Vladimir Pakhomov is the chairman of the Philological Council of the Total Dictation. He told RT how to improve his literacy level.

The more a person reads, the better he writes because he remembers how to write words correctly and gets used to good literary texts, he said. The most difficult words were "syzmalstvo" and "cardinally", it was reported. The text of the dictation of 2023 was prepared by the writer Vasily Avchenko, it is dedicated to the traveler, writer, researcher of the Far East.