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9. Answer the questions:

1. Have you ever heard about Belavezhskaya Pushcha What is it? 2. Thanks to what did the forest acquire its name? 3. What did archaeological excavations prove? 4. What tribes inhabited Belavezhskaya Pushcha? 5. What is known about Yacviahs? 6. Who began to force Yacviahs out of the Pushcha? 7. What plants were built in the Pushcha in the 16th century? 8. In whose reign did the industrial development of Belavezhskaya Pushcha flourish? 9. When did Belavezhskaya Pushcha become part of the Russian empire? 10. What has the ancient forest suffered from since that time? 11. When did Napoleon come to Belavezhskaya Pushcha? 12. Where did the French soldiers find food? 13. Why did ship bunders from Peterburg come to Belavezhska Pushcha? 14. How many noble elks were brought from Germany to Belavezhskaya Pushcha in 1864? What for? 15. Why did the German invaders send the best timber from the Pushcha to their country? 16. When was Belavezhskaya Pushcha declared the State Reserve? 17. When was the Pushcha occupied by the Germans again? 18. When was part of the reserve given to Poland? 19. What was Belavezhskaya Pushcha turned into in 1957? 20. What was built in the reserve at that time? 21. When did the world hear about Belavezhskaya Pushcha? 22. What happened in Belavezhskaya Pushcha in 1991? 23. What is Viskuli now? 24. When was Belavezhskaya Pushcha given the status of a biosphere reserve?

10. Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1. The name Belavezhskaya Pushcha appeared in the Belarusian and Kievan chronicles in the 10th century. 2. The tower Kamianiecskaya Vezha was in the centre of Belavezhskaya Pushcha. 3. The first tribes in Pushcha were the Krivichi and Dregovichi. 4. The Kievan Prince Vladimir began to struggle against that tribe and was conquered. 5. The Polish King Sigizmund August began to build his new palace in the Pushcha. 6. In 1795 the Pushcha became part of the Russian empire. 7. The empress Katherine the Great distributed Belavezhskaya Pushcha among her servants because she wanted them to build new houses. 8. In May 1811 Belavezhskaya Puscha suffered from a great fire. 9. Ship builders from Petersburg visited the Puscha for hunting. In 1864 the first aurochs were brought from Germany. In 1888 the Russian tsar Nicolai II took Belavezhskaya Puscha under his patronage. 12. The German invaders constructed a lot of roads in the Pushcha. 13. Every year more than a million cubic meters of timber were exported to Germany and France. 14. In 1939 Belavezhskaya Pushcha was dec ared the State Reserve. 15. During World War II Belavezhskaya Pushcha was the place where Belarusian partisans lived. 16. In 1944

Poland took part of the reserve by force. 17. In 1957 the Pushcha became a place for hunting and rest. 18. the world heard about Belovezhskaya Pushcha in December 1991 when delegations from different European and African countries gathered in Viskuli to sort out some political problems.