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сельхозтехникум

English translation: agricultural technical school

22:19 Dec 26, 2013
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Education / Pedagogy
Russian term or phrase: сельхозтехникум
In a word of creative non-fiction a woman is explaining where she studied in Bessarabia before being deported to Siberia in the early 1940s.

Agricultural technical institute?

Мне было 16, в 1941 году я училась в Сороках в сельхозтехникуме.
Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 01:30
English translation:agricultural technical school
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Vadim Khazin
Local time: 01:30
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4 +2agricultural technical school
Vadim Khazin
3agricultural vocational school
Tatiana Lammers


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
agricultural vocational school


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicum

Tatiana Lammers
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 18

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disagree  Vadim Khazin: vocational school is rather PTU or ремесленное училище Нет, ПТУ готовило квалифицированных рабочих, а техникум — техников по разным специальностям.
50 mins
agree  Alexander Kayumov
2 hrs
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
agricultural technical school


Explanation:
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Vadim Khazin
Local time: 01:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 16
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agree  cyhul
3 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  LilianNekipelov: Yes, a typeof high school.
9 hrs
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