🔢🔢🔢 Phrases for hurrying up a person (informal style):

1. Ты скоро?
[ty sko-ra]
Are you almost ready?

2. Сколько можно ждать?
[skol'-ka mozh-na zhdat']
How much longer do I (we) have to wait?

3. (Давай) быстрее!
[da-vay bys-tre-ye]
Hurry up! Move it!

4. Поторопись!
[pa-ta-ra-pis']
Hurry up! Speed it up!

5. Шевели колготками! (Slang, ironical😁)
[shy-vi-li kal-got-ka-mi]
SLT: Move (your) tights!
Shake a leg!

▶️Очередь

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Идеального кактуса не существ...
A perfect cactus doesn't exi...

• Идеальный (masc.adj.)
[i-di-al'-nyj]
Ideal

#memes
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A challenge for the leaders, General Electric and Rolls-Royce to make room?

🔻Perm is testing a promising Russian PD-35 powerplant, the largest aircraft engine ever built in the country.

🔻Viktor Chuiko, head of the Academy of Aviation and Aeronautics, noted that unlike previous models, the PD-35 uses composite materials to create fan blades. This reduced the weight of one engine by more than 600 kg. Structurally, the engine is designed for a lifting weight of up to 35 tons, and in terms of manufacturability it goes beyond the 5th generation, approaching the requirements of the 6th generation.

🔻The PD-35 is currently undergoing a comprehensive test at the stand, where more than 20 new technological solutions are being developed.

🔻The PD-35's entry into the market will give Russia the opportunity to produce its own engines for L.R.W.B.C.A, without relying on foreign suppliers such as General Electric or Rolls-Royce.

#brief_and_interesting
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Video: UEC

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How do the Hermitage cats live?
I wrote about them▶️here. Now you can see everything with your own eyes!

🔻Let's go down into the basements of the Winter Palace. These basements are over 200 years old. And the cats have lived here since the time of Catherine the Great.

🔻But why are they here? It's simple: the Hermitage cats protect the museum from rats and mice. Consider them to be in the palace's service. You won't find them in the museum itself, though – they have plenty of space: the basements stretch for tens of kilometers!

🔻However, each cat has its own bed and bowl, and three people care for them every day. There's a washing machine, clean bedding, and a sink – everything like home.

🔻The cats also have special doors through which they can go out for a stroll in the Hermitage courtyard.

🔻But where do all these kittens come from? Some are from Hermitage staff, but most are from buildings being redeveloped in the city center.

🔻There are 50 cats here permanently. The oldest one is currently 20 years old.

🔻Incidentally, you can also take an Hermitage cat home. To do this, you can register to view a fluffy friend on the official Hermitage website.

🔻You can also visit the basement once a year on Hermitage Cat Day, held on the last Saturday of May. Entry is free, so be prepared for a long queue. It's usually open from 12:00 to 17:00.

❓️Would you like to take an Hermitage cat home?

Video: Guide Sergey Leonidov

#brief_and_interesting
#StPetersburg
#just_cats

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👋Бодрого утра, товарищи!
TGIF!

Who's survived this week? Tap❤️!

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🐱Russian is rich with vibrant, often humorous, idioms, and one that frequently puzzles language learners is:

• Тянуть кота за хвост (imperf.)
[ti-nut' ka-ta za khvost]
SLT: To pull a cat by its tail

Meaning:
Thankfully, its meaning is purely metaphorical and has nothing to do with harming felines! It means:
- To procrastinate
- To drag one's feet
- To prolong a task unnecessarily
- To dilly-dally

Example:

• Хватит тянуть кота за хвост! Заканчивай этот проект!
Stop dragging your feet! Finish this project!

❓️Are there similar idioms in your native language?

🇩🇪 ...
🇫🇷 Se faire tirer l'oreille


See also:
▶️Тянуть за язык

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#phraseology
#spoken_Russian
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The Battle of Poltava is a victory of Russian weapons.

🔻On this day, June 27, 1709, the Russian military council, headed by Peter I (Peter Alekseevich Romanov), decides to give the Swedish army a general battle near Poltava. 1.5 weeks after that, the Russian Army will inflict a resounding defeat on the army of Charles 12.

🔻The elite Swedish army will simply cease to exist. At the end of July, Peter the Great, after the victory at Poltava, will triumphantly enter Russian Kiev.

🔻There are only 12 years left before Russia acquires the status of an empire.

Video: История.рф

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The world's only and northernmost floating nuclear power plant!

🔻 Akademik Lomonosov FNPP in Pevek celebrates its anniversary 5 years since its commissioning. During this time, his KLT-40C reactor has generated more than 900 million kWh of electricity, almost 300 thou. Gcal of heat and has become the basis for the energy stability of Chukotka

🔻The FNPP has proven its environmental and radiation safety. Monitoring is carried out annually at the station, which records an increase in the number of aquatic plants and animals, and a decrease in the natural radiation background

🔻 The station's capacity is enough for a city with a population of 100000 people The operation of the FNPP turned out to be successful and impressive. Academician Lomonosov became the "father" of a family of FNPP, which are currently being mass-produced by the Iceberg CDB

Electricity is everywhere!
Warmth for the north, cold water for the south!

S.A.E.C Rosatom

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Как правильно благодарить жену за вкусный ужин:
- Это лучшее, что я ел в своей жизни!
How to properly thank your wife for a delicious dinner:
- This is the best thing I've ever eaten in my life!

▶️Благодарить

😉Не благодарите!

#lifehack
#useful_vocabulary

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- Как переводится на английский 'окрошка'?
- Oh, baby!
- How do you translate 'Okroshka' into English?
- Oh, baby!

• Окрошка (femin.noun)
[a-krosh-ka]
Okroshka

🔻It's the name of a specific dish, a popular cold Russian soup.

🔻However, the joke plays on a phonetic breakdown and a double meaning in Russian:

Окрошка = О (an interjection)+ крошка (а bread crumb or a sweetheart/baby!)

🔻In reality, the word окрошка originates from the verb крошить, meaning 'to chop into small pieces' or 'to finely dice'.

#memes
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Traditional Russian Okroshka: A Cold Summer Soup

🍲Okroshka is a refreshing, savory cold soup perfect for hot days.

Ingredients:

☆Chilled Bread Kvass (or Kefir+sparkling water)
☆Cooked Sausage ("Doktorskaya" sausage) or cooked beef/chicken
☆ Hard-boiled Eggs
☆ Fresh Cucumbers
☆ Radishes
☆ Boiled Potatoes
☆ Fresh Dill
☆ Green Onions
☆ Sour Cream
☆ Dijon Mustard (optional)
☆ Salt and Black Pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Dice all cooked and raw solid ingredients (sausage/meat, eggs, cucumbers, radishes, potatoes) into small, even pieces.
2. Finely chop the fresh dill and green onions.
3. Place all diced ingredients and chopped herbs into a large bowl or individual serving bowls.
4. Stir in a dollop of sour cream, a small amount of mustard (if using), and season generously with salt and pepper. Mix well.
5. Pour in the chilled bread kvass over the mixture.
6. Mix gently. Serve immediately.

😋Enjoy your meal!

Video: Domanski

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🥳 Today is:

• Счастливый день сердечных объятий!
Happy Heartfelt Hugs Day!

😉You know who to send it to.

#holidays

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😉Okroshka Special Recipe for the Weekend:

Mix together:
☆ shrimp,
☆ cucumber,
☆ avocado,
☆ some radish,
☆ boiled potatoes,
☆ eggs.

🔻Don't forget to add greens (herbs) and sour cream.

🍾🥂Pour in prosecco and ayran, half and half, and it's all done!

❓️Would you dare😉?

▶️Traditional recipe of okroshka

Отличных выходных, товарищи! Всех обняла!

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🫨How Orenburg by night really scared a foreigner.

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