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Gender of Russian nouns

In Russian, as in many other languages, each noun has gender. Russian has three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter (neutral). In the cases of words like “father” these relate to physical gender. In the case of other objects like “pen”, “cup”, “house”, there is no physical meaning attached to the gender.

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Names of countries and languages

Many Russian learners make mistakes in the phrases like ‘я говорю по-русски’ or ‘я француз’. Today we are going to learn Russian names for different countries, languages and people of different nationalities. This article will help you to look at most of the words that can be translated as “Russia” and “Russian”.

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The History of the Cyrillic Alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet owes its name to the 9th century Byzantine missionary St. Cyril, who, along with his brother, Methodius, created the first Slavic alphabet—the Glagolitic—in order to translate Greek religious text to Slavic. It is on the basis of this alphabet that the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD by the followers of the brothers, who were beatified as saints.

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Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears / Москва слезам не верит

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is a 1980 Soviet film. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981. This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

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Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions / Иван Васильевич меняет профессию

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by Leonid Gaidai in 1973. An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, is extremely similar to Tsar of All Rus’ – Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 – 1584). He would never have known about this, but one day his neighbor created a time machine.

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