Ukraine 4

Listen to Ukraine 4, a 53-year-old man from Kiev, Ukraine, who has also lived in the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 53

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/09/1957

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kiev, Ukraine

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/Ukrainian

OCCUPATION: self-employed

EDUCATION: high school, some college

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject lived in Moscow, Russia, for two years, before emigrating to the United States as a young man.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject learned English in the United States.

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RECORDED BY: Geena Lovato (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/11/2010

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in country that’s no longer exist: Soviet Union. In Kiev, Ukraine, there is a big monastery, Pechersk Lavra. It’s a, it’s a place where the whole Russia actually started from, and it’s very, very old like – I would say like – probably close to two-thousand years, something like that. And, uh, during the World War II, Germans destroyed – they blew it up – or some, some portions of it. So I was working on the restoration there. I was, I was uh, skinny. And they would, uh, lower me and a couple of other guys into dungeon. Actually yeah there – was it, was air duct – so. Kind of, kind of dangerous and lots of fun. Now that, the particular building, it’s a church, and it’s fully restored.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Geena Lovato (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/11/2010

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