The national stage of the contest "Living Classic" at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Helsinki

The Russian Center for Science and Culture in Helsinki hosted the national qualifying stage of the international contest of young readers "Living Classic".

Five participants competed in the national stage of the contest this year. The children chose the works of the prose writer and poet Alexander Green, the children's writer Vladimir Zheleznikov, the poet of the Silver Age Sasha Chyorny, the classic of Russian literature Konstantin Paustovsky and the foreign writer Jane Austen. For their speeches.

The jury consisted of the Doctor of Philosophy and writer Olga Pussinen, teachers of the Russian language and literature from the secondary school attached to the Russian Embassy in Finland, and the television and radio editor S. Kormilitsyn.

International contest of young readers "Living Classic" is an educational project where children read aloud their favorite prose. Annually the number of participants totals more than two million people - schoolboys from 85 regions of the Russian Federation and 80 countries of the world recite fragments from favorite prose works by heart. The project is designed both for compatriots living abroad, and for foreigners who are just beginning to learn Russian.

The contest is held in five stages: school, district, national, international final in the “Artek” ICC and the super final on Red Square in Moscow.

Electronic collection "Russian language" is presented on the Presidential Library portal. It included manuscripts and publications of monuments of Russian writing, archival affairs, scientific works (including dissertations and abstracts of dissertations), dictionaries and reference books, textbooks of various types and levels. The digital collection "Russian language" will be cognitive not only to the scientific and educational community and linguists, but also to a wide range of users who love and appreciate the Russian language.

According to the portal http://rs.gov.ru.