30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

The Taste of Home

Pies are widely popular all over Russia, but each region has its own national kinds of pies. In this context, this stuffed pastry can be regarded as the national cultural treasure and also as a token of homeliness and family comfort.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

Wedding Traditions in the Zaonezhye Region

The Zaonezhye region encompasses the eponymous peninsula and the islands in the northern part of Lake Onega. The local people are descended from the Novgorodians who started moving north at the beginning of the second millennium. Before that, the peninsula was populated by Baltic and Finnish tribes. As a result, the language and folklore of the Zaonezhye people still bears the traces of these ethno-cultural ancestors. This is the place where Russian epic literature has been preserved in its classical form, as well as lamentations, songs, and fairy tales that have become integral parts of Russian folklore. In particular, researchers have long been intrigued by the complex, multiphase marriage rituals in Zaonezhye.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

The Mystery of Patomskiy Crater

Patomskiy Crater, better known as Kolpakov Cone, is believed to be one of the main mysteries of Siberia. Its unusual shape and origin have long attracted the attention of researchers from all over the world. Kolpakov Cone is most similar to meteor impact marks on the Moon or Mars.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

“I think in Rus(s)ian”. On the 150th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Dal was a Russian writer, ethnographer, folklorist, military doctor, and an official. His magnum opus is the legendary Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language. However, few people know that once the dictionary was considered only one of his eccentricities, while Vladimir Dal constantly refined and completed it until his death, never fully satisfied with his brainchild.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

From Clay to Eternity. Dulyovo porcelain: artistic taste and corporate identity

The small town of Likino-Dulyovo located 80 km from Moscow is known far beyond Russia. Dulyovo is not only a geographical name but also a symbol of the ancient porcelain industry, which is proud of its past and confidently looks into the future.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

Tokens of Fate. To the 100th anniversary of Yuri Knorozov, a Soviet scientist who deciphered the Maya script

Russia and the land of the ancient Maya, encompassing Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, lie on different continents. This makes it even more fascinating that the first person to read the inscriptions made by the vanished civilization was a Russian ethnographer and linguist Yuri Knorozov, and he did it from his office without travelling to the far-away lands.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

Underwater labyrinth

Near the village of Orda in the Perm Krai, Russia, there is the entrance to Orda Cave, a unique natural monument. The system of passages stretches through the mass of gypsum and anhydrite for over 5 kilometers, and most of the time you would have to swim rather than walk since the cave labyrinth is almost completely under water.
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30.09.2022 / Главная страница, Magazine

The Best Voice in the World

In the Soviet Union, Muslim Magomayev was enormously popular. His records sold in huge numbers, and after his concerts his enthusiastic audience would worship the ground on which their idol walked. This was not because of his brilliant singing technique but because of what the performer called “putting his heart into his voice.”
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29.09.2022 / Главная страница, News

Сергей Обрывалин: Россия открыта к конструктивному диалогу о сохранении мирового культурного наследия

29 сентября российская делегация приняла участие во Всемирной конференции ЮНЕСКО «Мондиакульт-2022». Возглавил делегацию первый заместитель Министра культуры Российской Федерации Сергей Обрывалин
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29.09.2022 / Главная страница, News

Владимир Аристархов выступил на международной конференции MONDIACULT 2022 в Мексике

Конференция проходит в год 50-летия принятия Конвенции ЮНЕСКО об охране всемирного культурного и природного наследия.
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