The three short stories in this reader provide a window into the Soviet childhood experience in the years 1945-49, when the country was just beginning to recover from the devastation and hardships caused by the Second World War. The stories are semi-autobiographical, based on Ulitskaya's childhood memories, and each portrays child protagonists facing challenging situations in everyday life....

‘The purpose of this manual is to achieve communicative competence of the levels of TRKI-2 - TRKI-3. The manual is structured according to the thematic principle and consists of 5 lessons, which are divided into blocks. Each block includes conditional speech and speech tasks aimed at developing the perception and understanding of authentic texts within the framework of the topics studied at...

The book is a textbook on practical stylistics and speech development for foreigners studying the Russian language, having basic language training and continuing to expand and improve their command of the Russian language. The starting level of the Russian language for foreign students to work on the textbook is TORFL-2 (Advanced level/B2).

Everyone in Georgia knows Levan Berdzenishvili. He is one of the founders of the Republican Party, the president of the non-governmental organization 'Republican Institute', an authoritative classical philologist, a former dissident and a prisoner of the notorious Mordovian Dubravlag JK 385/3-5, and now he is the author of this book, instantly sold out in his homeland, which brought him the...

This book discusses the history of the concept of an 'Aryan community' and describes the process of constructing an Aryan identity, as well as the persistence of the Aryan myth across both temporal and geopolitical dimensions. It addresses, for the first time, the evolution of the Aryan myth in Russia and its resurgence in the post-Soviet space. The study traces the formation and development of...

Illustrated edition of the first book in Harry Potter series.

The events in the novel 'Serpent's Bite' take place in the Far-East region of Russia. The corpse of a man with a cut throat is found on a staircase of an apartment building. A series of mysterious murders follow one after another. The investigation is assigned to a young police detective Belov, who finds himself in complex and dangerous situations throughout the novel. Due to his genuine...

In the funny and witty poems by Georgy Ladonshchikov, the most ordinary things take on new unusual meanings, helping the child's development and awakening his interest in reading. Have you ever imagined that ordinary sand can be the best drawing board? Have you noticed how the river grows? Have you seen how the gray cat and the Watchdog play volleyball, and the starlings quarrel over housing...