5. Answer the following questions:

•Why did Semen Dezhnev move to Siberia?

•What did he become well-known for?

•What was the purpose of the Low Kolyma expedition?

•What fact proves that Semen Dezhnev was very persistent?

•What was his most important discovery?

• Why did he die?

• In what way was his name immortalized?

6. Complete the sentences:

•His date of birth was _________________________________________________________

•He took part in the expedition of 1647 because ____________________________________

•At that time walrus tusks and whale bones were ___________________________________

•The reason they stopped their mission was ________________________________________

•A Koch is _____________________________________________________________________

•In the northern shores of Asia Dezhnev discovered _________________________________

•Chukchi people used walrus tusks, stones and bones ___________________________

•His discoveries were so great that ________________________________________________

7. True or false? Write “t” if true, “f”, if false:

• Semen Dezhnev was Y.Khabarov’s compatriot. _______

• They were looking for only sable fur as it was very precious._______

• Ice conditions did not stop Dezhnev because he was very tempered. _______

• He proved that Eurasia and North America were not connected. ________

• Diomede Island, Ratmanov Island and Kruzenstern Island are three separate islands. ______

• The Anian Strait and the Bering Strait is not the same. ______

8. Take the map of the Far East and find the places named after Semion Ivanovich Dezhnev.

Part II

1. Study the key vocabulary:

public service – государственная служба

enduring, resourceful and brave – выносливый, находчивый и смелый

remarkable organizing abilities – выдающиеся организаторские способности

to establish a permanent settlement –основать постоянное поселение

trading post - торговое поселение

to annex to Russia –присоединить к России

career subordinates -подчиненные

to complete the epoch–завершить эпоху

2. Replace the following words and word-combinations by the synonyms:

Brave, to establish, settlement, to annex, career subordinates, to complete;

3. Make up the sentences with the key vocabulary.

4. Scan the text and translate into Russian the sentences with the key vocabulary.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Atlasov

Vladimir Vasilyevich Atlasov was born in Veliki Ustug between 1661 and 1664. Later he became a Siberian Cossack. Before public service he traded sables in Yakutsk district. That Cossack was in good health, strong, enduring, resourceful, brave, energetic, and will-powered. These qualities, literacy and remarkable organizing abilities distinguished Atlasov from his associates. Vladimir Vasilyevich took part in the trips to Yakutsk lands, the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Maya River.

In 1695 he was appointed head of a settlement, located in Anadyr territory.

In 1697–1699 Atlasov led a group of 65 Cossacks and 60 Yukaghir natives to investigate the Kamchatka Peninsula. As a result, he made the local Koryak and Itelmen population to pay a tribute to the Tzar. He also established the first permanent Russian settlement in the Kamchatka Peninsula and built two forts along the Kamchatka River which became trading posts for Russian fur trappers. Thanks to his expedition the Kamchatka Peninsula was annexed to Russia.

At the beginning of 1701, Vladimir Atlasov went to Moscow, where he was appointed Kamchatka governor and granted a large sum of money. He was the first to present a detailed description of the region's nature and people, about the islands and lands near Kamchatka, Chukotka, and Japan. Then he returned back to Kamchatka.

To keep discipline in Kamchatka, Vladimir Atlasov was very cruel with the natives and career subordinates. So in 1711 he was killed during the uprising of Cossacks.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Atlasov had completed the Russian epoch of great geographic discoveries in Siberia and the Far East.

There is a bay, a volcano and an island in Kamchatka, several settlements in Kamchatka and Sakhalin, and one of glaciers in the north of the Far East named after him.