[ kastrama ]
🔻The official founding year of the city is 1152 by Yury Dolgoruky. Since many scholars believe that early Eastern Slavs tribes arrived in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia AD 400 to 600, Kostroma could be much older than previously thought.
🔻The city has the same name as the East Slavic goddess Kostroma.
🔻In 1773, Kostroma was devastated by a great fire. Afterwards the city was rebuilt with streets radiating from a single focal point near the river.
🔻The heroic peasant Иван Сусанин (Ivan Susanin) became a symbol of the city's resistance to foreign invaders of WW2.
🔻What to see in Kostroma:
• Museum of Wooden Architecture
• The Resurrection Church on the Debra
• Sweets Museum Russkiye Slasti
• Monastery of st Ipaty
• Cheese Museum
• Terem Snegurochki
• Epiphany Monastery of St. Anastasia
• Ostrovsky's Pavilion
• Museum of Flax and Bark
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[ el'broos v loochakh zakata ]
🇬🇧 Elbrus in the sunset.
📍Location: Kabardino-Balkaria Russia
Video by: krasfit88
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Just one urgent question❗
🤔 Which video was shot first: that with the girls or the one with the chickens?
• Курица (femin.noun, offensive in reference to a girl!)
[ kooritsa ]
• Курочка (deminutive)
[ koorachka ]
• Цыпа (short from 'цыплёнок' (chick))
[ tsypa ]
• Цыпочка (deminutive, mostly about girls)
[ tsypachka ]
🇬🇧 Either a chicken/hen or a girl
There's also a Russian folk fairy tale character:
• Курочка-ряба
[ koorachka ryaba ]
🇬🇧 Ryaba the hen ('Ряба' is from the adjective 'рябая' [ r'yabaya ] 'speckled')
🎧🗣 👇 listen, practice and call your girlfriend/wife 'цыпочка'))
#useful_vocabulary
#spoken_Russian
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• Курица (femin.noun, offensive in reference to a girl!)
[ kooritsa ]
• Курочка (deminutive)
[ koorachka ]
• Цыпа (short from 'цыплёнок' (chick))
[ tsypa ]
• Цыпочка (deminutive, mostly about girls)
[ tsypachka ]
🇬🇧 Either a chicken/hen or a girl
There's also a Russian folk fairy tale character:
• Курочка-ряба
[ koorachka ryaba ]
🇬🇧 Ryaba the hen ('Ряба' is from the adjective 'рябая' [ r'yabaya ] 'speckled')
🎧
#useful_vocabulary
#spoken_Russian
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🟠 When Russians use the phrase:
Я СТОЛЬКО НЕ ВЫПЬЮ! [ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ] literally: I won't drink that much! ?
Я СТОЛЬКО НЕ ВЫПЬЮ! [ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ] literally: I won't drink that much! ?
Anonymous Quiz
68%
When Russians wanted to flirt, but even vodka won’t help if the girl is ugly
14%
When it's time to celebrate Friday but a Russian is in a bad mood
4%
When Russians need to reveal foreign spies, who, unlike Russians, cannot drink a lot of vodka
5%
When Russians need to save someone drowning in a lake
9%
Natalie, I am totally for a healthy lifestyle!
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[ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ]
Lirerally: I won't drink that much
Meaning:
The woman (or other issues) is so ugly/bad that even vodka won't help to forget about it.
Origin:
This famous Russian phrase comes from an old anecdote:
Two friends had a little drink, and one said:
- Now we’ll go to the girls, there’s one pretty there for me, and the other one is a little ugly, but you’ll drink a bit of vodka - and it will be fine.
- Fine. Let's go!
They arrived, the doorbell rang, and there were two women at the door. The second man looked at them...
- Oh, I won’t drink that much!
🎧
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🐈⬛ Чёрный кот
[ сhornyj kot ]
🔻National Black Cat Day, observed every October 27th in the UK and Worldwide, is a special occasion dedicated to the celebration and appreciation of black cats.
🔻Historically, black cats have been at the center of various myths.
🔻However, not all cultural beliefs about black cats are negative. In places like Scotland, Britain, and Japan, the arrival or presence of a black cat signifies impending good fortune and prosperity.
🎶 There is a wonderful Soviet song about a black cat by Tamara Miansarova (1964) Listen to it!
#brief_and_interesting
#sing_it_🎵
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[ сhornyj kot ]
🔻National Black Cat Day, observed every October 27th in the UK and Worldwide, is a special occasion dedicated to the celebration and appreciation of black cats.
🔻Historically, black cats have been at the center of various myths.
🔻However, not all cultural beliefs about black cats are negative. In places like Scotland, Britain, and Japan, the arrival or presence of a black cat signifies impending good fortune and prosperity.
#brief_and_interesting
#sing_it_
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[ zima blizka ]
🇬🇧 Winter is coming!
Are there any fluffy knitted outfits in your country?
#just_a_joke
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❓Did you know that:
☕ Утренний кофе бодрит только на пятнадцать минут.
[ ootrinij kofe badrit tol'ka na pitnadtsat' minoot ]
🇬🇧 Morning coffee cheers you up only for 15 minutes.
• бодрить (imperfective)
[ badrit' ]
🇬🇧 to cheer someone up
🎧
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🇬🇧 It’s just me trying to understand from memes what’s happening in the world and what to expect (in psychotherapy I was told not to watch the news).
🤔 Could you share some memes?
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☀️"Пусть всегда будет солнце!" or "Солнечный круг"
🇬🇧 "May There Always Be Sunshine"
🔻It is a popular Soviet children's song created in 1962. The music was composed by Arkady Ostrovsky and the lyrics written by Lev Oshanin.
🔻The song expresses the yearning for lasting peace by millions of people, young and old. In war, the lyrics say, there are no winners. For our sake, and especially for our children's sake, we must achieve peace and remove the dark clouds that now cover the sun.
Source: Vk soviet_karaoke
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#you_asked
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🇬🇧 "May There Always Be Sunshine"
🔻It is a popular Soviet children's song created in 1962. The music was composed by Arkady Ostrovsky and the lyrics written by Lev Oshanin.
🔻The song expresses the yearning for lasting peace by millions of people, young and old. In war, the lyrics say, there are no winners. For our sake, and especially for our children's sake, we must achieve peace and remove the dark clouds that now cover the sun.
Source: Vk soviet_karaoke
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[ ivanono ]
🔻The city is first mentioned in 1561,[citation needed] when it was given to the Cherkassky princely family by Ivan IV.
🔻By the early 20th century, Ivanovo was competing with Łódź (also a part of the Russian Empire at that time) for the title of the primary textile production center of Europe. As the workers' living conditions were appalling, the strikes were frequent. One of these strikes (May 14-July 22, 1905) led to the first Russian revolution.
🔻Nowadays Ivanovo is considered to be the city of brides👰♂️ as there are way more women than men there.
🔻What to see in Ivanovo:
• Ivanovsky Printed Cotton Museum
• Sviato-Vvedensky monastery
• Museum of Soviet Car Industry
• Holy Dormition Monastery
• Ivanovo Museum of a Stone
• Temple of St. Seraphim of Sarov
• Transfiguration Cathedral
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