Vocabulary

1 tercentennial - трехсотлетняя годовщина, трехсотлетие

2 heritage - наследство; наследие

3 tumultuous - шумный, буйный, бурный

4 to locate on - располагать в определенном месте; помещать, размещать

5 to reflect in - отражаться в чем-либо

6 to fame for - прославлять (за что-либо), славить

7 to tend to - иметь тенденцию (к чему-л.); клониться, склоняться (к чему-л.)

8 to span - измерять, мерить, отмерять

9 cloister - монастырь

10 to be drawn to - зд. привлекать, притягивать, соблазнять

11 terminous - конечная станция; цель, место назначения

12 due to - благодаря; вследствие; в результате

13 adjacency - соседство; смежность, сопредельность

14 to associate with – ассоциировать с

15 autonomous – автономный, независимый

Text work

1. Find English equivalents in the text:

1 концентрироваться (сосредоточиваться) вокруг центра города

2 самые известные достопримечательности

3 праздновать трехсотлетие

4 богатое культурное наследие

5 каналы и водные пути

6 крупнейшее хранилище изобразительного искусства

7 умеренный климат

8 популярное место отдыха

9 автономный регион

10 хорошо известен

2. Find the synonyms to the given words in the text:

1 quickly

2 to concentrate on/in

3 place of interest

4 lately

5 well known

6 to involve

7 to be situated

8 stretches

9 destination

10 holiday, leisure

3. Fill in the table with words with common root:

Noun	Verb	Adjective	Adverb
center
	to attract
		associative
			adjacently

4. Skim the text once again and find information about climate conditions in Russia. Retell it.

5. Read the following extract about climate conditions and fill in the summary table:

Moscow has a hemiboreal climate with warm, somewhat humid summers and long, cold winters. Typical high temperatures in the warm months of July and August are around 22 °C (72 °F); in the winter, temperatures normally drop to approximately -12 °C (10 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded was +36.7 °C (98.1 °F), and the lowest ever recorded was -42.2 °C in January 1940. Monthly rainfall totals vary minimally throughout the year, although the precipitation levels tend to be higher during the summer than during the winter. Due to the significant variation in temperature between the winter and summer months as well as the limited fluctuation in precipitation levels during the summer, Moscow is considered to be within a continental climate zone.

	Summer	Winter
Average temperature (˚C)
The highest temperature (˚C)
The lowest temperature (˚C)

Text 3. Attractions of St.Petersburg

Skim the text and find out the information about climatic conditions in St.Petersburg. Retell it to your partner.

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia on the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. St. Petersburg's informal name, Piter (Питер), is based on how Peter the Great was called by foreigners. The city's other names were Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924) and Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991).

Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703, it was capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years (1712-1728, 1732-1918). St. Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is Russia's second largest and Europe's fourth largest city after Moscow, London and Paris. At latitude 59°56′N, Saint Petersburg is the world's largest city north of Moscow (55°45′N). 4.6 million people live in the city, and over 6 million people live in the city's vicinity. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural center, and important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. The city, as federal subject, has a total area of 1,439 square kilometres (556 sq mi).

St. Petersburg enjoys the image of being the most Western European styled city of Russia. Among cities of the world with over one million people, Saint Petersburg is the northernmost. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Russia's political and cultural center for 200 years, the city is impressive, and is sometimes referred to in Russia as "the Northern Capital".

The most famous of St. Petersburg's museums is the Hermitage, one of the world's largest and richest collections of Western European art. Its vast holdings were originally exhibited in the Greek Revival building (1838–1852) by Leo von Klenze, now called the New Hermitage. But the first Russian museum was established by Peter the Great in the Kunstkammer, erected in 1718–1734 on the opposite bank of the Neva River and formerly a home to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Other popular tourist destinations include the State Russian Museum and the Summer Garden, the Ethnography Museum (1900–1911), Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (1885–1895), the Suvorov Museum of Military History (1901–1904), and the Political History Museum (1904–06).

Nevsky Prospekt is the main avenue of St. Petersburg connecting the Winter Palace with the ancient monastery at Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Nevsky is the busiest shopping destination and the prime center of entertainment and nighlife. Shopping malls, department stores, business centers, built in a variety of styles, include the Eliseev emporium, the House of Books, The Passage, and more.

St. Petersburg is surrounded by imperial residences, some of which are inscribed in the World Heritage list. These include: Peterhof, with the Grand Peterhof Palace and glorious fountain cascades; Tsarskoe Selo, with the baroque Catherine Palace and the neoclassical Alexander Palace; and Pavlovsk, which contains a domed palace of Emperor Paul (1782–1786) and one of the largest English-style parks in Europe.

Much of Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo had to be restored after being dynamited by the retreating Germans in 1944. Other imperial residences have yet to be revived to their former glory. Gatchina, lying 45 km (28 mi) southwest of St Petersburg, retains a royal castle with 600 rooms surrounded by a park. Oranienbaum, founded by Prince Menshikov, features his spacious baroque residence and the sumptuously decorated Chinese palace. Strelna has a hunting lodge of Peter the Great and the reconstructed Constantine Palace, used for official summits of the Russian president with foreign leaders.

Other notable suburbs are Shlisselburg, with a medieval fortress, and Kronstadt, with its 19th century fortifications and naval monuments. Catherinehof, originally intended as a garden suburb, was engulfed by the city in the 19th century.