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A WALK AROUND ELECTROSTALAnton Sysoyev, Form 9A, Lyceum 14,

Electrostal Moscow Region

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A Russian proverb says ’There is no place like home’. It means that your motherland is the place you always want to come back to. We want to undertake a guided walking tour round our town to see what makes it original and attractive.

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Dear ladies and gentlemen! We’re glad to see you in our town, which is famous for its steel works ‘Electrostal’. Last year we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the town of Electrostal.

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You can see the Sovremennik Cinema . It is the place where the citizens of the town can relax and enjoy themselves. Every day it is visited by hundreds of people.

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Right opposite the Sovremennik Cinema you can see School No.13. Despite its ‘unlucky’number, it is, actually, one of the luckiest schools in our town. This school won the prize some time ago and the money was spent on making repairs. Now it looks proud and happy in its shiny new exterior.

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Let’s walk to the centre of the town… You can see the building of the Town Council where the Mayor of the town of Electrostal works. It’s on the right.

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Now, this is the sight which is familiar to practically all the pupils of our town. It’s the New Institute of the Humanities and the school of foreign languages. A lot of foreign languages are taught here.

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We are walking along Mir Street. You can see the central square named after V. I. Lenin. Just near the centre of the square is the Crystal Ice Palace. It’s the home to our town hockey team.

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We go on walking along the boulevard that leads to the October Culture Centre.

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Let’s take the first turning on the right. You can see Lyceum 14. We study here. Our lyceum gives its pupils profound knowledge of Mathematics and Physics. Students are offered a wide choice of elective subjects. We are sure that our education here will form a basis for our future education.

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Now we are going towards the Eternal Flame… It’s the place that connects us with our relatives who died to defend our Motherland. It helps us to learn more about veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

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More than 11.000 citizens of Electrostal displayed courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War. Electrostal was awarded the honourary title of the City of Military and Labour Glory.

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This is the end of our walking tour… We suppose you like our town. We have not shown you the plants and factories, because we think they can be the theme of another special tour.

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If you look at the map of the Moscow Region you can find a small point on it, our native town Electrostal. It is not very big but it is a special place to us because we were born and live here.

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We wish our home town a long and happy life and we do hope that Electrostal will become the place where everyone feels that they belong.

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Photographs

• Sergei Aleksandrovich Vyazenkin (Вязенкин Сергей Александрович)

• Lev Shelpakov (Шелпаков Лев) (Slide 15)