Krasnodar: international agro-industrial forum
450 companies from 20 foreign countries and 35 Russian regions have presented their produce at the 13th International Agro-Industrial Forum in the Southern Russian city of Krasnodar. The highlight of the event is an exhibition of agricultural machinery from the world’s top foreign and Russian producers. The participants included Claas, John Deere, McCormick, Rostselmash, Kirov, Minsk and Kharkov tractor plants. Visitors to the plant-growing pavilion were offered various crop seeds and had every opportunity to obtain information and sign contracts on the supply of agro-chemical produce and learn more of the latest in plant protection technologies. The grain processing exposition proved one of Russia’s biggest. And Russian and foreign companies offered new technologies in pig breeding and the raising of poultry and cattle.
Anapa – best 2006 resort|||
The Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa has been named the best 2006 resort by the World Federation of Water and Climate Therapy. Experts underscore high level of medical service at Anapa’s health resorts. According to the city’s Vice Mayor Anatoly Kozlenko, Anapa was picked due to comfortable accommodation, rapidly developing infrastructure and the growing demand for holidays and treatment on the Black Sea. Mr.Kozlenko says Anapa is famous for its mineral springs, seawater, mud therapy and fresh air and many of its resorts offer vine and wine therapy. More than 2 million people, including from abroad, had their holidays in Anapa in 2006.
Novgorod the Great: universal exhibition fair
North Western and Central Russian producers have demonstrated quality goods and services at an exhibition fair in Novgorod the Great. More than 60 companies from Moscow, St.Petersburg, the Moscow and Leningrad Regions, Ryazan, Belgorod and Tambov displayed goods both time-tested and brand new. The Tver clothes makers presented kindergarten garments and accessories. Highly popular among the visitors were the Kostroma linen, Vologda felt boots, hats and fur coats from a fashion fur house in Tatarstan, honey and apiphytobalms from Barnaul. Visitors were readily buying souvenirs from Karelia, perfumes from Pskov and jewelry from Vladimir Region. Novgorod producers offered health keeping gadgets, from blood pressure cuffs to mini saunas for household use.
Petrozavodsk: Arctic project
The Karelian Sea Center is getting ready to launch a project to build a fleet of small in size and cost “Arctic shuttles” as part of International Polar Year in 2007. the vessels will be made of highly durable composite materials and will be provided with cutting-edge navigation and research equipment. Autonomous 3-year navigation and safe and comfortable research conditions make the floating stations fit for multiple drifting at high latitudes. The Karelian center is based at the Polar Odyssey Club and since it was founded travel lovers from Petrozavodsk have made long expeditions across the Arctic from Spitsbergen to North America. It was during those trips that the idea of building a brand new vessel for Arctic research was born.
Vladivostok: adventure film festival
A festival of tourist and adventure films in Vladivostok has impressed the viewers with scenes of roaring waterfalls, breathtaking catamaran manoeuvres and gorgeous mountains and hills. Travelers and extreme route lovers had every chance to demonstrate what they had filmed to the public. The jury selected pictures from the material submitted by tourist clubs from cities across Russia and the selection critieria were tough enough with the contestants required to demonstrate both the beauty of nature and mastery in direction and camera work. The first prize went to “The Flight of A Squirrel”, which tells of a difficult journey down the Snezhnaya River, the most hazardous river in Buryatia, with treacherous, practically impassable rapids. Masterfully shot by cameraman Andrei Serzhant the film was acknowledged the best by both the jury and the audiences.
Murmansk: polar night|||
On December 2nd Murmansk fell into polar night, the time of perpetual darkness. The sun in Murmansk will be rising no higher than the horizon for more than a month. On frosty days the skies are sometimes illuminated by motley northern lights. Murmansk, the biggest city beyond the Arctic Circle, is lit by street lamps all over, since deficit of sunlight is no easy to endure. Schools switch to a lighter schedule and the elderly find it difficult too. The peak of polar night falls on December 22nd, the time of winter solstice. Afterwards days become longer. On the last Sunday of January Murmansk holds the traditional outdoor festival with treats, songs and dances. The festival is called “Hello to the Sun”.
Izhevsk: presentation of unique dictionary|||
Izhevsk has hosted the presentation of a dictionary compiled by Grigory Vereshchagin, the first Udmurt author and scholar who left a vast and rich scientific legacy. His Udmurt-Russian and Russian-Udmurt Dictionaries remained in a handwritten form only until quite recently, when scientists of the Udmurt Institute of Language, History and Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences got the manuscripts out of the archives and prepared them for publishing. The dictionary contains more than nine thousand Udmurt words, among them quite a few old ones, which are out of use nowadays. It is of high value to research workers, teachers, higher education students, writers and journalists.
Voronezh: festival of spiritual song
A festival of spiritual song called “Ark” has taken place in Voronezh. Spiritual song is a combination of music, lyrics and prayer. The forum brought together authors and performers from major Russian cities, including five priests. The organizers are sure that spiritual, patriotic songs revive faith, compassion and love. Similar contests will be held in other cities of Russia.
Mari El: village gallery
An art gallery is open in Yuledur village in Mari El Republic, in the house of Nikolai Zykov, a self-taught artist and war veteran. The paintings were assembled into a museum by his daughter, Margarita, who tells the visitors of fellow villagers on the portraits and the history of items on display. In addition to landscapes and portraits of family members, the artist’s legacy abounds in copies of canvases by known masters. Margarita Zykov hold classes for children in the gallery to introduce them to great artists and their works. Visitors often want to buy portraits of their relatives but Margarita says no. In her words, they are more than a legacy – they are common memory.
12/11/2006
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