Ministry of Culture
Overview
Main functions of the ministry:
- regulation of relations in the sphere of culture (art, cinema, protection and usage of historical and cultural heritage);
- support of museums, culture, art and national artistic trades institutions;
- preservation, revival and development of traditional crafts of the Vologda Region;
- management of service of libraries.
One of the primary functions of the Ministry of Culture is the preservation of the archives of Government Ministries and Departments and related administrative units, and this involves the selection of those records having permanent value, the arrangement and description of archives, and the provision of a reference service to scholars, to Government Ministries and Departments and to the general public. As the government's recordkeeping authority, the Ministry works to ensure effective information management and acts as the official guardian of Vologda Oblast's public archives.
The holdings of the archives and records service comprise records in a variety of media. This includes paper-based textual records, electronic records as well as audio-visual, photographic and cartographic material. Governmental bodies produce vast amounts of administrative records.
As an executive body with diverse functions, the Ministry carries out its mission through a number of subordinate offices and institutions. There are state and municipal archives in the Vologda Oblast.
The main functions of the Ministry and its subordinate institutions in the sphere of records activities include:
- to collect material in or about the Vologda Oblast;
- to preserve the archival heritage of the Vologda Oblast;
- to make the archival heritage accessible to people.
News
The Vologda Region is nominated for an award at the National Geographic Traveler Awards 2017 in Ecological Vacation in Russia nomination. Winners will be decided through online voting on the website of the National Geographic Russia magazine.
Appropriately located near the most ancient architectural ensemble - the picturesque Vologda Kremlin, the Vologda Lace Museum was opened in autumn 2010.
The event is timed to coincide with celebrations of 880th anniversary of Tot’ma City. On this day Tot’ma will celebrate Russian America Day at the same time as Fort Ross in northern California, once the southernmost outpost of the Russian empire on the coast of northern California and founded by Tot’ma native Ivan Kuskov in 1812.
The International Lace Festival VITA LACE supported by the RF Ministry of Culture was held in Vologda twice – in 2011 and 2014.
The U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg decided to plant American musical seeds in Vologda seven years ago with the help of its Russian partners at the Vologda Oblast Government, Department of Culture and Tourism of the Vologda Region, and the Vologda State Museum-Preserve. The festivals were devoted to bluegrass, blues, Conjunto music, jazz and gypsy jazz.
The 6th All-Russian Ex-libris Congress will feature ex-libris creations from many Russian regions and such CIS-countries as Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia and Kazakhstan. After the congress all the works will be donated to the Vologda Picture Gallery.
Kirillov is in the list of Russia's small cities that will be most popular destinations for summer vacationing, according to a study conducted by TourStat agency.
Applications from artisans are received in the following categories - traditional female crafts, wooden and birch bark craft painting, valenki (kind of felt boots), wood engraving and wicker-work, blacksmithing, potter's craft and forgotten handicrafts. In addition to it, a unique contest for national cuisine will be held within the framework of the international festival “Voice of Crafts”.
Russian and U.S. politicians, cultural workers and experts will discuss the ways to boost cooperation and overcome differences between the two countries at a forum dubbed Fort Ross Dialogue which is held for the first time in the Russian cities of Pskov and Izborsk on May 29-30.
The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve is a permanent participant of the Museum Geek Festival of Museum Multimedia. This year the museum employees presented a digital encyclopedia about Saint Cyril, a disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh who founded the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in Northern Russia in 1397.