An icon of time: the verbal image of a holiday in Russian culture
This article considers the temporal constants of the holiday of Christmas in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Summer of the Lord. The key to understanding the verbal image of a holiday is the lines based on Christmas chants. An analysis of lexical and grammatical means of expressing temporal semantics shows ...
Ch. Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: the axiology of holiday time
The focus of this article is on the cognitive structure and means of verbalisation of the temporal and atemporal layers in Charles Dickens's depiction of Christmas in his novella «A Christmas Carol». In the complex structure of the holiday concept, past and present become intrinsically blended, Christmas time being a manifestation of eternity.
1. Бердяев Н. А. Время и вечность // На переломе. Философские дискуссии 20-х годов: ...
The frame approach to teaching vocabulary in Russian as a foreign language classes
This article considers the possibilities of using the frame approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author examines the content and structure of the learning frame of “Russian holidays.” The means to organise vocabulary and grammar elements are pre¬sented within a concrete frame model
1. Берков В. П., Беркова А. В., Беркова О. В. Как мы живем. Пособие по страноведению ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
This article analyses the differentiation of municipalities at the municipal and urban district levels in the Kaliningrad and Leningrad regions based on their economic development and the response of their economies to the crises of 2020 and 2022. Emphasis is placed on the possibilities of conducting such assessments by merging Rosstat statistics with publicly available accounting and tax reporting data from the Federal Tax Service. The contribution also assesses the role of small businesses in municipal...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... all-time high of 1.9 million visits was achieved.<12> However, prices for hotel services, rented accommodation, and food increased over this period, especially in the city of Kaliningrad and the seaside resorts. Kaliningraders had no opportunity to holiday in neighbouring countries, whilst increasingly expensive local resorts became overcrowded with tourists from mainland Russia [35]. As a result, both the local residents and, later, tourists shifted their focus to the eastern part of the region,...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... September, the 3rd quarter of 2019—2021 seems to be the most indicative for two reasons; in that quarter, less tight restriction were in place in most European countries as incidence reduced, and the tourist industry was allowed to profits from the holiday season.
Another indicator of the contribution of Baltic region state to the structure of inbound tourist flow to selected areas is used in this study. It is calculated as follows:
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ΣTourinbBalt
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Σtourinb
where IВinbTour stands ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... Most of them are located in the core regions. In the semi-periphery and periphery, their number is half that number or absent respectively.
In the Baltics, the capitals are centres of political and administrative life, main transport hubs and principal holiday destinations: they account for over 60 % of international tourist arrivals. The capitals have put the Baltics on the map of tourist destinations; their positive image is contributing to the competitiveness of the three countries as a single macro-region ...
Towards a classification of transboundary tourist and recreation mesoregions in the Baltic region
... The Case of Swedish and German Visitors, Economies, no. 9 (3). doi:
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11. Große, J., Fertner, C., Carstensen, T. A. 2019, Compensatory leisure travel? The role of urban structure and lifestyle in weekend and holiday trips in Greater Copenhagen, Case Studies on Transport Policy, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 108—117. doi:
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12. Więckowski, M., Timothy, D. J. 2021, Tourism and an evolving international boundary: Bordering,...
Regional politics of memory in Poland’s Warmia and Masuria
... To this end, we analyse the legal regulations, the authorities’ decisions, statistics, and the reports in the press. We consider such factors as the education sector, the museum industry, the monumental symbolism, the oral and printed propaganda, holidays and rituals, the institutions of national memory, the adoption of memory-related laws, and others. From the first post-war years, the regional authorities sought to make the Polonocentric concept of the region’s history dominate the collective ...
Discursive practices of the Russian diaspora in Estonia: language contacts
... following ones: spatial-temporal localization (space: Estonia — Russia —the West relations; significant locations, space in the past and today (the empire, the Republic of Estonia, the Soviet Union); information space; time: historical periods, dates, holidays; time in information space, etc.), linguistic reflections (metalinguistic units denoting co-existence, knowledge, language acquisition, etc.), evaluations (objects of evaluation, types of evaluation) and self-identification (ethnic, denominational,...
Regional aspects of international tourism (1960—1980s)
... Council for the development of international tourism. The author analyses archive materials describing the preparation, organization and reporting of tourist trips abroad and attempts to reconstruct behavior patterns of Soviet tourists abroad during their holidays.
1. Государственный архив Калининградской области (далее — ГАКО). Ф. Р-228 (Калининградский областной совет профессиональных союзов)....
The image of the Kaliningrad region in the Kaliningradskaya pravda newspaper of the Soviet era
Based on an analysis of holiday issues of the Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper, this article determines the frequency of semantic structures constituting the official image of the Kaliningrad region. Seventeen distinguishing features of the region are considered alongside changes ...
The axiology of images of space and time in B.L. Pasternak’s poem «When it Clears Up»
... Paster-nak’s poem “When it Clears up” (1956) and its English translation by Lydia Pasternak-Slater. Special emphasis is laid upon the significance of the 'holi-day' concept for the structural unity of the poem. In the atemporal dimension of a ‘holiday,’ visible images of the natural world become symbolic representa-tions of the invisible. In the English translation, the overt concreteness of some of the poetic images results in the partial loss of the text's axiological po-tential.
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The evaluation of recreation activity on the Vistula spit
The article presents the results of the analysis of intensity, saturation and direction of recreational streams on the Vistula spit. The basic kinds of recreational occupations and their influence on the natural complexes of the Vistula spit are considered. The article also provides the analysis of natural complex conditions changing with 1999 for 2007.
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