Russian language space to appear at the National Centre RUSSIA
The National Centre RUSSIA and its branches will become spaces for the development and preservation of the Russian language. During a meeting of the Council on Language Policy, President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of creating multifunctional Russian language spaces based at the National Centre RUSSIA and its branches in other regions.
The experience gained by the National Centre RUSSIA in conducting large-scale events, interactive and cutting-edge expositions will make studying our language interesting and engaging. In each region, such platforms will be different, reflecting the full breadth of the Russian word. They will become points of attraction for children, young people and foreign tourists wishing to connect with the power of the Russian language, its depth and great creative force. The National Centre RUSSIA has already joined in supporting the Russian language — on its premises, the Council for Forming a New Style of the Russian Federation is creating a new Russian language primer that will be used to teach future generations.
Presidential
Aide Yelena Yampolskaya presented a project of a new reading primer and spoke
about the need to create special platforms for studying the Russian language,
including at the National Centre RUSSIA. The first of these will open this
autumn in Vladivostok.
The name
"Russian Word on the Pacific Ocean" for the Far Eastern platform was
proposed by Liliana Voronova, Head of the Russian as a Foreign Language
Department at the Far Eastern Federal University. According to her, such spaces
will help not only Russian schoolchildren, but also foreign tourists and
students, for whom familiarity with the language is a pathway to Russian
education.
"Foreigners,
having visited Russia, want to return to their homeland with some stock of
learnt Russian words. Such familiarity with the Russian language becomes an
incentive for them to pursue education in Russia. I am confident that a space
dedicated to the Russian language will be very much in demand among foreign and
Russian young people. We are talking about spaces with interactive capabilities
where events can be held and activities covered in the most diverse formats. These
could be lectures, expositions, workshops. The main thing is that all events
should be interesting for children and young people. Just like the Russian
language itself, which is also very interesting and diverse," said Liliana
Voronova.
The
platforms are planned to be interactive: lectures, expositions, workshops and
meetings that inspire children and young people will take place here. The
design could incorporate distinctive features of the Russian language: verbs of
motion, set expressions, phrases from classics and cinema.
The meeting
also saw the announcement of two key initiatives: the launch of the
"Children's Book Card" programme from 2026 and the establishment of
the Day of Languages of the Peoples of Russia, which is proposed to be
celebrated on September 8, the birthday of Rasul Gamzatov.
The
National Centre RUSSIA is joining the implementation of state language policy
as a key platform, forming a cultural space where words become a means of
dialogue, understanding and unity.
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