The Tyumen Region and the Town of Ishim
1. The Tyumen Region is situated in West Siberia.
2. It was founded on the 14th of August, 1944.
3. The territory of the Region is 1, 5 mln square kilometers and the population is over 3 mln people.
4. There are about 450.000 lakes and a great number of rivers.
5. The main rivers are the Ob, the Irtysh, the Tobol, the Ishim.
6. There are two autonomous areas, 38 districts and 26 towns in our Region.
7. The largest towns are Tyumen, Tobolsk, Surgut, Ishim.
8. Nowadays Tyumen is the regional, industrial, scientific, educational and cultural centre with the population over 500.000 people.
9. The main natural resources are oil and natural gas.
10. Engineering, timber-chemical, fish, food and building-materials industries are developed here.
11. The climate of the Region is rather severe.
12. There are many historical and cultural places in the Tyumen Region.
13. The most unique are the Tobolsk Kremlin and the Abalak Monastery.
14. I live in the southern part of it, in the town of Ishim.
15. It was founded as a village of Corkina Sloboda in 1670 and was renamed into the town of Ishim in 1782 by the order of Catherine the Second.
16. Ishim is an agricultural centre of the Tyumen Region.
17. Nowadays food, machine-building and light industries are leading branches of the town’s economy.
18. There are three museums, some churches, many historical buildings and several monuments.
19. They are: the Monument to the Soldiers lost during the Great Patriotic War, the monuments to Alexander Odoevsky and Praskovia Lupolova, the old building of the Teachers Training Institute, etc.
20. Our town is connected with the names of the great storyteller Pyotr Ershov, the author of the project of the unique Ostankino television tower Nickolai Nikitin, the gymnast, World and Olympic champion Boris Shakhlin.
| situated territory population lake a great number river autonomous area district town educational natural resources oil natural gas engineering timber-chemical building-materials industry climate severe unique monastery | village to rename by the order an agricultural centre machine-building light industry branch church monument the Monument to the Soldiers lost during the Great Patriotic War to connect with storyteller project gymnast champion |
TYUMEN
| leather goods – изделия из кожи |
| motorway – автострада |
| steam boat – пароход |
| bridge – мост |
| extensive – обширный |
| petroleum – нефть |
| considerably – значительно |
| inhabitants – жители |
I. Translate from English into Russian.
1) administrative centre
2) Trans-Siberian railway
3) capital
4) large industrial centre
5) culture
6) development
7) scientific organizations
8) the Drama and Comedy Theatre
9) the Puppet Theatre
Tyumen is an administrative centre of the Tyumen Region. Tyumen was the first Russian town in Siberia, founded in 1586 on the site of the Tatar town of Chingi-Tura by Feodor I. In the 17th-18th centuries Tyumen became an important trade center, as well as an important leather goods and handicraft making town. In 1836 the first steam boat of Siberia was built in Tyumen and in 1885 the town was reached by Trans-Siberian railway. On August 14, 1944 Tyumen became the capital of an extensive Tyumen Region. Modern Tyumen is the large industrial centre, the city of science, culture and sports. During last years the city has considerably changed. There appeared new micro-districts; motorways and bridges were built here. Petroleum and gas are the basis for the development of scientific organizations in the city. The inhabitants of Tyumen are proud of the Drama and Comedy Theatre, their Puppet Theatre and others.
II. Find out if the following statements are true or false.
A. Tyumen was founded in 1586 on the site of the Tatar town of Chingi-Tura by Feodor I.
B. In 1854 the first steam boat of Siberia was built in Tyumen.
C. Non-ferrous metals and gas are the basis for the development of scientific organizations in the city.
D. The inhabitants of Tyumen are proud of the Drama and Comedy Theatre, their Puppet Theatre and others.
E. In 1785 the town was reached by Trans-Siberian railway.
THE IRON SHAKHLIN
(Excerpts from the book of Boris Shakhlin “My Gymnastics”)
Vocabulary
to look – смотреть; to look after – присматривать, заботиться; to look back – оглядываться; to look for – искать; to look through – просматривать что-либо
to head – возглавлять; to be headed by – под руководством
slim – стройный
adroit – ловкий; adroitness – ловкость
to go in for – заниматься (спортом); to go on – продолжать; to go away – уходить; to go back – возвращаться
to make up one’s mind – решать; to make up with – мириться; to make off – убежать
trainer – тренер; to train – тренировать; training – тренировка
to earn one’s living – зарабатывать на жизнь; earnings – заработок
to take – брать, завоевать; to take part in – принимать участие; to take victory – одержать победу; to take place – проводиться
all-round champion – абсолютный чемпион
performance – упражнение, представление; to perform– показывать упражнения, представлять
to be acknowledged – быть признанным, считаться
When I was twelve years old, I occurred to be an absolute orphan, together with my elder brother Arkady. There was no one to look after us. In autumn of 1944 my friend took me to the children’s sport school, headed by Vasily Porferyev. I joined the junior group of gymnasts. During the first couple of years I became slimmer, more adroit and more flexible. In two more years my trainer said that I should continue to go in for gymnastics. It was exactly what I wanted.
For many times I won the competitions in my native Ishim, but I had to leave it one day. I went to Sverdlovsk and entered the college of Physical Culture as I had made up my mind to become a pedagogue. There I met my second trainer - Eduard Rung, who taught me to plan the lessons and to train the pupils. To earn my living I had to combine the studies and the work оf a trainer. Being sixteen years old I led the team of Politechnical School which won the championship of Sverdlovsk. This achievement is still the most important in my career.
Then I entered the Acadcmy of Physical Culture in Kiev and met a new trainer - Alexander Mishakov. In 1952 I became the Master of Sports and in 1954 joined the national team of the USSR, to take part in the World Championship in Rome. There our team was the best one and got victory very easily and I won a silver medal on horizontal bar. I was eager to prove myself that it had happened not by chance and took a golden medal of the all-round champion of the USSR the same year.
In 1955, the European Championship was held in Germany. There I was the best on horse, and on horizontal bar I shared a golden medal with another sportsman. In Moscow at the railway station my friends celebrated me with getting a title of Merited Master of Sports of the USSR. In 1956 at the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne our gymnastic team was the best of all. I won a golden medal for the swinings on horse.
The 14th World Championship took place in Moscow. The fate of the medal and all-round world champion title became clear very quickly as my result was the best one.
They often ask me what was the most difficult in my sport life. I know the answer. It happened at the 17lh Olympic Games in Rome. The gymnasts of Japan always observed our performances very thoroughly and learnt from them, so at the Olympic Games they won in all the kinds of compulsory exercises but there were voluntary exercises and our team was to perform earlier than that of Japan. We had done our best and won. From that Olympics I have a medal of an all round champion, a silver medal on rings, and a golden medal for the exercises on bars and besides I became the third on horizontal bar.
The 18th Olympics were held in Tokyo. From there we took both the team and the individual second prize in competitions. As for me, I got there a bronze medal on rings and a golden medal on horizontal bar.
It was my sixth golden medal for three Olympic Games. In fact it sounds magically but I have six golden medals from the Olympic Games, six from the World and European Championships and six golden medals of an absolute champion of our country.
So my sport life was over. I began to work at the Kiev Academy of Physical Culture and was acknowledged as international class referee and a member of the Technical Committee ofthe International Federation of Gymnastics. It gives me a great pleasure to watch the gymnastic performances as I always recall the happiness of my own victories at such moments.
I. Match the words from two columns into pairs of synonyms.
a) to look after, to head, junior.
b) to lead, primary, to bring up
a) to join, flexible, to continue
b) to go on, supple, to enter
a) to leave, to go in for, trainer
b) coach, to go away, to deal with
a) competition, to win, to train
b) championship, to teach, to conquer
a) to decide, lesson, achievement
b) study, success, to make up one’s mind
a) to be eager, to get victory, by chance
b) to be the best, to want, accidentally
a) sportsman, to celebrate, title
b) to congratulate, rank, athlete
a) compulsory, voluntary, victor
b) optional, winner, obligatory
II. Change the marked words with the corresponding ones from the right column.
| 1. At the 17th Olympic Games in Rome Russian gymnasts won the athletes of Japan. | a. obligatory |
| 2. During his sport life a famous gymnast B. Shakhlin had three coaches. | b. performance |
| 3. All the competitions are started with compulsory exercises. | c. sportsmen |
| 4. The exercises of our gymnasts were considered to be the best. | d. champion |
| 5. B. Shakhlin is the winner of many different kinds of contest. | e. trainers |
| 6. Some of the former sportsmen became international class umpires. | f. title |
| 7. The athletes are awarded with the rank of Merited Master of Sports for winning major international competitions. | g. referees |