For the second year in a row, the Department of Russian Language and Literature and the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design have been holding the educational awareness campaign "Total Dictation" in St. Petersburg. Russian Russian dictation is aimed at popularizing literacy, developing interest in the Russian language, Russian literature and culture, and spreading scientific knowledge about the Russian language. The dictation text is created every year specifically for the campaign by a famous writer. At various times, the authors of Total Dictation were Zakhar Prilepin, Dina Rubina, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Andrey Usachev, Guzel Yakhina, Pavel Basinsky and others. The author of Total Dictation 2025 was Marina Moskvina, a writer and finalist of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize, who offered the participants a text about an exciting trip to the Arctic.
In the main building of Ƶ at Bolshaya Morskaya 18, 100 participants wrote a Total dictation in two classrooms: students, teachers and university staff.
The project "Total Dictation" at Ƶ was coordinated by Anna Balakai, Associate Professor of the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade, and Tatiana Nalimova, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Literature. Before the dictation, they addressed the participants with a welcoming speech, wishing them success and excellent results.
Nadezhda Nikolayuk, Associate Professor of the Department of Book Publishing and Book Trade at Ƶ, member of the Union of Theatrical Figures, and Victoria Kirilova, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Ƶ, were invited to dictate Marina Moskvina's text to the participants of the Total Dictation.
A special feature of the Total Dictation 2025 campaign at the University of Industrial Technology and Design was the TruD test quest, which could be used by those who did not study Russian as a native language and studied it as a foreign language. The organizer of the TruD test quest for foreigners was Nadezhda Muldarova, an assistant at the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Ƶ,
During the week, the philologists will check the dictation.
The results will appear in the participants' personal accounts on the after April 11. You can pick up the checked works on April 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 from 12:00 to 20:00 at the Bukvoed bookstore at 46 Nevsky Prospekt (2nd floor, lounge area), after May 5 - at the coordinator of Total Dictation at Ƶ Anna Balakai (lane Dzhambula, 13, office 303).
The award ceremony for the best students of Total Dictation — 2025 will be held on April 29.

