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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.
The Museum of Happy Childhood, located in a nineteenth century mansion near pedestrian Bauman street, opened this spring. Like the Museum of Soviet Lifestyle, it is one of its kind in Russia and was opened to commemorate the Soviet era. "The brand was born in Kazan. When similar museums appear in other cities, we will help them," said the museum director Rustem Valiakhmetov.
The museum first floor is almost entirely filled with exhibits related to Soviet childhood. Desks with peeling paint, yellowed wall newspapers and primers, rigid backpacks with heavy metal buckles – all immerse visitors in the atmosphere of the Soviet model school. The common thread of the exhibition is the theme of Young Pioneers and proletarian slogans, inextricably linked with the personality of Lenin. A special feature of the museum is that it is completely interactive: visitors can try on red scarves and knitted hats, flip through books, sit on bikes and rattle toys.
The Day of Cyrillic Writing System and Culture, commemorating the Slavic alphabet’s founder Cyril and Methodius, is marked by many Slavic countries, including by Russia, on 24 May.
This year, the celebrations began with a national vocal marathon, participated including by Kazan.
The choral flashmob began in Russian cities at the same time, at noon.
On a stage installed in Kazan Kremlin’s Cannon Quad, Tatarstan’s State Chamber Music Choir, conducted by Milausha Tamindarova, Kazan Higher Military Command School’s orchestra, conducted by Jan Orekhov, New Music chamber music orchestra, conducted by Anna Gulishambarova, State Song and Dance Ensemble’s choir, led by Niyaz Garaev, as well as junior teams, performed.
A combined children’s choir sang some famous songs. Pieces by the composers Fedor Glinka, Petr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Georgy Sviridov were performed. The singers presented military songs as well.
he Kazan’s Lenin museum, built in 1937, opened earlier in the day after a lengthy reconstruction. Distinguished visitors at the ceremony were acting Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Communist Party Central Committee Chairman Gennady Zyuganov, Tatarstan Culture Minister Airat Sibagatullin, and others.
The museum is one of the oldest in Kazan and a significant culture monument commemorating one of the 20th century world’s most prominent political leaders in his younger years.
The reconstruction that lasted four years has allowed to conserve the piece of wooden urban mansion architecture of the 19th century’s second half. The Ulianov family lived in Orlova mansion’s two-storey extension between September 1888 and early May 1889. The phased work has resulted in the restoration and major renovation of the main building.
For the first time in many years, the exhibits were restored as well, allowing to preserve the memorial rooms’ unique atmosphere. The interiors, reproduced in the Soviet era with the help of family members’ recollections, have been added with new pieces, making the picture of the Ulianov family’s everyday life more complete.
Museum’s director Tatiana Basova said the museum had never been closed for visitors, except during the restoration period.
Following the tour, Gennady Zyuganov and Rustam Minnikhanov shared their impressions with reporters.
“It is a unique building,” Gennady Zyuganov said.
He then thanked Tatarstan authorities and Rustam Minnikhanov for the work done in Tatarstan to restore historical monuments.
History should be treated with care, Rustam Minnikhanov responded, saying many mistakes had been made in Kazan, resulting in valuable buildings being lost.
From Saturday, the Lenin museum will be available for visiting for general public.