The Kupala Dictation was written at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

The International Mother Tongue Day is celebrated all over the world on February 21. Traditionally, on this day, Kupala residents participate in writing the Kupala Dictation, which is being held for the seventh time. The event has become an important part of the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the founding of the university.

On the International Mother Tongue Day, Kupala residents, friends and partners of the university wrote a dictation in Belarusian together. Usually the text is performed by a teacher of the Faculty of Philology. This year, Irina Kiturko, Rector of the Yanka Kupala State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences, read the text in the main building of the university.

Each year, the dictation text is different and thematic. This time it's a poem by Nikolai Chernyavsky, “I'm grateful to them for everything.”

- The choice of the work was not accidental. The 80th anniversary of the Great Victory is approaching, and the dictation is dedicated to this landmark event. Patriotic poetic lines were written by more than 2,000 students and staff in the buildings of the university and colleges of the Yanka Kupala State University," Irina Fedorovna noted.

16 foreign diplomatic missions, as well as 10 universities from near and far abroad joined in writing the dictation. The geography of the event participants who joined Kupala Dictation online is really impressive.

Among the friends who wrote Kupala Dictation are the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Grodno, Consulates General of the Republic of Belarus in Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Istanbul, Shanghai; Embassies of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation, in the People's Republic of China, in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the Kyrgyz Republic In the Republic of Azerbaijan, in the Republic of Uzbekistan, in Turkmenistan, in the Republic of Turkey, in Hungary, in the State of Israel, in the Republic of India.

In addition, foreign participants decided to test their knowledge of the Belarusian language and write a dictation together with Kupala residents – representatives of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Voronezh State University, Academician M. S. Osimi Tajik Technical University, Tajik National University, the Belarusians of Moscow National Cultural Autonomy, the Fraternity of Belarusians in Volgograd,Territories of childhood”, day care sector in Paks city.

For the first time, employees of the Laurent Etves University (Hungary) and the branch of Atomstroyexport Joint Stock Company in Hungary joined the Kupala Dictation campaign.

The celebration of the university's anniversary continues. Follow the news on our social networks and on the website of the Yanka Kupala State University!