Six Days in Leningrad

GLOSSARY OF STRANGE AND UNFAMILIAR RUSSIAN WORDS

blini: yeast dough crepe-like pancakes

Comsomols: young communists

dacha: summer house

electrichka: short-distance train

Khrushchyobi: residential tenement-style buildings built during the Khrushchev era

koshmar: nightmare

matryoshkas: nesting dolls

metro: subway

pelmeni: Russian meat dumplings

perestroika: rebuilding

Pioneers: pre-Communists

Pozhalusta: Please

Prospekt: Avenue

Shepelevo: sheh-peh-LYO-voh

Shosse: highway

solyanka: a thick meat soup

Ulitsa: street

Zakuski: hot and cold appetizers