2. • I was born in 862
and "a calling
Varyags" is my birth
certificate. I am many
things, and many
people. I am Russia.

3. Peter the Great
Tsar Ivan the Terrible
Oleg
I am

4. Prince Alexander Nevsky.
Joseph Stalin.
I am

5. I remember
•Georgy
Zhukov,
•Konstantin
Rokossovsky.

6. When freedom
called, I answered
and stayed until it
was over, over
there.

8. Red Square

9. Fields of Altai

10. Siberian mines

11. The Pechora coal field

12. Fertile land of the South

13. The Crimea

14. I am the Moscow Kremlin

15. The Volga

16. and the Moscow River

17. I am very big. I stretch from West Europe to the Pacific, 4, 5 million square
miles throbbing with industry. I am more than 3 million farms. I am forest, field,
mountain, desert, steppe, taiga
and tundra. I am quiet
villages-
and cities that never sleep.

18. You can look
at me and
see Peter
the Great
walking
down the
streets of
St.
Petersburg
with boards
under his
arm.

19. You can see
Alexander
Alexandrov
with his
baton.

20. You can see colourful
parades on Victory Day

21. and hear the strains
of "В лесу
родилась ёлочка"
as the calendar
turns.

22. I am more than 150, 000
schools and colleges.

23. and more than 200, 000
churches, temples and
mosques where my people
worship God as they think
best.

24. I am
an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a
deputy.

25. I am
• Mikhail Lomonosov
• Sergei Rachmaninoff.

26. I am
Dmitri Mendeleev,
Alexander Popov
and Ilya Mechnikov.

27. I am Alexander
Griboyedov,
Constantin
Stanislavski and
Sergei Korolev.

28. I am Ivan Pavlov and Vladimir Lenin.

29. I am Alexander Pushkin, Lev Tolstoy,
Mikhail Lermontov

30. Fyodor Dostoevsky
and
Vladimir Vysotsky.

31. Yes,
I am a nation
and these are the things that I am. I was conceived
in freedom and in freedom I will spend the rest
of my days.

32. May I possess always the integrity the courage and
the strength
to keep myself unshackled
to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope
to the world.

34. Ученик 9 «б» класса
Куанышбаев Амир
Учитель Айжанова Зада Тлегеновна
МОБУ «СОШ «3», г. Ясный
Оренбургская область