IV. Give English equivalents to the Russian words and word combinations
5. житель
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revalue, bank, entertainment, cathedral, prayers house, celebrate, inhabitant, small merchant town, left bank, pass through, unpaved, crooked, dirty, exile, pride, consider, a city of students, welfare standards and culture
V. Make up sentences
1. The city, to number, 1200000, inhabitant, today.
2. So, 1716, in, Omsk, to found.
3. Oil Refinery, Siberian, petrochemistry, to be, a giant, of.
4. They, to be, visiting, worth.
5. To live, we, in, of, the period, changes, great.
6. Library, Pushkin, to be, big, the, of, them.
VI. Answer the following questions
1. What is Omsk?
2. How old is Omsk?
3. What is the population of Omsk?
4. How was it founded?
5. What are the main branches of industry in Omsk?
6. Why do we consider Omsk a city of students?
7. What theatres do you know in Omsk?
8. What places of interest are there in Omsk?
9. What problems are the inhabitants of Omsk to solve?
VII. Make up a plan of the text
VIII. Give a short story about Omsk
IX. Speak about the history of Omsk using the following words and word combinations
To be situated, merchant town, to turn for, center, a group, soldiers and Cossacks, guidance, Buchgolts, to found, fortress, to be renamed, to be Sounded, Great Trans-Siberian Railway, to pass through, to be like, wooden, unpaved, dusty, crooked, exile, Dostoevsky.
Текст II
Omsk in a nutshell
Founded in 1716
Is said to be the capital of South-Western Siberia
Situated in the southern part of the West-Sibirian plain
Climate is continental
Population is 1,5 mil people
Distance from Moscow - 2555 km.
Local time GMT +6
Phone code: 3812
Big railway traffic centre
Basic info
Omsk is said to be the capital of South-Western Siberia.
The territory of Omsk region is 139,7 thousand square kilometres and is divided into 32 administrative districts.
Population
Population is 1,5 million people. It is a multinational City. It is inhabited by Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Tatars, Kazakhs, Belorussians, Bashkeers, Jewry and other nations, altogether – about 80 nationalities.
Geography
Omsk region is situated in the southern part of the West-Siberian plain. On the West and North the region borders Tyumen region, on the East – with Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions, on the South and South-Western direction – with Kazhakstan.
History of Omsk Region
Omsk was founded in 1716 as a fortress at the junction point of channels of the Irtysh and the Om rivers by Colonel Ivan Bukhgoltz, this historic fact initiated developing one of the oldest cities in Siberia.
At the second part of the 18th century the fortress became the largest fortification at the East of the country. Construction of Trans - Siberian railway boosted the development of the city. Railway connected Omsk with European part of Russia
Culture
There are 83 public libraries with book fund exceeding 7 million pieces, 9 museums, containing over 220 000 collection items, theatres of Omsk are also well known in Russia as well as abroad.
Sport
Athletes from Omsk have been taking part in national and international competitions, Olympics. Wrestler Alexander Pushnitza, swimmer Roman Sludnov and gymnast Irina Chashina are world known.
Omsk Hockey Team Avangard is the champion of the Russian Hockey Superleague in 2004, 2 times took the second place – in 1998 and 2006, and is proud to be the European Hockey Champion in 2005.
Healthcare
There are 10 000 physicians and 17000 nurses in Omsk as well as 60 hospitals and 158 dispensaries. Omsk Medical Academy trains highly skilled doctors of different specialties and is in charge of raising the level of G.Ps skills.
The distinguishing feature of our people, in this case our physicians, is that they are perfectly glad to share their knowledge and experience with students.
We have very friendly and warm relationships with leading hospitals, thus, they are constantly waiting for our students. We hope everybody can appreciate the atmosphere, which prevails in our hospitals.
There are 30 special medical centers in Omsk , such as: endocrinological, pulmonological, perinatal, microsurgery, surgery of lever, gastroenterology, and diagnostic center, the largest one in Siberia.
How to get
The flight time from Moscow is 3 hours. There are 3 flights every day: 2 in the early morning and one at night.