10. Find the information and tell about other famous people, who live or lived in your town.

11. Read text 5e and translate it. Text 5e. The Mountain marathon ‘Konzhak’

The Mountain marathon ‘Konzhak’ is annually held in the vicinity of Krasnoturinsk town in Sverdlovsk region on the first Saturday of July. The unique district and extreme conditions of running up to the highest point of a distance (1569 m) have transformed it into the most popular among 60 m arathons of Russia. The participants are champions of almost all prestigious Russian, European and world sport events like 100 km race, and whole-day race, super marathon ‘Komrads’ (republic of South Africa), climbers, world champions in orientation, marathoners, skiers, biathlonists, skaters, hockey players, triahtlonists, boxers, wrestlers, swimmers, and mountain tourists.

The race takes place in the mountainous and woody territories of the Northern Urals. The old Ural Mountains are the land boundary between Europe and Asia.

The first half of the route (21 km) runs uphill to the apex of Mt. Konzhakovsky Kamen (1569 m). The way back – the same route downhill.

The track lies in the mixed woods, taiga, tundra and on the rocky areas of Konzhak massif with surfaces like pebble, soil trail, stones, grass, boulders.

From the start the first 4−5 km run along an old-time timber road, mostly dry, compacted and graded with pebble, through brooks and swamps with alder-trees, firs, willows, growing around.

Then you rise a slope along rough pebble track. You see bushes of raspberries, mountain ashes, dog roses, fire-weeds. On the top of the slope you will be fanned with either northern or western wind, and your eyes will rest on the picturesque view of the southern oval of the golden Kytlym cup.Before you, as if they are on the palm of your hand: Mt. Sukhogorsky Kamen (1200 m), Mt. Seven Men (1036 m), Hillocks (1064 m), Mt. Cap (956 m) and a huge dome of Mt. Kosvinsky Kamen (1519 m).

Crossing the stream over the logs will take you some 5–10 seconds. The trail then leads you to a stream drying off in summertime, then through mixed forest with meter-high ant-hills, carpets of bilberries and mountain cranberries. That place encircled with high mountain ashes and mighty cedars may resemble you something of a paradise.

The next 2−3 kilometers are most pleasant, the trail is wide, dry and soft, on both sides there are evergreens, spotted with huge roots of fallen trees and old cedars.

I n the fifth km from the spring you will step on the Glade of the Artists. Like an arena of an amphitheatre it is surrounded from its three sides with rocky giants – Guard's shoulder, first steps of the Konzhak and Mt. Trapezium. On the right there is a canyon of the Konzhakovka River. From this glade the heavily padded trail gets you through the dwarf forest, then through the knee-high bushes and then through rock falls to the Yov' gates pass.

A wide Yov's plateau is fully covered with grass and flowers, with damp soil provide you with a breathtaking panorama. On the right there is Mt.Southern Yov (1311 m), in front of you – Mt. Northern Yov (1263 m), further on across the belt of woods – Mt. Burtym (1148 m). From this place at clear weather you may get a view of the magnificent Main Urals ridge (1425 m) and the Denezhkin Kamen ridge (1489 m), being as far as almost hundred kilometers away.

The last 3 and a half kilometers you pace and crawl over sets of boulders, meet with random grassy clearings with flowers, mountain onion, golden root, fed with crystal clear streams.

Finally you step on a grassy carpet of the pre-summit plateau at the height of 1500 m. There is a memorial to the died. And it will take you final 10–15 minutes to get to the top of the most popular Ural mountain.

The organizers will offer you tea, drinks, snacks at five feed stations along the route. After the marathon you may enjoy swimming in a mountainous river and taste hot tea and food cooked on fire.