June 6, the birthday of the great Russian poet, the founder of modern Russian literary language Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in Russia and the world celebrates the Day of the Russian Language.

The decision to hold the Day of the Russian Language, as one of the official languages ​​of the UN, was first taken at a meeting of the Department of Public Information of the UN Secretariat on February 20, 2010, on the eve of international day mother tongue, within the framework of the program for the development of multilingualism and the preservation of cultural diversity. One of the goals of this program is to maintain equality in all six official languages ​​of the UN (English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French), as well as to draw attention to different languages and cultural traditions.

On June 6, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the annual celebration of the Russian Language Day in Russia.

In order to support the Russian language in Russian Federation and beyond its borders, the Federal Target Program "Russian Language", designed for 2011-2015, was carried out. On May 20, 2015, the government of the Russian Federation approved the Federal Target Program "Russian Language" for 2016-2020.

One of the most important tools for expanding international cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and other countries is the support and promotion of the Russian language abroad.

The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation - Rossotrudnichestvo and its foreign representative offices annually organize and conduct cultural, educational, scientific and methodological events aimed at popularizing the Russian language and stimulating the interest of foreign citizens to its study, to support national Russian studies and

The unspoken existence of the Russian Language Day began in 1996. On June 6, on the birthday of the great poet A. S. Pushkin, the Russian community of Crimea began to celebrate the Day of Defense of the Russian Language. After 11 years, this organization initiated the support of the holiday with the opening of the International Festival of Russian, Slavic Culture called "GREAT RUSSIAN WORD". Curious facts about the "great and mighty" Russian language

1. Russian is one of the largest languages ​​in the world and the most difficult after Chinese to learn and pronounce. In the environment Slavic languages"great and mighty" has received the greatest prevalence, which Russians can be proud of. It is one of the six official languages ​​of the UN.

2. The Russian language seems incredibly difficult for foreigners. The fact is that it is characterized by the presence of a number of specific features that determine individuality. The Russian language is inflectional: it contains inflections, that is, parts of a word that contain grammatical meanings that appear as a result of declension.

3. Russian is also called a synthetic language. Reason: each word combines two meanings at once - grammatical and lexical. The main principle of Russian orthography is the transfer meaningful parts words with the help letters. Linguists also call it phonomorphological. These are just a few distinctive features Russian language from a scientific point of view, making it different from others.

4. According to statistics, currently 144 million people consider "great and mighty" as their mother tongue. Thus, Russian is spoken in 33 countries of the world and up to 300 million inhabitants. In terms of prevalence on the planet, it was overtaken by English, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish and Arabic, giving it the opportunity to take an honorable sixth place in this ranking.

5. Largest number earthly inhabitants who are fluent in Russian is characteristic of the fraternal Slavic states, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The same applies to the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. There are also many Russian-speaking people abroad. Most often they can be found in the USA, Germany, Bulgaria and Eastern European countries: Poland and the Czech Republic. In terms of the total number of speakers of the Russian language, it ranks fifth in the world among all existing languages, and in terms of the number of those who speak the “great and mighty” language as their native language, it ranks eighth.

6. Do you know why the Russian language is called "Russian"? After all, the indicated linguonym correlates with the toponym and ethnonym "Rus", which has a rather respectable age. The modern name appeared due to historical changes. Until that time, there were other designations for our native language: “Russian”, “Great Russian”. The first arose in the 17th century and was especially popular three centuries ago. The archaization of the linguonym took place already in the first half of the 19th century. The "Russian" language was spoken by Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. The second designation was the result of the existing oppositions between Little, White and Great Russia. Its use was aimed at emphasizing the dialectal speech of the Great Russians.

Now you know about the language in which you communicate daily with others, in which you think and dream more than before. Let this information help you realize the importance of the Russian language as an object cultural heritage and make your own speech more pure, pleasant and understandable. Do not forget to congratulate all Russian-speaking relatives and friends on the holiday of June 6: they should also feel proud of one of best languages peace!

The holiday was established at the initiative of the United Nations in 2010. The prerequisite for this was the support of multilingualism and cultural communication. Russian is one of the six official languages ​​of the UN, along with Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish and French.

Each of the representative countries proposed the date of the celebration, reflecting the priority for speakers of a particular language. For example, the Chinese wanted to glorify the person who invented their writing with a memorable date. For the Russian people, a special date is June 6, associated with Pushkin, and specifically with his birthday. It was thanks to his genius that the unification of the folk, colloquial dialect with the book dialect took place: the literary Russian language took the form that it has now.

On the first anniversary, the date became official for Russia by decree of the President. Russian is spoken by one sixth of the entire population of the planet. This is the official, national language for the Russian Federation; has state status, on a par with native, in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and a number of other countries. Even in those states where it is not a priority for the authorities, there are too many native speakers to ignore it. Unofficially, all countries communicate on it. former USSR. Not surprisingly, even astronauts are required to know Russian if they expect to be on the ISS.

The General Assembly supports a special training program and has links with the Russian Book Club. Multilingualism allows an organization to convey information to ordinary people, including through the website. It is important for the UN that anyone could get access to news, primary sources of information. All events on the holiday are aimed at studying, improving perception, development, knowledge of the most powerful and great.

The festival, which has international status, demonstrating Slavic culture in all its glory, is called "The Great Russian word". There are also concerts, competitions, exhibitions of works of art related to the Russian people and helping to better understand the mentality of native speakers. Special events are held at the UN headquarters in different countries.

Interest in Russia is steadily growing on the part of the world community. With strong administrative support in last years succeeded in raising the prestige and significance of the language. Russian modern writers are able to capture the attention of a foreign public, for example, Dashkova, Akunin, Prilepin, Ulitskaya, Lukyanenko.

But they have to withstand fierce competition from their own compatriots, who only lived a few centuries ago - Russian classics. The opinion that literature helps to comprehend the secrets of the Russian soul makes the names of Chekhov, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol famous abroad like never before.

And it doesn't matter that literature is sometimes not read, but watched. For example, Chekhov as a playwright is considered a star of the first magnitude in terms of the number of productions around the world, and Anna Karenina has been filmed about 20 times. Maybe watching a movie is an occasion to get acquainted with the original, the primary source.

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June 6 is celebrated as the International Day of the Russian Language all over the world. Our language is one of the largest in the world and is considered the first among all Slavic languages. Therefore, when the day of the Russian language comes, it is celebrated by both the inhabitants of Russia and Russian-speaking immigrants in the countries of the world. Moreover, Russian is considered the most widespread language in Europe in terms of geographical characteristics. If the total number of those who speak Russian is 250 million, then the number of those for whom Russian is their native language is about 150 million.

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The value of the “great and mighty” lies in its richness and speech diversity, in the presence of words and expressions that have no analogues in any other language on the planet.

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The unspoken existence of the Russian Language Day began in 1996. On June 6, on the birthday of the great poet A. S. Pushkin, the Russian community of Crimea began to celebrate the Day of Defense of the Russian Language. In 2007 the community held International Festival Russian, Slavic culture called "GREAT RUSSIAN WORD".

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The idea of ​​​​establishing at the official level an all-Russian and even a worldwide date dedicated to the Russian language was first proposed by Ivan Klimenko, author of the Russian play on words. In 2007, he wrote an article about it "Let there be a Day!". Ivan Klimenko explained his initiative by the fact that the Russian language needs further development, and this is much easier to arrange if every year is marked by a corresponding cultural holiday. But then none of the representatives of the authorities reacted to the idea and arguments of the enthusiast.

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Three years later, Klymenko's initiative met with the support of the UN. As part of the program to support and develop multilingualism and cultural diversity, the decision to hold the Russian Language Day on June 6 was made by the UN Department of Public Information.

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In 2011, Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev signed the corresponding Decree "On the Day of the Russian Language". It stated the following: "To establish the Day of the Russian Language and celebrate it annually, on June 6, on the birthday of the great Russian poet, the founder of the modern Russian literary language A. S. Pushkin."

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This decree came into force at the moment of signing the order, that is, on June 6, 2011. The memorial date was established “in order to preserve, support and develop the Russian language as a national heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, a means of international communication and an integral part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of world civilization.

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Foreign cosmonauts going on a flight as part of Russian crews must learn Russian according to instructions.

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On June 6, both in orbit and on Earth, Russian speech is heard. Numerous forums and meetings dedicated to language are held within the walls of the UN, Russia Days are held in various countries of the world, within the framework of which Russian films, performances are shown or scientific conferences dedicated to the Russian language.

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Curious facts about the "great and mighty" Russian language

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1. The Russian language ranks fifth in terms of the total number of people speaking it.

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2. Russian is one of the largest languages ​​in the world and the most difficult, after Chinese, to learn and pronounce. Among the Slavic languages, the “great and mighty” has received the greatest prevalence, which Russians can be proud of. It is one of the six official languages ​​of the UN.

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3. The Russian language seems incredibly difficult for foreigners. The fact is that it is characterized by the presence of a number of specific features that determine individuality. The Russian language is inflectional: it contains inflections, that is, parts of a word that contain grammatical meanings that appear as a result of declension.

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4. Russian is also called a synthetic language. Reason: each word combines two meanings at once - grammatical and lexical. The main principle of Russian orthography is the transfer of significant parts of words with the help of letters. Linguists also call it phonomorphological. These are just some of the distinctive features of the Russian language from a scientific point of view, making it different from others.

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5. According to statistics, currently 250 million people consider "great and mighty" as their mother tongue. Thus, Russian is spoken in 33 countries of the world and up to 300 million inhabitants. In terms of prevalence on the planet, it was overtaken by English, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish and Arabic, giving it the opportunity to take an honorable sixth place in this ranking.

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6 The largest number of earthly inhabitants who are fluent in Russian is characteristic of the fraternal Slavic states, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The same applies to the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. There are also many Russian-speaking people abroad. Most often they can be found in the USA, Germany, Bulgaria and Eastern European countries: Poland and the Czech Republic. In terms of the total number of speakers of the Russian language, it ranks fifth in the world among all existing languages, and in terms of the number of those who speak “great and mighty” as their native language, it ranks eighth.

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7. Biggest vocabulary from Russian people - Pushkin. It includes approximately 25,000 lexemes. He had about the same vocabulary on English language Shakespeare.

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8. The only one-syllable adjective in Russian is "evil".

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9. There are 441 words in Russian with the root “love”. In English - 108.

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12 subtleties of the Russian language

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Russian is an incredible language. The same words can mean completely different things and express completely different emotions. What can we say about lexical phrases that can easily confuse a foreign citizen.

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Only in our country the word "ugh" is a synonym for the words "please", "thank you", "good afternoon", "no way" and "sorry", and the word "come on" in most cases replaces "goodbye".

How to translate into other languages "very smart" - not always a compliment, "very smart" - mockery, and "too smart" - the threat?

Why do we have the future tense, present and past, but still, in the present tense, we can express both the past (“I’m walking down the street yesterday ...”) and the future (“Tomorrow I’m going to the cinema”), and with the past tense we can express an order (“Quickly left here!”) ?

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There are languages ​​where double negation is allowed, there are - where it is not allowed; in some languages, a double negative can express an affirmation, but only in Russian is the double statement “well, yes, of course!” - expresses denial or doubt in the words of the speaker.
All foreigners who study Russian wonder why "nothing" can mean not only “nothing”, but also “normal”, “good”, “excellent”, as well as “everything is in order” and “no need to apologize”.

In Russian, with the same obscene expressions you can offend, and admire, and express all other shades of emotions.

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The phrase “yes, no, probably” can enter into a stupor of a person studying Russian simultaneously carrying both affirmation, and denial, and uncertainty, but still expressing an uncertain denial with a hint of the possibility of a positive decision.

Try to be clear about the difference between "drink tea" and "drink tea"; what is the difference between "here" and "here"; why can an action in the past be expressed by the words “earlier”, “long ago”, “just now”, “recently”, “the other day” and a dozen others, and why in certain situations they can be replaced with each other?

Try to explain a phrase to a foreigner "Hands do not reach to see."

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How exactly to name the inclination with the particle "would" when it expresses in different situations and condition, and request, and desire, and daydreaming, and necessity, and assumption, and suggestion, and regret?

In Russian, sometimes the verb does not have any form, and this is due to the laws of euphony . For example: "win". He wins, you win, I... win? will I run? win? Philologists suggest using replacement constructions “I will win” or “I will become a winner”. Since there is no first person singular form, the verb is deficient.

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The glass is on the table, and the fork lies . If we stick a fork into the countertop, the fork will stand. That is, there are vertical objects, but horizontal ones lie?
Adding a plate and pan to the table . They seem to be horizontal, but they stand on the table. Now put the plate in the pan. There she lies, but she stood on the table. Maybe there are items ready for use? No, the fork was ready when it lay.
Now the cat is climbing on the table . She can stand, sit and lie down. If in terms of standing and lying, it somehow climbs into the “vertical-horizontal” logic, then sitting is a new property. She sits on her butt.
Now a bird has landed on the table. She sits on the table, but sits on her feet, not on the pope. Although it looks like it should be. But she can't stand at all. However, if we kill the poor bird and make a scarecrow, it will stand on the table.
It may seem that sitting is an attribute of the living, but the boot also sits on the leg, although it is not alive and does not have priests.

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So, go and understand what is worth, what is lying, and what is sitting)))

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And we are still surprised that foreigners consider our language difficult and compare it with Chinese)))

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Do you know why the Russian language is called "Russian"?

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After all, the indicated linguonym correlates with the toponym and ethnonym "Rus" having a fairly respectable age. The modern name appeared due to historical changes.

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Until then, there were other designations for our native language: "Russian", "Great Russian". The first arose in the 17th century and was especially popular three centuries ago. The archaization of the linguonym took place already in the first half of the 19th century. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov spoke the "Russian" language. The second designation was the result of the existing oppositions between Little, White and Great Russia. Its use was aimed at emphasizing the dialectal speech of the Great Russians.

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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and the Russian language

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The language of Alexander Pushkin, which combines bookish norms with lively spoken language, remains the basis of the Russian literary language to this day. The artistic discoveries of this poet determined and anticipated much in the further development of not only Russian literature (the work of Gogol, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky), but also almost all areas of Russian art and spiritual culture of the XIX-XX centuries.

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Anna Andreevna Akhmatova said about Pushkin: "Pushkin's poems gave children the Russian language in its most perfect splendor, a language that they may never hear again and which they will never speak, but which will still be with them, like an eternal treasure".

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Alexander Sergeevich made the Russian language perfect, he brought the Russian language world significance. Therefore, in our time there is no doubt that "to speak Russian" means "to speak Pushkin's language."

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Sayings of famous people about the Russian language

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Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky, "The Book of Wanderings":

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The Russian language exists like a collection of the greatest poetry, as unexpectedly rich and pure as a blazing starry sky over a wooded wasteland.

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Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin:

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1. Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

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2. The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.

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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev:

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Take care of the purity of the language as a shrine! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.

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Gogol:

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You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.

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Akhmatova Anna:

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And we will save you, Russian speech, Great Russian word!

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Now you know more about the language in which you communicate with others on a daily basis, in which you think and dream, more than before. Let this information help you realize the importance of the Russian language as an object of cultural heritage, and make your own speech more pure, pleasant and understandable.

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Do not forget to congratulate all Russian-speaking relatives and friends on the holiday on June 6: they should also feel proud of one of the best languages ​​in the world!

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Like the days of other official languages ​​of the United Nations, it appeared on the international calendar in 2010, when the UN Department of Public Relations proposed to establish holidays dedicated to the six official languages ​​​​of the organization, as part of a program to support and promote multilingualism and cultural diversity. The corresponding decision was made on the eve of , celebrated annually at the initiative of UNESCO.

Multilingualism, which is an important factor in harmonious communication between peoples, is of particular importance for the UN. While promoting tolerance, it also ensures effective and better Active participation everyone in the organization's workflow. Therefore, according to the UN, it is necessary to preserve and promote multilingualism through various measures in the interests of sharing and communication.

A date has been set for the celebration of the Day of the Russian Language. This is the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, the great writer, poet, playwright. In addition, Pushkin is considered the creator of the modern literary Russian language. It makes no sense to list the works of Alexander Sergeevich - they are familiar to any person living in Russia or speaking Russian.

The Russian language is one of the largest languages ​​in the world, is the most widespread of the Slavic languages, the most widely spoken European language in a geographical sense, and in terms of the total number of speakers, it ranks among the top ten world languages.

According to the latest data, there are more than 150 million Russian-speakers in the world, and more than 100 million speak Russian as a second language.

In addition to the Russian Federation, Russian is the official language of some CIS countries, as well as Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It also remains the language of informal communication in the countries of the former USSR. Interestingly, all cosmonauts who are to work on the International Space Station must study the spoken Russian language without fail.

Various events are held in the building of the UN General Assembly on Russian Language Day. In particular, these are concerts of Slavic folk music, competitions for knowledge of the Russian language and literature, exhibitions of works of art, lectures, film demonstrations and express lessons.