Поставьте в правильные формы глаголы The Gudok was an ancient Russian folk music instrument. It had an oval wooden
case and a flat board with three strings that 1) (CAN) be played together. The
melody was played on the 2) (ONE) string which had the highest pitch and the
other two had sounded without pitch differences. The instrument 3) (HOLD)
on a player`s knee and played upright with a bow. It was very popular in Russia in the
17th century and was often played at ceremonies. The Gudok
(NOT/SURVIVE) the attack of western music in the 19th century and 5)
(DISAPPEAR) from Russian culture. It was eventually replaced by the
violin.
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Every year from July to October many Russian people're going hunting for mushrooms. It is very old Russian tradition. Some people are collectting mushrooms to sell in shops and restaurants in the cities but most of them end up in the Russian kitchen. Housewives are baking the mushrooms with sour cream in the oven , frying them in butter , or boiling them in soups. Sometimes they're cooking them as a main dish or mixing them with cheese , yoghurt , beef or chicken . Let's look at the recipe Olga sent us.

Russia is a large country which stretches from the Pacific Ocean in Asia to the Baltic Sea in Europe, and from the Arctic to the Black Sea coast.
Russia, like many other countries, has a system of national parks. The first national park, Losinyi Ostrov (Elk Sle) appeared in 1983.Most of the park's territory is under forests, and the common trees here are pines and firs.
Russia  has many kinds of land rocky mountains, dry empty steppes, powerful rivers, wide plains and great forests and lands of endless winter. There are about 300 species of them, mostly birds. They are forest birds and water birds like ducks and geese and even gulls.