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The nation-wide Spas Fair that kicked off on 1 July ended on Sunday.
According to preliminary reports, this year’s event set another attendance record. Last year, some 140,000 people visited the celebration at the Shishkin ponds, while the number of visitors this year has been several thousand more, organisers say.
The number of craftsmen participating in the fair exceeded last year’s result as well, with 1,300 masters from 170 Russian cities and other countries arriving for the fair.
Attendees at the official closing ceremony were Tatarstan Deputy Industry and Trade Minister, Deputy Economy Minister Natalia Tarkaeva, Tatarstan State Committee for Tourism Deputy Chief Liana Saetova, and others.
The fair’s best craftsmen were awarded. The list of nominations included For Maintaining National Music Instrument Traditions, For Maintaining National Embroidery Traditions, For Contribution to Folk Arts and Crafts, and others.
Welcome to Kazan is a daily cultural programme which is going to greet all the visitors at the FINA Water World Park right from its opening minutes.
At 12:30, Planet Fitness, one of major Kazan 2015 partners, is going to encourage the public to join them for some group workouts and workshops in several popular types of fitness activities.
From 14:00 till 17:00 the Park’s attendees will be entertained by MCs who have already prepared an engaging interactive programme. At 17:00, Tatarstan and Russia’s best music, dance and singing groups will start entertaining visitors on the main stage. At 19:00, the live coverage of the Championships Opening Ceremony will be streamed in the Park. Visitors will be able to watch it on the media façade of the Kazan Arena Stadium.
The display booth of the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk is going to be set up on the premises of the FINA Water World Park. The organisers will offer all visitors to participate in air hockey competition, table curling and biathlon. Every day two medal events will be contested in each sport. The OC’s representatives will also speak about the host city’s preparation for the 2019 Winter Universiade.
Russian, Tatar, Mari and Chuvash cuisines will be presented in the FINA Water World Park. Catering services will also be organised. The Park’s visitors will also be able to buy the official Kazan 2015 merchandise.
On July 25, an opening ceremony of the Dive Safely project pavilion will be held in the Park. Visitors will be able to get full information and handout materials promoting healthier lifestyles, to undergo an HIV rapid test anonymously and free of charge, to take part in workshops and to meet with world-class athletes and show business stars.
The FINA Water World Park is located close to the Kazan Arena Stadium and occupies a total area of over 5,000 sq. m. The Championships organisers ensure free admission for all visitors whether they plan to visit competitions or not. Admission to the Park is available through security stations from Chistopolskaya Street and Prospekt Yamasheva Street. The Park will be open daily from 12:00 till 22:00 up to August 16.
Press Office of Organising Committee for 16th FINA World Championships
From 1 to 6 of August, Kazan will host the first fair of monastery and farms, Honey Spas, organizers of the event reports.
Honey from temple and monastery apiary will be brought from Lipetsk, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Altai and from neighboring countries. Also, beekeepers of Ural, Tatarstan, Volgograd will present a variety of natural honey and other bee products.
A variety of fees and herbs will be brought from Krasnodar region. Collegiate soap factory of Kostroma region will bring indigenous products: soaps, creams, ointments. Unrefined edible oils will be brought to fair from Velikiy Novgorod.
Also, pottery from Smolensk and crafts exhibition of wooden art from Kazan craftsmen will be presented at the fair. In front of Sport Palace, a carved wooden town will be erected this days, where a gazebo, mill, decorative flower and garden furniture will be placed. Performances of choral folk groups and children's dance schools are expected.
The fair will be supported by Tatarstan archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The 2015 FINA World Championships cultural programme was created by the Executive Directorate for Sports Projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan. It includes museum exhibitions, plays at the Galiasgar Kamal Tatar National Academic Theatre, Comedy Club Production's concert called AQUA Comedy Club, circus performances, exhibitions (Kazan Kremlin State Historical and Architectural Museum Reserve, Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Centre, National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan) and also an array of events in the FINA Water World Park, the main cultural venue of the upcoming tournament.
“Comedy Club show is going to be the highlight of the cultural programme, which is created especially for the Worlds,” Mikhail Zotov says.
The show will feature the core lineup of Comedy Club Russia residents: Pavel Volya, Garik Kharlamov, Timur Batrutdinov, Demis Karibidis, Andrey Skorokhod, Ruslan Beliy, Zurab Matua, Andrey Averin, Dmitry Sorokin, Marina Kravets, Alexey Smirnov, Anton Ivanov, and Ilya Sobelev.
It is important to note that 8 re-runs of the Opening Ceremony will be staged for the first time in global history. According to Mikhail Zotov, everyone will have a chance to soak up the atmosphere of the sporting event.
As for the FINA Water World Park, it will be officially opened on July 24. It will be available to the general public during the whole period of the Championships from midday till 22:00. Admission to the FINA Water World Park with the capacity of 20,000 visitors will be free of charge.
Admission to the park will be through the security station (with 15,000 through-flow rate) which comes out into Chistopolskaya Street. Another security station (20,000 through-flow rate) will be situated next to the Kazan Arena Stadium coming out into Yamasheva Prospekt Street. From there visitors will be able to cross the stylobate and go down till they see the Park right from Chistopolskaya Street.
On the way to the Park, there will be various cultural events including music, dancing and drama performed by both beginners and experienced Russian entertainers who took part in the second All-Russian Street Performers Festival Kulturniy Sdvig ('Cultural Shift'). From 16:00 till 22:00 all visitors will be entertained by living statues, street artists, street musicians performing romantic songs, top-class jazz musicians, young hip-hop artists, dance ensembles of different styles, interactive drama and theatrical plays.
A lot of stages will be set up in the FINA Water World Park for the artists who took part in the Kremlin LIVE Festival, Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk Festival and Jazz in Sandetskiy Mansion Festival. Kazan citizens will also be offered a chance to see live broadcasts of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 16th FINA World Championships via the Kazan Arena Stadium's media façade.
Press Office for Organising Committee of 16th FINA World Championships
On June 20, a monument (a bust) to Musa Jalil will be opened in Ust-Kamenogorsk, the capital of East Kazakhstan region.
Its installation is dedicated directly to two important dates of this year: the 70th anniversary of Victory Day and the 20th anniversary of the People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan. Representatives of the Tatar ethnocultural association took the initiative to create a monument to the Tatar poet-hero. The bust was made by Tatarstan honored sculptor Mahmut Gasimov.
The grand opening of the bust will be held on the territory of the Regional Architectural-Ethnographic and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve. Then, Sabantuy will be held in Levoberezhny Park, the press service of Tatarstan Ministry of Culture reports.
Tatarstan will be presented to Tatarstan Minister of Culture Ayrat Sibagatullin and creative delegation at the ceremony.
It should be recalled many CIS countries have Musa Jalil streets and avenues. Many monuments have been put in honor of poet: for example, in Moscow, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, St. Petersburg, Menzelinsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Tosno, Almetyevsk. Now, a similar monument will appear in Ust-Kamenogorsk.