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More than 600 people took part in the Total Dictation Event in Far Eastern Federal University. The action was held simultaneously on the Russky Island campus in several classrooms, one of which was for the first time provided entirely to foreigners. The group of test subjects from various countries wrote a specially adapted version of the dictation. Also for the first time the online broadcast was conducted on www.totaldict.ru website from the walls of the campus to the entire country.

Welcoming the participants of the Total Dictation Event in FEFU, Vyacheslav Belyakov, the action's coordinator in Vladivostok, reminded once again that "This Ancient-Ancient-Ancient World", written by the poet, playwright and children's writer Andrew Usachyov, was selected as this year test text. Far Easterners had to verify their literacy on the first part of the trilogy titled "Short Stories about the History of the Theater" with many complex sentences and challenging punctuation.

Chairman of Primorsky Krai Legislative Assembly, President of the FEFU Alumni Association Victor Gorchakov read the text of Total Dictation in one of the classrooms of the University campus.

Another "dictator" of the text became Natalia Milyanchuk, the Associate Professor of the Department of the Russian Language and Literature at the FEFU Oriental Institute–School of Regional and International Studies. Having pursued the preparation and holding of the Dictation for several years, she noted the growing popularity of the action. Even the bad weather did not become an obstacle for the participants to arrive at the University classrooms and test their knowledge.

"Of course, everyone has their own motivation to take part in Total Dictation, but it is very high with all of them. Mostly people are driven by the desire to recall what it is generally to write a dictation, to raise self-esteem, to determine the level of knowledge and to strengthen it a little," said the Associate Professor of the Russian Language and Literature Department.

Natalia Milyanchuk considers the increased interest in Total Dictation with foreigners quite natural, given the growing popularity of the Russian language in the world. To support the aspirations of the representatives of various countries, the organizers for the first time opened to foreigners a separate venue in FEFU with 200 seats, which was filled to capacity. They listened to the video record of the text by the author Andrew Usachyov, then they did special exercises on the vocabulary and grammar based on the structures of the test piece, and wrote a small adapted dictation at the end of the Dictation session.

The Total Dictation participants spent a little more than an hour behind the desks in FEFU.