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Colorful city festival will take place for the third time at the quay near the family сentre Kazan. The event took place in 2014 for the first time and became popular among the citizens and guests of the capital of Tatarstan at once. The festival’s program is notable for the variety of entertainments and events of all kinds. First of all, there will be spectacular competitions where all comers can demonstrate the beauty and all capabilities of their kites by controlling them. The experienced craftspeople will hold master classes by teaching how to make individual kites. In several areas there will be organized amusement arcades for grown-ups and children. Besides, there will be held the fair of handmade presents with kites as main subject matter. In the picnics area one will be able to take a stand with own snacks and have a rest in the open air. Giving away compliments and prizes to the winners of competitions, as well as the most active participants of the festival will be organized by the event’s partners.

From the 5th till 7th August 2016 there will be held the ninth All-Russian Spassk trade fair in Yelabuga.

According to the set tradition the trade fair is held on the territory of the reserved part of Yelabuga in the area of Shishkin ponds, Molodyozhny stadium and central streets in the historical part of the town.

At the trade fair there will be presented jewelry, national costumes, model clothes, downy items, wood painting, art weaving, ceramics, Gzhel, art leather working, patchwork sewing and puppets, minting, engraving, metal painting, metal lacework, bast items, canes and many other things.

The trade fair will be marked by performance of entertainers, folkloristic and circus groups. Master classes for producing of self-made souvenirs will be organized for all comers in the Town of Masters. There will be generally presented production of agricultural enterprises, processing industry companies and consumer goods manufacturers at the market.

Also the Bell-ringing Festival participating bell-ringing and spiritual music masters from different cities of Russia will be held during the Spassk trade fair days.

The state museum preserve of Yelabuga invites the masters of national artistic trades and decorative and applied arts to participate in the All-Russian Spassk trade fair in Yelabuga on the 5th, 6th and 7th of August 2016.

The beach of Almetyevsk city was opened on the 13th of July. The beach turned into unique recreation area having no analogues neither in republic nor in the country. They succeeded to build it over the course of only three months.

They delivered 2,5 thousand tons of quartz sand from Thailand to the beach, roll-out lawn was laid down, water path for walking of 880 meters long was arranged. The length of the wake -park water track makes 600 meters, training track makes 150 meters (wakeboarding – riding in water on special board – remark of editor). The height of climbing wall makes up to 10,5 meters, the height of three-storied adventure park is 9 meters. The beach itself with sun loungers, playgrounds, photodiode swing sets and beach volleyball area will be free of charge. Wake-park, climbing wall, adventure park, open swimming-pool and double canoe riding will be fee-based.

The unique scientific and exhibition project “Wonder-working Kazan image of the Mother of God. Kazan monastery of the Mother of God ” keeps working in the main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan. It coincides with celebration of appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God (21st of July) and laying the cornerstone on the site of the Kazan Cathedral to be restored in the Kazan monastery of the Mother of God. This is a common project of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, Department of manuscripts and rare books of the research library in the name of N.I. Lobachevsky, Kazan Federal University museums, National archive of the Republic of Tatarstan and private collections from Kazan.

On the 4th of June 2016 the mobile exhibition “ Decorative and applied arts of Tatars: history and  modern age” organized by the National museum of the Republic of Tatarstan was opened in the national museum preserve of Crimea in the town of Bakhchisarai. The exposition unfolding the originality of Tatar people culture, national traditions and arts of different age masters was presented to the inhabitants and guests of Crimea. This exhibition will be of interest to each resident of half-island: Crimean Tatars were historically and culturally closed to Kazan Tatars. The exhibition will be open at the Crimean ethnographic museum in the city of Simferopol already in autumn.

16 July on central stadium of Arsk city will be hold kid’s festival “Let’s live always in peace in our native land”. The format of this festival is the kid’s analogue of Sabantuy.

Varied programme of the festival includes the performance of children and young people creative and folk music groups, sport events and competitions, folk games and interactive programmes. Participants of the festival will be children of Arsk and neighbour regions of Tatarstan republic.

The Chairman of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism Sergey Ivanov took part in the regular meeting of the Coordinating Council on Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, organized for the representatives of the executive authorities in the tourism entities of the Volga Federal District and representatives of the tourism industry in the region, which was held on July 8 in Samara.

One of the issues on the agenda of the meeting was devoted to the choice of names of developed inter-regional routes. Most regional representatives voted for the name of the "Great Volga Route".

It was decided, that the inter-regional route will be united with general concept and brand, and tourists will be able to choose regions to visit on their own.

The Tatarstan capital has broken the next culinary record under the Second gastronomic festival in Kazan. Wonders of cooking were demonstrated by 4 Kazan chefs of "Tugan avylym" restaurant, the participant of the Festival. About hundreds of eggs and a few kilograms of flour were used to create a traditional Tatar sweet.

The strip of dough – the future „Hvorost“ (Angel wings) – had a length of 500 meters and a width of 20 sm. It took about 4 hours to cook the dish, after that the visitors and invited residents of Kazan broke the second record: they have eaten a delicacy in 5 minutes! It should be reminded that last year within the gastronomic festival in Kazan was backed the greatest Echpochmak weighing 24 kg.

The 1st Interregional conference “Development of rural tourism in Volga federal district – status, problems, perspectives” Kazan – Bolgar to be held on the 28th and 29th of July.

The representatives of non-commercial, commercial and regional, municipal structures dealing with the issues of development of rural tourism, subjects of rural tourism are invited to the seminar. The managers of All-Russian non-commercial organizations, GIS countries, institutes of the Ministry of Agriculture, managers and specialists of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of another partner organizations and authorities are going to take part in the seminar too.

From 8th to 10th of July there will be held the second gastronomical festival “Tasty Kazan” in the capital of Tatarstan. The longest pastry straws are going to be cooked at this festival among other things. The Deputy of the Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism Liana Sayetova and Deputy Mayor of Kazan Evgeniya Lodvigova, acting Director of the Committee for Tourism Development of the capital of Tatarstan Darya Sannikova, the Chairman of the Management Board of the Association of restaurateurs and hoteliers of Kazan and Republic of Tatarstan Zufar Gayazov.told in details about the program of the festival at the conference of the “Tatar-inform” news agency.