Press Service of the Russian Defence Ministry
A new textbook on Russian literature to be complied for students of Syrian schools, Izvestia newspaper informs. Specialists of the Russian language and literature department at the Damascus University carried out this work. Students will learn works by Russian classics and modern writers such as Rasul Gamzatov and Anatoly Pristavkin. The textbook will include epics and even song lyrics. The textbook is intended for the 12th graders.
The Head of the Russian Center opened by the Russkiy Mir Foundation at the University of Damascus Svetlana Rodygina said the curriculum will keep some excerpts from Gaidar’s novel Timur and His Squad. According to her, helping servicemen’s families is particularly urgent in Syria. Svetlana Rodygina promised that the textbook will be ready by the beginning of next year.
Fiction translations in Syrian language are always of the high quality, she added. The Minister of Education of the Republic Hazvan al-Wazz translated the works by Russian writers from Russian into Arabic. He studied in a Soviet university and fluent in Russian.
Russian literature alike Russian language was introduced into the school curriculum five years ago. Then it became the second foreign language along with French.
Svetlana Rodygina explains that the textbook will also include the writers’ biographies. The Russian Center also holds events dedicated to the anniversaries of Russian writers. Recently there was an evening in honour of the Turgenev’s 200th birth anniversary. Russian language students participated in it.
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