Russian features

Russians, as well as residents of any other country, have traits that distinguish them from representatives of other cultures. If you know about them, you will quickly adapt to local conditions.They like to host guests. Russians are known for their hospitality. They like to meet guests and enjoy visiting friends themselves. Generously laid tables are the main attribute of such meetings.They don’t make visits without gifts. In Russia, people don’t make visits with empty hands. Even if it’s not a birthday, but just friendly gatherings. Something must be brought. It can be a cake, sweets, wine or chocolate for younger family members.They believe in signs. Russians usually spit over their left shoulder if a black cat crosses the road; they knock on the tree so as not to jinx their plans, and don’t whistle at home, so as not to lose money. If they return to the room, having forgotten …

People

The main value of any region is its people. Thousands of people work every minute for the benefit of the republic and the country. And whoever it is – a minister, a banker, a miner, an oilman, a teacher, a cook or an athlete – all of them are people from the Komi Republic, those who are proud of the Komi land.

Climate

The size and length of the territory, the influence of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, the natural barrier of the Ural Mountains in the east create a heterogeneous climate. These places are characterized by frequent invasions of cold Arctic and relatively warm Atlantic air masses. Such conditions are a fertile ground for cyclones, sudden changes in pressure and air temperature, rapid changes in the direction and speed of winds, and an abundance of precipitation. Location in the subarctic and temperate climatic zones determines the climate with severe long winters (up to -50° C) and short cool summers.

Features of the Komi Republic

The Komi Republic, with the territory of 416000 km², is usually called the Russian Klondike and a treasure of innumerable wealth. Several European countries, for example, France, Italy, Germany, would fit on its territory. The Komi Republic is situated in the north-east of the European part of the Russian Federation. It attracts attention with its amazing natural territories, historical places and mysterious stories. The capital of the Komi Republic is Syktyvkar.Huge raw material wealth is concentrated in Komi: oil, gas, gold, bauxite, wood. But all the gold of the world can be given for the immense northern forests, where hundreds of species of rare animals and birds live, for the mountainous beauty of the Urals and transparent rivers with clear water.Imagine, Komi virgin forests are the largest in Europe and produce oxygen that all Europe breathes, and therefore this land is called the land where air is born. To preserve …

Top 10 Soviet songs about World War II (the Great Patriotic War)

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 …

Online-conference «75th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazi Germany»

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 …

University Students Translate War Chronicles into English

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 …

“Big man”: the story of Pitirim Sorokin’s life was painted by sand

The students of the Liceum at the Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokin became the winners of the first round and became the semi-finalists of the video contest on Russian-American history. They created a cartoon “Big man” about the great Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. The cartoon was made by the sand animation technique.The creativity team from Syktyvkar was represented by students of The Liceum at the Syktyvkar State University Anna Tolstova, Elizaveta Tsygankova, Lada Tutynina. Girls performed competitive work under the guidance of the teacher of the Syktyvkar State University Svetlana Tutynina. They decided to create a cartoon using the technique of sand animation.PH International together with the US Embassy in Russia announced a competition for High school students which involved creating a video about a fellow countryman who went to the USA and made a significant contribution to American society, culture or business, or about a Russian subject, …

Distance learning in Russia due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic

The Ministry of Science and High Education of the Russian Federation, under the instruction of the Government of Russia Federation, recommends to all the Universities to continue the education process in on-line regime in order to decrease as much as possible the emergency of coronavirus outbreak in Russia (https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/common/upload/library/2020/03/main/397.pdf)Due to the declared state of emergency in Russia, being obliged to follow the recommendations by the Ministry, the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, the flagship University of the Komi Republic, has decided to close the campuses since March, 16 till April, 12. All courses will be delivered online and other support services will be available through remote accesses. Furthermore, at the moment we cannot be sure that the off-line courses will be resumed on 12.4.2020: there is a possibility that the courses will be continued to be offered online for some time after that. We will keep students updated. In order …

UN model 2020

On February 26-27 the Institute of Humanities of the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University hosted the XII annual youth forum called “UN Model “. Russian, international and also high school students took part in the event.The UN model is a conference where participants play the roles of diplomats and represent the country at simulated meetings of UN committees . Students select one out of 193 participating Countries and then discuss issues on their Committee’s agenda.— I am glad that in this game you will show not only your knowledge of the world politics and topical issues, but also offer ways to solve them. I wish you heated debate and objective decisions, — Yulia Ilyina, the Director of the Institute of Humanities, greeted the delegates.The agenda for the UN General Assembly was the domestic violence, its legal and socio-cultural aspects. The delegates presented their reports, outlining the current situation, measures and …