Hello, my True RussiaN 🐻🇷🇺🪆 friends! 

Привéт, мои́ Вéрные 🐻🇷🇺🪆друзья́!   

As you already know I started making extraordinary original study mini-stories in a format of podcasts and videos to help you, my True RussiaN enthusiasts, build your vocabulary, listening 👂🎧 , reading 🤓📖 and speaking skills 🗣 🔊 in a natural way.   

This is how you should work with the mini-stories:   

The original text of the mini-story is broken up into small excerpts.  

The adapted excerpt with English translation comes second.  

The exact purpose of the untranslated passage is that for some amount of time, no matter how short, you, my True RussiaN enthusiasts, are “swimming on your own”. 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏊‍♂️ 

When you have finished reading to the original (unadapted) text, you will read 🤓📖 the adapted excerpt.  

And so on.   

Удáчи вам!  Good luck to you! 😉🍀  ✨✨✨ 

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Ми́ни-истóрия:   

Mini-story:

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Дéвочка с аккордеóном 👧🏼🪗  

The girl with the accordion.  

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В Волгогрáде есть необы́чная скульптýра.

There’s an unusual monument in Volgograd. 😲  

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Онá назывáется «Дéвочка с аккордеóном». 👧🏼🪗

It is called “The girl with the accordion”.  

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Это мáленькая дéвочка,   

It is a little girl,  

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котóрая игрáет  🤗 🎶 на аккордеóне🪗.   

who is playing the accordion.   

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Это былá реáльная дéвочка Аля,

It was a real girl Alya 👧🏼

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котóрая éздила в гóспиталь 🏥 к солдáтам 🪖🪖🪖,

who went to the hospital to the soldiers

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котóрые бы́ли рáнены 🪖🤕🪖🤕🪖🤕

who were wounded  

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во врéмя Сталингрáдской би́твы.

during the Stalingrad Battle. 

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Дéвочка дóлго игрáла солдáтам 🪖🤕  

The girl played the soldiers for a long time

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на аккордеóне 🎶🪗 в гóспитале🏥.  

on the accordion in the hospital.  

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Ей бы́ло тогдá 13 (тринáдцать) лет,

She was then 13 years old,

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но вы́глядела онá лет на 9 (дéвять).

but she looked like a nine-year-old.

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Аккордеóн 🪗 был большóй  😳😲 и   тяжёлый 😓.

The accordion was big and   heavy.

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Но солдáты 🪖🤕🪖🤕🪖🤕

But the soldiers 🪖🤕🪖🤕🪖

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óчень люби́ли 🥰✨ её концéрты 🎶🎵

loved 😍 her concerts 🎶 very much

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и кáждый день ждáли 🤩✨её концéрты🎶.

and every day they waited  for / looked      forward to 🤗✨ her concerts. 

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Поэ́тому дéвочка кáждый день ходи́ла   в гóспиталь 🏥 🔁🚶‍♀️

So the girl went to the hospital every day

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с тяжёлым и больши́м аккордеóном,

with a heavy and large accordion  🪗🚶‍♀️😓

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чтóбы порáдовать 😃 солдáт 🪖🪖🪖.

to make the soldiers happy.  

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Звáли э́ту дéвочку 👧🏼 – Алексáндра   Пáхмутова.

The girl was called Alexandra   Pakhmutova.

🙈 Алексáндра Пáхмутова — популя́рный

Alexandra Pakhmutova is a popular

🙈 совéтский и росси́йский компози́тор. 🤓🎼  

Soviet and Russian composer.  

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Кстáти, вы знáете, что 22 (двáдцать вторóе) ию́ня знáчит для рýсских?

By the way, do you know what June 22 means to Russians? 🤔🇷🇺   Write ✍️ your guesses in comments.🤓 

Пиши́те ✍️ в комментáриях  по-рýсски 🇷🇺 и по-англи́йски 🇬🇧.

I am looking forward to  reading your comments.  🤗✨  Мне óчень интерéсно  читáть вáши комментáрии.