People we admire.
Famous Russians
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Famous Russians
… the
Russian land could
give birth to its own Platos
and quick minded Newtons.
Mikhail Lomonosov
Vocabulary
• compatriot –
соотечественник
• contemporary – современник
• generation – поколение
• contribution – вклад
• innovator – новатор
• scientist – ученый
• historical figure –
истор.деятель
• designer – конструктор
• cosmonaut – космонавт
• artist – художник
• representative –
представитель
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military leader – полководец
outstanding - выдающийся
essential – существенный
emotional – эмоциональный
ambitious – честолюбивый
significant – значительный
unpredictable –
непредсказуемый
realistic – реалистичный
landscape – пейзаж
title – звание, титул
Nobel prize – Нобелевская
премия
Vocabulary
• politician – политический
деятель
• unforgettable –
незабываемый
• marvellous – изумительный
• charming – очаровательный
• success – успех
• successful – успешный
• to succeed – добиться
успеха
• to be proud of – гордиться
• to investigate – исследовать
• to support – поддерживать
• to invent – изобретать
• to discover – открыть,
исследовать
• to dеscribe – описывать
• to perform – исполнять,
играть
• to perfect –
совершенствовать
• to make an impression –
произвести впечатление
• to enter – поступить
• to graduate from – окончить
• to admire – восхищаться
• the Periodic System of
Elements – Периодическая
система Менделеева
• heritage – наследие
• branches of science –
области науки
Mikhail Vasilyevich
Lomonosov
(1711 – 1765)
Scientist, writer, poet,
teacher
Branches of science –
chemistry, physics,
mineralogy, natural
science, history, art,
philology, optical devices
Achievements
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made a telescope
observed a lot of stars and planets
with his telescope
wrote the first scientific grammar of
the Russian language
wrote many poems
built a factory near Petersburg where
glass was produced
was a founder of the first Russian
University
Moscow State University was
renamed “M. V. Lomonosov Moscow
State University’’ in his honor in
1940.
Dmitriy Ivanovich
Mendeleev
(1834 – 1907)
a famous Russian
chemist,
physicist,
economist
• Mendeleev is a chemist of genius, firstclass physicist, a fruitful researcher in the
fields of hydrodynamics, meteorology,
geology, certain branches of chemical
technology and physics, and an original
thinker in the field of economy.“
L.A.Tchugayev,
Russian chemist and science historian
Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin
(1799 – 1837)
Alexandr Grin
(1880 – 1932)
"Scarlet Sails",
"A Golden Chair",
"Walking on the Waves"
Anton Chekhov
(1860 – 1904)
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Ivanov
Kashtanka
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry
Orchard
• The Lady With
the Dog
Ivan Aivazovsky
(1817 – 1900)
“The Sea is my life…”
Vasily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
Russian and German
artist, art theorist, poet,
one of the founders of
abstract art
«Blue Mountain», 1909
• initiated abstract art
• liked to use the
broken lines in his
paintings
• created vivid
dynamic
compositions
• thought that people
could portray their
feelings on paper.
«Autumn in Bavaria», 1908
«Moskow». Tretyakov Gallery, 1916
Kazimir Malevich
(1878 – 1935)
• the founder of geometric art
«Jumping red cavalry», 1928-1932
(the Russian museum)
His self-portrait
Portrait of his wife
«Black square», 1915
- the most
famous painting
by Malevich
We are proud of our
outstanding
compatriots !
I would rather have it said,
“He lived useful” than “He
died rich” …
Benjamin Franklin
Genius is one per cent
inspiration and ninety-nine
per cent perspiration.
Edison
I do not know what I may
appear to the world; but to
myself I seem to have been only
like a boy playing on the
seashore … while the great ocean
of truth lay all undiscovered
before me.
Isaac Newton
I think and think, for months,
for years, ninety-nine times
the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
We are all born equal. But after
that we are on our own.
Nobody is going to hand you
success on a plate.
If at first you don’t succeed,
try, try and try again.
If you want to succeed, you’ll
have to make it on your own:
your own head, your own energy,
your own ambitions.
CROSSWORD
Famous Russians
• 1 – Six Russians were given Nobel Prizes in ………
(science).
• 2 – The founder of the first Russian University
• 3 – There is no Noble Prize in ……. (science, school
subject).
• 4 – Russian physiologist – Nobel Prizewinner
• 5 – The first cosmonaut in the world
• 6 – «выдающийся» (in English)
• 7 – The first president of the USSR
• 8 – Famous Russian figure-skater, Olympic champion
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of three Olimpiads
• 9 – Bunin is Russian ……. Prizewinner in Literature.
• 10 – Korolev – …….. of the first Russian spaceship
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Thank you
for your job !