Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin

Exercise 6. Make up your own dialogues.

Exercise 4. Translate into English

Exercise 2. Make up 5 your own sentenses with the words from vocabulary

Exercise 1. Vocabulary. Learn by heart the following words

V. I. Bazhenov (1737 - 1799)

GREAT RUSSIAN ARCHITECTS

V. I. Bazhenov (1737 - 1799) was the founder of the Russian architectural classics of the 18-th century. He studied at the Moscow

University and at Art School in Paris. He became a professor and academician of some Italian Academies of Arts, and he was 28 when he became an academician in St. Petersburg, the vice-president of Russian Academy of Arts.

2. Bazhenov was the first Russian architect who designed his structures in their connection with surroundings as a three-dimensional composition, actively organizing town space. In 1784-1786 he created one of his best works, a masterpiece of Russian classical architecture -the famous Pashkov house which is now the old building of the State Library in Moscow.

3. Those who have seen his impressive buildings and looked at them with understanding will feel that he fully succeeded in his purpose and that he gave the world something that will take its place with the greatest structures of the world.

4. In addition to his being an outstanding artist and architect he was also a well-known figure encyclopedically educated. At the same time he was a brilliant practical engineer and an incomparable designer of architectural ensembles, the Kremlin Palace being one of these.

founder n оcнователь

academician n академик

purpose v цель

encyclopedically adv энциклопедически

dimension n измерение

incomparable adj несравненный, бесподобный

space n пространство, место

designer n дизайнер

to connect v связывать, соединять

impressive adj выразительный, волнующий

Exercise 3. Put all kinds of questions on the sentence:

He studied at the Moscow University and at Art School in Paris.

1.Особенностью архитектурного стиля Баженова является то, что он проектировал свои постройки в их связи с окружающей окрестностью.

2.Он создавал композиции в трех измерениях (трехмерные композиции).

3.Он был инженером-практиком и несравненным дизайнером.

Exercise 5. Retell the text

Imagine the following situation. One of you is Nikitin and another is Bazhenov. Ask each other about scientific work, plans for the future etc.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin was an outstanding Soviet scientist, merited Builder of the RSFSR, a Lenin and USSR State prize winner, Doctor of Technical Sciences.

He was born on December 15th, 1907 in the town of Tobolsk. In 1930 he graduated from the building faculty of the Tomsk Institute of Technology.

The scope of his interests was extremely wide, and embraced unknown fields of building. The foundations of the Palace of Soviets, a unique building, were laid according to his design.

During the post-war years N. V. Nikitin disclosed the diversity of his talent, that of a brilliant constructor.

NikoIai Vasilyevich Nikitin was an outstanding engineer, a creator of new building constructions, a recognized authority in the field of Many-strayed building, a talented organizer of constructional designing, the author of world reknown unique structures.

N. V. Nikitin was the creator of such structures as the Moscow University, the Palace of Culture and Sciences in Warsaw, the V. I. Lenin Central Stadium in Moscow, the first multi-storied building in Tashkent, the V. I. Lenin Memorial in Ulyanovsk, the Volgograd Monument to the Motherland, and many others.

The above-mentioned structures have received recognition far beyond the borders of this country.

The Ostankino TV tower in Moscow, which is the tallest structure in the world, is considered to be the acme of N. V. Nikitin's creative work. Extremely complicated technical problems were solved while putting up this unique structure.

N. V. Nikitin carried out extensive scientific work as well. He was a recognized authority in the field of theoretical calculation of reinforced concrete constructions, the author of 70 printed works and ' 20 inventions.

For his outstanding creative achievements the honorary title of the Lenin and USSR State Prize Laureate were conferred upon N. V. Nikitin.

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