Русский язык у Балтийского моря

Russian by the Baltic Sea

B1 · Intermediate · non-fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An intermediate reader on the Russian-speaking towns of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which looks at language, buildings, faith, food and habits. Two castles facing each other across a river at Narva, Rothko's Daugavpils, the Old Believers who left Russia in the 1600s and kept its seventeenth-century words, an atomic town built in a pine forest, and a market in five Zeppelin hangars.

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Characters

Narva (Нарва) — Estonia's third city
Daugavpils (Даугавпилс) — Latvia's second city
The Old Believers (Староверы) — Here since the 1600s
Visaginas (Висагинас) — Built in the 1970s

Vocabulary from this story

язык — language
речь — speech
слово — word
вывеска — sign
житель — resident
перепись — census
национальность — nationality
фамилия — surname
купец — merchant
ремесленник — craftsman
чиновник — official
продавец — shop assistant