In 2019, the next Congress «World Heritage of the CIS Countries: Cultural Heritage as a Factor in the Development and Promotion of Cooperation and Dialogue» was held.
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Legacy
To Bergamo — for food, to Kazan — for music
In October 2019, Odre Azule, Director-General of UNESCO, declared 66 cities as UNESCO Creative Cities. Now there are 246 such cities around the world. Music, literature, arts and crafts, gastronomy — each creative city is interesting in its own way.
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The Ancient Craft of the «Blueprint»
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris hosted the international exhibition «The Indigo Way», dedicated to one of the oldest forms of decorative art — indigo woodblock printing.
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Secrets Of the Old Castle
The Mir Castle Complex (Mirsky zamok), located in the Grodno Region in Belarus, is one of the few surviving examples of East European Gothic. Its history, the secrets that the old walls keep — like a plot for an unwritten novel. Mir Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Life Begins with Marriage
The Udmurts (Finno-Ugric people) thought, life means three weddings: birth — a wedding with life, wedding — an alliance with another person, funeral — a wedding with death.
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Common Goddess
January 8, 2020 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Galina Ulanova, the legendary Russian ballerina. She embodied the best traditions of Russian classical ballet in the dance, becoming its soul and symbol, and, like no one else, with all her creative personality she was able to show the beauty of simple human feelings.
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One Day of the Soviet Country
The Moscow Metro was designed as the most convincing proof of the tremendous capabilities of the USSR. Its sheer scope, engineering features, architectural and artistic masterpieces that were implemented during the construction — it all stunned the passengers’ imagination.
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