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 fourth International Trade Fair for Preservation, Restoration and Museum Technology Denkmal Russia-Moscow 2017 kicked off on November 8th in the heart of the Russian capital, at the exhibition site Gostiniy Dvor.
The St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum is an exclusive cultural event, a unique debating stage that gathers thousands of experts in the field of culture from all over the world. Among them - theatre and opera stars, ballet dancers and coaches, outstanding directors and musicians, authority and business representatives, academic community leaders.
Last weekend when Russia celebrated the National Unity Day, the Vologda Kremlin was visited by 3,800 people interested in history, local lore and traditions of the Vologda Region. The guest of the city arrived from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Obninsk, Zhukovsky, Cherepovets, the Republic of Belarus and Bulgaria.
The Vologda Region will celebrate a Night of the Arts on November 4th.
The fourth International Trade Fair for Preservation, Restoration and Museum Technology Denkmal Russia-Moscow 2017 will take place from November 8th to 10th, 2017 in the heart of the Russian capital, at the exhibition site Gostiniy Dvor.
The celebration will take place at Ded Moroz' Votchina, a few miles outside Veliky Ustyug. Festive performances, fireworks, sport events and concerts are part of the program.
The European archeologists from Oulu (Finland), Göteborg (Sweden) and Oslo (Norway) studied the archaeology funds of the Vologda State Museum-Preserve.
Alex Doll’s artworks were already on display in Vologda. His first exhibition in Vologda was arranged in 2012 in a series of Russian - Swiss cultural exchange program for 2012-2015 organized with the support of Pro Helvetia foundation. Alex Doll’s artworks were on display in Vologda in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 the exhibition was devoted to the 285th birthday anniversary of a great Russian general Alexander Suvorov.
The INWETEX-CIS Travel Market takes place annually. It is the travel and tourism exhibition for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), North West Russia, Eastern Europe, and Baltic markets.
A meeting with Ms. Ruth Scheidegger-Meier will take place in the Vologda State Museum-Preserve on October 23. The meeting will be devoted to her father Gerhard Meier (20.06.1917 – 22.06.2008), a classical Swiss writer. Famous prose writer and poet, winner of a number of literature prizes, Gerhard Meier studied the work of Leo Tolstoy, and wrote a novel entitled "Borodino" (1982).