Uchites

Uchites is the Russian language learning supplement to Russian Life magazine. Begun with support from the Russkiy Mir Foundation, its intent is to tie language learning exercises and readings into material that is published in each issue of the magazine. As each issue is published, a PDF copy of the Uchites supplement will be posted here, so that teachers can easily print out extra copies for students. Or so students can mark up these copies of Uchites, rather than their copies of Russian Life.

If you have comments or feedback on the Uchites supplements (for example, how you are using them, corrections, etc.), please send us a comment and we will post them on this page, to share with other teachers.

• Uchites 01 - (Lyceum Day, Pushkin) - Sep/Oct 2008
• Uchites 02 - (Christmas Eve, Gogol)- March/April 2009
• Uchites 03 - (Plagiarism in Russia) - May/June 2009
• Uchites 04 - (Russian Television) - July/Aug 2009
• Uchites 05 - (The Return, Platonov) - Sep/Oct 2009
• Uchites 06 - (Lighthouse keeper: solve the mystery) - Nov/Dec 2009
• Uchites 07 - (Children stories, Tolstoy) - Jan/Feb 2010
• Uchites 08 - (Esenin: biography and poems) - Sep/Oct 2010
• Uchites 09 - (Russian Art: Itinerants) - Nov/Dec 2010
• Uchites 10 - (Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani) - Jan/Feb 2011
• Uchites 11 - (Travelling across Russia by bike) - Mar/Apr 2011
• Uchites 12 - (Great Patriotic War)- May/June 2011
• Uchites 13 - (Dovlatov) - Sep/Oct 2011
• Uchites 14 - (Amphibian Man) - Nov/Dec 2011
• Uchites 15 - (Sochi Olympics) - Jan/Feb 2012
• Uchites 16 - (Kornei Chukovsky) - Mar/Apr 2012
• Uchites 17 - (Victor Tsoy) - May/June 2012
• Uchites 18 - (Catherine the Great) - July/Aug 2012
• Uchites 19 - (Aquarium) - Sep/Oct 2012
• Uchites 20 - (Baikonur) - Nov/Dec 2012
• Uchites 21 - (Circassian Tales) - Jan/Feb 2013
• Uchites 22 - (Kamchatka) - Mar/Apr 2013
• Uchites 23 - (The Romanovs) - May/June 2013
• Uchites 24 - (Turgenev) - Sep/Oct 2013
• Uchites 25 - (Children's Railroad) - Nov/Dec 2013
• Uchites 26 - (Dmitry Mendeleyev) - Jan/Feb 2014
• Uchites 27 - (Ivan Bunin) - Mar/Apr 2014
• Uchites 28 - (Mikhail Glinka) - May/June 2014
• Uchites 29 - (Simferopol Banksy) - July/Aug 2014
• Uchites 30 - (Mikhail Lermontov) - Sep/Oct 2014
• Uchites 31 - (Boris Pasternak) - Jan/Feb 2015
• Uchites 32 - (Yuri Nagibin) - Mar/Apr 2015
• Uchites 33 - (May Holidays) - May/June 2015
• Uchites 34 - (War and Peace) - July/Aug 2015 
• Uchites 35 - (Matching Proverbs) - Nov/Dec 2015 
• Uchites 36 - (Pushkin's Magic Fish) - Jan/Feb 2016 
   
   

Audio Recordings
If you have Flash on your computer, you should be able to listen to the stories by pressing the arrow icons. You can also use the "download" link to play the file in your browser or the media player of your choice (left-click to play in your browser; right-click to save file to your desktop, then import to iTunes or other).
Uchites 07
	Lev Tolstoy: "The Pit"	download
	Lev Tolstoy: "The Squirrel and the Wolf"	download
	Lev Tolstoy: "The Tsar and the Shirt"	download
Uchites 08
	Sergei Yesenin: "Letter to Mother"	download
	Sergei Yesenin: "Goodbye"	download
Uchites 09
	Description of a Repin painting	download
Uchites 10
	Akhmatova: Szhala ruki	download
	Akhmatova: Dvadsat pervoe	download
Uchites 11
	Part One: Sentences	download
Uchites 12
	Rimma Kazakova poem	download
Uchites 14
	Amphibian Man	download
Uchites 15
	Sochi 2012	download
	Sochi 2012 (language learning)	download
Uchites 17
	Watch and listen to the interview on YouTube	link
	Watch and listen to "When Your Girlfriend Was Sick"	link
Uchites 18
	Catherine the Great	download
Uchites 21
	Old Fable	download
	Man and Tiger	download
Uchites 24
	Turgenev, "First Love"	download
Uchites 26
	Did Mendeleyev invent vodka?	download
Uchites 30
YouTube	Audio of Lermontov Poem