Moscow Urban Legend

[John Dunn]

We were told (in the 1970s) that the use of terms such as 'zona' and 'blok' in MGU were indeed a hang-over from its days as a prison.  Interestingly, official signs in the main building used the word 'sektor', rather than 'zona'.

John Dunn.

-----Original Message-----
From: Valery Belyanin <vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:58:36 -0500
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Moscow Urban Legend

Hello everybody.
I heard of this legend from my father when I was a kid. But in his story
they were two buiders (_zeki_) who fell and were found dead because the wind
turned them upside down.
I heard a lot of people say _zona_ in regards of the parts of the buildingof
the University on Lenin Hills which reminded me of Gulag zones.
FYI there is also a saying
_proletet' kak fanera nad Parizhem_ which means not to get what one wants.

-- 
Valery Belyanin

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John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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