University Will Host Total Dictation Participants Again

11:13, March 31, 2023

The text will be read by TV host Konstantin Zushchik

This year the "Total Dictation" campaign will be held on April 8. On that day 30 sites will be opened in Ekaterinburg, one of them will be the Ural Federal University. Moreover, UrFU will be the largest site in the city. Registration for "Total Dictation" has already started at the official project website.

The dictation in UrFU will take place in the Demidov Hall (51, Lenin Avenue). The text will be read by Konstantin Zushchik, the host of the program "Vesti-Ural", the lecturer of the Basic Department of Television and New Media at the Ural Federal University.

"Holding an event at the Ural Federal University is a good tradition that we try to maintain. Everyone is welcome, especially since we have 350 seats this year. Demidov Hall is a large and comfortable auditorium and everyone will be able to see and hear everything," the university said.

The works of the participants are traditionally examined by senior philology students, this is a long successful practice of active participation of the university in the "Total Dictation".

This year the text for the campaign was written by the writer and journalist Vasily Avchenko. It is dedicated to Vladimir Arsenyev, a traveler, writer, researcher of the Far East.

In Ekaterinburg, about 2,000 people are expected to participate in the offline format. Another option is to test your knowledge of Russian online. This year Nizhny Tagil has become the capital of "Total Dictation". The text will be read at the Demidov Ironworks by the author of the dictation himself.

Reference

"Total Dictation" is an annual cultural and educational campaign. It is aimed at arousing interest in the Russian language and raising the level of literacy among native speakers and those who study Russian as a foreign or non-native language. The first "Total Dictation" was held in 2004 by students of the Humanitarian Faculty of the Novosibirsk State University. Over the past 19 years, the event has become global: it is organized by the Total Dictation Foundation and carried out by activists and volunteers in various cities around the world.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office.
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Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.