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Lesson 10 

Textbook 

• ex. 43 pp.32-33

Workbook

•  ex.60-61 p.52

Read grammar notes on

1. Short Adjectives p.53-54
2. The Reflexive Pronoun „Себя“p.57-58
3. The Emphatic Pronoun "Сам" p.62

Textbook

• fill in the blanks p. 25

Reading

Stage 2 Part 3

• review the vocabulary for the stories on pp.33 and 35 by rereading the articles
• and by working with the Cram cards

https://www.cram.com/flashcards/pp33-35-womenaward-usrbc-12825747

•  preview the vocabulary for stories on pp. 37 and 39
• assignment for your morning self-study in in our Daily Activity Google Doc

Cultural Awareness 

Амурская область 

• a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East
• the administrative center of the oblast, the city of Blagoveshchensk, is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East, founded in 1856
• a traditional center of trade and gold mining. The territory is accessed by two railways: the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal–Amur Mainline
• as of the 2010 Census, the oblast's population was 830,103
• Amur Krai  or Priamurye  were unofficial names for the Russian territories by the Amur River used in the late Russian Empire that approximately correspond to modern Amur Oblast
• Natural resources: Amur Oblast has considerable reserves of many types of mineral resources; proven reserves are estimated to be worth US$400 billion. Among the most important are gold (the largest reserves in Russia), silver, titanium, molybdenum, tungsten, copper, and tin. Black coal and lignite reserves are estimated to be seventy billion tons. Probable iron deposits are estimated to be 3.8 billion tons. Amur Oblast is also a promising source of titanium.
• In July 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that the area would be the site of a new Vostochny Cosmodrome ("Eastern Spaceport"), to reduce Russian dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first rocket launch from the site took place on 28 April 2016

Республика Бурятия 

• Buryatia is a mountainous Russian republic in eastern Siberia
• A stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Asian-influenced capital Ulan-Ude is home to Russian Orthodox Odigitrievsky Cathedral and a giant Lenin sculpture
• Open-air Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum explores local culture
• colorful Buddhist monastery Ivolginsky Datsan houses a Buryat art museum
• On the republic's western border lies massive Lake Baikal
• Economy:  composed of agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite, and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming, sheep and cattle farming, mining, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.

Забайкальский край 

• a federal subject of Russia (a krai) that was created on March 1, 2008 as a result of a merger of Chita Oblast and Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug, after a referendum held on the issue on March 11, 2007
•  Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, the Krai is now part of the Russian Far East as of November 2018 in accordance with a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin
• The administrative center of the krai is located in the city of Chita
• As of the 2010 Census, the population was 1,107,107
• Economy:  eastern part of the region has considerable reserves of silver(16%), copper (21 %), black coal 2 % of all Russian reserves; iron ore -more than 650 million tons; wolfram - 300 thousands tons; tin - 100 thousand tons; lithium - 180 thousand tons; zirconium - 744 million tons; germanium - 500 thousand tons; uranium - hundreds of tons; graphite - 165 million tons

Чукотский автономный округ 

• the easternmost federal subject of Russia 
• an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East
• Anadyr is the largest town and the capital, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia
• Chukotka is primarily populated by ethnic Russians, Chukchis, and other indigenous peoples
•  It is the only autonomous okrug in Russia that is not included in, or subordinate to, another federal subject, having separated from Magadan Oblast in 1992
•  It is home to Lake Elgygytgyn, an impact crater lake, and Anyuyskiy, an extinct volcano
•  The village of Uelen is the easternmost settlement in Russia and the closest substantial settlement to the United States (Alaska)
• The autonomous okrug covers an area of over 737,700 square kilometers (284,800 sq mi), and is the seventh-largest federal subject in Russia, although the vast region has a population of only 50,526
• Chukotka is the second-least-populated federal subject, and the least densely populated federal subject in Russia
• The region is the northeasternmost region of Russia, and since the Alaska Purchase, it has been the only part of Russia lying partially in the Western Hemisphere
• Economy: Chukotka has large reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, gold, and tungsten, which are slowly being mined, but much of the rural population survives on subsistence reindeer herding, whale hunting, and fishing. The urban population is employed in mining, administration, construction, cultural work, education, medicine, and other occupations.

Еврейская автономная область 

• is a federal subject of Russia in the Russian Far East, bordering  Heilongjiang province in China
• administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan
• at its height in the late 1940s, the Jewish population in the region peaked around 46,000–50,000, approximately 25% of the population
• as of the 2010 Census, JAO's population was 176,558 people, or 0.1% of the total population of Russia
• by 2010 there were only 1,628 Jews remaining in the JAO (less than 1% of the population),while ethnic Russians made up 92.7% of the JAO population
• Judaism is practiced by only 0.2% of the population of the JAO
• Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast
• It is one of two official Jewish jurisdictions in the world, the other being the State of Israel

Камчатский край 

• situated in the Russian Far East, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District
• capital and largest city is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, home to over half of its population of 322,079 
• Kamchatka Krai was formed on July 1, 2007, as a result of the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug, based on the voting in a referendum on the issue on October 23, 2005
•  retains the status of a special administrative division of the krai, under the name of Koryak Okrug
• The Kamchatka Peninsula forms the majority of the krai's territory, separating the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea in the Pacific Ocean
• The remainder is formed by a minor northern mainland portion, Karaginsky Island and the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea
• Kamchatka Krai is an active volcanic zone

Магаданская область 

• is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia geographically located in the Far East region of the country, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District
• has a population of 156,996, making it the least populated oblast and the third-least populated federal subject in Russia
• Magadan is the largest city and the capital of Magadan Oblast
• the majority of the Oblast's inhabitants live in the city
• the coastline has a less severe climate than the interiors, although both are very cold for its latitude
• The economy is primarily based on mining, particularly gold, silver and other non-ferrous metals

Приморский край 

• informally known as Primorye  and translated in full as Maritime Territory, is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District
• Vladivostok is the administrative center of the krai, and the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk
• has the largest economy among the federal subjects in the Russian Far East, and a population of 1,956,497 
• shares Russia's only border with North Korea, along the Tumen River in Khasansky District in the southwestern corner of the krai
• Peter the Great Gulf, the largest gulf in the Sea of Japan, is located along the south coast
• Historically part of Manchuria, Primorsky Krai was ceded to the Russian Empire by Qing China in 1860 as part of a region known as Outer Manchuria, forming most of the territory of Primorskaya Oblast
• During the Russian Civil War it became part of the Far Eastern Republic before joining the Soviet Union, going through numerous changes until reaching its current form in 1938
• Primorsky Krai is home to the Russian Navy's Russian Pacific Fleet.

Республика Саха (Якутия) 

• is a republic of Russia, in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million
• Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eastern Federal District, and is the world's largest country subdivision, covering over 3,083,523 square kilometers (1,190,555 sq mi)
• Yakutsk, which is the world's coldest large city, is its capital and largest city
• The republic has a reputation for an extreme and severe climate, with the lowest temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being recorded in Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, and regular winter averages commonly dipping below −35 °C (−31 °F) in Yakutsk
• in much of the republic the summers are warm
• Sakha was first home to hunting-gathering and reindeer herding Tungusic and Paleosiberian peoples such as the Evenks and Yukaghir
• Migrating from the area around Lake Baikal, the Turkic Sakha people first settled along the middle Lena river sometime between the 9th and 16th centuries, likely in several waves
• The Russians colonized and incorporated the area as Yakutsk Oblast into the Tsardom of Russia in the early-mid 17th century, obliging the indigenous peoples of the area to pay fur tribute
• While the initial period following the Russian conquest saw the Sakha population drop by 70%, the Imperial period also saw the expansion of the native Yakuts to the north and the east displacing other indigenous groups
• Yakutia saw some of the last battles of the Russian Civil War, and the Bolshevik authorities re-organized Yakutsk Oblast into the autonomous Yakut ASSR in 1922
• The Soviet era saw the migration of many Slavs, specifically Russians and Ukrainians into the area
• The modern Republic of Sakha was established in 1991 at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Сахалинская область 

• is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East
• The oblast has an area of 87,100 square kilometers (33,600 sq mi)
• Its administrative center and largest city is Южно-Сахалинск.
•  has a population of roughly 500,000
• The vast majority of the oblast's residents are ethnic Russians, with a small minority of Koreans
• Sakhalin Oblast is rich in natural gas and oil, and is Russia's fourth wealthiest federal subject and wealthiest oblast
• It borders Khabarovsk Krai to the west and Kamchatka Krai to the north, along with Hokkaido, Japan to the south

Хабаровский край 

• is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia
• geographically located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District
• the administrative center of the krai is the city of Khabarovsk, which is home to roughly half of the krai's population and the largest city in the Russian Far East (just ahead of Vladivostok)
•  Khabarovsk Krai is the fourth-largest federal subject by area, and has a population of 1,343,869 
• The southern region lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River
• The north occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean
• The population consists of mostly ethnic Russians, but indigenous people of the area are numerous such as the Tungusic peoples (Evenks, Negidals, Ulchs, Nanai, Oroch, Udege) and Amur Nivkhs and Ainu

 Берингов пролив 

• is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska
• the present Russia-United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic Circle at about 65° 40' N latitude
• The Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in the service of the Russian Empire
• The Bering Strait has been the subject of the scientific theory that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels – perhaps a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water – exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor, both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it. This view of how Paleo-Indians entered America has been the dominant one for several decades and continues to be the most accepted one
• Numerous successful crossings without the use of a boat have also been recorded since at least the early 20th century

 Билайн  

• a Russian telecommunications company started in 1992 
• co-founded by Dr. Dmitry Zimin, a Russian scientist in his 50s and Augie K. Fabela II,  a young entrepreneur from the US
• pioneer of the Russian mobile industry
• PJSC VimpelCom that owns Beeline is the third-largest wireless and second-largest telecom operator in Russia
• VimpelCom's main competitors in Russia are Mobile TeleSystems and MegaFon
• PJSC VimpelCom's headquarters is located in Moscow
• In 1996-2010, traded as NYSE: VIP
•  It is wholly owned by Veon.

Сбербанк 

• a state-owned Russian banking and financial services company headquartered in Moscow
• Sberbank of Russia until 2015
• Sberbank has operations in several European nations, primarily post-Soviet countries
• as of 2014 it was the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe, and the third largest in Europe, ranked 60th in the world and first in central and Eastern Europe in The Banker's Top 1000 World Banks ranking
• in the spring of 2021, Forbes Russia placed Sber on the first line in the rating of the reliability of Russian banks
• in the world ranking of public companies Forbes "Global 2000" Sberbank takes 51st place
• Sberbank's history goes back to Cancrin's financial reform of 1841, when a network of the first state-owned savings banks was created in Russia. By the end of the 19th century, the network reached almost 4 thousand outlets with over 2 million depositors
• After the October Revolution of 1917, the state savings banks system continued its activity and growth under the management of the Finance Ministry of the USSR as the State Labor Savings Banks System. From 1926, the saving bank outlets were used to pay wages to blue- and white-collar workers. The savings banks were used to distribute state lottery tickets and for the placement of state bonds with the population. The savings banks introduced wider services such as money transfers
• since 2007, Sberbank is led by former economy minister Herman Gref who is a very close friend of Vladimir Putin is under sanctions