The North Caucasus Federal University has once again become one of the platforms of the large-scale educational campaign "Total Dictation". Russian language skills were tested by more than 50 people at three venues, who wrote a text about Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's childhood, created by Alexei Varlamov, a writer and rector of the Gorky Literary Institute.

Stavropol is participating in the campaign for the thirteenth time. This year, the dictation covered 67 countries of the world and more than a thousand settlements in Russia – from Kaliningrad to Chukotka. Victoria Sichinava, Associate Professor of the Russian Language Department at the NCFU Humanitarian Institute, has been the organizer and ambassador of the Total Dictation in Stavropol for the past 13 years.

Total Dictation is an annual educational event that unites everyone who can or wants to write and speak Russian. This year, NCFU had more than 50 participants at 3 venues, and all of them decided to challenge their knowledge and test about Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's childhood," said Victoria Sichinava, Associate Professor of the Russian Language Department at the NCFU Humanities Institute.

On the university's site, the text was read out by Lilia Voronkina, special correspondent of the Events of the Week group of the Stavropol State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company's information program service, a graduate of the NCFU Humanitarian Institute.

Russian language students from abroad were also among the participants. Russians have prepared a special format for them – the TruD test quest, designed for those who master Russian as a foreign language. Russian Language Club "Marusya" volunteers accompanied the foreign participants on the site. In addition, the younger participants joined the action: for them, the "Non-Dictation.Children."