All-Russian dictation in geography results.
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The second All-Russian geographical dictation will take place on Sunday 20 November 2016.
The dictation will be held in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, at specially prepared regional venues 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.
Dictation questions will be devoted, first of all, to the geography of Russia.
Recall that the first All-Russian geographical dictation was held on November 1, 2015 in order to assess the level of geographical literacy of the population. It was organized by the Russian Geographical Society.
In terms of the number of participants in the dictation, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (7026 people), Moscow (3343 people), Tverskaya (1432 people) and Voronezh (1427 people) regions were in the lead.
You can take part in the dictation everyone, regardless of age, education and field of activity. To write an offline dictation, they came to regional sites 44 365 people. Of them 43 567
Submit your work for review. More 27 564
people passed the test online on the website of the Russian Geographical Society.
Thus, the total number of participants in the dictation is about 72,000 people.
Among them are people with a wide variety of education - from general primary to postgraduate with a degree.
The largest group of participants was the holders of higher education, the smallest - persons with primary general education. Thus, the average level of education of the dictation participants turned out to be higher than the average for Russia.
The dictation included 25 test items, which were divided into three blocks. The first consisted of assignments for knowledge of geographical concepts and terms; the second was aimed at testing knowledge about the location of geographical objects on the map; the third - on knowledge of geographical descriptions.
One of the main principles of the action was anonymity. On the forms of tasks and answers it was possible not to indicate your name. Participants were asked to write only their age, occupation, attitude to geography (for example, student or teacher of a specialized university), and some other information. This information is necessary in order to assess and analyze the level of geographical knowledge of the inhabitants of our country.
Among the participants of the dictation, there are three main categories: pupils, students and working citizens- they are about 30%
. The rest of the population was less than 10%. Most of the participants in the dictation are young people.
It is interesting that students in grades 5-9 answered the questions in a completely different way than students in grades 10-11, while the answers of high school students differed little from the answers of adults.
With regard to gender indicators of statistics, on average, the response score of men is two points higher than that of women.
The highest score that could be obtained for a dictation was 100 points, the lowest - 0. Unfortunately, 100-point results were not recorded in all regions, and the total number of works that deserved the highest score does not exceed 1%.
In general, the results of the first geographical dictation show that Russians have a mediocre knowledge of the geography of their country, while schoolchildren and students demonstrated a level of geographical knowledge below the national average.
average rating for dictation in Russia is only 55 points, in school terminology, is a triple.
Even more sad that 48% of participants of the action wrote a dictation below the average level, that is, we got a three with a minus or a two.
The results of the dictation were taken into account by the Russian Geographical Society when preparing a new Concept for the Development of Geographical Education, which is being developed by the Russian Geographical Society together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
According to the RGS website
ATTENTION!One of the Moscow venues for dictation November 20 will be the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Invited to participate everyone.
Venue address: Moscow, Leninskiye Gory, 1, Main (high-rise) building of Moscow State University, audiences 01, 02 (1st floor).
The site will be open from 11:00, at 12:00 - the beginning of the Dictation.
In order to take part in the event, you need to register
https://goo.gl/forms/APZmG6p8QDmye4Im1
Have with you identity document.
To write a dictation will be distributed forms. During 45 minutes participants will have to answer 30 questions dedicated primarily to the geography of Russia. While writing a dictation it is forbidden to use mobile electronics(phones, smartphones, tablets, etc.).
One of the main principles of the All-Russian campaign is anonymity. Each participant will receive unique identification number, by which he will later be able to find out his personal result on the official website of the Russian Geographical Society
Nearly 1,650 sites were operating all over the country at the same time. At the same time, 32 sites operated in the neighboring Vladimir region, while there were two in the Ryazan region. The Russian State University named after Yesenin, 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 people, turning the event into a real celebration of science, mobilizing a large staff of staff and student volunteers 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 Russian State University were the fair sex - 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 the Ryazan, Rybnovsky, Zakharovsky, Mikhailovsky, Skopinsky, Spassky, Alexander Nevsky, Shilovsky, Shatsky, Starozhilovsky, Chuchkovsky and Saraevsky regions.
School students accounted for 74.2% (545 people), students - 7.8%, employed - 14.1%, pensioners - 2.9%. Students of the Faculty of Natural Geography of the Russian State University were busy organizing the event, and already participated in the online version of the Dictation, which is why the indicated figures were not included. The age profile revealed the following picture: up to 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%.
Head of the Department of Physical Geography of the Russian State University Aleksey Vodorezov commented on the answers of Ryazan residents to some questions of the dictation.
The very first question of the dictation required giving a name to a point on the map, in relation to which the entire territory of Russia lies in the south. The answers 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 Sergey Yesenin and Ilya Muromets were born, the correct answer - Oka - instead of the naturally expected 100% was given by only 95% of the participants: others indicated the Yenisei, Ob and Volga rivers in their answers.
A high percentage of correct answers - 81% - was given to the question about monsoons - the winds of the Far East that change direction twice a year.
More than 74% of Ryazan residents correctly indicated the natural zone where cloudberries and dwarf birches grow, reindeer and lemmings live - the tundra zone (tundra and forest tundra). Some, however, entered the taiga and the steppe, and also confused the natural zone with the geographical zone, indicated the Arctic and Subarctic.
Undisguised interest in all thirteen involved classrooms of the university aroused the question of the people of Dagestan numbering 470 thousand people, whose fame was brought by the world-famous dance. The answer sheets included horsemen, "mountain people", Cossacks and Tuvans. Knowledgeable and quick-witted - 45% of the participants - figured out that by analogy with the gypsy and the polka, we are talking about the famous Lezginka - the folk dance of the Lezgins.
The shallowest sea off the coast of Russia with a maximum depth of 15 meters - Azov, was reflected in the answers of 70% of the participants. The mysterious city of the Golden Ring, known since the 11th century, with an armed bear on the coat of arms is Yaroslavl, which was correctly reported by 52% of Ryazan residents. When choosing the most salty reservoir from the group of lakes Elton, Ilmen, the Caspian and Azov seas, only 41% correctly pointed to the first - a natural storehouse of table salt in the Volgograd region, an ancient object of salt production - Lake Elton.
Great difficulties were caused by the analysis of a satellite image, on which it was proposed to recognize the river and choose a name from four proposed ones. It required logic and observation. The picture looked like a mosaic of multi-colored rectangles - this is exactly what arable land looks like from a height, which immediately swept aside the options for the Ob and Pechora. The picture shows the mouth of the Don River at its confluence with the Sea of Azov. Only 40% of participants answered this way.
Another question contained a picture: on a 1981 postage stamp with the inscription "300 years since the birth" there was a portrait of an adult man in a headdress, the question indicated that this was a navigator who glorified Russia in swimming on the boat "Saint Gabriel". The answers of Columbus, Miklukho-Maclay and Barentsev were deliberately wrong. But 56% answered correctly, remembering Vitus Bering.
After testing the knowledge of depths, heights, sizes and concepts, the participants approached the final group of questions, where excerpts from the 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 difficult (36%). Well, the most difficult thing in the whole dictation turned out to be the image of a southern city, where the winter bora wind freezes ships into ice and knocks sailors off their feet. Only 30% of participants in the dictation gave the correct answer to Novorossiysk.
An analysis of the results of the dictation will give an understanding of the gaps in the knowledge of Russians about nature, resources, population and economic imbalances in the world's largest country, which will make it possible to make adjustments to educational programs, to think over a strategy for the development of school geographical education to form the personality of young Russians, patriots of their fatherland, - summed up Alexey Vodorezov.
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Question 1 Name a global phenomenon that is spread over 60% of the territory of Russia. It is most widely represented in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia. The greatest depth of distribution of this phenomenon (1370 m) is noted in the upper reaches of the Vilyui River in Yakutia.
Question 2 What are the names of hot springs that periodically throw out fountains of hot water and steam, which are common in areas of volcanic activity, for example, on the Kamchatka Peninsula?
Question 3 What is the indicator that characterizes the number of inhabitants per 1 km 2 of territory and determines the demographic and economic potential of a country or region.
Question 4 What is the name of the process of urban growth and increase in the proportion of the urban population?
Question 5 On a map at a scale of 1:10,000, the distance between points is 10 cm. What distance (in kilometers) on the ground does this correspond to?
Question 6 Name the oldest and deepest lake in the world, which contains 20% of all fresh water on the planet.
Question 7 What is the northernmost continental point of Russia.
Question 8 What is the largest subject of the Russian Federation in terms of area, in which the easternmost of the peoples of the Turkic language group lives?
Question 9 Name the city located in the Pacific Ocean where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft is manufactured.
Question 10 What is the subject of the Russian Federation, in which the construction of the easternmost cosmodrome of Russia is underway.
Question 11 Name the peninsula located to the west of the Gulf of Ob, the subsoil of which contains the richest reserves of natural gas.
Question 12 The largest seaport in southern Russia, located in this hero city, often suffers from strong cold winds that rapidly “fall” from the mountains. Name this city.
Question 13 Name the UNESCO natural heritage island that the 180th meridian passes through. This island is also called the "polar bear nursery".
Question 14 What is the highest point of the Altai Mountains.
Question 15 Name the city where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Ob River.
Question 16 Arrange the mouths of Russian rivers in sequence corresponding to the direction from east to west: A) Pechora; B) Taz; B) Kolyma; D) Angara. Enter the letters in the correct order in the text field.
Question 17 Select from the list a city that is located in the drainage basin of the Caspian Sea: Voronezh Krasnodar Tver Kursk Smolensk
Question 18 Arrange the subjects of the Russian Federation in order from east to west: A) the Chechen Republic; B) Kaliningrad region; C) Perm region; D) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
Question 19 What is the name of the sea or lake that washes the wettest (according to the average annual precipitation) territory of Russia.
Question 20 What is the date and time on the watch of a tourist ascending to the top of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, when on the clock of his friend, who is resting on the Curonian Spit, 20:00 on June 12?
Question 21 “For the first time I saw from the distance of the sea… the entire solemn turn of its shores from Cape Fiolent to Karadag. For the first time I realized how beautiful this land is, washed by one of the most festive seas on the globe. We are approaching the shores, colored with dry and sharp colors ... The vineyards were already aflame with rust, the snow-covered peaks of Chatyr-Dag and Ai-Petri were already visible. What peninsula did K.G. Paustovsky?
Question 22 In what city did M.Yu. Lermontov? “The view from three sides is wonderful. To the west, the five-domed Beshtau turns blue, like “the last cloud of a scattered storm”; Mashuk rises to the north, like a shaggy Persian hat, and covers the entire part of the sky; it’s more fun to look to the east: below in front of me ... healing springs rustle, a multilingual crowd rustles, - and there, further, mountains are piled up like an amphitheater, bluer and foggier, and on the edge of the horizon stretches a silver chain of snowy peaks, starting with Kazbek and ending with the two-headed Elborus ... ".
Question 23 “... In winter, the sea winds thaw, and from the mother earth they bring frost with them, because in St. Petersburg the western wind from the Baltic Sea, near the city of Arkhangelsk northwest from the White and Norman Sea, in Okhotsk the east wind from the Kamchatka Sea breathes a thaw". Which sea M.V. Lomonosov calls Normansky?
Question 24 “Anadyr depression. It is very flat, and Anadyr wags a huge boa constrictor along it ... “Anadyr is a yellow river,” - you can call the essay like that later. Tundra and lakes throughout the depression. It is difficult to understand what is more: either lakes or land” (O.M. Kuvaev). What sea does this river flow into?
Question 25 “Great trees formed a green tent. And under it - dense thickets of hazel, bird cherry, honeysuckle, elderberry and other shrubs and small trees. In some places, a gloomy dark spruce forest has moved in. On the outskirts of the clearing, a large pine tree spread its branches, under the shade of which a young Christmas tree nestled ... And then again birches, poplar with its gray trunk, mountain ash, linden, the forest is getting thicker and darker. What kind of Russian forest is L.M. Leonov?
- What is the name of the imaginary line on the surface of the Earth connecting the North Pole with the South Pole, on opposite sides of which the local time differs by a day?
show Answer: Date line - 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.
show Answer: Typhoon - Indicate which power plants (thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plants or others) account for about 70% of electricity generation in Russia.
show Answer: TPP (thermal) - What name unites hills and mountains with rounded peaks in Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East and the Kola Peninsula?
show Answer: Sopka - Choose a combination of natural zones and soils that is correct for the Russian Far East:
A) coniferous forests - brown soils;
B) Siberian dwarf pine - red soils;
C) mountain tundra - yellow earth.
show Answer: A) coniferous forests - brown soils - Choose from the list the object with the highest water salinity:
A) Lake Khanka; B) Sea of Japan; C) lake Baikal; D) the Bering Sea.
show Answer: B) Sea of Japan - What does this symbol mean on topographic maps?
show Answer: Meadow (meadow, herbaceous vegetation, forbs)
(see all designations on topographic maps) - 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.
show Answer: B - D - C - A - Name a people 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 Arseniev in his books “On the Ussuri Territory” and “Dersu Uzala” wonderfully described the nature of the region and the life of this people.
show Answer: Udege - This folk craft originated in the Urals in the 18th century and is represented by the production of warm scarves from goat down. The quality of these thin handkerchiefs is checked by two parameters: whether the handkerchief passes through a wedding ring and whether it fits in a goose egg.
Name the city where this industry operates.
show Answer: Orenburg - What is the name of the water droplets that precipitate from moist air on the surface of plants and soil when they are cooled at night and early in the morning?
show Answer: Rosa - Name the natural zone of Russia where larch and spruce grow, wolverine and crossbill live.
show Answer: Taiga - Arrange the cities in a north-south direction:
A) Yakutsk; B) Moscow; B) Anadyr; D) Tiksi.
show Answer: D - C - A - B - In which subject of the Russian Federation is the easternmost point of Russia located?
show Answer: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Choose from the list a city where the sun can sometimes be seen at midnight:
Okhotsk, Khabarovsk, Dudinka, Magadan.
show Answer: Dudinka - The distance in a straight line from the Seven Days Pagoda in Elista to the Golden Abode of Shakyamuni Buddha is 1100 m. What will it be equal to on a 1:50,000 scale map?
Give your answer in centimeters.
show Answer: 2.2 cm. - Select from the list the subject of the Russian Federation where there is a subtropical Mediterranean climate:
A) the Republic of Kalmykia, B) the Republic of Crimea; C) the Republic of Mordovia; D) Primorsky Krai.
show Answer: B) Republic of Crimea - Name the river of Russia, which is the main transport artery of the largest subject of the Russian Federation in terms of area. Permafrost rocks are ubiquitous 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.
show Answer: Lena - Indicate in which city from the list dawn comes earlier than others:
A) Yekaterinburg; B) Chita; B) Tyumen; D) Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
show Answer: D) Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Name the subjects of the Russian Federation where the time differs from Moscow by 9 hours.
show Answer: Kamchatka Territory, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Choose from the list and indicate the river, the lower reaches of which are shown on the satellite image:
A) Ural; B) Cupid; B) Lena D) Yenisei.
show Answer: B) Cupid - Name the Hero City of Russia, famous for its gunsmiths, samovars and gingerbread.
show Answer: Tula - Name the largest sea in terms of area, washing the coast 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 boundary of the sea runs along a chain of islands.
show Answer: Beringovo - Select a pair of objects from the list that are not geographically related to each other:
A) the Baltic Spit - the Baltic Sea;
B) the city of Krymsk - the Republic of Crimea;
C) the Altai Mountains - the Republic of Altai;
D) Bering Island - Bering Sea.
show Answer: B) the city of Krymsk - the Republic of Crimea - Name a city in the Yaroslavl region, located on the shores of Lake Pleshcheyevo and included in the Golden Ring of Russia tourist route.
show Answer: Pereslavl-Zalessky - “The 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 arose not earlier than the modern geological period, although the depression began to form in the Jurassic period. In the last chapter, I already spoke about the young movements of the earth's crust, which determined the formation of the Tunkinskaya valley and the contrast between the relief forms of its sides - the Khamar-Daban and the Tunka Alps. The depression ... was created by the same young movements, the evidence of which is distributed over a large distance from the middle of the Khangai uplands in the Mongolian People's Republic to the Uchura River on the Aldan plateau, that is, over 2400 miles.
What lake is Vladimir Obruchev talking about?
show Answer: Baikal - Find out the subject of the Russian Federation by the lines from its anthem:
"You see: fires are burning in the night,
show Answer: Kemerovo region
The starry sky fell to earth.
You hear: the melody sounds,
The land 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 by miners -
Working melody of Kuzbass. - What subject of the Russian Federation is dedicated to Irina Larina's poems?
"The boundless line of the coast,
show Answer: Primorsky Krai
meeting the sun, whispering with a wave.
Ginseng, lemongrass ... beckon to the edge of the hills,
and the wind whirls - in an unearthly dance.
A tangerine hides in the lake surface
your unusual rainbow outfit,
and a path is trodden to the lotus,
and the cry of a crane out of place. - “... How I listened to this noise for a long time,
When the sunset flame burned in the mist!
Facing the river, I sat on a stone
And he kept looking, thoughtful and gloomy,
As past towers, idols, tombs
Katun rushed in a wide avalanche,
And someone ancient cuneiform birds
Recorded the melody of her epic ... ".The source of which large river is the Katun, described in a poem by Nikolai Rubtsov?
show Answer: Ob - Admiral Mikhail Lazarev, a Russian naval commander and navigator, commander of the Black Sea Fleet and an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society, depicted on a postage stamp, became famous for the discovery of what geographical object?
show Answer: Antarctica
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12.11.2016
II All-Russian geographical dictation
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 the 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:
- to enter the university building to have an identity document;
- to receive the questionnaire and instructions for filling it out, as well as placing it in the audience, come 40-50 minutes before the beginning of the Dictation;
- Bring writing materials (pens, pencils) with you.
The dictation procedure
- Participation in the dictation is anonymous.
- Before the start of the Dictation, each participant receives two printed 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 the Dictation upon receipt. This number is also duplicated in the form of a tear-off sheet, which remains with the participant of the Dictation. According to it, the participant will be able to check his result on the site 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 transmitting and processing information, including mobile communications, when completing Dictation tasks. If this paragraph is not observed, the organizers of the Dictation reserve the right to exclude the violator and cancel the results of his work.
Dictation forms 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. Forms for writing the Dictation submitted for verification are not reviewed and are not returned to the participants of the Dictation. An appeal is not provided.
The results of writing the Dictation by individual participants (according to individual identification numbers), the correct answers to the Dictation tasks and the analysis of typical errors are published on the website of the Russian Geographical Society www.rgo.ru no later than 45 days after the Dictation.
