6. Find the information about the buildings in the pictures. Describe then using the new words. Share the information with your groupmates.

7. Speak on the following:

• The development of the mining industry in Barnaul

• The famous architects who built Barnaul

• The Demidovskaya Square

• The Shatrovaya tower in Barnaul

• Famous people who lived, worked and visited Barnaul

• Barnaul – a great commercial center.

• Barnaul’s most famous products

• Two fires that destroyed Barnaul

• Barnaul during the Great Patriotic War

• Post-war years

S elf Check

1. Test your knowledge of the vocabulary. Translate the following expressions from English into Russian.

Pearl of Siberia;

captivated;

tilled area;

reclaimed;

swamp land;

drain;

floodplain;

chestnut soil;

potassium;

fertilizer;

sulphur;

saline soil;

siltation;

fertility;

deflation;

annual amplitude;

solar shining;

precipitation;

active cyclonic activity;

recurrence;

snow cover;

environmentally active branches;

level of industrial emission;

subterranean;

comprise;

interfluve;

watercourse;

confluence;

plain part;

consumer;

shallow;

riverbed;

gradient;

turbulent rivers;

ledge;

turbid;

tint;

rapids;

designation;

foothill;

to predominate;

to maintain the purity of faith;

inaccessible;

arable;

petrochemical industry;

plows;

freight cars;

to be favourably located;

abundance of natural resources;

marked economic decline;

economic prospects;

foreign investment;

noticeable increase;

power grid;

to meet the requirements;

gross regional product;

caterpillar tractors;

timber industry;

factory of aluminum molding;

6-cylinder engines;

ammunition;

heat exchanger;

press-forging plant;

steam boilers;

petrochemical chemical fibers;

frictions;

sealing materials;

heat-resistant;

pipes;

hoses;

flat-bottomed boats;

coke;

accompanying goods;

surpass;

food-processing industry;

distillery;

grain-processing industry;

the hardware does not meet

modern requirements;

depreciation;

yarn;

flex fibers;

lifeblood;

construction of fortresses;

warlike nomadic Jungars;

cannons;

to mint coins;

to cast the bells;

envoy;

serf;

silver-smelting plant;

smelting furnaces;

to preserve the remains of feudalism;

third-largest milk and grain producer;

soybeans;

sugar beets;

cropland;

hard verities;

spring wheat;

buckwheat;

millet;

peas;

barley;

oats;

sunflower;

temperature swing;

livestock farming;

fine-fleeced pedigreed sheep;

deer antlers;

pelts;

horticultural;

cranberry;

honey-suckle;

blueberry;

black currant;

sea buckthorn;

red currant;

rye flour;

flax fiber;

pine forest;

shrubs;

larch;

spruce;

pine;

aspen;

bird cherry;

mountain ash;

cranberry;

mosses;

shrubs;

honeysuckle;

blueberry;

lingonberry;

arctic fox;

reindeer;

ptarmigan;

brown bears;

wolverines;

moose;

musk deer;

partridge;

grouse;

marmots;

jerboas;

argali;

omnivorous;

hibernate;

sable;

roe deer;

mole;

insectivore;

ground squirrels;

rodents;

hamsters;

voles;

predatory;

polecats;

weasels;

falcons;

snipe;

teal;

cranes;

gulls;

swans;

jays;

crossbills;

hazel hens;

eagle owls;

jackdaws;

common viper;

lizard;

snakes;

adders;

rattle snake;

perch;

pike;

grayling;

salmon trout;

carp;

tench;

endemic;

to make an enormous leap forward;

to issue a decree;

to stand out favourably;

to commemorate;

portico;

pediment;

to necessitate;

bay window;

wood carving;

frieze;

eaves;

guerilla army;

overproduction crises;

brewries.