Launched in Brazil in the 1970s, War is one of the most popular board games in the country even today. But it’s not known for its geographic accuracy, as it excludes several countries (the 54 countries in Africa aren’t even ten territories in the game). With the immense Russia, the opposite happens: its territory is divided into a series of lands with names that many people have never heard of. What are Omsk, Dudinka, Tchita and Vladivostok?
omsk
With more than 1 million inhabitants, it is one of the ten largest cities in Russia, east of the Ural Mountains, which separate the European and Asian sides of the country. There were even plans to make Omsk the capital of the then Soviet Union, in case the Germans took over Moscow in World War II. It was in this city that the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky served his four-year sentence of hard labor in the 19th century.
Dudinka
It is a small town in Siberia with just over 22,000 inhabitants. Even though it is not on the coast, Dudinka has a port on the banks of the Yensei River. Extremely cold, the city has an average temperature of -26°C in the winter months. Dudinka’s economy survives thanks to the activities of the Russian mining group Nornickel, which mines nickel and palladium in the region.
Cheetah
With just over 300,000 inhabitants, it is a city that is also far east in Russia, right at the tip of the territory that receives its name on the War board. Close to the border with China, the city was the temporary home of Pu Yi, last Chinese Emperor, before he was extradited back to his homeland, where he lived until he died
vladivostok
It is a port city located in the far east of Russia, being the final stop of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest in the world. The city is very close to the borders with China and North Korea, in Manchuria. This region has already been the subject of dispute between several powers, such as China and Russia, in addition to Japan.