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The University can be proud of its 100,000 graduates who work in 126
countries around the world. Many of VSU alumni are widely known in Russia
and abroad.
The image of the University is represented by such prominent figures as
Academician P. A. Cherenkov who was the 1958 Nobel Prize winner; Academi-
cian A. V. Sidorenko, Lenin Prize winner and Vice-President of the USSR
Academy of Sciences; full members of the USSR and Russian Academies of
Sciences: I.M. Imshenetsky, S.N. Zhurkov, V.V. Liakhovitch, V. I. Zhukov, and
V. M. Ievlev; Lenin Prize winners: L. A. Alyokhin, V. I. Nikishin, A. A.
Dubyansky, E. K. Lazarenko, and S. I. Chaikin; USSR and Russia State Prize
winners: N. V. Mezhelovsky, V. N. Popov, A. I. Bazykina, I. I. Tyulyaev, I. P.
Galkin, A. P. Shcherbakov, and Y. A. Ughay, corresponding members of the
USSR and Russian Academies of Sciences: N. V. Yefimov, A. A. Petrov, N.A.
Zheltukhin, N. M. Chernyshev, A. A. Chibilev, and V. I. Borisov; Y. M. Danilov
who is Secretary Judge of the Russian Federation Constitutional Court, A. I.
Karpov who is Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Russia; and V. V.
Malinovsky who is Deputy General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation.
2e Go to the VSU History Museum and find more information about your
faculty. Report it to your group.
2f Read the list below and try to remember the names of the scientists.
Doctors Honoris Causa of VSU
1993
Miguel Cordero del Campillo
(Spain), Professor, Rector of the University of
Leon in the 80s, member of the European Federation of Parasitology and the
World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology.
G. N. Troyepolsky,
writer, member of the USSR Writers' Union, USSR State
Prize winner, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Raymond E. Benson
(USA), diplomat, founder of the American Collegiate
Consortium for East-West Cultural Academic Exchange, director of the Salzburg
Seminar Universities Project.
1998
Peeter Tulviste,
Professor, Doctor of Psychology, Rector of Tartu University in
1993
—
1998, Vice-President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 1994.
Ronan Murphy,
a professional diplomat, Irish Ambassador in Moscow in
1997
—
2003.
A. D. Konopatov,
Doctor of Technology, Professor, full member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labour, Lenin and State Prize winner,
chief design engineer and chief of Voronezh chemical automatics bureau in 1965-
1993.
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Y. D. Goncharov,
writer, member of the USSR Writers' Union, RSFSR State
Prize winner, Andrey Platonov Award recipient.
Theodor Berchem,
Professor, PhD, President of DAAD, President of Wurzburg
University, President of the Westdeutschen Rektorenkonferenz.
1999
V. P. Krivoruchko,
artist, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia.
V. A. Sadovnichiy,
full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of
Moscow State University, President of the Rectors' Union of Russia, President of
the Eurasian Association of Universities.
2003
Wilfried Grecksch,
Professor, President of Halle University (Germany).
L. A. Verbitskaya,
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Rector of St Petersburg State
University, President of the Russian Association of Teachers of Russian
Language and Literature.
A. P. Arzamastsev,
Professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Medical
Sciences, chief of the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Sechenov
Academy.
2007
Valeri Bykov
is Director General of All-Russian research institute of herbs and
scented plants, Academician of Russian Agricultural Sciences, Director of
Moscow Biotechnology Centre, Head of department of biological and
pharmacological technologies of Moscow I. M. Sechenov Medical Academy.
2008
Gerhard Hosl,
Director for Commerce,
«
Nokia Siemens Networks
»
.
Notes:
Doctors Honoris Causa -
An
honorary degree
or a degree
honoris causa
(Latin: 'for the sake of the honour') is an academic degree for which a university
has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and
the passing of examinations). The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less
commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior
connection with the academic institution. Usually the degree is conferred as a
way of honoring a distinguished visitor's contributions to a specific field, or to
society in general. The university often derives benefits by association with the
person in question.
2g Find in the Internet more information about Doctors Honoris Causa
mentioned in ex.2f and report it to the group (3-5 minutes).
3.READING AND SPEAKING
3a Think of Russian equivalents to the following word combinations. Choose
ten of them to remember and use in future.
1.
closely related to
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2.
responding to the petition signed by
3.
Voronezh welcomed
4.
they were accompanied by
5.
the first lectures started at
6.
the newly born
7.
enrolment into the University
8.
was established
9.
in the fields of biology and chemistry
10.
department trained teachers in (physics)
11.
underwent another radical reorganization
12.
developed into
13.
was evolving into a core university
14.
the nature reserve
15.
library enlarged its collection of
16.
was steadily growing into
17.
Volunteers Regiment
18.
was evacuated to
19.
researchers and their disciples
20.
won recognition both in … and …
21.
was put into service
22.
has signed agreements with
23.
to meet the challenges of a new situation
3b Match words and word combinations from columns A and B.
A
B
an expert in philosophy;
блестящий философ
an outstanding philosopher
известный философ
a renowned philosopher
знаток философии
a brilliant philosopher
общеизвестный философ
a great authority in
philosophy
выдающийся философ
a well-known philosopher
прославленный философ
a prominent philosopher
крупный специалист в
области философии
3c Match the words to their definitions.
1 Mathematics
A The scientific study of forces such as heat, light,
sound, etc., of relations between them and how they
affect objects
2 Biology
B The science of numbers and shapes
3 Physics
C The study and treatment of diseases and injuries
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4 Philology
D The scientific study of the development of language
5 Geography
E The study of teaching methods
6 History
F The scientific study of the earth’s surface, physical
features, divisions, products, population, etc.
7 Geology
G The scientific study of the life and structure of plants
and animals
8 Medicine
H The scientific study of the earth, including the origin
and history of the rocks and soil of which the earth is
made
9 Pedagogy
I
The study of past events as a subject at school or
university
4.LISTENING / WATCHING AND SPEAKING
4a Listen to L5 / watch V2 the foreign students speaking about VSU. Think
of 10 questions you could ask any foreign students of VSU.
4b Say in 15-20 sentences what you know about VSU and its history.
4c Translate into English the following text.
Воронежский университет включает 18 факультетов. В yниверситете
обучается более 20 тысяч студентов.
За 90 лет университет подготовил более 100 тысяч специалистов. Среди
выпускников
университета
-
Нобелевские
лауреаты,
лауреаты
государственных премий СССР и России, академики, министры, деятели
науки и культуры. Выпускники университета работают в 90 странах мира.
Воронежский государственный университет был создан в 1918 году на
базе Юрьевского университета, который был эвакуирован из-за первой
мировой войны. Дерптский (позже Юрьевский) университет был учреждён
в 1802 году указом Александра I в городе Дерпт и являлся вторым
университетом в России.
Первым ректором университета стал ученый-историк В. Э. Регель,
который занимал эту должность до 1925 года.
Учебные занятия начались 12 ноября 1918 года. В то время в состав
университета
входило
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факультета —
медицинский,
физико-
математический, историко-филологический и юридический.
На начало 1919 года в университете обучалось 10 тысяч студентов.
Учиться могли все желающие, лишь через 4 года в 1923 году были введены
вступительные экзамены.
В начале 1920-х годов в университет был включён Воронежский институт
народного образования, который положил начало педагогическому
факультету,
отделения
которого
подготавливали
преподавателей
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математики, физики, химии, естествознания, русского языка и литературы,
социально-экономических дисциплин для школ.
Во время Великой Отечественной войны с 1941 по 1943 годы университет
был эвакуирован в Елабугу.
В настоящее время университет является крупным центром образования,
науки и культуры Центрально-Черноземного региона страны.
4d Check-your–memory–exercise
Read “Facts and figures about Voronezh State University” for 1 minute.
Remember as much information as you can and speak on the topic.
Facts and Figures about VSU
Voronezh State University's total undergraduate student population
numbers over 22,000.
Almost 1,000 students are engaged in postgraduate work.
1,300 academic staff are currently employed at the University. Of these
230 are professors, 750 senior lecturers and 300 lecturers.
On the whole, the University employs 3,000 academic and non-academic
staff.
118 departments and 5 major research units are grouped into 18 faculties.
250 degree courses are available to our students.
The University occupies 9 buildings and 7 residence halls located mostly
in city centre.
3,000,000 books, periodicals and other items are held in the University
Library.
The University has Botanical Gardens and a unique Nature Reserve
“Galichya Gora” open to staff and students’ research and study.
Our students and staff have free access to the Internet in 2 University
Internet centres.
5.READING AND SPEAKING
5a Suggest the answers to the following questions:
1.
How many universities are there in Russia?
2.
How many universities in Russia do you know?
3.
Which is the oldest university in Russia ?
4.
Would you like to study at the oldest university in the world? Why? Why
not?