Contents

1. Moscow, the 80s. Non-adapted short stories for translation from English and retelling. Levels B2—C2
2. Annotation
3. The number of words you need to know for the following purposes of using a foreign language
4. How to work at the stories
5. From the author
6. Cafe “Lira”
   1. Time Machine — Cafe Lira
7. Guera’s apartment, dissidents and parties
8. Valera and Center
9. Pleshka, Center, my uncle and KGB
10. Portuguese, Philippine Embassy and a glass of champagne
11. “Kontik” and “Cosmos”

Annotation

The book consists of 6 non-adapted stories for translation from English. When translating, it is necessary to rely on knowledge of grammatical topics such as the coordination of tenses,