Total dictation- is the largest educational action which has been held in Russia since 2004. During this time, the Total Dictation has become truly popular, every year about 100 thousand Russians take part in this event.
The main rules of the action are: free, voluntary, anonymity, accessibility, simultaneity.
We found out when and where the Total Dictation 2017 will take place, and also collected information about who became the author of the text and where you can register to take part in the dictation.
VK city group address: https://vk.com/totaldict_nn
Total dictation 2017 in Moscow
Date and time of the event : April 8, 14:00204 venues were prepared for the Total Dictation 2017 in Moscow, including: Russian the University of Economics(PRUE) them. Plekhanov, Museum of Cosmonautics, MGIMO, MADI, MIPT, PFUR (Faculty of Philology), etc.
Dictators: Ekaterina Shulman, Mikhail Wiesel, Valery Babyatinsky, DARIA SMIRNOV, Avangard Leontiev, Tatyana Pletneva, Evgeny Rudashevsky, Pavel Derevyanko, Elena Zakharova.
city page address: https://totaldict.ru/msk/?city=3
VK city group address: https://vk.com/msk_td
Total dictation 2017 in St. Petersburg
Date and time of the event : April 8, 14:00.Total Dictation 2017 in St. Petersburg will be held at 77 venues.
The dictators will be: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Boris Smolkin, Sergey Matvienko, Roman Shmarakov, Sabina Deripasko and others.
city page address: https://totaldict.ru/spb/?city=11
VK city group address: https://vk.com/totaldict_spb
Total dictation 2017 in Novosibirsk
Date and time of the event : April 8, 15:00.In Novosibirsk and satellite cities (Koltsovo, Berdsk, Krasnoobsk) 56 sites will operate, including 4 test sites for foreigners "TruD".
city page address: https://totaldict.ru/novosibirsk/?city=9
VK city group address: https://vk.com/totaldict_nsk
Total dictation 2017 in Yekaterinburg
Date and time of the event : April 8, 13:00.Total dictation 2017 in Yekaterinburg can be written at 22 sites.
city page address: https://totaldict.ru/ekaterinburg/?city=23
Total dictation 2017 in Vladivostok
Date and time of the event : April 8, 15:00.23 venues have been prepared for the Total Dictation 2017 in Vladivostok.
city page address: https://totaldict.ru/vladivostok/?city=62
VK city group address.
ASTANA, April 7 — Sputnik. The names of "star dictators" for the participants of the action, who will write the Total Dictation in interactive mode, have been announced. Also, the organizing committee of the Total Dictation told in detail how dictations written online will be checked.
The broadcasts will be available to totaldict.ru visitors on April 8 at 8:00, 11:00 and 14:00 Moscow time, or at 11:00, 14:00 and 17:00 Astana time, respectively.
The author of the dictation in 2017 was Russian writer, screenwriter, historian Leonid Yuzefovich, who wrote three essays about his hometowns: Perm, Ulan-Ude and St. Petersburg.The first will be the broadcast from Vladivostok, which will begin at 8:00 Moscow time. The text will be read by popular radio DJ Sasha Antonova.
At 11:00 Moscow time, the baton of broadcasts will be picked up by Novosibirsk State University, where Leonid Yuzefovich, the author of this year's "Total Dictation", will be the "dictator".
Immediately from three points will be broadcast at 14:00:
— in Moscow polytechnic university sports commentator Georgy Cherdantsev will dictate;
- at NRU MPEI, the text can be written under the dictation of the resident of the Comedy club project Marina Kravets."All" star dictators "of broadcasts have special education: Maxim Galkin graduated from the Faculty of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Marina Kravets - the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University, Georgy Cherdantsev - the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and Sasha Antonova - the Institute of the Russian Language of the Far Eastern State University. The author of the Total Dictation-2017 Leonid Yuzefovich graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Perm University. We are confident that the broadcasts will be bright and interesting, and the professionalism of the dictators will help the participants on these platforms and online successfully cope with the dictation,” said Olga Rebkovets, project manager.
In order for the totaldict.ru website to withstand high loads, the Total Dictation project is supported by ITSumma. Last year, the Total Dictation website was subjected to a massive DDoS attack, which prevented many who wanted to write a dictation online.
This year the project is defended by the Zaslon service. All Internet traffic of the Total Dictation project is processed at Zaslon cleaning nodes, which makes it possible to repel DDoS attacks of almost any power and neutralize malicious "bots".It will be possible to write a dictation online in a special form on the dictation website. Participants will be able to find out their assessment almost immediately. The dictation verification algorithm was developed by Stepik (a multifunctional educational platform where you can learn from hundreds of free online courses and create their own, hold olympiads and competitions).
The automatic check algorithm is as close as possible to checking by philologists, which provides for various acceptable spelling and punctuation options.
The development of detailed comments on text verification is carried out by the Expert Council of the project, which includes linguists from the largest universities and academic institutions in Russia.
The Expert Council not only recommends how to check the work so that any of the thousands of sites around the world observe the unity of the requirements for checking the Total Dictation, but also studies its results: monitors the dynamics of change language norms, finds controversial places and draws the attention of the Spelling Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences to them.Center Expert Council- Novosibirsk State University, Chairman of the Expert Council - N.B. Koshkareva, Professor, Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics humanitarian institute NSU.
The action will take place on April 8 in more than 800 cities in 72 countries. In Kazakhstan, the action will take place in 11 cities: Aktobe, Almaty, Aksu, Akmola, Karaganda, Kostanay, Pavlodar, Ridder, Semey, Temirtau and Shymkent.
The news agency and radio is a partner of the Total Dictation-2017.
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MOSCOW, April 6 - RIA Novosti. Everyone will be able to write "Total Dictation" online, for this purpose broadcasts from three time zones will be organized, and the protection of the site from DDoS attacks will be increased, the press service of the project said on Thursday.
The first "Total dictation" for donors"Total dictation" for the first time will be held specifically for blood donors and organizers of the donor movement, volunteers, doctors, blood service employees, the press service of the National Health Development Fund reported."All parts of the text of the Total Dictation can be written online on April 8: the organizers will broadcast from five dictation sites from three time zones, and a special algorithm will instantly check for errors in the text," the message says.
According to the organizers, the broadcasts will be available to totaldict.ru visitors on April 8 at 8:00, 11:00 and 14:00 Moscow time.
The first will be the broadcast from Vladivostok, which will begin at 8:00 Moscow time. The text will be read by radio DJ Sasha Antonova. At 11:00 Moscow time there will be a broadcast from Novosibirsk state university, where the "dictator" will be Leonid Yuzefovich - the author of this year's Total Dictation. Broadcast from Moscow at 14:00 will be conducted from three points: at NUST MISiS, the text of the dictation will be read by Maxim Galkin; sports commentator Georgy Cherdantsev will dictate at the Moscow Polytechnic University; at NRU MPEI, the text can be written under the dictation of the resident of the Comedy club project Marina Kravets.
The press service of the "Total Dictation" noted that all the "star dictators" of the broadcasts have a special education: Maxim Galkin graduated from the Faculty of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Marina Kravets - the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University, Georgy Cherdantsev - Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and Sasha Antonova - Institute of Russian Language FENU.
"We are sure that the broadcasts will be bright and interesting, and the professionalism of the dictators will help the participants on these platforms and online to successfully cope with the dictation," project manager Olga Rebkovets is quoted in the message as saying.
The press service recalled that last year the Total Dictation website was subjected to a large-scale DDoS attack, which prevented many who wished to write a dictation online. Therefore, this year the protection of the project will be increased.
"Total Dictation" is an annual educational event in the form of a voluntary dictation for everyone. Its goal is to give everyone the opportunity to test their knowledge of the Russian language and arouse interest in improving literacy. Anyone can participate in the "Total Dictation", regardless of age, gender, education, religion, profession, marital status, interests and political views. In 2016, the action was held in 732 cities, covering 68 countries, more than 145 thousand people became its participants.
