All-Russian dictation on geography results. How to find out your result

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 these, 329 people received the highest score (100) (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 with 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 a single question and received, respectively, 0 points - there were 722 people (0.76%).

The Russian Geographical Society congratulates everyone who took part in the dictation for their genuine interest in geography, and 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, relative 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 to a large extent determine the climate of the Russian Far East?

Answer: Monsoons

3. Name one of the types of large rural settlements in the Cossack regions of the 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 action of 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 in ascending order of 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 in 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 ceramics centers where the famous white-cobalt tableware is produced, which has become the same symbol of Russia as the balalaika and matryoshka dolls. 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. Place the 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 most ancient 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 area of \u200b\u200bthe 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 \u200b\u200bOkhotsk; C) Chukotka Peninsula - 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. The ships turn into blocks of ice. Ice, breaking down from the gear, cripples and kills the 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 evil

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 "Saint 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 \u200b\u200bhigh atmospheric pressure, 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 of the settlements located outside the villages and stanitsas, regardless of the number of households.

Answer: Khutor

4. What are the names of positive landforms formed under the influence of the wind on the sandy shores of lakes and seas? In Russia, the highest of them are located in 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 of Western Siberia, mean?

Answer: Swamp (impassable and impassable)

8. Arrange mountain systems in descending order of their maximum absolute height: A) Urals; 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 Buddhists of Russia is located in this republic.

Answer: Buryats

10. This folk craft originated in the Urals in the 19th century and is an artistic cast from cast iron, usually covered with black paint of a special recipe - the so-called "Dutch soot". Name the city in the Chelyabinsk region where this architectural and artistic casting plant is located.

Answer: Kasli

11. What is the name of the solid atmospheric precipitation falling out in the warm season, which can cause significant damage to agriculture?

Answer: Hail

12. Name the natural area 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. Choose 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 equal on a 1: 10,000 scale map? Give the answer in centimeters.

Answer: 2.8 cm

17. Select the subject of the Russian Federation, which is characterized by a moderate monsoon climate: A) Irkutsk region; B) Primorsky Territory; C) Krasnoyarsk Territory; D) Republic of Khakassia.

Answer: B) Primorsky Territory

18. Name one of the largest rivers in Russia and the world, where camels live in the upper reaches and polar bears live in the lower reaches. Its main right tributary is notable for its abundant water and great hydropower potential, a cascade of large hydroelectric power stations 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 whose territory 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 \u200b\u200bOkhotsk.

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 villages 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: about. 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 of 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 hearts 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 wild horse subspecies is named.

Answer: N.M. Przhevalsky

III option

1. What is the name of the imaginary line on the Earth's surface, connecting the North Pole with the South Pole, on different sides of which the local time differs by a day?

Answer: Date line

2. Name a type of tropical cyclone, which is translated from Japanese as "strong wind", 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 Far East of Russia 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 \u200b\u200bJapan; C) Lake Baikal; D) Bering Sea.

Answer: B) Sea of \u200b\u200bJapan

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 regions in the mountain taiga and along large rivers, whose traditional occupations are fishing and hunting. The researcher of the Far East Vladimir Arseniev in his books "Across the Ussuri region" and "Dersu Uzala" 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 shawls from goat down. The quality of these thin scarves is checked by two parameters: whether the scarf goes 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 area of \u200b\u200bRussia, 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 eastern point of Russia located?

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 equal 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 region of the Russian Federation. In its drainage basin, permafrost is widespread, 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 the 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 - 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 - the 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 the modern geological period, although the depression began to be created in the Jurassic period. In the last chapter, I already spoke about the young movements of the earth's crust, which caused the formation of the Tunkinskaya valley and the contrast between the relief forms of its sides - the Khamar-Daban and the Tunkinskiy 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 sounds,

The land to the east of the Urals sings.

Where are the cities along the river banks

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 Irina Larina's poem devoted 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.

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 major river is the source of 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 a city located near a larger city and gravitating towards it in terms of economic and cultural life?

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 from the list the object with the lowest water salinity:

A) Sivash Bay;

B) White Sea;

C) the 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 ranges 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 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 subjects 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 the early 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, low-cloud 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. Earlier it was called Kamchatka. In its southern part there is the Odessa Bay and the Terpeniya Bay.

Answer: Okhotsk sea

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 grand 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 Fyodorov, Ernst Krenkel and Pyotr Shirshov, depicted on a postage stamp, became famous.

Answer: Drifting station North Pole - 1

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Almost 1,650 sites operated across the country at a time. At the same time, 32 sites operated in the neighboring Vladimir region, while in the Ryazan region there were two. The Yesenin Russian State University, as the main and only center of geographical science and education in the region, according to the number of applications, was preparing to accept up to a thousand applicants, turning the event into a real celebration of science, mobilizing a large staff of staff and volunteer students to organize the action. It was all the more interesting to learn the preliminary results of the analysis of the work. The bulk of the participants in the RSU were women - 61%, men were one and a half times less - 39%. The geography of the participants included the cities of Ryazan, Sasovo and Skopin, as well as Ryazan, Rybnovsky, Zakharovsky, Mikhailovsky, Skopinsky, Spassky, Aleksandro-Nevsky, Shilovsky, Shatsky, Starozhilovsky, Chuchkovsky and Saraevsky districts.

School students accounted for 74.2% (545 people), students - 7.8%, working - 14.1%, pensioners - 2.9%. Students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Russian State University were busy organizing the event, and already participated in the online version of the Dictation, which is why these figures were not included. The age profile revealed the following picture: under 10 years old - two participants, 10-18 years old - 81%, 19–25 years old - 3%, 26–35 years old - 2%, 36–53 years old - 8.5%, 54–65 years old - 3%, over 65 years old - 1.5%.

Alexey Vodorezov, head of the Department of Physical Geography of the Russian State University, commented on the answers of the Ryazan people to some of the questions of the dictation.

The very first question of the dictation demanded to give a name to a point on the map, in relation to which the entire territory of Russia lies in the south. The answers of Cape Chelyuskin, Taimyr, Franz Josef Land are not correct, as well as "north". The only correct answer - the North Pole - was given by 51% of Ryazan residents. The meaning of the question is that being at the North Pole, the direction in any direction is the direction to the south, the concepts of north, west and east disappear altogether.

When asked about the river on which Sergei Yesenin and Ilya Muromets were born, the correct answer - Oka - instead of the expected 100% was given only by 95% of the participants: others were indicated in the answers of the Yenisei, Ob and Volga rivers.

A high percentage of correct answers - 81% - was given to the question about monsoons - winds of the Far East, which change direction twice a year.

More than 74% of Ryazan residents correctly indicated the natural zone where cloudberries and dwarf birch grow, reindeer and lemming live - the tundra zone (tundra and forest tundra). Some, however, inscribed taiga and steppe, and also confused the natural zone with a geographical zone, indicated the Arctic and Subarctic.

Undisputed interest in all thirteen involved classrooms of the university aroused the question of the people of Dagestan, numbering 470 thousand people, who became famous for the world famous dance. The answer forms included horsemen, "mountain people", Cossacks and Tuvans. Knowledgeable and sharp-witted - 45% of the participants - realized that by analogy with a gypsy girl and a polka, we are talking about the famous Lezginka - a folk dance of Lezgins.

The shallowest sea off the coast of Russia with a maximum depth of 15 meters is the Azov Sea, which was reflected in the responses of 70% of the participants. The mysterious city of the Golden Ring, known since the 11th century, with an armed bear on its coat of arms - Yaroslavl, as reported correctly by 52% of Ryazan residents. When choosing the most salty reservoir from the group of lakes Elton, Ilmen, Caspian and Azov seas, only 41% correctly pointed to the first - a natural storehouse of table salt in the Volgograd region, the ancient object of salt production - Lake Elton.

The analysis of the satellite image, in which it was proposed to recognize the river and choose a name from the four proposed, caused great difficulties. It required logic and observation. The picture looked like a mosaic of multi-colored rectangles - this is how arable land looks from a height, which immediately swept aside the options for the Ob and Pechora. The picture showed the mouth of the Don River at the confluence of the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. Only 40% of the participants answered this way.

Another question contained a picture: on a 1981 postage stamp with the inscription "300 years from the date of birth" there was a portrait of an adult man in a headdress; the question indicated that this was a navigator who glorified Russia on the Saint Gabriel boat. The answers of Columbus, Miklouho-Maclay and Barents were deliberately wrong. But 56% answered correctly, remembering Vitus Bering.

After checking the knowledge of depths, heights, dimensions and concepts, the participants got to the final group of questions, where excerpts from prose and poems of Russian classics contained a hint of a geographical object - a city or a river. The city on the Northern Dvina turned out to be Arkhangelsk (47% of correct answers), the image of the Terek River in Lermontov's lines turned out to be more complicated (36%). Well, the most difficult thing in the whole dictation turned out to be the image of the southern city, where the winter wind of the bora freezes ships into the ice and knocks the sailors off their feet. Only 30% of participants in the dictation gave the correct answer Novorossiysk.

An analysis of the results of the dictation will give an understanding of the gaps in the knowledge of Russians about the nature, resources, population and economic imbalances of the largest country in the world, which will make it possible to make adjustments to educational programs, think over a strategy for the development of school geographic education to form the personality of young Russians, patriots of their homeland, - summed up Alexey Vodorezov.

12.11.2016

II All-Russian Geographical Dictation

On November 20, 2016 at 12:00 (local time) the II All-Russian Geographical Dictation will take place.

Anyone wishing to take part in writing the Dictation can come to the 6th building of Irkutsk State University at the address: Irkutsk, st. Lermontov, 126 (1st floor - rooms 1, 10, 11, 14); transport stop "University".

Contact phone: 52-10-71.

To participate in the Dictation, you must:

• have an identity document to enter the university building;
• to receive a questionnaire and instructions for filling it out, as well as placing it in the classroom, approach 40-50 minutes before the start of the Dictation;
• with you to have writing materials (pens, pencils).

Dictation procedure

• Participation in the dictation is anonymous.
• Before the start of the Dictation, each participant receives in printed form two forms for writing the Dictation and oral instructions for filling it out.
• Each participant is assigned an individual identification number, which is entered into the form for writing a Dictation upon receipt. This number is also duplicated in the form of a voucher, which remains with the participant of the Dictation. According to it, the participant will be able to check his result on the website www.rgo.ru.

Dictation participants perform tasks personally, without outside help. It is forbidden to perform tasks collectively and / or with any outside help (including comments and answers to questions on the terms of tasks), to use books, the Internet and any other external sources of information, as well as any technical means of transferring and processing information, including means of mobile communication. In case of non-observance of this clause, the organizers of the Dictation reserve the right to exclude the violator and annul the results of his work.

The forms for writing the Dictation filled in by the participants and submitted for verification are scanned at the Regional sites, scanned copies of the forms are sent to the task verification center. The forms for writing the Dictation submitted for verification are not reviewed and are not returned to the participants of the Dictation. There is no appeal.

The results of writing the Dictation by individual participants (according to individual identification numbers), the correct answers to the Dictation tasks and analysis of typical mistakes are published on the website of the Russian Geographical Society www.rgo.ru no later than 45 days after the Dictation.

How do you know your result?

The participants of the dictation who performed it "offline" can find out their personal result by the unique identification number received at the sites.

We bring to your attention the questions of the All-Russian Geographical Dictation and the correct answers to them!

About dictation

We remind you that an educational action aimed at testing the geographical literacy of Russians - the second All-Russian geographical dictation, took place on November 20, 2016.

1,700 institutions came up with the initiative to hold it. As a result, the dictation was organized at more than 1,500 venues. The Russian Geographical Society prepared three options for assignments, each of which consisted of 30 questions.

One of the main principles of the campaign was anonymity. On the forms of tasks and answers, it was possible not 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 assess and analyze the level of geographical knowledge of the inhabitants of our country.

The geographic dictation could be completed not only in person, but also online on the dictant website.

The first All-Russian Geographical Dictation was held on November 1, 2015. A large-scale educational action was aimed at assessing the level of geographical literacy of the population of the Russian Federation. It was initiated by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, Vladimir Putin, and the organizer was the Russian Geographical Society.

How many people have written?

Anyone could take part in the dictation, regardless of age, education and field of activity. As a preliminary analysis of the works shows, the number of male and female participants is almost the same. And the most active were young people aged 11-18.

The online dictation was written by about 95 thousand people, which is three times more than last year. According to preliminary data, the number of full-time participants in the action has almost doubled: about 85 thousand people passed the geographic test. The number of regional sites has grown more than 7 times.

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) became the absolute leader in the number of dictation writers. In second place is the Republic of Bashkortostan. Third place goes to Moscow. The capital is slightly inferior to the Voronezh region and St. Petersburg. The largest platform, where 1,771 people simultaneously wrote the dictation, operated at Voronezh State University.

Tasks

The dictation was compiled in three versions for the regions of Central Russia, Siberia and the Far East. Each task included 30 questions, which were conditionally divided into three blocks. The first consisted of questions on knowledge of geographic concepts and terms; the second was aimed at testing knowledge about the location of geographical objects on the map; the third offered to recognize the geographical object by fragments from works of art.

Among the questions that caused the least difficulty in the first version was the question of winds that change direction to the opposite twice a year and largely determine the climate of the Far East (monsoons). Also, most of the participants correctly answered the question about clouds of vertical development, which are associated with heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, hail, squally wind (cumulonimbus, cumulus). The most difficult question was to identify a pair of objects that are not geographically related to each other. Instead of the Onega River and Lake Onega (the river is located in the Arkhangelsk Region, its name is not associated with Lake Onega, and their water systems are not communicated), the choice fell on the Okhota River and the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk (the Okhota River flows through the territory of the Okhotsk region of the Khabarovsk Territory and flows into the Okhotsk sea). The question of knowledge of the geographical map, in which it was required to arrange mountain systems in ascending order of their maximum absolute height, was also not easy for many.

In the second version, almost everyone correctly named solid atmospheric precipitation that falls in the warm season (hail) and the conditional line dividing the surface of the globe into the Northern and Southern hemispheres (equator). Only a fourth of all the participants who wrote the second version were able to recognize the symbolic swamp sign found on topographic maps of Western Siberia.

Great difficulties arose over the name of the federal district, on the territory of which the northernmost mainland point of Russia (Siberian) is located.

For the third option, the most simple question was also from the block "geographical concepts", in which it was required to name the water droplets deposited on the surface of plants in the night and morning hours (dew). Most of the participants correctly answered the question about the subject of the Russian Federation, where there is a subtropical Mediterranean climate (the Republic of Crimea). The two most difficult questions related to the date line and the definition of the Udege people by description.

Estimates

According to preliminary data, the average score of the participants since last year, unfortunately, has not changed, and this is a three - 52 points out of 100.

The data will still be refined and corrected, and as of today, 413 people have scored 100 points out of all those who passed the dictation in person.

About 3.5 thousand participants received from 90 to 99 points.

Less than 30 points were scored by every fifth participant of the action.

We asked participants from different regions of our country to share their impressions of the large-scale educational campaign of the Russian Geographical Society.

Students

Schoolchildren from different cities of Russia shared their opinion about the dictation.

Alexander Tusikov, Moscow, gymnasium 1534, 6th grade:

- In general, I liked the dictation! I also wrote last year, this year he is even better. The questions were interesting, but I, of course, did not answer all of them. "

Elena Popova, Natasha Langman, Moscow, 7th grade:

- Some of the questions were easy, some quite difficult. The difficult question is where to define the city by description. But it seems to us that we did it!

Islam Batalov, 13 years old, Moscow, 7th grade student:

- I really enjoyed participating in the Geographic Dictation. It was difficult to answer questions related to mining. I am fond of geography and would like to take part in the dictation next year.

Kamilya Yanbulatova, Kuznetsk-12, Penza region, school named after A.N. Radischeva, 11th grade:

- The questions were at the level of the modern school curriculum, however, in order to answer them correctly, you need to study in more depth. In my opinion, the most difficult question was number 28, where it was necessary to name the river about which the poem by M.Yu. Lermontov. Here, at the same time, one must know well the literature. In general, the impression of the dictation is good.

Alena Radygina, Penza, Provincial Lyceum, 7th grade:

- The dictation was rather difficult, and I could not answer some questions. Some questions deviated from the school curriculum, but it seems to me, since we have not passed it yet. The difficult questions were those related to literature. "

Akhmetov Daniyar, schoolboy, Kurgan region:

I participate in the All-Russian Geographical Dictation for the first time. The dictation questions seemed average in terms of difficulty. I like to travel and this is largely due to my interest in geography. But alas, there is not enough time for long trips. Dictation is interesting for me, so maybe in the future I will connect my life with geography.

Geography teachers also took part in the dictation.

Vera Patrikovna, geography teacher, Moscow:

- I am writing the dictation for the second time. This year, in my opinion, it is no less interesting than last. Some questions are difficult to answer without a map. These are tasks where you need to arrange the soils in the required sequence. It is just wonderful that the questions of the dictation are complex: to answer them correctly, knowledge is required not only in the field of geography, but also in history and literature.

Natalya Alekseevna Rovinskaya, geography teacher at secondary school 38 in Crimea:

- I have come to write a dictation for the second year already. I learned about the dictation on the RGS website. I try to take part in all actions and competitions of the Russian Geographical Society and involve children in this. Every year I feel more and more interest of children in the study of Russian geography and geography in general ... Although I am a teacher with forty years of experience, I am always interested in testing my own knowledge.

Tatyana Koroleva, geographer, Kurgan region:

I took part in full-time writing of the All-Russian Geographical Dictation. Last year I wrote the dictation online on the Russian Geographical Society website. In my opinion, the level of questions this year was no less interesting than a year ago. Questions from different areas of geography. The most difficult question seemed to be about the city of Petrovsk, which was later renamed.

People of different ages and professions tested their knowledge.

Maxim Kolbasyuk, Sergeant of the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School:

- It was interesting to take part in such a dictation. Honestly, the questions did not cause any particular difficulties, almost 80%, I spent less time than expected. I hope I will show a decent result. "

Ruslan, smm manager, Moscow:
- I was confused by questions related to soils and peaks. The rest of the tasks this year were easier to answer than last.

Volunteers of the All-Russian Geographical Dictation about why they decided to take part in this action:

Anton Yurmanov, Moscow

- While studying at the Faculty of Geography, I take part in most of the projects of the Russian Geographical Society, where the help of volunteers is required. I could not help but take part in the work of the geographical dictation, especially on the main site - at my university, since it is extremely important to instill an interest in geography in people, even those who are far from it.

Olga Koroleva, Moscow

- Why did I become a volunteer during the All-Russian Geographical Dictation? Yes, simply because I like everything related to the activities of the Russian Geographical Society. I wanted to see how the event is organized, to look inside, to meet people who are trying to raise the level of geography in our country, and just put a piece of myself into a noble cause. I was very pleased, it was a pleasure to work hard. "

Alexey Starshinov, Moscow:

"Who, if not us, the students of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, should help in holding this event and educate our youth, promote geography to the masses"

Gleb Mamyrkin, Moscow:

- The regions of Russia are a very important topic, especially now, because they are very differently developed. It is necessary to involve people from school, people of different ages, to instill a love for geography, and, perhaps, some percentage of them will go to the Faculty of Geography. "

Simakova Tatiana, student of Kurgan State University

This year I take part in the Dictation for the second time. Last year I was a participant, and today I work as a volunteer for an educational campaign. The dictation questions seemed to me diverse and interesting.

The Russian Geographical Society thanks all the participants of the Geographical Dictation and the volunteers who helped in the All-Russian Geographical Dictation!