A textbook of the Russian language for foreigners in three parts for adult students (all forms of education, including the system of pre-university training). The second part prepares for the basic level test (A2). Recommended by the Expert Commission of the State System for Testing Foreign Citizens in the Russian Language. Colored illustrations, tables. Audio materials are available by QR code...

The book has a practical focus. A variety of exercises presented in the manual contribute to the integrated development of students' speech, as well as to consolidate vocabulary and the assimilation of grammatical forms and structures contained in texts and dialogues. The manual is addressed to students who speak Russian in the amount of a basic level, and can be used both for work in the...

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to...

This is a parallel-text edition of 'Bronka,' a short story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of contemporary Russia's most popular and internationally acclaimed authors. First published in 1989, the story depicts the childhood and youth of Bronka, the eponymous heroine, who lives with her mother in a drab communal apartment in a rundown Moscow neighborhood in the years following the Second World War....

This educational manual presents 20 biographical texts about well-known and talented people who were born in Russia, but for one reason or another lived outside of Russia. These are people who have achieved the highest results in their professional fields and captivated those around them in the fields of science, art, and sport. The manual is intended for learners at various levels of Russian....

Fun and rhythmic poems that are easy to remember. Great for reading aloud before bedtime. A book for children in Belarusian. 0+

Reading these poems and looking at these photographs, it feels like you've seen it all somewhere else. A small town no one dreams of visiting, with a train station and a bus stop. A fellow traveler with a bag of London bags packed by his wife. An apartment rental ad: a TV always by the window, a sofa, two armchairs against the wall. Little things that never seem important, but only they can...

‘Diary’ is a chronicle of the psychological breakdown of the country. The time of overturned destinies and burned-out feelings gives birth to a special literature, uncomfortable and disturbing. Here the author becomes general. Therefore, without a name, about everyone in the first person. ‘It's very difficult to write - everything is a stupor. Our current context adds to the senselessness - it...

His new book, ‘The Dark Side of the Earth,’ is a deeply personal reconstruction of the last thirty years of the Soviet Union, chronicling its journey from the dawn of the space age, the peak of the Soviet empire, to stagnation, and then to perestroika, a series of crises, and collapse. It's also a book about the people, contemporaries, and participants in those events. Among them are Mikhail...

E. Jabbarova's new novel is a branching narrative where the plot lines initially seem unrelated, but ultimately converge. What does it mean to find a home, and what does it mean to lose it? How is a family history formed? What makes people feel closeness and kinship with one another? Grappling with these questions, the characters are in constant, intense motion – in a desperate attempt to...

This publication is suitable for everyone who wants to learn the Kazakh language and easily understand Kazakh speech. In this manual, you will find the main grammar topics, useful vocabulary for practicing spoken language, exercises for training and answers to them at the end of the publication. The material in the manual is presented as clearly and accessibly as possible, and a large number of...