Listening comprehension lesson number 95.0:02
The main street of Moscow and try to understand it.0:08
Tverskaya street is the main street of the Russian capital.0:16
It is one of the longest and the busiest streets in in the city.0:22
There are many hotels, shops and supermarkets in it.0:28
Dverskaya street is famous for its fine tall houses, beautiful monuments, wide squares, cinemas and theatres which are in or nearby.0:34
Hundreds of years ago, from Red Square there was a road to Tver.0:51
Tver is an old Russian city to the north of Moscow.0:58
Tverskaya street is where this road used to be and that fact explains its name.1:03
Tverskaya is a wide street and in some places the street is is 60 meters wide.1:12
@ the beginning of Tverskaya street you can see the Nazional Hotel.1:21
If we walk up the street on the same side, we'll see the building of the central telegraph and on the opposite side, the monument to Yuri Dolgoruki, the founder of Moscow.1:29
The monument is situated in a beautiful little square with some trees in it.1:46
Let's walk up Tverskaya Street.1:54
Soon we'll reach Pushkin Square.1:58
In Pushkin Square we can see the famous monument to Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet.2:01
Pushkin was born in Moscow and spent the first years of his life in this city.2:11
When he became very famous and lived in St. Petersburg, he often visited Moscow.2:18
Pushkin loved his native city and wrote about it in his poems.2:26
Pushkin Square is very beautiful.2:32
There is a fountain in it near the monument.2:36
The monument itself appeared in Moscow in 1880.2:40
It is the work of the famous Apikushin and one of the finest monuments in Moscow.2:46
On the opposite side, further up Tverskaya street, there is an old red building.2:54
It used to be the English Club, but now it is the Museum of the Revolution.3:01
You can see the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky in Triumphalny Square.3:10
Moscow Concert hall is situated in it.3:17
The end is near Belorussian Railway Station.3:22
There was the monument to Maxim Gorky in the square in front of the railway station.3:26
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