Welcome to the third episode of the podcast "Russian through Stories: от А до Я"! Today we have the letter В. And we will tell you about Valenki.

In the first part of the episode you're going to learn:

• what traditional Russian clothes are;
• what Russians wear now;
• how Russians survive the harsh winter;
• what is special about valenki?
• where the hat with earflaps (shapka-ushanka) comes from;
• why the padded jacket (telogreyka) has a bad reputation.

In the second part (which is available only in the Premium version), you'll improve your language skills with the best proven techniques used by polyglots!

To understand an episode, listen to it a couple of times. You can get the text and parallel translation on our website: https://storytelling-russian.com/promo/episode-02-dishes-promo/

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