The article represents the speech of the senior age group from the Central Black Earth Region. The purpose of this scientific essay is to describe, by means of the folk dialect, the 20 th -century realities of the residents from the village of 2nd Voznesenovka, the Talovsky District. The subject of the study is the world of man in the Voronezh Province of the last century. The object of this work is the Voznesenov dialect. In the course of writing the article, we used the methods of stationary observation, interviewing, analysis and description. As a result, through one of the dialects of the Voronezh Region, we present the realities of the villagers: their family, war and the memory of it, times of hunger, their housing, education, different types of work, farming, local authorities and relations with them, field work and gardening, the material side of life, etc. It is concluded that the villagers’ peculiarity is their simplicity, openness, hard work, sincerity, generosity, original ingenuity, ability to overcome temporary misfortunes, remaining honest and decent. The article shows that there is special care for each other and the truly great rural spirit, coupled with faith in a higher power. Based on the realities of the Voznesenovites, presented in the article, we get an idea of the South Russian dialect (the system of vocalism). This material has been introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.