the type of tropical cyclone, which is translated from Japanese as "strong wind", is characterized by very low pressure in the central part and at times seriously complicates life in the settlements of Primorsky and Kamchatka territories.
Answer: Typhoon
3. Indicate which power plants (thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plants or others) account for about 70% of electricity generation in Russia.
Answer: TPP (thermal)
4. What name unites hills and mountains with rounded peaks in Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East and the Kola Peninsula?
Answer: Sopka
5. Choose a combination of natural zones and soils that is correct for the Russian Far East: A) coniferous forests - brown soils; B) dwarf cedar - red soil; C) mountain tundra - yellow soil.
Answer: A) coniferous forests - brown soils;
6. Select from the list the object with the highest water salinity: A) Lake Khanka; B) Sea of Japan; C) Lake Baikal; D) Bering Sea.
Answer: B) Sea of Japan
7. What does this symbol mean on topographic maps?
Answer: Meadow (meadow, herbaceous vegetation, forbs)
8. Arrange the mountain systems in descending order of their maximum absolute height: A) Crimean mountains; B) the Caucasus; C) Sikhote-Alin; D) the mountains of Kamchatka.
Answer: B-G-B-A
9. Name a nation of about 1.5 thousand people living in the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories in the mountain taiga and along large rivers, whose traditional occupations are fishing and hunting. The researcher of the Far East Vladimir Arsenyev, in his books “Across the Ussuriyskiy Kray” and “Dersu Uzala”, has remarkably described the nature of the region and the life of this people.
Answer: Udege
10. This folk craft originated in the Urals in the 18th century and is represented by the production of warm goat down scarves. The quality of these thin scarves is checked by two parameters: whether the scarf passes through the wedding ring and whether it fits in a goose egg. Name the city where this trade operates.
Answer: Orenburg
11. What are the names of water droplets deposited from moist air on the surface of plants and soil when they cool at night and early morning hours?
Answer: Dew
12. Name the natural zone of Russia, where larch and spruce grow, wolverine and crossbill live.
Answer: Taiga
13. Place the settlements in the direction from north to south: A) Yakutsk; B) Moscow; C) Anadyr; D) Tiksi.
Answer: G-B-A-B
14. In which subject of the Russian Federation is the most east point Russia?
Answer: Chukotka Autonomous District
15. Choose from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight: Okhotsk, Khabarovsk, Dudinka, Magadan.
Answer: Dudinka
16. The distance in a straight line from the Pagoda of Seven Days in the city of Elista to the Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni is 1100 m. What will it be on a map of scale 1: 50 000? Give the answer in centimeters.
Answer: 2.2 cm
17. Select from the list the subject of the Russian Federation, where there is a subtropical Mediterranean climate: A) Republic of Kalmykia, B) Republic of Crimea; C) Republic of Mordovia; D) Primorsky Territory.
Answer: B) Republic of Crimea
18. Name the river of Russia, which is the main transport artery of the largest subject of the Russian Federation in terms of area. Permafrost is widespread in its drainage basin, and in the middle reaches there is a unique complex of rock formations, which in 2012 was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Answer: Lena
19. Indicate in which city from the list the dawn comes earlier than others: A) Yekaterinburg; B) Chita; C) Tyumen; D) Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Answer: D) Komsomolsk-on-Amur
20. Name the subjects of the Russian Federation, where the time differs from Moscow by 9 o'clock.
Answer: Kamchatka Territory, Chukotka Autonomous District
21. Select from the list and indicate the river, the lower reaches of which are shown on the satellite image: A) Ural; B) Cupid; C) Lena; D) Yenisei.
Answer: B) Cupid
22. Name the hero city of Russia, famous for its gunsmiths, samovars and gingerbread.
Answer: Tula
23. What is the largest sea in terms of area, washing the shores of Russia? Its area is 2.3 million square kilometers, and the maximum depth is 5.5 thousand meters. It received its modern name in the 19th century, and on earlier maps it was called Bobrov. The southern border of the sea runs along a chain of islands.
Answer: Beringovo
24. Select from the list a pair of objects that are not geographically related to each other: A) Baltic Spit - Baltic Sea; B) the city of Krymsk - the Republic of Crimea; C) Altai Mountains - Altai Republic; D) Bering Island - Bering Sea.
Answer: B) the city of Krymsk - the Republic of Crimea
25. Name a city in the Yaroslavl region, located on the shore of Lake Pleshcheevo and included in the tourist route "The Golden Ring of Russia".
Answer: Pereslavl-Zalessky
26. “Geologist Chersky believed that this lake is very ancient - a remnant of the Silurian sea. But new studies have shown that, on the contrary, it is very young and in its modern form did not arise earlier than modern geological period, although the depression had already begun to form in the Jurassic period. In the last chapter I talked about young movements. crust that caused the formation of the Tunkinskaya valley and the contrast between the relief forms of its sides - the Khamar-Daban and the Tunkinsky Alps. The depression ... was created by the same young movements, the evidence of which is distributed over a long distance from the middle of the Khangai Highlands in the Mongolian People's Republic to the Uchura River on the Aldan plateau, that is, over 2,400 miles. "
What lake does Vladimir Obruchev write about?
Answer: Baikal
27. Find out the subject of the Russian Federation by the lines from its anthem:
“You see: the lights are burning in the night,
The starry sky fell to the ground.
Can you hear: the melody is ringing,
The land to the east of the Urals sings.
Where are the cities along the banks of the river
Heat and light create reserves,
It was mined in the mine -
Working melody of Kuzbass ".
Answer: Kemerovo region
28. Which subject of the Russian Federation is the poetry of Irina Larina dedicated to?
“The endless coastal line,
meeting the sun, whispering with the wave.
Ginseng, lemongrass ... beckon to the hills of the region,
and the wind whirls - in an unearthly dance.
A tangerine hides in the lake surface
your unusual rainbow outfit,
and a path has been trodden to the lotus,
and the cringing of a crane out of place. "
Answer: Primorsky Krai
29. “... How long I listened to this noise,
When the sunset flame burned in the darkness!
I sat on a stone facing the river
And everything looked, thoughtful and gloomy,
Like past towers, idols, tombs
The Katun rushed in a wide avalanche,
And someone with the ancient cuneiform of birds
I wrote down her epic melody ... ".
What source large river is the Katun, described in a poem by Nikolai Rubtsov?
Answer: Ob
30. The discovery of which geographic object became famous for Admiral Mikhail Lazarev, a Russian naval commander and seafarer, commander of the Black Sea Fleet and an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society, depicted on a postage stamp?
Answer:Antarctica
Questions and answers of geographic dictation on the Internet (dictation online)
1. What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the globe, connecting the North and South Poles by the shortest distance?
Answer: Meridian
2. What is the name of the interface between warm and cold air masses in the lower part of the atmosphere?
Answer: Atmospheric front
3. What is the name of the city located near more big city and gravitating towards him in economic and cultural terms?
Answer: Satellite
4. What is the name of the part of the river valley that is flooded during high water or during floods?
Answer: Floodplain
5. Indicate the combination of natural zones and soils typical for the territory of the Central Federal District:
A) forest-steppe - red soil; B) northern taiga - brown soils; C) mixed forests - sod-podzolic soils.
Answer: C) mixed forests - sod-podzolic soils
6. Select the object with the lowest water salinity from the list:
A) Sivash Bay;
B) White Sea;
C) Gulf of Finland;
D) Black Sea.
Answer: C) Gulf of Finland
7. What does this symbol mean on topographic maps?
Answer: Shrubs
8. Arrange mountain systems in descending order of their maximum altitude (insert numbers):
2) the Caucasus;
3) Sikhote-Alin;
4) Khibiny.
Answer: 2-1-3-4
9. The name of this people of Russia is translated as “ real man", And the outdated name is Samoyed. The population in Russia is about 45 thousand people, most of them live along the coast of the Northern Arctic Ocean from the Kola Peninsula to Taimyr. The main occupations are reindeer husbandry, fishing, hunting. The name of the people is present in the names of two constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Name the people.
Answer: Nenets
10. This folk craft is called a village in the Moscow region, where it originated in early XIX century. Traditional handicrafts are metal trays painted with oil paints, usually with a pattern of a flower bouquet. Name the trade.
Answer: Zhostovo
11. What is the name of solid atmospheric precipitation that forms on the surface of the earth and plants at negative soil temperatures, little cloudy skies and weak winds?
Answer: Frost
12. Name the natural zone of Russia where oak and hazel grow, oriole and wild boar live.
Answer: deciduous forests (mixed and deciduous forests)
13. Arrange the settlements in the direction from north to south:
A) Vologda;
B) Salekhard;
C) Khabarovsk;
Novosibirsk city.
Answer: B-A-D-C
14. Name the archipelago, which is the northernmost insular territory of Russia.
Answer: Franz Josef Land Archipelago
15. Select from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight:
Syktyvkar, Murmansk, Omsk, Tomsk.
Answer: Murmansk
16. The Novgorod Kremlin and the Church of Peter and Paul on Sinichya Gora are included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The distance between them in a straight line is 1.5 kilometers. What will it be equal to on a 1: 50,000 scale map? Give the answer in centimeters.
Answer: 3 cm.
17. Select from the list the subject of the Russian Federation, a significant part of which is located in the subarctic climate:
A) Republic of Karelia;
B) the Republic of Tatarstan;
C) Tyumen region;
D) Perm Territory
Answer: C) Tyumen region
18. Name the tributary of the Ob River, which crosses two state borders before entering the territory of Russia.
Answer: Irtysh river
19. Indicate in which city from the list the sunrise comes first:
1) Yakutsk;
2) Okhotsk;
3) Khanty-Mansiysk;
4) Great Ustyug.
Answer: 2) Okhotsk
20. Name the subject of the Russian Federation, in which the time differs from Kamchatka by 10 hours.
Answer: Kaliningrad region
21. Select from the list the river, the lower reaches of which are shown in the satellite image:
C) Selenga;
D) Yenisei
Answer: C) Selenga
22. Name the hero city of Russia, one of the largest ports in the Black Sea, located on the shores of the Tsemesskaya Bay.
Answer: Novorossiysk
23. Name the sea washing the shores of Russia, which is characterized by the highest tides. The sea is rich in fish, seafood and hydrocarbons. Previously, it was called Kamchatka. In its southern part there is the Odessa Gulf and the Terpeniya Gulf.
Answer: Sea of Okhotsk
24. Select from the list a pair of objects that are not geographically related to each other:
A) Lake Taimyr - Taimyr Peninsula;
B) Bering Island - Bering Sea;
C) White Island - White Sea;
D) Kamchatka River - Kamchatka Peninsula.
Answer: C) White Island - White Sea
25. Name the city, the ancient capital of North-Eastern Russia, currently a regional center on the Klyazma River, included in the tourist route "The Golden Ring of Russia".
Answer: Vladimir
26. What natural zone does Vasily Dokuchaev write about:
“… It seems so densely occupied by some plant that nothing else, apparently, can fit here: now it becomes covered with purple spots, - this is the blooming of anemones, then whole meadows take on a blue azure color, - these are forget-me-nots; at other times you can find large areas, completely covered with fragrant thyme ... ".
Answer: Steppe
27. Get to know the city described in a poem by Alexander Severny:
This city is five centuries old
Stands on the edge of the banks
Border of snow, eternal ice,
The capital of rivers, forests, swamps.
Stands on the age-old path
Nobody can get around.
All ships met here
What went from the White Sea to the people.
I met Norwegians and Slavs,
Met the Dutch, the British
Varangians went to the last battle
And the Swedes are batted astern.
At the age-old by this river
The Pomors built the city ...
Answer: Arkhangelsk
28. “The great strategist set off with a rifle step along the mountain road leading around Mashuk to the place of the duel between Lermontov and Martynov, past sanatoriums and rest houses. Ostap, overtaken by buses and horse-drawn carriages, went to Proval ”(Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov).
The landmark of which city is the Failure mentioned in the passage?
Answer: Pyatigorsk
29. Name the territory described in the story of Konstantin Paustovsky:
“This land lies ... between Vladimir and Ryazan, not far from Moscow, and is one of the few surviving forest islands, a remnant of the“ great belt of coniferous forests ”. In the… region you can see forest lakes with dark water, vast swamps covered with alder and aspen. "
Answer: Meschera
30. Name the expedition that took place in 1937-1938, in which Ivan Papanin, Evgeny Fedorov, Ernst Krenkel and Pyotr Shirshov, depicted on a postage stamp, became famous.
Answer: Drifting station North Pole - 1
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I copied the questions. I want to show it to my geography teacher tomorrow. It is a pity that only one option has been prepared for the online dictation ... I tried it again: 65 b. I'll google the answers later, at my leisure. Below are the answers that helped me get my 49 b.
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1. What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the globe, connecting the North and South Poles by the shortest distance?
2. What is the name of the interface between warm and cold air masses in the lower part of the atmosphere?
3. What is the name of a city located near a larger city and gravitating towards it in economic and cultural terms?
She gave incorrect answers to the first three questions.
4. What is the name of the part of the river valley that is flooded during floods or floods? Answer: catch.
5. Specify the combination of natural zones and soils typical for the territory of the Central Federal District (just indicate the letter):
A) forest-steppe - red soil;
B) northern taiga - brown soils;
C) mixed forests - sod-podzolic soils.
Answer: B
6. Select from the list the object with the lowest water salinity (just indicate the letter):
A) Sivash Bay;
B) White Sea;
C) Gulf of Finland;
D) Black Sea.
7. What does this symbol mean on topographic maps?
Answer: shrubs.
8. Arrange mountain systems in descending order of their maximum altitude (fill in the numbers):
1) Altai; 2) the Caucasus; 3) Sikhote-Alin; 4) Khibiny.
9. The name of this people of Russia is translated as "real man", and the outdated name is Samoyed. The population in Russia is about 45 thousand people, most of them live along the coast of the Arctic Ocean from the Kola Peninsula to Taimyr. The main occupations are reindeer husbandry, fishing, hunting. The name of the people is present in the names of two constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Name the people.
Answer: Eskimos (I remembered the book by Jorn Riel "The Boy Who Wanted to Become Human", which I read last summer)
10. This folk craft is called a village in the Moscow region, where it originated at the beginning of the 19th century. Traditional handicrafts are metal trays painted with oil paints, usually with a pattern of a flower bouquet. Name the trade.
Answer: Zhostovo.
11. What is the name of solid atmospheric precipitation that forms on the surface of the earth and plants at negative soil temperatures, little cloudy skies and weak winds?
Answer: frost. (Perhaps frost, I admit it.)
12. Name the natural zone of Russia where oak and hazel grow, oriole and wild boar live.
Answer: forests.
13. Arrange the settlements in the direction from north to south (fill in the letters):
A) Vologda; B) Salekhard; C) Khabarovsk; Novosibirsk city.
14. Name the archipelago, which is the northernmost insular territory of Russia.
15.Choose from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight (just indicate the letter):
A) Syktyvkar; B) Murmansk; C) Omsk; D) Tomsk.
Answer: B.Continuation.
16. The Novgorod Kremlin and the Church of Peter and Paul on Sinichya Gora are included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The distance between them in a straight line is 1.5 kilometers. What will it be equal to on a 1: 50,000 scale map? Give the answer in centimeters.
Confused by the numbers ...
17.Choose from the list the subject of the Russian Federation, a significant part of which is located in the subarctic climate (just indicate the letter):
A) Republic of Karelia;
B) the Republic of Tatarstan;
C) Tyumen region;
D) Perm Territory.
Answer: A.
18. Name the tributary of the Ob River, which crosses two state borders before entering the territory of Russia.
19. Indicate in which city from the list the sunrise comes before the others (just indicate the letter):
A) Yakutsk;
B) Okhotsk;
C) Khanty-Mansiysk;
D) Great Ustyug.
20. Name the subject of the Russian Federation, in which the time differs from Kamchatka by 10 hours.
Answer: Kaliningrad.
21. Select from the list the river, the lower reaches of which are shown in the satellite image (just indicate the letter):
A) Volga;
B) Lena;
C) Selenga;
D) Yenisei.
I think the hardest question is ...
22. Name the hero city of Russia, one of the largest ports of the Black Sea, located on the shores of the Tsemesskaya Bay.
23. Name the sea washing the shores of Russia, which is characterized by the highest tides. The sea is rich in fish, seafood and hydrocarbons. Previously, it was called Kamchatka. In its southern part there is the Odessa Gulf and the Terpeniya Gulf.
Answer: Sea of Okhotsk.
24.Select a couple of objects from the list that are not geographically related to each other (just specify a letter):
A) Lake Taimyr - Taimyr Peninsula;
B) Bering Island - Bering Sea;
C) White Island - White Sea;
D) Kamchatka River - Kamchatka Peninsula.
Answer: V. (I have never heard of Bely Island, so I chose B).
25. Name the city, the ancient capital of North-Eastern Russia, currently a regional center on the Klyazma River, included in the tourist route "The Golden Ring of Russia".
26. What natural zone does Vasily Dokuchaev write about:
“… It seems so densely occupied by some plant that nothing else, apparently, can fit here: now it becomes covered with purple spots, - this is the blooming of anemones, then whole meadows take on a blue azure color, - these are forget-me-nots; at other times you can find large areas, completely covered with fragrant thyme ... ".
Answer: steppe.
27. Get to know the city described in a poem by Alexander Severny:
This city is five centuries old
Stands on the edge of the banks
Border of snow, eternal ice,
The capital of rivers, forests, swamps.
Stands on the age-old path
Nobody can get around.
All ships met here
What went from the White Sea to the people.
I met Norwegians and Slavs,
Met the Dutch, the British
Varangians went to the last battle
And the Swedes are batted astern.
At the age-old by this river
The Pomors built the city ...
Answer: Arkhangelsk.
28. “The great strategist set off with a rifle step along the mountain road leading around Mashuk to the place of the duel between Lermontov and Martynov, past sanatoriums and rest houses. Ostap, overtaken by buses and horse-drawn carriages, went to Proval ”(Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov). The landmark of which city is the Failure mentioned in the passage?
Answer: Pyatigorsk.
29. Name the territory described in the story of Konstantin Paustovsky:
“This land lies ... between Vladimir and Ryazan, not far from Moscow, and is one of the few surviving forest islands, a remnant of the“ great belt of coniferous forests ”. In the… region you can see forest lakes with dark water, vast swamps covered with alder and aspen. "
Answer: Meschera.
30. Name the expedition that took place in 1937-1938, in which Ivan Papanin, Evgeny Fedorov, Ernst Krenkel and Pyotr Shirshov, depicted on a postage stamp, became famous.
Answer: North Pole. (I confess, I did not know about such an expedition. Intuition did not disappoint me: I looked at the postage stamp in the assignment and decided that, perhaps, the North Pole. It turns out that I was right. heroes!)
Hello Natalia Borisovna!
49 points is also not bad! Maybe try to write another option? Again? Just for yourself, to remember ... Better yet, open a dictation online, google the answers, write them down in a notebook and learn the answers! Then that's exactly the benefit!
And me literary issues were given hard - you need to work on yourself))))
The dictation will take place in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, at specially prepared regional sites in universities, schools, libraries, research institutes, children's centers, etc.
As in 2015, the text of the dictation was compiled in three versions for the regions of the Far East, Siberia and Central Russia. The dictation questions will be devoted, first of all, to the geography of Russia.
All-Russian geographical dictation at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. Photo: Nikolay Razuvaev
Russian Geographical Society invites educational establishments, libraries, children's centers and other organizations to take part in this event as one of the regional platforms and provide an opportunity to write a dictation to everyone.
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The Russian Geographical Society will provide forms for writing a dictation (in electronic form), detailed instructions for conducting a dictation and filling out the forms; forms with dictation tasks (in electronic form), presentation materials for screening and a scenario plan for the dictation. Applications for participation as a regional platform should be sent to email [email protected]... The application must contain the following information:
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2) address;
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4) full name of the person in charge;
5) contact information (e-mail, telephone).
As a reminder, on November 1, 2015 in the Russian Federation for the first time took place a large-scale educational action aimed at assessing the level of geographical literacy of the population - the first All-Russian geographical dictation. It was initiated by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, Vladimir Putin, and the organizer was the Russian Geographical Society.
The average mark for dictation in Russia is only 55 points, in school terms, this is a three. It is even more sad that 48% of the protesters wrote a dictation below the average level, that is, they received a three with a minus or two.
The results of the dictation were taken into account by the Russian Geographical Society when preparing new Concept development geographic education, which is being developed by the Russian Geographical Society together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
On the whole, the results of the first Geographical Dictation indicate that Russians have a very mediocre knowledge of the geography of their country, while schoolchildren and students demonstrated a level of geographical knowledge below the national average.
Details on the website of the Russian Geographical Society: https://www.rgo.ru
Young people know geography worse than people over 40, found out in the Russian Geographical Society
ALL-RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHIC DICTANT - 2016 was held today in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
This is the second All-Russian Geographical Dictation. It took place at specially prepared sites in universities, schools, libraries, research institutes, and children's centers. Almost 1.7 thousand sites for everyone.
The dictation took place for the first time in 2015. It was initiated by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and the organizer was the Russian Geographical Society.
Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Geographical Society Ilya Gurov said that last year almost all young people wrote a dictation in two marks, that is, 48% of young guys scored less than 50 points, but people over forty who received their education back in the mid-1970s, scored 50-60 points.
The main building of the Moscow State University became the central platform for dictation in Moscow. M.V. Lomonosov, where the action was held by TV presenter Dmitry Guberniev. Famous scientists, TV presenters, athletes and public figures took part in the event.
President of the Russian Geographical Society, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also took part in the All-Russian Geographical Dictation.
He also added that one cannot prepare for such questions overnight.
The President of the Russian Geographical Society thanked the Rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy for the hospitality, as well as everyone who takes part in the dictation.
The dictation was compiled in three versions for the regions of Central Russia, Siberia and the Far East. Each of them includes 30 tasks, which are conventionally divided into three blocks. The first consists of questions on the knowledge of geographic concepts and terms; the second is aimed at testing knowledge about the location of geographic objects on the map; the third proposes to find out the geographical object by excerpts from works of art... The maximum score that can be obtained for a dictation is 100 points.
One of the main principles of the campaign is anonymity. On the forms of tasks and answers, you do not need to indicate your name. Participants were asked to write only age, occupation, attitude to geography (for example, a student or teacher of a specialized university) and some other information. This information is necessary in order to evaluate and analyze the results obtained.
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