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Pronunciation
Noun
зачина́тель • (začinátelʹ) m anim (genitive зачина́теля, nominative plural зачина́тели, genitive plural зачина́телей, feminine зачина́тельница)
- (literary) founder, initiator
1870, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин , “Эпоха увольнения от войн”, in История одного города; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The History of a Town, Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1980:Градонача́льник э́тот ва́жен не сто́лько как прямо́й де́ятель, ско́лько как пе́рвый зачина́тель на том ми́рном пути́, по кото́рому чуть-чу́ть бы́ло не пошла́ глу́повская цивилиза́ция.- Gradonačálʹnik étot vážen ne stólʹko kak prjamój déjatelʹ, skólʹko kak pérvyj začinátelʹ na tom mírnom putí, po kotóromu čutʹ-čútʹ býlo ne pošlá glúpovskaja civilizácija.
- Mikaladze is important not for doing anything in the ordinary sense, but for being the first pioneer along that peaceful path which the civilization of Glupov came so near to taking.
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