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8. Tell about your native place (15-20 sentences).
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A.
- Excuse me, Alex. Could you tell me, please, where you are from?
- Actually, I come from the Krasnodar territory.
- Pardon me, and whereabouts?
- A small town called Timoshevsk. Do you happen to hear about it?
- Seems to me, I have. Is it there a dairy plant is located?
- Right. The enterprise which changed a quiet village into a town. It produces dairy products sold in the south of Russia and some other regions, too.
- Well, most towns are growing fast now. Soon they may unite into one global city.
B.
- Hi, Anna, Could you tell me what you are doing here? Catching a train?
- Hi, Olga. I’m going home, to Kislovodsk. The train arrives in three minutes.
- I'm sorry to trouble you, but how long does it take you to get there from Novocherkassk?
- About ten hours. I like to start in the evening, so I may sleep most of the way.
- You are lucky! I suppose, it’s a convenient place to live.
- It’s a nice place. A resort with a lot of parks, mineral water, fresh air... Would you mind visiting it someday? During the winter holidays, perhaps?
- It would be great. Look, your train is already coming. Have a good way!
- Thank you. Buy! See you in a week!
8. Tell about your native place (15-20 sentences).
NOVOCHERKASSK
1. Look at the following words and try to remember them:
1) а confluence – слияние
2) frequently – часто
3) to flood – наводнять, затоплять
4) a regiment – полк
5) unique – уникальный
6) a layout – планировка
7) a feature – особенность
8) magnificent –великолепный
9) Ascension Patriarchal Cathedral – Вознесенский патриарший собор
10) gallant – отважный
11) a conqueror – завоеватель
12) to restore – восстанавливать
13) a church – церковь
14) to destroy – разрушать
15) an enterprise – предприятие
16) a plant – завод
17) an electric locomotive – электровоз
18) synthetic fibres – синтетические волокна
2. Read and translate the text about Novocherkassk:
Novocherkassk is situated in the south of Russia in Rostov region. Novocherkassk lies at the confluence of the Tuzlov and the Aksay rivers. It was founded as the new capital of the Don Cossacks in 1805 (30th of May) by the General Matvey Platov (1753-1818), the famous Ataman who led his Cossack regiments against Napoleon. The old principle town was 20 kilometers from the present site along the Don river. The original 16th-century town of Cherkassk (now stanitsa Starocherkasskaya) was frequently flooded and it was decided to build a new Don Cossacks town on the Azov hills. The new place was approved by the tsar Alexander I (1777-1825). Novocherkassk was designed by the French engineer and architect Franz Devolan.
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Novocherkassk is a unique town owing to its history, planning and architecture. Almost each old building has its own features. There are about 200 monuments of federal and regional importance among them Ataman palace, Triumphal arches, commemorating the Don Cossaks participation in the 1812 war against Napoleon, and the most known Novocherkassk Patriarchal Ascension (Voznesenski) Army Cathedral (1805-1904). Almost all are in the centre of the town.
Novocherkassk has always been the stronghold of Russian Orthodox religion. There were numerous churches and chapels in the past, but a lot of them were destroyed after the October Revolution. Nowadays many of them have been rebuilt. Novocherkassk Ascension Patriarchal Army Cathedral is the five-domed building, which stands 75 meters tall, and is a notable example of the Russian Neo-Byzantine architecture. It is the main cathedral of the Don Cossacks and the object of cultural heritage. Next to the cathedral there is a monument to Yermak (1532-1585), the Cossack ataman and the gallant conqueror of Siberia. There are two monuments to the famous General Matvey Ivanovich Platov: the first and the oldest one (1853) is in the front of the Ataman Palace, the second one was opened in 2003 and stands on the Yermak square. In Novocherkassk there are several museums of outstanding painters, among them the Grekov Museum, the Krylov Museum. The most well-known is the Museum of the Don Cossacks History (1899). It has a lot of exhibits (about 115, 000) connected with the history of the Don Cossacks: arms and armament including the famous general Platov’s sabre, household stuff of the Don Cossacks, banners and etc.
In the second part of the twentieth century Novocherkassk became an industrial town. Many plants and industrial enterprises were built here, among them the only in Russia electro-locomotive plant, chemical plant, Novocherkassk electrode plant, a thermal power station and many others. Modern Novocherkassk produces electric locomotives, electrodes, mining machinery, machine tools, and chemicals for plastics and synthetic fibres.
Novocherkassk is called the town of students. The modern city has numerous institutions of higher and professional education and research, among them Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), Novocherkassk State Melioration Academy, Suvorov military school, Cossack military school, the Don branch of the Novocherkassk Space Simulation Centre.
Today the population of the town is about 170, 000 people. Being the administrative capital of the Don Cossacks, Novocherkassk was inhabited mainly by people of Cossack origin. But nowadays there are residents from other places, including people of different nationalities.
In 1993 Novocherkassk became the capital of the Cossacks on the decision of the Russian and foreign Cossacks again. Many outstanding people visited Novocherkassk among them tsar Alexander I, the great Russian poets and writers Pushkin A. S., Lermontov M. Y., Griboedov A. S., Herzen A. I. Among the Honored citizens of the town is the first cosmonaut Iurii Gagarin, the Don writer Kalinin A. V. and many others. Novocherkassk is a very green and nice town due to the parks and gardens.
3. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following Russian word combinations:
На слиянии; гражданская война; уникальный город; благодаря своей истории и архитектуре; памятники федерального и регионального наследия; оплот православной веры; культурное наследие; казачьи полки; рядом с собором; промышленные предприятия; заводы; среди них; тепловая электростанция; учреждения высшего и профессионального образования; центр тренажеростроения; город студентов; по решению; почетный гражданин города.
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4. Answer the following questions:
1. Where does Novocherkassk lie?
2. When and why was Novocherkassk founded?
4. What do you know about Matvei Platov?
5. Who designed Novocherkassk?
6. What is Novocherkassk famous for?
7. What museums are there in Novocherkassk?
8. What industries are developed in Novocherkassk?
9. Why is Novocherkassk called the town of students?
10. What monuments do you know in Novocherkassk?
11. What famous names are associated with Novocherkassk?
12. What is your favorite place in Novocherkassk?
13. What do you like about Novocherkassk and what don’t you like?
14. What would you like to change in the town?
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