мозаика @ Южно-Уральский государственный технический колледж, Yuri Gagarin mosaic at South Ural Technical College Behold the «Завоевание космоса»…“The Conquest of Outer Space”! According to this interview, the mosaic was created in 1976 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Gagarin’s spaceflight. … Read More
Finally, after ambitiously lugging this Russian textbook halfway across the world… more than once 😳… I’ve almost finished it. Just a short chapter (declension of numbers/dates/times, how delightful) and 60 pages of verb stats to go! 😄 Having reached this … Read More
Winter in the Urals seems like a time to settle for bland food—potatoes, frozen veggies, the occasional imported orange—but nope, the city is actually bursting with dragonfruit, lychee, and locally-grown lettuce. This carries over into the restaurant scene. Meals come … Read More
Russian vocabulary + a famous face… can you help me figure these out? #1. What’s the difference between оливки and маслины? Are they simply green olives vs black olives? #2. What’s the difference between адвокат and юрист? #3. Why is … Read More
January felt like a good month for learning Russian! This year we took part in a legit Крещение celebration, the kind that has a village priest standing on ice at night, reading aloud from the Bible, with a choir singing behind … Read More
I read this in a fashion magazine last month: Думаешь над фэмили-луком? What, фэмили-лук? Hmmm…. A few days later I passed a store window advertising matching his-and-hers holiday sweaters with the words семейный образ. What’s the difference? How do people … Read More
What are you listening to these days? I’ve been listening to a lot of radio, which Yandex drivers usually have tuned to the Top-40 stations, and I’m now ready to make an extremely official music report for you. 😉 Here’s … Read More
We’re in the middle of winter #2 in Chelyabinsk. While there are plenty of foreigners here, it’s still a bit of an adventure to explore the city. Chelyabinsk is not as well-documented as other large Russian cities. This makes everything … Read More
Anyone else out there who goes overboard when it comes to buying foreign language books? I used to bring home new Russian books all the time… until it became clear how long it actually takes to go through a single … Read More
Here’s what I’m planning to read on Kindle this year: Books I started in 2019: The Anna Karenina Fix As they say on the internet: В любой непонятной ситуации читай русскую классику, там всё у всех намного хуже. Here’s one … Read More