The professor spoke about the preservation of the Russian language in Alaska

Russian Russian began to disappear in Alaska at the beginning of the 20th century for a number of reasons, but Alaskan Russians are trying to preserve it, Mira Bergelson, a doctor of Philology, said.

In conversation with aif.ru On Tuesday, August 12, she noted that Russian in Alaska is slightly different from the standard language, as are its variants in Africa or Australia. He appeared there in the second half of the 18th century, but began to disappear after the opening of an American school in the early 20th century, where they were allowed to speak only English. By the middle of the 20th century, communication in Russian had almost stopped, the website writes kp.ru .

There are now only three native speakers of Alaskan Russian left in Alaska, who were born in the 1930s. For the generation of the 40s and 50s, it was already the language of parents, which was used only in the family and remained in the memory as part of childhood.

According to Bergelson, the locals cherish this heritage, and during the expedition they asked to compile a dictionary of the dialect. Russian linguists have been studying it since 1997, and the dictionary has already been published.

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At the same time, the professor spoke about the spread of Orthodoxy in Alaska. According to her, it is practiced by many indigenous peoples of the peninsula, the Eskimos, Athabascans. In the center of Alaska there is the Indian village of Nicholas, named after one of the chiefs. In the second half of the 19th century, the ancestors of local residents sailed down the river in boats for months to undergo the rite of baptism, RT notes.

On August 12, former Vice Governor Laurent Leman expressed the opinion that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska could be a chance to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. He noted that if the leaders of the two states manage to come to a decision on ending the conflict in Ukraine, this meeting will go down in history as an outstanding event.

In April, he became a military political scientist, associate professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at the Russian University of Economics. Plekhanova Alexander Perendzhiev explained the desire of Alaskans to learn Russian due to fatigue from Western propaganda. According to him, Americans are "tired of Western propaganda and events in the United States," notes 360.ru .

Russia and the United States are separated by only 4 km between the islands of Ratmanov and Kruzenstern, where the date line runs. Until 1867, these islands and Alaska belonged to the Russian Empire, then they were sold to the United States. Pravda.Ru .

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