ГДЗ Английский язык за 8 класс Афанасьева, Михеева, Баранова - Rainbow English - Учебник. Часть 2Unit 4 – Step 1 – 2a

🔊 He was born in Russia in 1828 into a noble family and fought in the Crimean War. At the age of 82 he left his home but soon became ill and died in a small railway station hotel. A talented man, he wrote some of the world’s greatest novels. One of them is "Anna Karenina".

🔊 Leo Tolstoy

🔊 She is a ballet dancer Russia is proud of. After Moscow School of Ballet she began working in the Bolshoi Theatre. She danced in "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Carmen" where she performed some of her best parts. She is married to the famous Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who has written music for her ballets. She teaches young ballet dancers and stages new ballets.

🔊 Maya Plisetskaya

🔊 She is the first woman professor in Russia and North Europe. She was born in Moscow in 1850 and showed her interest in mathematics very early. At the age of 11 she already could do a lot of things that university students find difficult. Though she was a gifted mathematician, she could not complete her education in Russia as women could not be university students then. She had to go abroad and eventually became a really famous scientist.

🔊 Sofia Kovalevskaya

🔊 He was a Russian airplane test pilot born in a small town near Nizhni Novgorod in 1904. He is famous for several ultra long flights. One of them was a 63-hour flight from Moscow to Vancou ver , United States. To get there he flew over the North Pole. He died at the age of 34 when his plane crashed during a test flight.

🔊 Valery Chkalov