Aug 4, 2006 13:38
17 yrs ago
Russian term

клуб (на сене)

Russian to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Is this really a клуб?



The author has arrived at a children's home in Кардымово (Смоленская область) in 1937.

The next day they got beds so I'm not sure why they were sleeping in hay the first night:

Change log

Dec 26, 2006 13:28: Kirill Semenov changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary" , "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "Poetry & Literature"

Proposed translations

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village hall

At that times village halls were modest houses. It was a village of poor people, so the local community did their best and brought some hay for their guests to serve as beds.

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Note added at 10 mins (2006-08-04 13:49:24 GMT)
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By the way, village halls are still modest and miserable even now here. ;-)
Peer comment(s):

agree Ruslan Datkayev : place with library, and hall for meetings
28 mins
and to dance, too ;-) Yep, the community center of a kind
agree Vitaly Kisin : yes, community center is exactly it, with hay recreating summer realities in peasant houshold
46 mins
agree Yavor Dimitrov : yes, quite common for the villages at the other side of the Black Sea too.
1 hr
agree Zamira B.
2 hrs
agree Dmitry Venyavkin
5 hrs
agree Alla Tatyants
7 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "perfect!"
3 hrs

(village) community center

I know the translation is exact, I only doubt if it is applicable since the facilities are very basic.
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6 hrs

community club

would be my choice based in pictures and multitran.
Fall River Community Club
383 x 265 пикселей - 40кб - jpg
www.co.lawrence.tn.us Copperas Branch Community Club
956 x 652 пикселей - 186кб - jpg
www.co.lawrence.tn.us
http://images.google.com/images?q= "community club" &svnum=1...

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Note added at 6 hrs (2006-08-04 19:53:56 GMT)
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(village) community club, but the first word could be easily omitted.
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