St. Petersburg became one of the city-hosts of The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship. The Krestovsky Stadium, which can fit 68 thousands of people, was chosen as a primary location for…
“D-Day 89” – this is the name of the festival devoted to Sergey Dovlatov, a Soviet dissident writer who immigrated to the US as his ironic and truthful texts were subject…
There are a few theatres located nearby ProBa School. One of them is just across the street – simple 2-storey neo-classical building “squished” between two others. Today it hosts Maly…
The Festival will take place for the 10th time this year on Saturday, July 6. The day of start is traditionally a first Saturday of July – that’s when the…
The month of May is a month full of celebrations and holidays in Russia. First of May is an official holiday, day of Spring and Labor (День Весны и Труда)….
The subway is by far the most popular and fastest mode of public transportation. The first line (part of the modern red line from Ploshad Vosstania to Avtovo) was opened…
There are several ways to master your conversational Russian and one of them is to learn idioms. Using them in a conversation makes speech more expressive and comprehensible. Idioms keep…
Maslenitsa (“maslo” in Russian means butter) or Fat Tuesday, Mardi-Gras, Shrovetide is a celebration of the end of winter which is held for one week before the beginning of Lent….
The ProBa Language Centre is located on Rubinstein street where a lot of famous writers and artists lived and worked. But there is only one monument on this street and…
We start the series of posts about the interesting places and monuments that are located around the ProBa Language Center. The Dostoevsky literary-memorial museum is located in the last apartment…
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