During four weeks, the Russian language ambassadors held classes at the Foreign Languages Faculty of the University of Havana and in this capital’s schools under the direction of Elizaveta Golovaja, a teacher at the Alexander Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language, the TV channel informed.

Thanks to the interactive lessons held by the level of language proficiency, the ambassadors could improve their skills in teaching lessons to non-Russian-speaking schoolchildren and confident Russian-speaking students.

The volunteers also participated in an open lesson dedicated to the 100th birthday of Rasul Gamzatov. Representatives of the Russian House in Havana and the University of Havana organized the event.

The ambassadors held open Russian language lessons for the Enrique Jose Varona Pedagogical University students and classes with the University of Havana students.

More than 330 Cuban schoolchildren and students took part in the language lessons.

The expedition was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the context of subsidy “To implement activities within the environment of international cooperation.”

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