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 03: Plagiarism in Russia ~ May/June 2009

Uchites 04: Russian Television ~ July/Aug 2009

Uchites 02: Christmas Eve, Gogol ~ March/April 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

Uchites 07 - Audio: Lev Tolstoy: "The Pit"

Uchites 07 - Audio2: Lev Tolstoy: "The Squirrel and the Wolf"

Uchites 07 - Audio3: Lev Tolstoy: "The Tsar and the Shirt"

Uchites 08 - Audio: Sergei Yesenin: "Letter to Mother"

Uchites 08 - Audio2: Sergei Yesenin: "Goodbye"

Uchites 09 - Audio: Description of a Repin painting

Uchites 10 - Audio: Akhmatova: Szhala ruki

Uchites 10 - Audio2: Akhmatova: Dvadsat pervoe

Uchites 11 - Audio: Part One: Sentences

Uchites 12 - Audio: Rimma Kazakova poem

Uchites 14 - Audio: Amphibian Man

Uchites 15 - Audio: Sochi 2012

Uchites 15 - Audio2: Sochi 2012 (language learning)

Uchites 17 - Video: Watch and listen to the interview on YouTube

Uchites 17 - Video2: Watch and listen to "When Your Girlfriend Was Sick"

Uchites 18 - Audio: Catherine the Great

Uchites 21 - Audio: Old Fable

Uchites 21 - Audio2: Man and Tiger

Uchites 24 - Audio: Turgenev, "First Love"

Uchites 26 - Audio: Did Mendeleyev invent vodka?

Uchites 30 - Audio: Audio of Lermontov Poem

Uchites 37: Lost and Found in Translation ~ March/April 2016

Uchites 38: Anton Chekhov: "In the Country" ~ May/June 2016

Uchites 39: Samovar! ~ July/August 2016

Uchites 40: Russian Riddles ~ September/October 2016

Uchites 41: The Three Bears ~ November/December 2016

Uchites 42: Maslenitsa ~ January/February 2017

Uchites 43: Russian Names ~ March/April 2017

Uchites 44: Vladimir Vysotsky: "I do not Love" ~ May/June 2017

Uchites 45: Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Good and Bad" ~ July/August 2017

Uchites 46: Konstantin Ushinsky: "Four Wishes" ~ September/October 2017

Uchites 47: Verbs of Motion ~ November/December 2017

Uchites 48: Celebrating the New Year ~ January/February 2018

Uchites 49: Leonid Gaidai ~ March/April 2018

Uchites 50: "A Song About Paintings" ~ May/June 2018