This manual contains 12 works by Pushkin ('The Shot,' 'The Station Inspector'), and also texts about places related to Pushkin in St. Petersburg. All texts are supplemented with exercises. At the end of the manual is a word list and supplement for the t

Brief content: The first volume in the series is packed with detailed information on Russia's nuclear arsenal. Chapters highlight all elements: from design to production, deployment to storage. All relevant systems related to strategic weapons are also covered: command and control systems, geodetic support for targeting, and detailed descriptions of operations, maintenance, storage and...

New version of Suomen mestari 12. edition of the new version Suomen mestari 1 is a monolingual learning material for basics of Finnish language for adults.What is new?This is a totally renewed edition with more exercises and updated texts. The new version has more spoken language to everyday speech situations. The illustration in the book has also been almost completely revamped. At the end of...

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 -...

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...

Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, ‘one of the great characters of 20th century literature’ (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he...

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...

The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes 16 lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the English language. The book presents the most important information about correct pronunciation, basic grammar topics, rules for constructing an English sentence, and also provides texts for reading. The material is presented in the most understandable and accessible way and...

More trips to the colorful places of Minsk: this time the main places of events are the 50th anniversary park of October and the dormitories near the Mogilevskaya metro station. Even more mysteries that only the unique duo of Yuryevna and Gorkovy can solve. No worse than Holmes and Watson!