All-Russian Festival of medieval battle “Great Bolgar 2016” visited 38 000 spectators

August 13-14, 2016 All-Russian Festival of medieval battle "Great Bolgar" took place in the Bolgar State Historical Architechtual Open-air Museum, which is included into the UNESCO World Heritage list. 38 000 spectators have visited festival for the whole time of its duration, about 26 000 visitors came last year.

In the Opening Ceremony Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism Sergey Ivanov, Executive Director of non-profit organization "Republic Fund for Historical and Cultural Monuments Revival RT", Vice-chairman of State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Tatyana Larionova, Deputy of State Duma of the 6th duma of the RF Aleksander Sidyakin, the Head of Savior Municipal Area of Tatarstan Kamil Nugaev  and Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Udmurtia Denis Utrobin took part.

The main venue became the tiltyard there was a horse tourney, mass battle buhurts, tilting matches 10 on 10, a historical medieval tourney battle "First Сlass". Among participants of the festival were world champions in historical medieval battle - members from the National Team of Russia from “Burn”, “Nurnberg” and “Polish Lithuanian Spear” clubs. Totally more than 500 reenactors took part in the festival from such cities as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Tver, Rybinsk, Ivanovo, Vologda, Syktyvkar,  Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Pavlovo, Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Dmitrovgrad, Ioshkar Ola, Kirov, Penza, Yelets, Lipetsk, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny , Ufa, Nizhnekamsk, Izhevsk, Perm, Berezenki, Chusovoy, Nizhny Tagil, Ekaterinburg, Zlatoust, Kurgan, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Alma-Ata .