Writer Ivan Bunin has been described as a jeweler of words, a painter of prose, a genius of Russian literature and the brightest representative of the Silver Age. Literary critics often compare the creative spirit of his works to the paintings of Viktor Vasnetsov and Mikhail Vrubel.
View More A Poet of the Russian Landscape
Fyodor Uglov holds the Guinness World Record for oldest practicing surgeon in the history of medicine. Over his 75-year career, he performed more than 10,000 operations and published around 1,000 articles for research magazines and popular press on a number of topics, including many issues surrounding bioethics that remain relevant to this day.
View More The Heart of the Surgeon
Dear friends and colleagues, readers of the Vestnik of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO in Russia and abroad! On behalf of the editorial board, we would like to congratulate you on our common, very important holiday — the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture and wish you all good health — the most important thing in this difficult time.
View More Vestnik of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO. Nvember, 2020
All the history of mankind has been always linked with epidemics, ranging from leprosy, bubonic plague to the AIDS.
View More Health and Dignity
On September 25th, Kazan held a festive event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Republican Renaissance Foundation (“Vozrozhdenie”).
View More From the Restoration of Monuments — to the Restoration of Spirituality
The first meeting of the working group on the organization of the 2022 session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Kazan was held on September 15 in the Kazan Kremlin. It was chaired by Mintimer Shaimiev, the State Counselor of the Republic of Tatarstan and UNESCO Special Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue.
View More The Jubilee Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee May Take Place in Kazan in 2022
The Divnogorye Historical and Cultural Complex in the Voronezh region has been included in the preliminary UNESCO World Heritage List.
View More The Wondrous Mountains in Central Russia
The sailing fleet of the Federal Agency for Fishery organized a unique expedition to mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian seafarers.
View More Sailing to Antarctica
The outstanding polar explorer and navigator, Ferdinand Wrangel, passed away 150 years ago. Wrangel circumnavigated the globe three times and was a progressive statesman and one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society. Today, many geographical locations are named after Wrangel, including, most famously, a Russian island in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. Wrangel Island, part of the Wrangel Island Reserve, displays the harsh beauty of polar nature in all its splendor and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
View More The Polar Captain. In Memory of Ferdinand Wrangel
The Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005. The complex consists of the castle, surrounding landscaped parks and the Corpus Christi church-mausoleum.
View More The Residential Castle of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh, Belarus