Nationwide Spelling Test in Pridnestrovie

Pridnestrovie joined the international action "Nationwide Spelling Test – 2025" on the 5th of April. All the towns of our republic took part in the Russian educational project for the first time, the website of the "Obnovlenie" Republican Party reports. "Obnovlenie" has supported the international event and helped organize it in Pridnestrovie since 2014.

Sites for writing the dictation were organized on the basis of libraries, schools, and the Taras Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University this year. 116 people came to check their literacy in Tiraspol, 100 in Bendery, 81in Rybnitsa, 62 in Dubossary, 54 in Grigoriopol, 33 in Slobodzeya, 32in Dnestrovsk, 27 in Kamenka (where the site opened for the first time).

505 people wrote the "Nationwide Spelling Test" in Pridnestrovie in total. The text of the dictation, entitled "In Search of the Miraculous," was written by Russian writer and screenwriter Marina Moskvina. Its theme is a sea voyage to the Arctic, a story from the author's own expeditions.

The dictation was written by people of different ages and professions. It can be said that the event erases boundaries: under the dictation of radio host Yulia Samoshkina in Tiraspol, four residents of Chisinau and five guests from Gagauzia were introduced to the beauty of the Russian language together with residents of the Pridnestrovian capital. The youngest participants of the event were traditionally presented with books from the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office, as noted in “Obnovlenie”.

The reading room of the Central Library traditionally became the venue for the Nationwide Spelling Test in Dubossary. Together with school and technical school students, teachers, engineers and pensioners, deputy of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic for the central Dubossary constituency Boris German tested his literacy.

Boris German noted that attacks on Russian culture and the Russian language have begun, and such events create an atmosphere that our native Russian language will not sink into oblivion today. The oldest participant of the Nationwide Spelling Test in Dubossary, veteran teacher Olga Petrova, is 81 years old, and her native language is Moldavian.