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​САМОРОДОК - This literally means a nugget of precious metal (usually gold) but colloquially it’s used to describe an intelligent person who doesn’t have a formal education – a naturally-gifted individual. A ‘самородок’ is someone innately clever and quick-witted who trusts their instincts.

DOLGOSTROJ - a construction project that seems to go on forever.

LYUBOVATSYA - Lyubovatsya means to stare at something with admiration and adoration. It has the sense of basking in the wonderment of whatever it is your looking at, taking enormous pleasure from just being in its presence. It is a much more self-indulgent feeling than the English ‘admire’.

MUZHIK - Historically, muzhik was simply a way of referring to a male, Russian peasant. Nowadays, if you call someone a muzhik you are expressing your admiration for machoism, hardiness, independence, financial success, or bravery.

ODNOLIUB – Someone that only has one love in their life or is only capable of a single person at a time.

POKAZUKHA - means something similar to window-dressing. It refers to a slightly absurd attempt to show things in a good light when you know full well that it’s an absolute shambles. It emphasises the audacity of the deceiver.

SAMORODOK - A samorodok is essentially a ‘diamond in the rough’. It describes a person endowed with natural talent and potential that has not been able to refine their skills in the framework of formal education or training. Unlike the English expression, samorodok emphasises the coarseness of the individual in his current state. In its literal sense, it means ‘golden nugget’.

TOSKA - Russian for the immense ache for nothing and everything all at once.

VOLYA -It describes a state of unbounded, almost anarchic freedom – the sense of liberty that you might feel in a place of vast, natural beauty. It’s the opposite of constraint, oppression, drudgery; a feeling that anything is possible and nothing can hold you back.

ZAPOY - Zapoy means the drinking binge to end all drinking binges. This doesn’t mean going out for a few drinks and waking up with a headache the next morning. It’s not a zapoy unless it lasts for multiple days, causes considerable mayhem, and you wake up in some unfamiliar place with no recollection of what even happened.

ZHIVUCHIYE - This slightly sinister word means ‘one that clings to life’. It is not translated as resilient or tenacious because they have positive connotations. Consider Rasputin, who was poisoned, shot, and thrown into the freezing Malaya Nevka River, and yet still had the fight in him to claw at the ice with his fingernails.
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