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18/04/2016. The Total Dictation in the National Library of the Republic of Karelia
April 16, 2016:
The annual international educational campaign Total Dictation was held in Russia and abroad. The aim of this campaign is to draw attention to literacy issues and develop the culture of errorless writing. Almost the whole planet was writing in Russian this day. Visitors could take part in the Total Dictation in Petrozavodsk at 11 platforms. Two of them were located in the National Library of the Republic of Karelia. At the appointed hour all registered participants who decided to test their knowledge of the Russian language gathered in the library. Among them there were people of different ages and professions.
This year the author of the dictation text was children’s writer Andrei Usachev, who offered three excerpts from his unpublished book This Ancient-Ancient-Ancient World written in collaboration with Aleksei Dmitriev. At the time zone of Petrozavodsk the text of the dictation was the third part named Briefly about the History of the Olympic Games.
The dictating persons or according to the tradition of the Total Dictation project “dictators” were at our platforms:
- Valeria Lomakina, theater teacher and actress of the Creative Workshop theatre,
- Leonid Prokofiev, showman and film and theater actor.
The works are being checked in 732 cities. The results will be published on the web-site http://totaldict.ru on the 20th of April 2016.
The results of the Total Dictation will be summed up in Petrozavodsk on the 23rd of April 2016 at 15 in the National Library of Karelia.
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The Total Dictation is an annual educational event, which has been organized since 2004 in Russia and other countries in order to popularize errorless writing. According to the tradition it is held at the same time (adjusted to the time zones) in different cities of the world. The authors of the texts are famous poets, prosaists, playwrights, writers, publicists, philosophers, literary critics, translators, journalists, both classics and contemporaries. The roles of the dictating persons are played by famous representatives of the mass culture.
The idea of the Total Dictation emerged in the Novosibirsk State University. Since 2011 the event is being held in different cities of Russia. Since 2012 event is being held in different countries, and three texts by the same author are being offered for the dictation. Since 2014 there is an opportunity to write the Total Dictation online. In 2015 the Total Dictation was written in 549 cities of 58 countries, and the total number of participants exceeded 100 thousand people. Among the dictating persons there are famous Russian actors, musicians, journalists and politicians. The authors of the previous dictations in different years were Evgeni Vodolazkin, Aleksei Ivanov, Dmitri Bykov, Zakhar Prilepin, Dina Rubina, Boris Strugatski.