This year Ƶ became a venue for the international action "Total Dictant-2024". The educational and enlightenment project unites very different people in an effort to write and speak Russian correctly. On April 20, 18 Bolshaya Morskaya Street to check their literacy and celebrate the anniversary of the Total Dictant gathered students of humanities and technical areas of training, teachers and staff of the university.

The initiator of the event at the University of Industrial Technologies and Design was the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade of the Graduate School of Printing and Media Technologies of Ƶ. The initiative was actively supported by the Department of Russian Language and Literature. As a result of the alliance between the departments, the dictation was performed in two flowing auditoriums of the university, the author of which this year was the prose writer, essayist and editor Anna Matveeva. The participants of the dictation wrote her text "Truth or Desire", dedicated to the topic of personal diaries.

The coordinator of the project "Total Dictation-2024" in Ƶ was Anna Balakai, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade, and Natalia Romanova, Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature. They addressed the participants with a welcoming speech and wished them success in writing the dictation.
Victoria Melnichuk, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade, and Tatiana Nalimova, candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, were invited as dictators.
During the week all the works of the participants will be checked by philologists. The results of the dictation will appear in the personal accounts of the participants on the site totaldict.ru after April 26. You can pick up the checked works on April 26-28, May 3-4 from 12:00 to 20:00 at the bookstore "Bukvoed" at Nevsky Prospekt, ul. 46, after May 4 - at the coordinator of the project in Ƶ A. A. Balakai (Dzhambula Per., 13, office 303).
Awarding of excellent students will be held on May 13 in the cinema "Aurora". Thanks to all connoisseurs of Russian language for active participation and help in preparation of the event! We hope that the international action "Total Dictant" will become a good tradition.