Month: May 2020

They are still well-liked in today’s Russia. These songs perfectly convey the feelings of the people who survived the most brutal war in human history.1. “No hemos estado en casa por mucho tiempo”La letra original de esta canción escrita en mayo de 1945 decía: “En Alemania, en Alemania, en una tierra maldita”. Sin embargo, tras acabar la guerra, se decidió cambiar “maldita” por “distante”.2. Marcha de los artillerosEscrita en 1943 se hizo popular inmediatamente y está dedicada al Dios de la Guerra, es decir, a la artillería. Después de que se iniciara el proceso de destalinización en la URSS (a partir de 1953), la letra “Artilleros, Stalin dio la orden” se cambió por “Artilleros, las órdenes son exactas”.3. “Un tiempo en el camino”La canción fue escrita para una de las películas soviéticas más queridas, Tardón celestial (1945), que cuenta la historia de tres pilotos y mejores amigos, que juran no …

May 9, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazi Germany. Thanks to the courage and heroism of the Soviet people and those who fought against fascism in other countries, the world and human civilization itself were saved. To commemorate this date students and teachers of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University made a special website with students’ essays about the war in the English language. The site is the result of the conference «Мультикультурный мир: проблема взаимопонимания / Multicultural world: the problems of mutual understanding». This is the first time the conference has been held online. This is a project where young authors, history students of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University have made one more attempt to present for the large world community the main events of World War II and the Great Patriotic War in the English language. Instead of an ordinary report presentation on the topic …

An Exercise in PatriotismThe Institute of Foreign Languages ​​of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University helped the National Library of the Komi Republic to make translations of the local newspaper chronicles from the World War II period into English. It was made by the 5th year students in the course of their English language studies.The original texts were borrowed from the local newspaper, Za Noviy Sever (To the New North). Some of them have appeared in the 2020 online library project, Chronograph, which introduces newspaper articles of the past to a wider public. Others are available as digitized copies in the National Electronic Library of the Komi Republic (NEL).The partnership project was initiated by the Foreign Language Literature Department of the National Library of Komi with an aim to popularize reading of the local press of the past. The project is dedicated to the 75th victory anniversary of the Great Patriotic …