• Блин (блины)
  [blin bli-ny]
  (Thin) Russian pakcake(s), blin(i)

🔻 Today is the beginning of Butter or Cheese-fare Week: a week before popular Russian holiday Maslenitsа (Shrovetide) after which Great Lent starts .

🔻During the week of Maslenitsa, meat is already forbidden to Orthodox Christians, and it is the last week during which eggs, milk, cheese and other dairy products are permitted, leading to its name of "Cheese-fare week" or "Crepe week". So, thin pancakes are the most common treat during this week.

🔻After the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the following state atheism in the Soviet Union, public Maslenitsa celebrations became even less common.

🔻After the start of perestroika and fall of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s, large outdoor celebrations began to be startеd up again, and much of the older Maslenitsa traditions began to be revived in a modern context.

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🥞 Moscow Maslenitsa festival has started in the city.

Until March 17, at venues throughout the city people can eat 50 types of pancakes, 200 fillings and sauces, and also take part in folk festivities.

• Аквабус (аквабусы)
[ak-va-bus ak-va-bu-sy]
Aquabus(es)

🔻In Moscow eight ships sail all year round between the 'Kyiv' and 'Heart of the Capital' piers in the area of ​​the residential complex of the same name on Shelepikhinskaya embankment.

🔻The entire route is 6.5 kilometers.

🔻The aquabuses were named after Moscow rivers: Синичка, Сетунь, Пресня, Филька, Сходня, Раменка, Яуза и Неглинка.

🔻Each aquabus can accommodate up to 50 people. There are also places for people with limited mobility.

🔻There are 11 stops on the route.

🔻The fare is 150 rubles.

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🇬🇧 Such a beauty/glory in the street but you are staying at home!

• Красотища (colloquial, emphatic)
[kra-sa-ti-shcha]
<- Красота
  [ kra-sa-ta]
Beauty, loveliness, glory

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• Масленичные приметы
  [mas-li-nich-ny-ye pri-me-ty]
  Maslenitsa omens

🥞It was believed that the more pancakes you baked, the more luck, money and health your family would have that year.

🥞If you skimped on food and bake few pancakes, then finances wouldn’t be good for you.

🥞If the pancakes turned out poorly baked, this meant that difficult times, illnesses and troubles were just around the corner.

🥞During the process of baking pancakes, one had to be in a good mood, think about good deeds and wishing everyone goodness and happiness.

🥞Each housewife had her own personal recipes for pancakes for Maslenitsa, and they did not always reveal their secrets.

🥞They also believed that cold and stormy weather before the start of Maslenitsa meant a good harvest and prosperity.

🥞Girls who wanted to get married had to get drunk all the men they met on the day, because meeting a tipsy man on Maslenitsa was a good omen, promising a happy  marriage.

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'Аптекарский огород'
[ap-te-kar-skiy a-ga-rot]

🔻It is the oldest botanical garden in Russia, founded by Peter I in 1706.

🔻It has the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance - a monument of history and culture of Moscow, a monument of landscape gardening art of the 18th century.

🔻The garden was founded by Peter the Great in 1706 on the then northern outskirts of Moscow: the state garden for growing medicinal plants, located at the Gostiny Dvor pharmacy, was moved to this place from under the walls of the Kremlin - hence its name.

📍 Geoposition: Moscow, Russia

Video by: Евгения Сиротина @geni4ka1

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- Who is 'Задрот'?
- It is the Little Bun rolling along the road: зад, рот, зад, рот...

• Зад
  [zad]
  A rude (but still decent) word for 'buttocks' - an ass.

• Рот
  [rot]
  A mouth

• Задрот
  [zad-rot]
  A nerd, a geek, a person addicted to something (eg: computer games)

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