RUDN international team – winner of the I Student Russian Scrabble Championship
Winners of the I Student Russian Scrabble Championship - E.Grunina, A.Petrova, A.Lonskaya, Ya.Vechkanova and S.Fana.
The game is known to many since childhood – you have to make words from the given letters and place them on a board.
According to I.Klimenko, author of Russian scrabble, “the project has been supported by the RF Ministry of education and science and is aimed at promoting the Russian language, history and literature”. You can check yourself at http://www.ruscorpora.ru/, - a collection of more than 500 mln words, each illustrated by citations from classical literature and periodicals.
The first championship united more than 40 teams of the RF HEIs. Participants suggested more than 1,000 words including 80 most valuable, 80 longest, 80 citations and 80 authors of 80 works. RUDN students proved to be the best!
Minsk State Linguistic University came second while Moscow State Teaching University was third.
December 15, Minsk hosted the IX International Student Olympiad in Human Anatomy. It was attended by 9 teams from Russia and Belarus. Students of RUDN took two 3rd places in the theoretical and practical rounds.
The VI Firsova Readings conference “Modern languages and cultures: variability, functions, ideologies in the cognitive aspect”, held at the Faculty of Philology brought together speakers from Russia, England, Hungary, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, working in 9 thematic sessions. The conference featured a workshop, a round table and three seminars in Russian and English.
RUDN University will again become the most international platform for the Geographical Dictation, which will be held on November 19, in Russia and abroad. The dictation is held annually by the Russian Geographical Society on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The key goal of the project is to popularize geographical knowledge and increase interest in the geography of Russia. Test your geographic literacy!