Total Dictation will be held on October, 17 all over the world. It will be set online due to epidemic situation. 

The organizers of Total Dictation action announced that this year the event will take place on October 17. It was postponed for more than six months due to the spread of the coronavirus infection. For the first time in almost two decades, the dictation will be written in autumn. According to the organizers, there is no reason to risk the health of participants and curators of the educational campaign.

Total Dictation is an annual voluntary Russian language literacy test held around the world. 

The project headquarters have developed three scenarios that take into account the epidemiological situation in different parts of the world. The total dictation can be written offline in audiences familiar to all participants in the action, subject to all sanitary standards and social distance, online through a special form on the official website of the project and in the new format “#We writedom” for broadcast on totaldict.ru.