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There are 2 russian holidays widely celebrated in Russia (sometimes we call it gender holidays what reflects their nature). It's February 23rd (men's day) and March 8th (women's day). As long as men's day is passed I will tell you about Women's day . The history of Women's day has begun at 1857 in New-York at the women's demonstration. They wanted 10-hour working day, good working conditions and salary equal to men's salary. At that times women worked for 16 hours a day. Starting 1857 this day become widely spread all over the world. The first time the Women's day was celebrated in Russia March 2nd, 1913, in Peterburg. In a while the Women's day was stated as official holiday by Soviet Government, since 1963 it's a non-working day. Despite now this day is not widely celebrated all over the world, it is called International Womens Day. This is why many people jokingly call it International Women's Day in Russia. How big is the holiday? It...

In famous male-female dictionary there is an interesting translation of a word Мать girls mostly mean: mother boys mostly mean: mainboard - computer hardware

I have already recommended you materials for russian language test preparation . Now I want to share with you a link on online russian language test . This test was created to check literacy of native speakers - so if you are beginner you better do not try to pass it. But this it could be very helpful if you preparing to any official russian tests or checking your knowledge before the trip to russia. It implies knowledge of more and less litearate variants of pronunciation, punctuation, spelling etc. Most literate russians pass it with score between 100 and 110. Someone with 90 can be measured as quite educated, only professional linguists have 116 (a maximum). I have 108.

Fact#1 There is no continues tense in Russian. Only Future, Past and Present. Continuous tense can be figured out by meaning and sometimes in the form of word. There are 2 words with one source, meaning almost the same: ехать and ездить. They produce many equal words but ехать basically means that they are moving now, and ездить – do it regularly. Fact#2 When you address to somebody in Russian you still use faces, but you need to remember that there are separate words for You in single and multiple. Multiple You (Вы) is also a polite form. Fact#3 There is no true IT in Russian. To name objects and animals Russians use word’s gender. Every word can be in feminine, masculine or neutral gender. They are quite recognizable by endings, but still, it means that sun is IT, earth is SHE, fox is SHE, and table is HE. Weird, isn’t it?