The largest city in the Urals and one of the top five in Russia, Yekaterinburg has a number of consulates of major countries. The city has several dozen libraries, including the V. G. Belinsky Scientific Library, which is the largest public library in Sverdlovsk Oblast. The Kharitonov Palace (built 1794-1820).
Yekaterinburg is famous for its theaters, among which are some very popular theater companies: the Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (a notable company known in Russia and in ex-Soviet republics as Свердловская музкомедия - Sverdlovskaya muzkomedia), the Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, the Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, the Volkhonka (a popular chamber theater), and the Kolyada Theater (a chamber theater founded by Russian playwright, producer and actor Nikolai Kolyada). Yekaterinburg is the center of New Drama, a movement of the contemporary Russian playwrights Nikolai Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, the Presnyakov brothers, and Oleg Bogayev. Yekaterinburg is also often called the capital of contemporary dance for a number of famous contemporary dance companies residing in the city: the Kipling, the Provincial Dances, the Tantstrest, and a special department of contemporary dance at the Yekaterinburg University of Humanities. вот
1. not fashionable any longer - old-fashioned 2. to translate smb’s speech into another language – to interpret 3. willing to help, useful - helpful 4. to know and to understand the importance of something – to realize 5. later, after that - then 6. to understand - comprehend 7. a group of words used together as a word combination with a special meaning - idiom 8. the part of a building that supports it – foundation, base 9. rise and fall of the voice - intonation 10. ordinary, not special or the middle member of a group - average 11. training someone by doing an exercise again and again - drilling 12. connected – related, linked, joined 13. fashionable, modern or new - trendy, popular 14. sad or unhappy because the things you hoped for do not happen - disappointed 15. to do something often so that you will do it well – to practise 16. taking or acting in a way that makes other people sad or angry. – to be rude
The city has several dozen libraries, including the V. G. Belinsky Scientific Library, which is the largest public library in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
The Kharitonov Palace (built 1794-1820).
Yekaterinburg is famous for its theaters, among which are some very popular theater companies: the Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (a notable company known in Russia and in ex-Soviet republics as Свердловская музкомедия - Sverdlovskaya muzkomedia), the Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, the Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, the Volkhonka (a popular chamber theater), and the Kolyada Theater (a chamber theater founded by Russian playwright, producer and actor Nikolai Kolyada). Yekaterinburg is the center of New Drama, a movement of the contemporary Russian playwrights Nikolai Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, the Presnyakov brothers, and Oleg Bogayev. Yekaterinburg is also often called the capital of contemporary dance for a number of famous contemporary dance companies residing in the city: the Kipling, the Provincial Dances, the Tantstrest, and a special department of contemporary dance at the Yekaterinburg University of Humanities. вот
2. to translate smb’s speech into another language – to interpret
3. willing to help, useful - helpful
4. to know and to understand the importance of something – to realize
5. later, after that - then
6. to understand - comprehend
7. a group of words used together as a word combination with a special meaning - idiom
8. the part of a building that supports it – foundation, base
9. rise and fall of the voice - intonation
10. ordinary, not special or the middle member of a group - average
11. training someone by doing an exercise again and again - drilling
12. connected – related, linked, joined
13. fashionable, modern or new - trendy, popular
14. sad or unhappy because the things you hoped for do not happen - disappointed
15. to do something often so that you will do it well – to practise
16. taking or acting in a way that makes other people sad or angry. – to be rude