Vigil, or All-night- 1) a solemn temple service, combining the services of the great (sometimes great), and the first; 2) one of the forms of Orthodox ascetic practice: prayer vigilance at night.
The ancient custom of celebrating the all-night vigil is based on the example of the Holy Apostles.
Nowadays, usually in parishes and in most monasteries, vigils are held in the evening. At the same time, the practice of serving the All-night Vigil is still preserved: on the eve of the Holy Feasts and the vigil is performed at night in most churches in Russia; on the eve of some holidays - in the Athos monasteries, in the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, etc.
In practice, the ninth hour service may be performed before the All-night Vigil.
All-night vigil is served the day before:
- Sundays
- twelve great holidays
- holidays marked with a special sign in the Typicon (e.g. commemoration of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker)
- days of temple holidays
- any holiday at the request of the abbot of the temple or according to local tradition.
Between the Great Vespers and Matins, after the litany "Let us fulfill our Lord's evening prayer" there is a lithium (from the Greek - intensified prayer). In Russian parishes it is not served on the eve of Sundays.
A vigil is also called a night prayer performed by pious believers in private. Many St. The Fathers consider night prayer to be a high Christian virtue. St. writes: “The wealth of the farmers is gathered on the threshing floor and winepress; and the wealth and intelligence of monks - in the evening and night appearances to God and in the deeds of the mind. " ().
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Kiev Theological Academy undertook the experience of reconstructing the all-night vigil in full accordance with the charter. The preparation lasted several months and required significant material costs. The all-night vigil itself lasted about eight hours, including the reading of the canon - more than two hours. The melodies were ordinary, four-part. The organizer of this unusual event, the professor, recalls him as follows:
It is difficult to convey in words what the listeners of this service, called by someone “historical all-night vigil,” felt ... Two leaders of the service, who knew the 2nd chapter of the Typicon by heart ... in turn lost their heads at the all-night vigil and had to check each other to see if it should be further. Most of the performers of the service ... during the all-night vigil were as if drunk ... One student, who liked to sleep, left church several times, undressed, went to bed, but, unable to fall asleep from the thought that such an original, unheard-of concert was taking place a few steps away , returned to. Before the all-night vigil, one student learned all the psalms, stichera, canons and biblical songs that had to be sung ... When repeating, everything is supposed to be sung in a big znamenny chant, which will lengthen the all-night vigil by 3-4 hours.
As Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said through the lips of Masha in the play Three Sisters, a person must be a believer or seek faith, otherwise everything is empty and makes no sense. If thirty years ago for many the word “faith” was associated with “opium for the people”, now there are practically no people who in one way or another did not come across Christianity, would not go to church and would not hear such words as liturgy, all-night vigil vigil, communion, confession, and so on.
This article will consider such a thing as an all-night vigil, or an all-night vigil. This is a combination of three services: Vespers, Matins and the First Hour. This service lasts on the eve of Sunday or before a church holiday.
The tradition of celebrating all-night vigils was introduced by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who loved to devote hours. He was followed by the apostles and then by the Christian communities. It became especially important to gather at night and pray in the catacombs during the years of persecution of Christians. Saint Basil the Great called the all-night services "agripnia", that is, sleepless, and they spread throughout the East. These agripnias were then performed all year round before Sunday, on the eve of Easter, on the feast of the Epiphany (Epiphany) and on the days of honoring the holy martyrs.
Then all-night vigil was a special service, over the creation of which great prayer books labored, such as St. John Chrysostom, St. John of Damascus, Savva the Sanctified. The sequence of Vespers, Matins and the first hour has been almost completely preserved to this day.
Often clergymen are asked the question: "Is it obligatory to go to all-night vigils?" Believers feel that this service is more difficult to stand than the liturgy. And this happens because the all-night vigil is a gift from man to God. At it, everyone present sacrifices something: their time, some life circumstances, and the liturgy is a sacrifice of God to us, therefore it is easier to endure it, but often the degree of acceptance of the Divine sacrifice depends on how much a person is willing to give, to sacrifice something To God.
The Russian Orthodox Church has preserved in its entirety a very complex, beautiful, spiritual all-night vigil. The Liturgy, celebrated on Sunday morning, completes the weekly cycle. In Russian churches, the evening service is combined with the morning service, and all this takes place in the evening. This was introduced by the Church Fathers, and this rule allows one to remain faithful to the apostolic tradition.
For example, in Greece there is no all-night vigil, there is no Vespers, Matins starts in the morning and, together with the Liturgy, takes only two hours. This is because modern people are less prepared physically and spiritually for the service. Many do not understand what is being read and sung in the kliros; unlike their ancestors, contemporaries know little about the Lord Jesus Christ and the Mother of God.
In a word, everyone decides for himself whether he will attend the All-night service or not. There are no strict rules, clergymen do not impose on people “burdens that cannot be borne,” that is, that which is beyond strength.
Sometimes events in the life of a believer do not allow him to attend the all-night vigil (urgent work, jealous husband (wife), illness, children, and so on), but if the reason for the absence is disrespectful, then such a person should think carefully before embarking on the acceptance of Christ. Tain.
The temple is a place of prayer for Christians. In it, the ministers say various kinds of prayers: both supplicatory and repentant, but the number of thanksgiving exceeds the rest. The Greek word for thanksgiving is the Eucharist. This is how Orthodox Christians call the most important sacrament present in their life - this is the sacrament of communion, which is performed at the liturgy, and before that everyone must prepare for communion. You need to talk (fast) for at least three days, think about your own life, correct it by confessing to the priest, read out the prescribed prayers, not eat or drink anything, from midnight until the very communion. And all this is only the minimum that a believer must do. In addition, it is advisable to attend the all-night vigil service, which begins with the ringing of the bells.
In an Orthodox church, the central place is occupied by the iconostasis - a wall decorated with icons. In the center of it there are double doors, also with icons, in another way they are called the Royal or Great Gates. During the evening service (first), they are opened, and an altar with a seven-branched candlestick on the throne (a table on which the most sacred and mysterious actions are performed) appears before the believers.
The All-Night Service begins with Psalm 103, which recalls the six days created by God. While the singers are singing, the priest censes the entire church, and the solemn chant, the calm, dignified movements of the clergy - all this reminds of the comfortable life of Adam and Eve in Paradise before their fall. Then the priest enters the altar, closes the doors, the choir falls silent, the lamps go out, the chandelier (a chandelier in the center of the church) —and here one cannot but recall the fall of the first people and the fall of each of us.
From the earliest times, people have longed to pray at night, especially in the East. Summer heat, exhausting heat of the day did not tune in to prayer. Another thing is the night, during which it is pleasant to turn to the Almighty: no one interferes, and there is no blinding eye of the sun.
Only with the arrival of Christians did the all-night service become a form of public service. The Romans divided the night time into four guards, that is, into four changes of the military guard. The third watch began at midnight, and the fourth at the crowing of the roosters. Christians prayed all four guards only on special occasions, for example, before Easter, usually they prayed until midnight.
All-night vigil is unthinkable without psalms, they permeate the entire service. The singers read or sing the psalms in full or in portions. In a word, the psalms are the skeleton of the all-night vigil, without them it would not have existed.
The chants are interrupted by litanies, that is, petitions, when the deacon, standing in front of the altar, asks God for forgiveness of our sins, for peace in the whole world, for the unification of all Christians, for all Orthodox Christians, for travelers, the sick, for deliverance from sorrow, troubles, and etc. In conclusion, the Mother of God and all the saints are remembered, and the deacon asks that we all "our whole life", our lives be dedicated to Christ God.
During Vespers, many prayers and psalms are sung, but at the end of each stichera a dogmatist is necessarily sung, in which it is narrated that the Mother of God was a Virgin both before the birth of Christ, and then. And Her birth is the joy and salvation of the whole world.
Vigil is a service during which blessings are often pronounced to God. Why do we say these words, because God does not need our kind words or our chants? Indeed, the Lord has everything, all the fullness of life, but we need these kind words.
There is one comparison that a Christian writer made. A beautiful painting needs no praise, it is beautiful as it is. And if a person does not notice her, does not pay tribute to the skill of the artist, then by doing so he is robbing himself. The same happens when we do not notice God, do not thank for our life, for the created world around us. By this we rob ourselves.
Remembering the Creator, a person becomes kinder, more humane, and forgetting about Him - more resembles a humanoid animal, living by instincts and the struggle for survival.
During the evening service, one prayer is always read, personifying the Gospel event. These are "Now let go ..." - the words spoken by Simeon the God-Receiver, who met the baby Jesus in the temple and told the Mother of God about the meaning and mission of her Son. Thus, the all-night vigil ("meeting", meeting) glorifies the meeting between the Old Testament and the New Testament world.
After that, the candles (lamps) in the temple are extinguished, and the reading of the six psalms begins. The temple is plunging into twilight, and this is also symbolic, since it reminds of the twilight in which the Old Testament people lived, who did not know the Savior. And on that night the Lord came, as once upon a Christmas night, and the angels began to praise Him by singing "Glory to God in the highest."
This period during the service is so important that, according to the Church Rule, during the Six Psalms they do not even bow and do not impose the sign of the cross.
Then the Great Litany (petition) is recited again, and then the choir sings "God the Lord and appear to us ...". These words remember how the Lord, at the age of thirty, entered His Service, for the sake of which the world came into this.
After a while, the candles are lit, and the polyeleos begins, the choir sings "Hallelujah". The priest goes to the middle of the church and, together with the deacon, censes the church with fragrant incense. Then passages from the psalms are sung, but the culmination of the all-night vigil is the reading of the Gospel by the priest.
The Gospel is taken out of the altar, as from the Holy Sepulcher, and placed in the middle of the church. The words spoken by the priest are the words of the Lord himself, therefore, after the reading, the deacon holds the Holy Book, like an Angel proclaiming the message of Christ, the Savior of the world. Parishioners bow to the Gospel like disciples and kiss it like myrrh-bearing wives, and the choir (ideally all the people) sings "Having seen the Resurrection of Christ ..."
After that, the 50th Psalm of Penitence is read, and the clergy anoint the forehead of each person crosswise with consecrated oil (oil). This is followed by the reading and chanting of the canon.
Modern people began to regard the church as something good, useful, but already having a say. They see nothing new in her, they often ask idle questions. Why attend church so often? How long is the all-night vigil? Church life is incomprehensible to those who rarely go to church. And it's not about which service is being conducted. The very position of the church is unacceptable to many people.
The ROC reminds the world about the meaning of existence, about family, marriage, morality, chastity, about everything that people forget about, sitting comfortably in front of the TV. The church is not priests or beautiful walls. The Church is a people bearing the name of Christ, who gathers together to glorify God. This is an important message to the world that lies in lies.
All-night vigil, liturgy, acceptance of the Holy Mysteries, confession - these are services that people need, and those who understand this aspire to the "ark of the Lord."
After the canon, at the all-night vigil, the stichera on the Praised Ones are read, and then the Great Doxology. This is the magnificent singing of a Christian hymn. It begins with the words "Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on earth ...", and ends with the trisagion: "Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us", pronounced three times.
This is followed by the Litany, Many Years, and at the end the "First Hour" is read. Many leave the temple at this time, but in vain. In the prayers of the first hour, we ask God to hear our voice and help us continue the day.
It is desirable that the temple becomes the place where everyone wants to return. To live the rest of the week in anticipation of the meeting, meeting with the Lord.
All-night vigil is a very ancient church ritual, which was officially established in the time of John Chrysostom. But today people who are not close to the church know little about this sacred rite. Read about its meaning and how the service itself proceeds in our article.
For the first time this custom was introduced into practice by Jesus Christ together with his disciples. Over the next centuries, the ritual was constantly replenished with new litanies and prayers, which have survived to this day.
Essentially, all-night vigils are long nightly services performed in the church. Orthodoxy calls such a prayer truly virtuous, since a short church service is not enough to gain freedom of the spirit.
All-night vigils are long night celebrations.
As a rule, an all-night vigil is held at about six o'clock in the evening before the great Orthodox celebrations:
Also, the night sacrament is performed before the Sunday service and is mandatory in preparation for the Sacrament of the Eucharist. It is considered a sin not to attend such a service, unless the reasons are compelling enough.
All-night vigil is held before the Twelve Feasts The main idea of the evening worship is spiritual deliverance and healing. Long prayer helps to drive away extraneous thoughts, to focus on the meaning of the upcoming celebration, to prepare a Christian to receive God's grace.
The All-Night Vigil is an inseparable part of the Sunday Liturgy. At the same time, the latter reflects the coming Heavenly Kingdom, and the service preceding it reflects the past Old and New Testament times. In other words, both sacred rites complement each other, being united by a common meaning.
This video explains the worship service.
The night service begins around 16: 00-18: 00 with the Great Vespers, symbolizing the formation of the Church in the time of the Old Testament. The priests open the Royal Doors, and then fumigate the altar with incense as a sign of God's grace, which filled Eden and the ancestors who lived there. During the censing, the Holy Spirit, who created this world, is chanted, and honor is raised to all shrines. At the same time, the priest asks the Lord for blessings for the laity who have come to the temple.
Further, the Royal Doors are closed, symbolizing the expulsion from paradise of Adam and Eve, who violated the Law of God. Asking the Almighty for forgiveness, the churchmen sing the great litany. It is a request to have mercy on sinners, to help them in worldly life. Then the churchman reads lamp prayers, which contain petitions to God for spiritual illumination, the opportunity to know His love, to bestow joy.
During the prayer chants, the clergy bring out candles, signifying the light of Christian teaching, the deacon carries the icon of John the Baptist, and the priest walks with empty hands, dropping them down. After the words “Peace to all,” the parishioners bow their heads, and the priest turns to the Almighty for mercy, salvation and protection from satanic forces. Then a long prayer begins, which is called lithium.
Litia is performed in the vestibule as a sign of humility before the Lord God.
The first part of the all-night vigil ends with the litany "Now you let go," singing the vow of God about the coming of the Messiah. Then the morning service begins, dedicated to the New Testament. The churchmen sing psalms depicting the joy and at the same time the sorrow of the soul, showing the need for atonement for sins. Having pronounced the Gospel texts, the priest leaves the altar, symbolizing the Savior, and then reads 12 morning prayers.
Having reopened the Royal Doors, the clergy fumigate the entire temple. This action reflects the disciples of Christ who came after the Resurrection to His Sepulcher. Further, the Holy Scripture is taken out of the altar, and after that the prokeimenon and the Gospel itself are read. At the end, the anointing is performed with illuminated oil. First, the clergy spend it over themselves, and then over the parishioners, drawing an unctuous cross on the foreheads of each.
After completing a church ceremony, clergymen read nine canons describing the lives of the saints, in whose name the festival is coming. After the last lines spoken by the priest, the choir descends and sings katavasia. The night service ends with the blessing of the priests of their flock.
Prolonged prayer Clergymen fumigate the entire temple Anointing with illuminated oil
In early Christian times, the all-night vigil lasted until the morning, and therefore it was named that way. Today, however, its duration does not exceed three hours. The church went to such indulgences for the only reason: not all parishioners can withstand such a long service. As a rule, the service begins at 17:00 and ends at about 22:00. The longest action is considered to be the Christmas night worship.
People who do not go to church very often rarely think about the difference between these two sacred rites. However, there is a difference, albeit not too significant. Basically it is duration - the evening service is shorter.
Using simple explanations, we can say that the night vigil unites Vespers, Matins, and the first hour.
Both services are held on the eve of Sundays or great church festivals. Opening with the evening worship service, which begins around 16: 00-18: 00 hours, vigilance smoothly turns to morning prayers. Today the word “all-night vigil” itself does not quite correspond to its hidden meaning, since the duration of the ceremony has been significantly reduced. Previously, such wakefulness did not last until midnight, as now, but until dawn, fully justifying its name.
Evening service lasts less Vigil at night is a very important and widespread practice that has come to us since early Christian times. Performing before church festivities, she helps believing Christians to cleanse their souls, reject worldly experiences, tune in to the upcoming celebration, fully realizing its sacred meaning.
Many of us often attend the All-Night Vigil, which is served in most churches every Saturday night. Today I would like to tell you a little about what happens during this service and what each part of it symbolizes.
The all-night vigil usually begins at 5-6 o'clock in the evening of the great Vespers. Vespers reflects the history of the Church of God in the Old Testament time and shows that the Old Testament has its logical conclusion in the New Testament.
Before the beginning of Vespers, the royal doors are opened, and the clergy perform the censing of the altar, which marks the Divine grace that filled paradise and the blessed stay of the ancestors in it.
The censing of the entire church is performed in a sign of the Holy Spirit, Who, as the Bible tells us, “hovered over the water” at the creation of the world. By censing honor is given to icons and all shrines, the sanctifying grace of God on the people ahead is invoked.
Violation of the moral law by the ancestors deeply distorted the essence of human nature and led to the loss of grace-filled communication, connection with God - the source and foundation of truth, goodness, love and moral purity. The consequence of the Fall - falling away from God - was the moral corruption of the descendants of Adam and Eve. The Holy Bible on its pages tells about this as about the bitter experience of a person who has lost God and rushed after the deceptive sweetness of sin.
Like heavenly doors, the royal gates are closed. The forefathers expelled from paradise, having lost communion with God, were subjected to diseases, needs and sufferings, both spiritual and physical. Repentance and prayer for help to the all-good God accompanied the difficulties and sorrows of their earthly life. And like the forefathers, Adam and Eve, who realized their sin, the Church prays to God for forgiveness: the great litany is pronounced.
The Great Litany is necessarily the prayer of the entire Church, the request for Divine help for a sinful person in the various needs of his earthly life. "Litany" in Greek is diligence, prolonged prayer.
The priest in the altar reads seven secret prayers, according to the number of days of creation. They contain petitions to the merciful and long-suffering God about our spiritual enlightenment, about the granting of love to Him, the fear of God and reverence - the fear of offending His love for us, about the granting of joy to us to sing from a pure heart the praise of God now and in Eternal Life. These prayers in the Church Ustav are called `` lamps '', since from the earliest times vespers were performed with lighted lamps, and Vespers itself was often called the `` lamp service ''.
The evening entrance symbolizes the descent of the Son of God to earth to save people. The candle-bearers walk with candles that signify the light of the teaching of Christ. The deacon is the image of the Forerunner of the Lord John. The priest walks “simple,” as the book of the Service Book indicates, that is, with lowered hands, as if humiliated, like the Son of God in incarnation.
The priest proclaims "Peace to all," and the deacon calls on those praying to bow their heads in the image of humility and contrition of spirit. The priest in prayer over those who bowed their heads humbly pleads with God, who came down from Heaven to save mankind, to have mercy on those who bowed down to Him their heads, for only from Him they expect mercy and salvation, and asks to save us from the devil at all times.
Lithia - fervent prayer, outside the temple or in its vestibule. Standing at the entrance to the temple, the priests signify our humility before God. As if portraying Adam, expelled from paradise, or the prodigal son who left his father for a foreign land, they leave the altar and stand up for prayer in the vestibule, in the image of the tax collector of humility, according to the gospel parable.
The chant "Now you let go" proclaims the fulfillment of God's promise to send the Savior into the world. This prayer was sung by Simeon the God-receiver - the last Old Testament righteous man, who at the end of his life was honored to see the Savior of Israel - the Lord Jesus Christ, who came into the world.
Matins is the second part of the all-night vigil. It depicts New Testament events.
After the chant "Glory to God in the highest", the reading of the six psalms begins ( Ps. 3, 37, 62, 87, 102, 142). The Psalms depict both the joyful state of the human soul, with which the mercy of the Lord, and the sorrow of the soul, under the weight of sins, realizing the need for redemption. You should listen to the reading of the Six Psalms reverently, praying for the forgiveness of your sins.
After the reader has read the three psalms, the priest comes out of the altar, posing as a heavenly intercessor for us before God - the Lord Jesus Christ. Standing in front of the closed royal doors, he silently recites 12 morning prayers, consecrating the hours of the all-night vigil.
"Worship before the Gospel and the icon of the holiday, reverently kissing them - this is our worship of Christ Himself"
The royal gates are opening. The priests carry out the censing of the entire church, depicting the myrrh-bearing wives and the apostles who came to the Savior's Tomb early in the morning and, having learned from the angels about the Resurrection of Christ, announced this joy to all believers. The gospel, symbolizing the risen Lord, will be worn out of the altar on solea, and the morning prokeimenon is proclaimed. The priest himself reads the Gospel in the morning, portraying the Lord, who fed His disciples with the Divine word. Worshiping the Gospel and the icon of the holiday, reverently kissing them is our worship of Christ Himself.
This is followed by the order of anointing. The priests are anointed themselves, after which all the others present at the service, starting with the deacons, come under the anointing. According to tradition, tracing a cross with oil on the forehead of the prayer, the priest repeats the refrain of the canon of the holiday: "Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee", "Most Holy Theotokos, save us." Vegetable oil (mainly olive oil - oil in the proper sense) has been used since ancient times in the Mediterranean as a medicine (which is also mentioned by the Savior Himself - OK. 10, 34), over time it became a symbol of healing and strengthening of a person. Therefore, believers approach the anointing in the hope of receiving mercy from God through the prayers of the saint, on whose feast they all gathered in the church.
This is followed by the reading of the canons. "Canon" was originally called a church service, succession or rule indicating the order of the number of prayers and psalms that are supposed to be sung or read during the day. The Canon is a sacred poetic work that unites nine songs, in which the life and deeds of a saint or the face of saints are glorified, a festive event is glorified.
The singing of the canon ends with a chant called katavasia, from the Greek kataveno - "going down": to sing katavasias, the choir went down from the soleya down to the middle of the temple, where this chant was sung.
The priest blesses the flock, thanks for the joint prayer and wishes her a Guardian Angel. This is where the all-night service ends.
The Temple of God is waiting for each of us! Therefore, we need to find time in worldly time pressure and attend the All-Night Vigil and Divine Liturgy!
God bless you all!
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The practice of the Old Testament Church did not know of regular night prayer. But already in the apostolic writings we find frequent mention of all-night prayers: Luke 6, 12; 9, 28; Mt. 26, 36; Acts. 16, 25. Paul writes about frequent vigils: 2 Cor. 6, 5; 11, 27.
Admonition to stay awake and sober, to remember the Second Coming of Christ: 1 Peter. 5, 8; 1 Cor. 16, 13; Qty. 4, 2; 1 Thess. 5.6; Open 3, 2 - 3; 16.15; pray incessantly: 1 Thess. 5, 17; Eph. 6, 18.
In the records of the western pilgrim Egeria (Eger. Itiner.) We find detailed information about the night vigil services in Jerusalem and its environs c.
The All-Night Vigil was the main difference between the Jerusalem Rite and the original Studite one.
It usually consists of Great Vespers with the Lithium and Blessing of Loaves, Festive Matins and the First Hour.
The symbolism of the service is the history of the Church: both the Old Testament and the New Testament and the expectation of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Distinctive features of Vespers as part of a vigil:
Matins are performed in full according to the order of the festive or Sunday; begins with the reading of the six psalms. At the end of the festive (but not Sunday) matins, the charter prescribes anointing with oil "from the holy kandil." According to the practice that has developed in half of the practice of the Russian Church, anointing with oil occurs at every all-night vigil.
In accordance with traditional literary usage, one should say: go to vigil; return from vigil etc. However, due to the loss of church linguistic culture, in the middle of the 20th century, the use of the preposition on and with respectively.
Also, in common parlance, there is the use of the term in relation to the night Easter service, which in reality, according to the prevailing practice in the Russian Church, consists of the Midnight Office, Matins, Easter Hours and Liturgy.
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- (all-night vigil) the divine service of the Orthodox Church, performed on the eve of Sundays and individual holidays. It combines the services of Great Vespers, Matins and the 1st Hour. The authors of the musical cycles entitled Vespers for a choir a cappella: P. I. ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Vigil- (all-night vigil), the divine service of the Orthodox Church, performed on the eve of Sundays and individual holidays. It originated in Byzantium, in Russia from the 11th century. It combines the services of Great Vespers, Matins and the 1st Hour. From the 2nd half of the 19th century. spread like ... ... Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary
- [shn], all-night vigil, wives. (church.). Evening church service with Orthodox Christians. Ushakov's explanatory dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
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