Kostroma joined the “Total Dictation” campaign for the fourth time. This year it was written in more than 800 cities around the world.
In our city, you could test your literacy at 9 sites.
At KSU, Kostroma residents wrote a dictation under the dictation of Anna Berseneva, famous writer, who came to Kostroma to meet with townspeople at the invitation of the Leonardo book chain.
Portal website correspondent wrote a dictation in library no. 6.
According to the organizers of the dictation, 44 people gathered in the library who decided to test their knowledge of the Russian language. The youngest was 11 years old. The text by Leonid Yuzefovich, proposed for testing knowledge, consisted of 3 chapters dedicated to the great Russian rivers Neva, Kama and Selenga. Kostroma residents wrote a chapter about the city of Ulan-Ude and the Selenge River.
The text was read to the Kostroma residents gathered in library No. 6 by Tatyana Anatolyevna Rostunova, an employee of the Pushkin Library.This year the text was simpler than in previous years. It contains fewer possible spelling errors. But there are difficulties with quotation marks in the author’s interpretation of speech patterns. Traditionally, Kostroma residents, like all Russians, have problems with punctuation errors. People prefer to use more commas than required in the text. But we expect excellent students based on the test results. 2016, unfortunately, did not produce excellent students in Kostroma,- said organizer Konstantin KOROLEV.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with this task (text taken from the “Total Dictation” website)
Part 3. Ulan-Ude. Selenga
The names of the rivers are older than all other names on maps. We don’t always understand their meaning, so Selenga keeps the secret of her name. It came either from the Buryat word “sel”, which means “spill”, or from the Evenki “sele”, that is, “iron”, but I heard the name in it greek goddess moon, Selena. Compressed by forested hills and often shrouded in fog, the Selenga was mysterious to me “ lunar river" In the noise of its current, I, a young lieutenant, felt a promise of love and happiness. It seemed that they were waiting for me ahead as immutably as Baikal was waiting for Selenga.
Perhaps she promised the same to twenty-year-old lieutenant Anatoly Pepelyaev, the future white general and poet. Shortly before the First World War, he secretly married his chosen one in a poor rural church on the banks of the Selenga. The noble father did not give his son his blessing for unequal marriage. The bride was the granddaughter of exiles and the daughter of a simple railway worker from Verkhneudinsk - as Ulan-Ude was formerly called.
I found this city almost as Pepelyaev saw it. At the market, Buryats who had come from the hinterland in traditional blue robes were selling lamb, and women were walking around in museum sundresses. They sold circles of frozen milk strung on their hands like rolls. These were “semeiskie”, as the Old Believers who used to live are called in Transbaikalia large families. True, something also appeared that did not exist under Pepelyaev. I remember how on main square They erected the most original of all the monuments to Lenin that I had ever seen: on a low pedestal stood a huge granite head of the leader, without a neck or torso, similar to the head of the giant hero from “Ruslan and Lyudmila.” It still stands in the capital of Buryatia and has become one of its symbols. Here history and modernity, Orthodoxy and Buddhism do not reject or suppress each other. Ulan-Ude gave me hope that this is possible in other places.
The works of Kostroma residents were promptly checked. And, as it turned out, we have 14 “excellent” students in our city. These are Anna Mikhaleva, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Lyubov Somova, Olga Oborotova, Irina Korzh, Natalia Razzhivina, Maria Livshits, Bakvit, Yulia Kuleikina, Natalya Goshina, Tatyana Dorofeychik, Natalya Bogacheva, Denis Bogachev.
Empress Maslenitsa, who came to Kostroma from Yaroslavl for the Snow Maiden’s birthday, also became an excellent student. And Santa Claus wrote a dictation without taking off his mittens.
The organizers of the dictation ask excellent students to call: 89206437959.
Well, you can independently find out the assessment of your work on the website after April 12.
Ukraine is a country of prohibitions.
Today they wrote “Total Dictation” all over the world, but in Ukraine it was banned! Nationalist “activists” came to a rally at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Kyiv. Did you want pogrom again?
Due to threats, total dictation was canceled in all Ukrainian cities.
Will there ever be order in this country?
*
In the civilized world they wrote a dictation based on Yuzefovich’s text.
Ulan-Ude. Selenga (Selenga - emphasis on the last syllable, my note)
For those who haven't written a dictation, test your knowledge of the Russian language!
The names of the rivers are older than all other names on maps. We don’t always understand their meaning, so Selenga keeps the secret of her name. It came either from the Buryat word “sel”, which means “spill”, or from the Evenki “sele”, that is, “iron”, but I heard in it the name of the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene. Compressed by forested hills and often shrouded in fog, the Selenga was a mysterious “moon river” for me. In the noise of its current, I, a young lieutenant, felt a promise of love and happiness. It seemed that they were waiting for me ahead as immutably as Baikal was waiting for Selenga.
Perhaps she promised the same to twenty-year-old lieutenant Anatoly Pepelyaev, the future white general and poet. Shortly before the First World War, he secretly married his chosen one in a poor rural church on the banks of the Selenga. The noble father did not give his son his blessing for an unequal marriage. The bride was the granddaughter of exiles and the daughter of a simple railway worker from Verkhneudinsk - as Ulan-Ude was formerly called.
I found this city almost as Pepelyaev saw it. At the market, Buryats who had come from the hinterland in traditional blue robes were selling lamb, and women were walking around in museum sundresses. They sold circles of frozen milk strung on their hands like rolls. These were “semeiskie,” as the Old Believers, who used to live in large families, are called in Transbaikalia. True, something also appeared that did not exist under Pepelyaev. I remember how on the main square they erected the most original of all the monuments to Lenin that I had ever seen: on a low pedestal there was a huge round granite head of the leader, without a neck or torso, similar to the head of the giant hero from “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. It still stands in the capital of Buryatia and has become one of its symbols. Here history and modernity, Orthodoxy and Buddhism do not reject or suppress each other. Ulan-Ude gave me hope that this is possible in other places.
Yuzefovich
Dictation assessment standards:
5 – 0 errors, or 1 rough
4 – 2 spelling and 2 punctuation, or 1/3 (one spelling and three punctuation), 1/2, 1/1, 2/1.
3 – 4/4, or 3/5, 3/6, 3/3, 3/2, 3/1, 2/6,2/5,2/4,2/3, 1/7,1/6 ,1/5, 1/4 (8 errors in total)
2 – 7/7, 6/8, 5/4, 5/5.5/6.5/7, etc. (in total – 14 errors)
1 – more than seven spelling and punctuation errors
Sputnik, Vladimir Begunov.
By 14.00 people began to gather at the library: schoolchildren, students, teachers, journalists, parents with children... The organizers did not expect so many people. There were not enough tables and chairs for those wishing to test their knowledge of Russian grammar and punctuation.
“We didn’t think so many people would come,” said the head of the Russian cultural center Abkhazia Natalya Kayun. “Next year I will have to write on several platforms.”
“Dictator”, as the reader of the “Total Dictation” is called, Counselor-Massador of the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia Yuri Yasnosokirsky suggested writing in turns in two groups. But the director National Library Boris Cholaria said where extra chairs could be brought from, and everyone fit into one auditorium. It was crowded; there were three or four people sitting at a table.
During the week, the website "Gramota.Ru" and the organizers of the "Total Dictation" asked to pay attention to the spelling of the words "pedestal", "parapet", "Buddhism", "giant", which caused bewilderment among many - the words are not difficult.
Closer to lunch, Yuzefovich’s first text about St. Petersburg appeared on the Internet. According to the “Total Dictation” rule, approved in 2012, the author writes three interconnected texts, which are distributed across countries and regions of Russia depending on time zones. A mini-story about the city on the Neva was written in Vladivostok at 8.00 (Moscow time).
1 / 4
© Sputnik Vladimir Begunov
"Total dictation" was written in Sukhum
While the participants were seated, Yuri Yasnosokirsky sat on the sofa in the corridor, re-reading the text received two hours before the start over and over again.
“Are you worried?” the reader asked, entering the audience. “No? But I am! For some reason, there are few men in the hall and they are all in the gallery. I hope they will surprise us with their knowledge.”
In a video message from the author, which, according to the rules of the “Total Dictation,” is shown before the start, Yuzefovich thanked the organizers, saying that if he had not been called to compose the text of the dictation, it is unknown whether he would ever have had a reason to publicly confess his love for cities with whom his life was connected.
Then words that were difficult to write appeared on the screen: Ulan-Ude, Selenga, the Buryat word “sel”, meaning “spill”, the Evenki “sele”, translated as “iron”, ancient greek goddess Selena... The schoolgirls, huddled around one of the tables, began to dramatically roll their eyes.
The dictation text was medium difficulty, as one of the participants, Alla, admitted, who came with her children specially from Ochamchira.
It was a lyrical text about the city that the author found in the middle of the 20th century, having arrived there as a young officer. I was pleased with the paragraph where Yuzefovich describes the most strange monument Ulan-Ude - a huge head of Lenin on a pedestal, which reminded him of the gigantic heroic head from “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. Leonid Yuzefovich succeeded in doing something that no other writer could manage in seventy years of Soviet power - logically linking Pushkin with Lenin in one sentence.
The audience for the "dictation" in Sukhum was diverse - from elderly people to ninth-graders. After submitting the work, the organizers counted 118 sheets.
“The text is not difficult for me, but the atmosphere itself is unusual, I don’t remember when I was in last time wrote a dictation,” admitted Lyudmila, an adult participant in the “dictation” from Ochamchira. “Next year we will try to organize the “Total Dictation” in our city, so as not to have to travel far.”
Sukhumi ninth-grader Amra said that the text was difficult for her; it helped that the “dictator” read it clearly and expressively.
A few days before the dictation, Yuri Yasnosokirsky joked at the Sputnik press center that in difficult moments he would prompt by blinking.
“This was not required,” he said with a smile in response to a question from journalists after the dictation.
According to Natalya Kayun, the results will become known after April 12. They can be seen on the Total Dictation website or received in your hands at Rossotrudnichestvo.
The organizers promise to give Russian language dictionaries as a gift to those who receive excellent grades.
“Total dictation” was invented in 2004 as part of the “Days of the Faculty of Humanities” at Novosibirsk State University. At first, excerpts from Russian and foreign classics were used as texts.
Since 2010, texts for “Total Dictation” have been invited modern writers. IN different time they were Boris Strugatsky, Zakhar Prilepin, Dina Rubina, Alexey Ivanov and others.
This year the text for “Total Dictation” was written by Leonid Yuzefovich from Perm. He is the author of detective stories and historical novels. Based on Yuzefovich’s books, the series “Kazarosa”, “Death of the Empire”, “Contribution” were filmed. The writer became famous thanks to a series of detective-historical novels about detective Ivan Putilin, who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, whose name is surrounded by many legends.
On the eve of April 8th, in Ulan-Ude the international action"Total dictation." Those wishing to test their literacy gathered at nine sites in three districts of the city.
It is interesting that this year the dictation in “City on the River” also included a text about Ulan-Ude. It was written by famous writer and screenwriter Leonid Yuzefovich. The author included three parts in the dictation, each of which is dedicated to cities that played a big role in his life. The writer spent his childhood and youth in Perm, served in the army in Ulan-Ude, and currently lives in St. Petersburg.
It was precisely the text about the Northern capital that the Ulan-Ude people came across. This time it was read by famous Buryat journalists. Among them are employees of our television company - Irina Ermil, Sarzhana Merdygeeva and Alexey Fishev. They learned about the text they were going to dictate shortly before the start.
Journalist Irina Ermil admits that she was very worried before the dictation, because “how you read it depends on how you write it.”
A whole audience gathered at BSU. Many adults came to remember what remained in their heads several years after school. What struck me most was that men about 30 years old came. I thought they weren't interested in such things. Even people came from disabilities“, one girl was carried into the audience in their arms,” Irina shares her impressions.
However, she notes that the majority of the audience were women. While the site of school No. 32, where Alexey Fishev worked, was also attended mainly by Ulan-Uden women. At the same time, of very different ages.
In my class there was a girl about ten years old, there was a woman retirement age, only a few men came. There was even a situation where there weren’t enough places for everyone, but then they were found,” says Alexey.
By the way, this is not the first experience as an announcer for Alexey Fishev. This is the third time he has taken part in the event.
This text was the simplest of the two previous ones. I would like to note that the popularity of “Total Dictation” is growing. And since this is not my first experience, it was easier for me. I immediately stated that I am on the side of those who write. I tried to read carefully, slowly, without rushing, and helped with my intonation so that the participants understood where to place punctuation marks. What I admire about people is that they are willing to do this while we are typing on the keyboard and Word is correcting all our mistakes.
In general, Sarzhana Merdygeeva notes, the atmosphere of the event was positive. And she admits that everything was not without excitement for her.
I had my doubts about speed reading - whether I was reading too quickly/slowly. I was afraid that I would suddenly put the wrong emphasis in a sentence, and people would put unnecessary punctuation marks.
It was not the first time that some of the participants came to the Sarzhany site, at school No. 65, to test their literacy.
There was a woman in my audience who had been writing a dictation for the third year in a row. The first time I wrote it was a 2, the second time it was a 3, and now I’m hoping for a four,” says Sarzhana.
It should be noted that this year 800 cities and more than 60 countries took part in the “Total Dictation”. Residents of some of them wrote texts about Ulan-Ude. Meanwhile, today the Internet is full positive emotions and reviews about our city.
Some of the participants in the action had been to Buryatia, and the written text evoked good memories in them.
It is worth noting that the text about the capital of Buryatia was received not only by residents of Russian cities, but also by Canadians and even residents of Monaco.
In some cases, the announcers were famous people. For example, in the Ukrainian Gorlovka a text about Ulan-Ude was read by singer Yulia Chicherina, in Donetsk by writer Zakhar Prilepin. And in one of the Moscow universities - comedian Maxim Galkin.
Participants of the action can learn about the results of the “Total Dictation” after April 12 on the event website. How would you write it?
Part 3. Ulan-Ude. Selenga
The names of the rivers are older than all other names on maps. We don’t always understand their meaning, so Selenga keeps the secret of her name. It came either from the Buryat word “sel”, which means “spill”, or from the Evenki “sele”, that is, “iron”, but I heard in it the name of the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene. Compressed by forested hills and often shrouded in fog, the Selenga was a mysterious “moon river” for me. In the noise of its current, I, a young lieutenant, felt a promise of love and happiness. It seemed that they were waiting for me ahead as immutably as Baikal was waiting for Selenga.
Perhaps she promised the same to twenty-year-old lieutenant Anatoly Pepelyaev, the future white general and poet. Shortly before the First World War, he secretly married his chosen one in a poor rural church on the banks of the Selenga. The noble father did not give his son his blessing for an unequal marriage. The bride was the granddaughter of exiles and the daughter of a simple railway worker from Verkhneudinsk - as Ulan-Ude was formerly called.
I found this city almost as Pepelyaev saw it. At the market, Buryats who had come from the hinterland in traditional blue robes were selling lamb, and women were walking around in museum sundresses. They sold circles of frozen milk strung on their hands like rolls. These were “semeiskie,” as the Old Believers, who used to live in large families, are called in Transbaikalia. True, something also appeared that did not exist under Pepelyaev. I remember how on the main square they erected the most original of all the monuments to Lenin that I had ever seen: on a low pedestal there was a huge round granite head of the leader, without a neck or torso, similar to the head of the giant hero from “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. It still stands in the capital of Buryatia and has become one of its symbols. Here history and modernity, Orthodoxy and Buddhism do not reject or suppress each other. Ulan-Ude gave me hope that this is possible in other places.
Part 1. St. Petersburg. Neva
My grandfather was born in Kronstadt, my wife is from Leningrad, so in St. Petersburg I don’t feel like a complete stranger. However, in Russia it is difficult to find a person in whose life this city would mean nothing. We are all connected in one way or another with him, and through him with each other.
There is little greenery in St. Petersburg, but there is a lot of water and sky. The city lies on a plain, and the sky above it is vast. You can enjoy the performances that play out clouds and sunsets on this stage for a long time. The actors are controlled by the best director in the world - the wind. The scenery of roofs, domes and spiers remains unchanged, but never gets boring.
In 1941, Hitler decided to starve the people of Leningrad and wipe the city off the face of the earth. “The Fuhrer did not understand that the order to blow up Leningrad was tantamount to the order to blow up the Alps,” noted writer Daniil Granin. St. Petersburg is a stone mass, which in its unity and power has no equal among European capitals. It preserves over eighteen thousand buildings built before 1917. This is more than in London and Paris, not to mention Moscow.
The Neva with its tributaries, ducts and canals flows through an indestructible labyrinth carved from stone. Unlike the sky, the water here is not free; it speaks of the power of the empire that managed to forge it in granite. In summer, fishermen with fishing rods stand near the parapets on the embankments. Under their feet lie plastic bags in which caught fish flutter. The same roach and smelt catchers stood here under Pushkin. The bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress also turned gray then and the horse reared Bronze Horseman. Except that the Winter Palace was dark red, and not green, as it is now.
It seems that nothing around reminds us that in the twentieth century a crack in Russian history passed through St. Petersburg. His beauty allows us to forget the unimaginable trials he endured.
Part 2. Perm. Kama
When from the left bank of the Kama, on which my native Perm lies, you look at the right bank with its forests blue to the horizon, you feel the fragility of the border between civilization and the pristine forest element. They are separated only by a strip of water, and it also unites them. If as a child you lived in a city on a big river, you are lucky: you understand the essence of life better than those who were deprived of this happiness.
In my childhood, there was still a sterlet in Kama. In the old days, it was sent to St. Petersburg to the royal table, and to prevent it from spoiling on the way, cotton wool soaked in cognac was placed under the gills. As a boy, I saw a small sturgeon on the sand with a jagged back stained with fuel oil: the whole Kama was then covered in fuel oil from the tugboats. These dirty workers pulled rafts and barges behind them. Children were running on the decks and laundry was drying in the sun. The endless lines of stapled, slimy logs disappeared along with the tugs and barges. The Kama became cleaner, but the sterlet never returned.
They said that Perm, like Moscow and Rome, lies on seven hills. This was enough to feel the breath of history blowing over my wooden city, studded with factory chimneys. Its streets run either parallel to the Kama or perpendicular to it. Before the revolution, the first ones were named after the churches that stood on them, such as Voznesenskaya or Pokrovskaya. The latter bore the names of those places where the roads flowing from them led: Siberian, Solikamsk, Verkhotursk. Where they intersected, the heavenly met the earthly. Here I realized that sooner or later everything will converge with the heavenly, you just need to be patient and wait.
Permians claim that it is not the Kama that flows into the Volga, but, on the contrary, the Volga into the Kama. It makes no difference to me which of these two great rivers is a tributary of the other. In any case, Kama is the river that flows through my heart.
Part 3. Ulan-Ude. Selenga
The names of the rivers are older than all other names on maps. We don’t always understand their meaning, so Selenga keeps the secret of her name. It came either from the Buryat word “sel”, which means “spill”, or from the Evenki “sele”, that is, “iron”, but I heard in it the name of the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene. Compressed by forested hills and often shrouded in fog, the Selenga was a mysterious “moon river” for me. In the noise of its current, I, a young lieutenant, felt a promise of love and happiness. It seemed that they were waiting for me ahead as immutably as Baikal was waiting for Selenga.
Perhaps she promised the same to twenty-year-old lieutenant Anatoly Pepelyaev, the future white general and poet. Shortly before the First World War, he secretly married his chosen one in a poor rural church on the banks of the Selenga. The noble father did not give his son his blessing for an unequal marriage. The bride was the granddaughter of exiles and the daughter of a simple railway worker from Verkhneudinsk - as Ulan-Ude was formerly called.
I found this city almost as Pepelyaev saw it. At the market, Buryats who had come from the hinterland in traditional blue robes were selling lamb, and women were walking around in museum sundresses. They sold circles of frozen milk strung on their hands like rolls. These were “semeiskie,” as the Old Believers, who used to live in large families, are called in Transbaikalia. True, something also appeared that did not exist under Pepelyaev. I remember how on the main square they erected the most original of all the monuments to Lenin that I had ever seen: on a low pedestal there was a huge round granite head of the leader, without a neck or torso, similar to the head of the giant hero from “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. It still stands in the capital of Buryatia and has become one of its symbols. Here history and modernity, Orthodoxy and Buddhism do not reject or suppress each other. Ulan-Ude gave me hope that this is possible in other places.