Russia 33

Listen to Russia 33, a 37-year-old man from Tyumen, Russia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 37

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/04/1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: White

OCCUPATION: computer programmer

EDUCATION: higher

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject has spent time in Moscow and Israel.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/09/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So, um, when I used to be a driving instructor, I just used to use a pocket, mm, pocket clock. And once, uh, I drove from, from Moscow to Tyumen, and, uh, in a opposite way — from Tyumen to Moscow. It is a long driving; it is more than two thousand kilometers, and it took to one way it took, uh, about forty hours. I slept a lot in my way, and I got tired a lot. Um, and I did not use my pocket watch, uh, that time. But still I didn’t, didn’t teach anyone.

[Subject says in Russian roughly what he just said in English]: Меня зовут. А, меня не зовут. Да, при чём здесь мои часы? Я их просто припомнил, поэтому и назвал. А вообще я работал инструктором. Я жил в Тюмени, Москве, и сейчас живу в Израиле, и не думаю, что останусь здесь навсегда. А история путешествий между Тюменью и Москвой правдивая, только это было не подряд, конечно. То есть сначала я ехал в одну сторону, потом, спустя время, я ехал в другую сторону. Да. Спасибо за внимание, до свидания.

[Transliteration: Menya zovut. Ah, menya neh zovut. Dah, prih chem zdes’ moi chasy? Ya ikh prosto pripomnil, poetomu ih nazval. Ah voobsche ya rabotal instructorom. Ya zhyl v Tymeni, Moskve, ih seichas zhivu v Izraileh, ih neh dumayu, chtoh ostanus’ zdes’ navsegdah. Ah istoriya puteshestviy mezhdu Tyumen’yu ih Moskvoy pravdivaya, tol’kho eto bylo neh podryad, khonechno. To est’ snachala ya ekhal v odnu storonu, potom, spustya vremya, ya ekhal v druguyu storonu. Da. Spasibo za vnimanie, do svidaniya.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/09/2021

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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