Some football fans who traveled to Russia to watch the Switzerland-Brazil match were left red-faced when they journeyed to Rostov Veliky (200 km northeast of Moscow) instead of Rostov-on-Don (1,000 km south of Moscow). To be honest, it’s a pretty easy mistake to make – sometimes the names of cities even confuse Russians.
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