School assignment on Russian loaning

Olga   Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:24 pm GMT
Please, write thу meanings of the words. If you don't know some put X.
Thank you!
№ RUSSIAN WORD
(from the dictionary) It means… Never heard
1 Babushka
2 Balalaika
3 Banya
4 Bistro
5 Bolshevik
6 Duma
7 Glasnost
8 Gulag
9 Kasha
10 Kozachok
11 Kremlin
12 Kvass
13 Matryoshka
14 Perestroika
15 Ruble (Rouble)
16 Samovar
17 Shchi
18 Soyuz
19 Sputnik
20 Stalinism
21 Taiga
22 Tovarishch
Sarmackie   Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:41 pm GMT
1. Little grandma, little old grandmotherly lady
4. like a cafe or small restaurant
5. Communist party, I believe that during the Cold War it was more or less synonymous with the Soviets
7. Openness, political program in the USSR under Gorbachev
8. A prison for dissidents
9. A dish made of oats, I believe
11. The seat of the Russian executive branch
12. A drink made of fermented bread
13. Russian nesting dolls
14. I think this one means 'restructuring', it was another of Gorbachev's reforms
15. The Russian currency
19. Literally 'traveler', it is most well known as the name of the Russian space satellites
21. A semi arctic, swampy forest, one of the recognized biomes found predominantly stretched across Northern Russia
22. Comrade!
User   Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:07 pm GMT
Isn't "bistro" from French, not Russian?
Skippy   Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:08 pm GMT
1 Grandmother
2 x
3 x
4 fast
5 x
6 parliament
7 openness
8 camp?
9 x
10 x
11 hidden place
12 x
13 x
14 restructuring
15 money
16 x
17 x
18 x
19 x (I know the spacecraft, but not the meaning)
20 form of Communism
21 x
22 x
ASI ES   Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:43 pm GMT
1 Babushka - grandmother
2 Balalaika - instrument
3 Banya - spa?
4 Bistro - cafeteria place
5 Bolshevik - commie movement
6 Duma - parliament
7 Glasnost - 'transparency'
8 Gulag - labour camp
9 Kasha -
10 Kozachok
11 Kremlin - government building
12 Kvass - type of food
13 Matryoshka - dolls
14 Perestroika - 'reconstruction' political reforms
15 Ruble (Rouble) - currency
16 Samovar - tea boiler
17 Shchi -
18 Soyuz - union; type of rocket
19 Sputnik - satellite; companion
20 Stalinism - stalin style communism
21 Taiga - taiga, steppe type land
22 Tovarishch - comrade

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