Residents of the Republic of Tatarstan took an active part in the international project # Know Russia
With support of the Ministry of Culture and members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Second International Congress of Cognitive Tourism, Culture and Media Volunteers, as well as the #Learn Russia Literary Festival. Don word was held. The winners of 14 distance competitions were announced, in which cultural volunteers from 72 regions of Russia and 28 foreign countries took part. The contestants dedicated more than 1,700 entries to the geniuses of the word.
Residents of Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Arsk, Almetyevsk, Chistopol and other settlements of the Republic took an active part in the competition for the best book trailer, trailer, in competitions for the best costume of the hero of a literary work or a master class on creating a costume and for the best portrait the hero and / or illustration of literary works, in the competition of theatrical performances and literary and musical compositions and the most active were the volunteers of the recitation competition "Know Russia. Don Word".
- The Congress and the Festival confirmed the importance of using the potential of the cultural heritage of non-capital regions, ties with compatriots abroad, inter-municipal twinning relations to promote Russian culture and develop tourism. The contribution of the event participants to the implementation of these tasks is enormous. Experts and spectators appreciated musical compositions, portraits of authors and their literary heroes, posters and costumes, reviews and book trailers, scenery concepts for theater and film performances, tourist routes, lesson programs, theatrical performances, - explained head of the joint organizing committee of the Congress and the Festival, a member of the OPRF Leonid Shafirov.
The participants of the Congress, Festival and competitions were greeted by the Secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Lidiya Mikheeva. She noted that each of the works submitted by the participants to the competition undoubtedly plays an important role in the preservation and augmentation, development and dissemination of domestic culture and demonstrates to all of us its diversity and boundlessness, encourages us to rediscover and get to know Russia.
The project was implemented with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In her welcoming address to the participants and organizers of the Congress and the Festival, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Yarilova noted: “These events brought together people from several industries at once, people of many different professions and fields of activity: experts in the field of education and culture, literature and philology, from various regions of our countries and other states. And of course, volunteers and caring people, without whom it is already very difficult to imagine any industry. Today we are faced with a large number of tasks. This is the development of culture in our regions, and popularization of Russian culture abroad, and the further development of volunteerism. We can only solve them together. And I am sure that thanks to such events, we are getting closer to our goal every day ”.
Irina Velikanova, Chairperson of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Commission on Cultural Development and Preservation of Spiritual Heritage, noted the systematic approach to implementation of the Donetsk residents' initiative aimed at popularizing the history of their native land, active participation in the project not only of representatives of other regions, but also of other countries.
Welcoming video messages to the participants of the Congress and Festival were sent by deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Culture Alexander Sholokhov (video message https://youtu.be/VVFS7zOtyas) and Deputy Committee on Education and Science Larisa Tutova (video message https: // youtu.be/NDOysV52_kw).
Darya Zhukova, head of the directorate of the public movement "Volunteers of Culture" (video message https://youtu.be/RZqNEuTT2P4) wished all the participants of the competitions - regardless of whether they will be recognized as winners of the project or not - new creative projects and fruitful work.
The winners of the contests, the results of which were summed up within the framework of the Congress and the Festival, were residents of 29 regions of Russia: Orenburg, Kostroma, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Volgograd, Penza, Bryansk, Magadan, Tomsk, Kirov, Belgorod, Moscow, Lipetsk, Tyumen, Kemerovo, Tambov, Tver, Omsk, Kursk regions, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Krasnoyarsk Territories, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Republics of Adygea, Bashkortostan, Crimea, North Ossetia-Alania, Chuvashia, Udmurtia.
On behalf of the organizing committee of the Congress and the Festival, a member of the OPRF Leonid Shafirov expressed his gratitude to the members of the OPRF from these regions, the heads of regional and municipal public chambers of these regions for their assistance in informing interested parties about the possibility of participating in competitions.
Separate words of gratitude are addressed by the organizing committee of the events to the embassies and cultural centers of Russia abroad, which assisted in the participation in the events of citizens of Finland, India, China, Latvia, Poland, Egypt, Algeria. They, as well as participants from the LPR and DPR, became the winners of the competitions.
The list of winners is published at the link https://yadi.sk/i/vEjAvfVKaXiGxA
Honored Art Worker of Russia Lyubov Surkova became the moderator of the Congress and Festival. She was assisted by Larisa Lutsenko and Eduard Blokhin - project managers of the event operator - the All-Russian Association of Honorary Citizens, Mentors and Talented Youth.
As part of the broadcast of the final event, music videos created by Don culture volunteers were presented - "The Tale of the Quiet Don" to the music of V. Semyonov (https://youtu.be/gb9N3LZut-w) and "The Way Home" by A. Arkhipovsky (https://youtu.be/gb9N3LZut-w) //youtu.be/EEVVZrzlvEc). The head of the initiative group of volunteers - world champion in accordion Alexander Poeluev became a guest of the event.
Popular science films about writers whose life and work are associated with the Don Territory - the great son of Taganrog, the hero of the day of 2020 A.P. Chekhov (https://youtu.be/mQDRPHWW77k), about the front-line writer and literary scholar V.A. Zakrutkin (https://youtu.be/zrPj2mosmhE), about the author of the novel "The Gypsy" A.V. Kalinin (https://youtu.be/H2U4BSEGuiU), about the Nobel laureate M.A. Sholokhov (https://youtu.be/cRWW9wbUFl8).
The participants were greatly interested in the story of the leading editor of the Open Scenes of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater Yuliana Bachmanova (https://yadi.sk/i/B97-G_4gSHSpWQ) about an important event in the theatrical world of Russia - the historical reconstruction of the play by A.P. Chekhov's "Three Sisters".
Video lectures were presented by art historian, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Galina Skoptsova (https://youtu.be/BXecVB-CsFw), a well-known philologist, head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Taganrog Institute named after A.P. Chekhov Andrey Narushevich (https://youtu.be/MXVNV2Pq008), teacher of the Simferopol Music College named after I. P.I. Tchaikovsky Nadezhda Bessarab-Ablyalimova (video report https://youtu.be/dqTsPYME4oo), member of the Writers' Union of Russia, senior lecturer at the Department of the Russian State University of Justice (Voronezh) Daria Guzeeva (video report https://youtu.be/ukopar) .Ert3S
In the format of a video tour, the participants of the event were able to visit the museum of A.P. Chekhov's "Sakhalin Island" (https://youtu.be/3DOpdH4FA-I) and in the writer's house-museum in Yalta (https://youtu.be/_GIVAtdlt14).
The specialists of the Victory Museum noted the contribution of the participants of the competitions who dedicated their works to literary works about the Great Patriotic War (video message https://youtu.be/dUqgDlfM_Xw).
On behalf of compatriots living in Italy, Elena Buldakova, founder of the Russian-language information and analytical site PLANET360.info (https://youtu.be/-l9HuoMlu4Y), greeted the participants of the Congress and the Festival.
Greetings were addressed to the participants of the remote sessions of the II International Congress and from those who in 2019 were able to attend the event in person. Then, at the invitation of the organizers of the Congress and members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, 200 delegates from 25 regions of Russia and 18 foreign countries arrived in the Rostov region. Among them are representatives of the Russian community of the Latvian Rezekene Olga Belova and Julia Uzhga (video message of community members https://youtu.be/mx-_-MLu9u8), member of the Coordinating Council of Organizations of Russian Compatriots in Tanzania Ellen Otaru (video message - https: // youtu. be / 9y6Vp-r1B4Q), Assistant Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, Baghdad University, Kadim Munder Mulla (video message - https://youtu.be/h_7UWUhIn_4).
All video messages and reports are published on the project channel Know Russia https://clck.ru/SbLuz
Within the framework of the Congress and the Festival, literary quizzes were held dedicated to the creativity of the heroes of the year 2020 - A.P. Chekhov, M.A. Sholokhov, other famous writers associated with the Don and the Azov Sea.
Stream recording link https://youtu.be/AAZxHGnMlkY
Links to groups on social networks and to the project's YouTube channel (link https://clck.ru/SbLuz), where you can view the entries:
https://vk.com/glorygallery
https://vk.com/uznay_rossiyu
https://www.facebook.com/groups/glorygallery/