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Galina Ulanova in Moscow

Duration: 0:27:35

The radio program on Orpheus Bolide FM discussed the life and work of the great ballerina Galina Ulanova. The discussion focused on her career in Moscow and the significant events that shaped her life during that period. The program also mentioned a film about Ulanova's life, named "In the World of Ulanova," which was made in honor of her 70th birthday. The film includes footage of Ulanova at her favorite place, Seliyer, where she loved to seek solitude. The discussion also included an anecdote about Stalin, who saw Ulanova dance at a government concert in Moscow and called her "our classic." This statement changed the course of Ulanova's life, making her an indispensable part of government concerts and ensuring her status as a legend of classical dance.

Language: Russian
Topics: BalletDanceUlanova

Metaphysics of drunkenness

Duration: 0:25:56

The editors of the "Polka" project - Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are discussing . The project shelf is a shelf of the most important Russian books and in the studio of the shelf.

Language: Russian
Topics: AlcoholismMoscowLyusinovskaya street

Learning abilities: a controversial category?

Duration: 0:37:05

Today's conversation will be about abilities . However, the guest of our broadcast does not agree with this term at all . According to him, as such, people have no abilities, but sometimes the development of thinking is not enough .

Language: Russian
Topics: the Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyPedagogyEducation

Statistics knows everything

Duration: 0:32:51

A special issue about how Russian writers went to count the people created in partnership with the All-Russian Population Census . Leo Tolstoy participated in the Moscow census, and why did this lead him to deny the entire urban way of life?

Language: Russian
Topics: StatisticsCensusPopulationthe All-Russian Population CensusUSSR

Book results of the year

Duration: 1:19:10

On the eve of the New Year, the editors of "Shelf" gathered in the Moscow club "Dom 16" to discuss book results and trends in 2021 . Autofiction and poetry, censorship and the return of the historical novel, publishing projects and the boom of non-fiction about nature .

Language: Russian
Topics: BooksJK RowlingMaxim Gorky BuninMayakovsky EhrenburgLeonid Andreev Chaliapin

“Moscow was not built right away…” - or how did Russian architecture reach its current state?

Duration: 0:45:25

The fourth episode of the podcast "As if Russian, as if culture" is a conversation about Russian architecture . In this episode, the presenters turn to history to discuss the origin and manifestation of various architectural styles in Russia.

Language: Russian
Topics: ArchitectureRussiaNovgorodIvan the TerribleTatar-Mongol

Norm, pathology and borderline conditions: what do scientists know?

Duration: 0:34:59

Today we will talk about the norm What is it, why do we need to know it? How the concept of norm and pathology changed over time, and why the so-called “border states” of the psyche are dangerous. Vera Tolchennikova, neurophysiologist, candidate of biological sciences, researcher at the Department of Higher Nervous Activity, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, takes part in the conversation .

Language: Russian
Topics: PsychologyNormsPathology