Yuri Gagarin Biography

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934 in a small village called Klushino which is about 190km from Moscow, Russia. His parents worked on a collective farm. The father was a carpenter and bricklayer and the mother was a milkmaid. Yuri had an old sister and two brothers.

When Yuri was sixteen years old, he became an apprentice foundryman at a steel plant near Moscow and took evening classes. Then he continued his studies at the industrial college at Saratov and concurrently took a course in flying. On completing this course, he entered the Soviet Air Force cadet school at Orenburg, from which he graduated in 1957.

In 1957 Yuri Gagarin married. He has two daughters.

On 12 April 1961, he did aboard Vostok 1. Following his historic flight, where he also became the first human being to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin became a national hero and a celebrity around the world. Nikita Khrushchev awarded him Hero of the Soviet Union.

He travelled quite a lot after this around Europe and visited the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Brazil and Japan among others.

In 1962 Yuri Gagarin was elected to serve as Deputy to the Soviet of the Union. In 12 June of the same year, he was also promoted to lieutenant colonel, and in 1963 then to colonel.

During this time Gagarin was the backup pilot for Vladimir Komarov. But after the Soyuz 1 crash where Komarov was killed the authorities banning Gagarin from further space flight missions due to concerns about losing a national hero in just such an accident.

Yuri Gagarin became a deputy training director at Star City on 20 December 1963 and in 1966 he began training to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. On 27 March 1968, during a training flight, the MiG-15 in which he and his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin were travelling crashed near to the town of Kirzhach and both men were killed. The bodies of both pilots were cremated and they are buried in the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow.

The cause of the crash still remains somewhat of a mystery. Some have blamed a combination of errors by ground crew and air traffic controllers whilst a more prominent theory in recent years involves a near miss with another aircraft, which caused Gagarin’s MiG to enter an uncontrollable spiral dive.

Since 1962, 12 April, the date he flew into space was celebrated in the Soviet Union as Cosmonautics Day.

In 1968 the town of Gzhatsk where he grew up after the war was also renamed. It is now simply called Gagarin in his honour of its hero.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful! – Yuri Gagarin

First words ever spoken by a human leaving Earth for outer space: Let’s go!

Конкурс Чтецов на немецком языке

Сегодня в рамках Недели языкознания прошёл Конкурс Чтецов на немецком языке среди студенток 3 курса. В Конкурсе приняли участие 8 девушек, каждая из них получила задание прочитать электронное письмо от гостя отеля. Это была отличная возможность показать свои знания и умения. В ходе проведения конкурса были определены самые талантливые, артистичные чтецы. 

1 место – Горева Юлия

2 место – Вьюгова Анна

3 место – Бакуменко Александра

4 место – Шологон Дарья

5 место – Кондрина Дарья, Дивеева Ксения

6 место – Мышкина Александра

7 место – Сухомолова Дарья

 

  Предметные олимпиады - одна из форм работы с одаренными студентами. Они помогают решать целый ряд важных задач по развитию и воспитанию. Олимпиады не только способствуют выявлению одарённых студентов, но и позволяют правильно сориентировать их в дальнейшей профессиональной деятельности.

 Ежегодно студенты нашего колледжа принимают участие в Международной Дистанционной Олимпиаде по английскому языку на сайте "Инфоурок". Этот год не стал исключением - 36 студентов первого и второго курсов решили олимпиадные задания. Будем ждать результатов!

   Хочется отметить, что в олимпиадах участвуют не только отличники, но и не «сильные» студенты. Очень важно предоставить шанс любому обучающемуся, который изъявил желание проявить себя. Участие в олимпиадах студентов с невысокой успеваемостью повышает интерес к предмету, мотивирует на процесс обучения.

МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ ДИСТАНЦИОННАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА

ВЕСНА 2023

20 марта — 16 мая

Получение заданий и внесение ответов

17 мая

Предварительные результаты

23 мая

Подведение итогов и наградные

Внимание Неделя Языкознания

Неделя Языкознания

с 10 апреля по 14 апреля

Понедельник

Открытие недели языкознания

Дистанционная олимпиада Весна 2023

Иностранный язык (1 и 2 курсы)

Русский язык (1 и 2 курсы)

Вторник

Видео-презентация "About yourself" 

Литературная дистанционная викторина (1 курсы)

Среда

Конкурс Чтецов на немецком языке (3 курс)

Дистанционная викторина "Знатоки русского языка" (1 и 2 курсы)

Четверг

Дистанционная викторины по английскому языку

"Великобритания" (1 курсы)

"Театр" (21-ЛЛХ)

"В отеле" (22-ГД, 32-ГД)

"Олимпийские игры" (23-ТОР)

"Мир животных" (31-ЛЛХ)

Пятница

Подведение итогов

Закрытие недели языкознания

Преподаватели иностранных языков

Булкина Т.А., Воронина М.В.

Преподаватель русского языка и литературы

Даровских Г.А.

Sights of Russia

Moscow's sights

The Moscow Kremlin

This is the very heart of Moscow with a rich history, housing the tsars’ residences for centuries (before Peter the Great moved it to St. Petersburg). The most remarkable things to see inside the Kremlin are the Tsar Cannon, Tsar Bell, beautiful cathedrals where the tsars were crowned and later buried - and the Soviet era Kremlin Palace (former Palace of Congresses).

Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

Red Square, which is next to the Kremlin, is probably the most recognisable place in Russia for people around the world, especially St. Basil’s Cathedral and Lenin's Mausoleum. ‘Red’ meant ‘beautiful’ in the old Russian language, so this name says more than words.

Christ the Savior Cathedral

This church has a very tragic fate and symbolises all of Russian history in the 20th century. Built in the mid 19th century in the Byzantine style, it was demolished by the Soviet authorities in 1931. A swimming pool was built on this location, but in the 1990s the cathedral was rebuilt, and today it’s the main house of worship of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

This was the main venue of the legendary Summer Olympic Games in 1980, and many remember how the Olympic mascot, Mishka the bear, flew away into the sky above the stadium. Russians are nostalgic for The Games, as it was marked by unforgettable festivities, and because for the first time they saw foreigners.

Stalin’s ‘Seven Sisters’ skyscrapers, Moscow

Now (heart)breaking news - no one in Russia calls them ‘seven sisters’ - they are just vysotki (высотки, literally ‘tall buildings’). The rare Muscovite will be able to tell which one houses which institution from the first try; but without a doubt, they know the one that is home to Moscow State University.

Sights of Russia

Vyborg is located in Leningrad region on the Karelian Isthmus at the distance of 130 km to the northwest of St. Petersburg, close to the Russian border with Finland. The historical centre of the town is formed by the Castle of Vyborg and other historical buildings of different architectural styles.

The Castle of Vyborg

The first castle was constructed in 1293 after the Swedish army conquered the Karelian Isthmus. The construction of the fortress was started under the command of Torkel Knutsson, the Lord High Constable of Sweden who was the leader of the so-called crusade to conquer Karelia in 1290. He chose the location for a new fortress to keep the Bay of Vyborg, which was a very important trading site used by the local people since a long time.

The Castle served as the stronghold of the Swedish kingdom in Karelian regions. Throughout the centuries, it was the first defensive point of the kingdom against Russians.

In the 16th century, the fortress was renovated and new parts were added. In the 17th century, the military significance of the fortress started to decrease because the danger from the Russian kingdom was not serious and the border was much more eastwards.

Vyborg was taken by the Russians in 1710 during the Northern War and became a part of Finland again only in 1812 when all areas of Old Finland were added to the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. The appearance of the present castle dates back to the 1890s, when much restoration was implemented. The military services of the Russian Empire used the castle until 1918 for housing administration.

Sights of Russia

The Swallow's Nest (Lastochkino Gnezdo)

This miniature neo-gothic castle is perched on the steep Avrora Cliff in southern Crimea. A structure called the "Swallow's Nest" because of its miniature dimensions (10 meters wide, 20 meters long, and 12 meters high) and location was built in 1912 based on the design of architect Leonid Sherwood. The castle’s history spans more than a century during which it has gone through several owners and even survived an earthquake. It initially belonged to German industrialist Vladimir Shteyngel. At the beginning of World War I, the new owner opened a restaurant here. In the 1930s, the structure was deemed unsafe and shut down. It was only 30 years later that reconstruction of the building began.