Answer the questions.

1. What is considered to be the centrepiece of the city?

2. Where is Drama theatre located?

3. Where are the surviving somber buildings of the 18th-century fortress situated?

4. What is the most opulent church in the city?

5. Who initiated the idea of construction of St. Nicholas cathedral?

6. What are the major museums in Omsk?

7. Is Omsk Metro going to be the best one in our country?

Speech practice

43. Choose any attraction of the city, find out photos and tell the class
about it.

Work with your desk-mate.

Partner 1 Partner 2

45. Make a Power Point presentation of the topic “Omsk”.

Check List to Module VI

1. Where is Omsk situated?

2. What makes Omsk an important air gateway to Siberia and the Far East?

3. What was the wooden fort of Omsk erected for?

4. Why do you think Omsk became an administrative centre of Western Siberia in the

19^th century?

5. Who headed the “Provisional Government of Russia”?

6. When was Omsk proclaimed as the Capital of Russia?

7. What year was the control taken by the “red” forces?

8. What is considered to be the centrepiece of the city?

9. Where are the surviving somber buildings of the 18th-century fortress situated?

10. What is the most opulent church in the city?

11. What are the major museums in Omsk?

12. Is Omsk Metro going to be the best one in our country?

 

MODULE VII

Jobs and occupations