The Suitcase / Чемодан. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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ballot box – избирательная урна

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Paul Robeson: Paul Robeson (1898–1976) was an African-American civil-rights activist, singer and actor who received the International Stalin Prize in 1952. His political leanings and outspokenness caused him tremendous problems in America.

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the famous artist Shemyakin: Mikhail Mikhailovich Shemyakin (b. 1943), a painter who studied at the Repin Academy in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and, after frequent clashes with the KGB, left the Soviet Union in 1971.

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with pull – по блату

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Yuri Gagarin, Mayakovsky, Fidel Castro: Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (1934-68), Soviet cosmonaut and the first man in space, who received the most prestigious award in the USSR, “Hero of the Soviet Union”; Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian Futurist poet and Soviet propagandist, often seen as the exemplar of Soviet art; Fidel Castro (1926–2016), leader of the Cuban revolution and subsequently First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

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to have hair-of-the-dog – опохмеляться (от выражения to have hair of the dog that bit you)

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Zaporozhets – «Запорожец», марка заднемоторных легковых автомобилей, выпускавшихся в городе Запорожье

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Lomonosov: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-65), pioneering Russian grammarian, poet, scientist and founder of Moscow State University.

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Cordilleras, Appalachians and Guiana Highlands – Кордильеры, Аппалачи и Гвианское нагорье, горные системы Северной и Южной Америки

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Bach’s Sixth Invention – шестая инвенция Баха. Р?нвенция – СЃР±РѕСЂРЅРёРє небольших учебных пьес полифонического склада.

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tackle – тали, подвесное грузоподъемное устройство с ручным или механическим приводом

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Khrushchev – Хрущев, Никита Сергеевич (1894–1971), советский государственный деятель.