Russian Ussr

Russia belongs to the East Slavic group of languages, a branch of the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the three languages of survivors of this group, together with Belarus and Ukraine.

Russian language is more widespread geographically in Europe and Asia, and is used by approximately 170 million speakers natives living in Russia, Belarus, Moldova and the former confederate states of Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

From a historical standpoint, the Russian language can be divided into five periods: Period of Kiev, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania period, the Muscovite period, the Empire and the Soviet period.
The first written in Russian were discovered in Novgorod and found dating from the 11th century.

It was only during the reign of Peter the Great (late 17th century) that Russian writing began to be used more often. The writer also conducted a reform of the old Russia and the Old Church Slavonic and encourage the use of a literary style closer to the spoken language.

During the reign of Peter the Great, a new alphabet was revised presented and a new language (based on the Moscow dialect) began to take shape.

The 19th century writer Aleksandr Pushkin was the one who carved this language, language almost identical to the Russian speaking today. This was the century in Russian literature flourished and Dostoyevskii writers like Tolstoy and Gogol published some of the classics Russian works of art, helping them through the development of the new language.

Russia was the only official language of the Empire, both the Russian Federation and the USSR. After the USSR break-up in 1991, many former Soviet states encouraged its people to speak their native language to improve its newfound freedom.

However, Russia remains a very powerful and widely used language. Russia is a must for people who work in air and space communications and is in very handy for scientists considering that almost 25% of worldwide scientific literature published in Russian.

The power of the former USSR used have (on the countries of Eastern Europe in particular) is proved by the nearly 60 million people who speak Russian as a second language.

Russian is a language difficult to learn. It uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is a challenge in itself, and has a very large vocabulary and coulourful comprising more than 750,000 words.

Ioana Mihailas is a linguist for Lingo24 document translation service in London, a leading UK provider of legal translation services.

Russian Ussr

Russian Ussr