Answer the questions to the text.

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

2. What works were erected on the right bank of the Om in the late 1700s?

3. Why do you think Omsk became an administrative centre of Western Siberia in the 19^th century?

Work with your partner.

Dates	Places	Rivers	Buildings

Vocabulary Training

19. Read and remember the following words and word combinations:

merchant – купец

flock – стекаться, собираться

junction – место пересечения, соединения

elaborate – тщательно, детально разработанный, продуманный

hustle-and-bustle – энергично развивающийся, передовой

pinnacle – вершина

20. Skim the text below and say that in English:

транс-сибирская железная дорога, место пересечения рек и дорог, иностранные державы, огромная выставка, вершина успеха, сибирский Чикаго.

Reading

Scan the text quickly.

The new boom

The new boom began with the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1890s, when the merchants flocked to the city on the rail-and-river junction. Many trade companies opened stores and offices here. They built an elaborately decorated district of the city and brought the hustle-and-bustle of modern transportation, means of communications and entertainment here. Foreign powers, including the British, Dutch and Germans, opened consulates to represent their commercial interests. The pinnacle of success came to Omsk with the lavish Siberian Exposition of Agriculture and Industry in 1910. For this Exposition a complex of buildings and fountains was constructed. The constructions as well as the “wonders” of that Exposition influenced the observers greatly so Omsk was called as "Chicago of Siberia".

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