Bolshoi Gorod (Big City)
There is a free newspaper here called Bolshoi Gorod. Since I can’t sit down to eat alone without something to read, I picked it up and set about practicing my russian. I got to a page with the headline “Statistics”. They were quite interesting. So, here they are.
Most Popular Names for children born in 2005 in Moscow
Girls
- Anastasia (3576)
- Maria (2982)
- Anna (2288)
- Darya (2194)
- Victoria (1948)
Boys
- Alexander (2780)
- Maxim (2154)
- Nikita (2108)
- Ivan (2054)
- Dmitry (1774)
Oldest Moscow Metro Stations
- 15.05.1935 Sokolniki – Park Kultury, Okhotniy Rad – Smolenskaya
- 20.03.1937 Smolenskaya – Kievskaya
- 13.03.1938 Kominterna Street (Alexandrovski Garden) – Kurskaya
- 11.09.1938 Sverdlova Square (Teatralnaya) – Sokol
- 01.01.1943 Sverdlova Square (Teatralnaya) – Avtozavodskaya
Price Breakdown for a bottle of Vodka
- 3.67 roubles for the vodka
- 3.33 roubles for the bottle
- 1.17 roubles for the sticker
- 1.61 roubles for the bottle cap
- 0.22 roubles for packing into a box
- 0.78 roubles for the trademark
- 0.98 roubles for production losses
- 2.56 roubles for market losses
- 20.96 roubles for profit (surprise, surprise! -ed.)
- 29.20 roubles for excise tax
- 11.60 roubles for sales tax
Total price: 76.05 roubles
Dates
Which anniversary date in 2006 means the most to you?
- 63% 65th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War (WW II)
- 50% 45th anniversary of Gagarin’s first space flight
- 47% 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
- 30% 15th anniversary since the collapse of the USSR
- 18% 5th anniversary of September 11
- 14% 85th anniversary of the academic Sakharov’s birthday
23 July 2008 at 01.47
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