III. Make up 8 questions of all types to the following text.

IV. Choose the correct preposition

 

1) … 20 July 1914 the building was laid in the middle of Nikolaevsky Prospect to commemorate the 300-year anniversary of the Romanovs' rule.

a) by

b) on

c) in

2) …early 1930 the chapel was demolished.

a) at

b) to

c) in

3) The chapel is situated … the geographical center of the Russian Empire.

a) in

b) of

c) from

4) The chapel was reconstructed at a new place and unveiled on 4 June 1993.

a) of

b) on

c) at

5) The reconstruction of the original Kryachkov's chapel by Petr A. Tchernobrovtsev is one of the best architectural projects of Novosibirsk … the 1990s.

a) in

b) at

c) by

 

 

V. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1. Здание часовни было заложено 20 июля 1914 посередине Николаевского проспекта в честь 300-летия дома Романовых.

2.9 ноября 1929 г. президиум Новосибирского регионального исполнительного комитета принял решение закрыть часовню.

3. На ее место сначала поместили скульптуру комсомольца, позже ее заменили на памятник Сталину.

4.Согласно легенде появившейся в Советскую и пост-Советскую эпоху часовня находится в точке обозначающей географический центр России.

5.Часовня была реконструирована и торжественно открыта 4 июня 1993г. на новом месте в честь 100-летия города Новосибирска.

 

VI. Say in connection with what, these dates are given:

20 july 1914; 9 november 1929; 1930's; 4 june 1993.

 

VII. Find the false sentences and correct them:

1. Andrei D.Kryachkov the architect from Krasnoyarsk was the one who implemented this unpaid project of a chapel executed in the manner of old Russian Novgorod and Pskov architecture of the XIV-XV centuries.

2. On 20 July 1914 the building was laid in the middle of Nikolaevsky Prospect to commemorate the 300-year anniversary of the Romanovs' rule.

3. On 9 November 1929 the mayor of Novosibirsk made a resolution to close down the chapel.

4. As a legend that appeared in the Soviet and post-Soviet era, the chapel is situated in the geographical center of Novosibirsk.

5. The reconstruction of the original Kryachkov's chapel by Petr A. Tchernobrovtsev is one of the best architectural projects of Novosibirsk in the 1990s.

VIII. Find in the text the synonyms to the following words and word combinations:

§ to accomplish;

§ to celebrate;

§ to operate;

§ to shut down;

§ to destroy;

§ to open solemnly;

§ to be located;

§ to originate.

 

IX. Retell the text.

Sibrevkom

(Picture gallery)

 

 

In 1921 The Siberian Bureau of the central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (of Bolshevicks) and the Siberian Revolutionary Committee (Sibrevcom) moved from Omsk to Novonikolaevsk. In 1925 the All-Union Central Executive Committee made a resolution to form the Siberian region with the centre in Novonikolaevsk. The building of Sibrevcom was built in the shortest possible time – within seven months – to accommodate administrative institutions.

The symmetrical façade of the building is decorated with two-storied pilasters fixed in the rusticated ground floor. The façade is crowned with a cupola, motivated only in terms of composition. The front entrance is set off by a way with two «Egyptian» columns, bearing an entablature-balcony of the second floor slightly protruding from the façade. The front entrance is flanked with two protruding portions topped with the statues of a worker and a peasant by the Altai sculptor Stepan R.Nadolsky. The statues are placed on pediments. Andrei D. Kryachkov tried to express the public character of the building by erecting it recessed from the red line and making a grand porch with a central staircase and lateral rounded ramps decorated with pylons.

Although the building is not of great size, the architect succeeded in making it monumental. Kryachkov gave special attention to the design of side façades, topped with stepped parapets with semi-circular windows in the centre. Eclectic decoration of the Sibrevcom building contains both neoclassical decorative devices and some ornamental motifs of Art Nouveau. The color scheme advocated by Kryachkov has justified itself in the course of time as the most practical and expressive in the severe Siberian climate. It is a restrained grey color scheme of the plastered walls of the construction. In 1930 the newspaper «Sovetskaya Sibir» strictly criticized Kryachkov for the non-proletarian character of architecture of the Sibrevkom building.

Vocabulary

to fix – устанавливать

cupola –купол

bay – ниша

bearing – несущий

peasant – крестьянин

grand porch –(зд.) парадный подход

lateral –боковой

ramp –пандус

to advocate –оправдывать

restrained –сдержанный

Exercises

 

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

Committee, resolution, region, composition, façade, statue, monumental, scheme, expressive.

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

Revolutionary, administrative, slightly, worker, special, semi-circular, strictly, non-proletarian, practical.

 

III. Answer the following questions:

1.When did the Siberian Revolutionary Committee move from Omsk to Novonikolaevsk?

2.What resolution did the All-Union Central Executive Committee make in 1925?

3.How many months did it take to build Sibrevcom?

4.What is the façade of the building decorate with?

5. What is the façade of the building crowned with?

6.What details did A.D. Kryachkov use to express the public character of the building?

7.What did Kryachkov give special attention to?

8.What devices does Eclectic decoration of the Sibrevcom building contain?

9. Has the Kryachkov's color scheme justified itself?

10. Why did the newspaper «Sovetskaya Sibir» strictly criticize Kryachkov's Sibrevcom building?

IV. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb:

1. The building of Sibrevcom … in the shortest possible time.

a) is built

b) was build

c) was built

 

2. The symmetrical façade of the building … with two-storied pilasters fixed in the rusticated ground floor.

a) is decorated

b) are decorated

c) was decorated

3. The façade … with a cupola, motivated only in terms of composition.

a) has crowned

b) is crowned

c) was crowned

4. The front entrance … with two protruding portions topped with the statues of a worker and a peasant by the Altai sculptor Stepan R.Nadolsky.

a) was set off

b) were set off

c) is set off

5. The statues… on pediments.

a) were placed

b) are placed

c) is place

6. The color scheme … by Kryachkov has justified itself in the course of time as the most practical and expressive in the severe Siberian climate.

a) is advocated

b) advocated

c) was advocated

7. In 1930 the newspaper «Sovetskaya Sibir» strictly … Kryachkov for the non-proletarian character of architecture of the Sibrevkom building.

a) criticized

b) was criticized

c) are criticized

 

V. Find the false sentences and correct them:

1. In 1925 the All-Union Central Executive Committee made a resolution to form the Siberian region with the centre in Omsk.

2. The building of Sibrevcom was built within nine months.

3. The symmetrical façade of the building is decorated with three-storied pilasters fixed in the rusticated second floor.

4. The front entrance is set off by a way with two «Roman» columns.

5. The front entrance is flanked with two protruding portions topped with the statues of a soldier and a sailor by the Altai sculptor Stepan R.Nadolsky.

6. Kryachkov gave special attention to the design of side façades, topped with stepped parapets with rectangular windows in the centre.

7. Eclectic decoration of the Sibrevcom building contains both neoclassical decorative devices and some ornamental motifs of Post Modernism.

8. It is a restrained white color scheme of the plastered walls of the construction.

9. In 1930 the newspaper «Komsomolskaya Pravda» strictly criticized Kryachkov for the proletarian character of architecture of the Sibrevkom building.

VI. Match the words and their definitions:

1. Resolution; a) a rectangular column that projects

partially from the wall to which it attached.

 

2. Pilaster; b) a dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

 

3. Pediment; c) a formal statement adopted by an assembly.

 

4. Cupola; d) a foundation.

 

5. Porch; e) a part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.

6. Ramp; f) a covered and enclosed entrance to a building.

 

7. Parapet; g) an inclined surface that connects two levels.

 

VII. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1.Симметричный фасад здания, украшенный двухэтажными пилястрами, установлен на рустованный первый этаж.

2. Фасад увенчан куполом, чье наличие обусловлено только композиционным замыслом.

3.Главный вход выделен нишей с двумя Египетскими колоннами, несущими антаблемент-балкон второго этажа слегка выгнутый из фасада.

4.Главный вход фланкируют два ризалита увенчанные статуями рабочего и крестьянина работы алтайского скульптора Степана Надольского.

5.В эклектичном оформлении здания Сибревкома присутствуют как неоклассические приемы украшения, так и мотивы Арт-Нуво.

VIII. Retell the text.