Vocabulary

turning point – поворотный момент

drastically – решительно

to protract – тянуть, затягивать, медлить

harsh –грубый, жесткий

to entrust – поручать, уполномочивать

substantial – существенный

preliminary – предварительный

exaggerated – увеличивать

vault-shell – сводчатая оболочка

elongated – растянутый

transverse – поперечный

roomy – вместительный

Exercises

I. Try to translate the following words without using a dictionary:

Conceptual, criticism, municipal, project, industrial, monolithic, administration, symbolic, cylindrical, tunnel, viaduct.

II. Define the part of speech of the following words:

Drastically, construction, biggest, conceptual, architectural, industrial, monolithic, technical, corrective, external, symbolic, requirement.

III. Answer the following questions:

1.What year is considered to be the turning point in the development of Soviet architecture?

2. Is Novosibirsk Railway Station one of the biggest in the country?

3. When was national competition organized by MAO?

4. Who won the first prize?

5. Why didn't the municipal layout committee adopt the Voloshinov's design?

6. Where was further work on the project entrusted to?

7. Was the Kogiprotrans design adopted?

8. What kind of decoration did the building of Novosibirsk Railway Station

receive as a result?

9. What kind of order was used in the façade?

10. What is the ticket office covered with?

11. What American city has a similar scheme of a railway station?

12. What company reconstructed the building in 1990s?

IV. Complete the following sentences:

1. The year of 1932 … affected the two biggest construction projects in Novosibirsk.

2. Their construction was … for many years.

3. The municipal layout committee voiced …with the building's architecture.

4. Kogiprotrans introduced …changes in the volume layout structure.

5. A competition was also held for the … architecture of the building.

6. A …decoration with half columns of an …Tuscan order and an …window plays a leading role in the façade.

7. The ticket office is covered with a …of monolithic reinforced concrete.

8. Engineer Nikolay V. Nikitin designed the unique …shell with an …caisson finishing.

9. This design approach allowed passengers to …to the platforms only once upon boarding.

V. Find the false sentences and correct them:

1. The year of 1942 is the turning point in the development of Soviet architecture.

2. Novosibirsk Railway Station is the biggest one in the country.

3. Voloshinov's design was adopted at an exhibition in Novosibirsk in july 1930.

4. Further work on the project was entrusted to Kiev division of Giprotrans (Kogiprotrans).

5. As a result, the building received eclectic decoration.

6. A monumental decoration with half columns of an exaggerated Composite order and an arched window plays a leading role in the façade.

7. Engineer Nikolay V. Nikitin designed the unique spherical shell with an internal caisson finishing.

8. The design approach allowed passengers to descend to the platforms twice upon boarding.

9. This novel scheme was successfully realized.

10. In the 1990s the Turkish construction company reconstructed and repaired the building.