3blue1brown and MIT in Russian

Hi, Habr!

Exactly a year ago, we - a small community - came together to translate the coolest educational courses into Russian (for example, the physicist Walter Levin ). Without money - just interest. And today we are to you - with the hope that you will like what we do.

Instead of KDPV - 3blue1brown video sounded by us (yes, we agreed to translate with the author of the coolest Youtube video about mathematics, physics, computer science).


Very often ask "Why?". Isn't it better, they say, to remain untranslated materials so that there is a motivation to learn English? After all, if a person is interested in the material, he will go to look it in the original.

But in fact, everything is exactly the opposite: it is good materials that make a person interested. Video 3blue1brown proves that mathematics is interesting and logical to someone who is not familiar with it, and Walter Levin’s lectures can interest anyone in physics ( this is not a joke ).

No less good and the participants themselves transfer. Some insert in the summary list of the translated and admire. For some, this is an excellent practice of English or translation. Grammar Nazis are pleased with the Russian language in educational materials. The voices of speakers are now famous scientists and world-famous professors.

And, of course, it is very pleasant to feel that you have done something useful for education in Russia.


The star, collapsing into a neutron star at the end of its life, begins to rotate up to 1000 revolutions per second - Walter Levin shows why.

We really want the translation to be of high quality. The correctness of all terms, respect for the style of the original, beautiful Russian language, all commas in their places. Therefore, we have compiled a four-five-step workflow:

• Translator - translate text. Is logical.
• The editor is the “second translator”. Checks the correctness of the translation, the Russian language, looks at the correctness of the facts.
• Proofreader - monitors literacy, commas, subtitles.
• Announcer - voiced. This does not always happen - we do not have enough free votes.
• Installation for video lectures or layout for text material.

(and the coordinator - in the role of proxy between the participants).


The task of the tower of Hanoi. Well, who can leave it indifferent, eh?

Now honestly. Habrazhiteli and harabrachiteli, we need you.
There are a lot of courses, but not us. They are for every taste: natural science, technical, humanitarian, medical, mathematical, anything, but we do not have much time.

Therefore, we call all those who wish to participate in any of the above roles.

And we are looking forward to:

• JS developers - we have a frontend on vanilla (we think about react or twist), a backend on the node and express and huge plans to create cool tools that will make the translation process faster and more enjoyable.
• Designer - for the site and tools, we will not leave the design to the developers (as we have now).
• Artist - to draw and creative. Think a lot about the logo and the rest).
• Text-writing lecturers - because so far there is no one, and we have several unplaced materials.
• All the others - we are always happy with offers of help, and we have many, many tasks for everyone to suit all tastes).

You can write about it in hablichku or, for example, sciberiascience@gmail.com.

And we are in:
In contact with
Telegram ( chat and channel )
Facebook , where do without it.

PS In the publication rules, they were asked not to add a lot of pictures. But this is some kind of holiday! The author of this publication can not stop, I'm sorry, here's a spoiler for you.