Task
Give a talk about the place where you live.
Remember to say:
Give a talk about the place where you live.
Remember to say:
- what kind of place it is (a city/ town/ village)
- what it looks like
- what it is famous for
- any brief stories about
- what would you show your guests at the first place, and why
Here are some facts
about our city:
Zelenograd is a city, which forms one of the administrative okrugs of Moscow. It is located 37 kilometers from the center of Moscow. The city color is green and its emblematic animal is the squirrel.
Zelenograd was founded in 1958 as a city of the future. New city construction started in 1960 on a previously empty, forested place. In record-breaking time the powerful scientific and production basis for electronic industry was created. Before 1989 Zelenograd was a closed city: it was prohibited to take photos in the central parts of the city, near the plants, teaching and research facilities and foreigners were not admitted into the city.
Zelenograd was one of the most powerful centers of electronics, microelectronics and computer industry in the Soviet Union, and it still plays a similar role in modern Russia. It was developed as a reflection of the California Silicon Valley and known also as Soviet/Russian Silicon Valley.
In 1988, Zelenograd incorporated the former village of Kryukovo, one of the important sites during the Battle of Moscow. It was the place where German forces came the closest to Moscow during World War II. Now several monuments are located in Kryukovo and in the surrounding area.
