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Vologda Oblast presented its tourism opportunities in Helsinki, Finland.
19.07.2016 09:56
On July 8 a delegation from the Vologda Region arrived in Helsinki to present its tourism potential and handicrafts. Together with Vologda, several regions of Russia’s North-West presented Silver Necklace of Russia, a unique tourism product (brand) consisting of chain of routes crossing ancient Russian cities with unique historical and cultural heritage of Northwest Russia.
The Silver Necklace of Russia is a tourist project across 11 regions of the Russian Federation.
The tourist project Silver Necklace of Russia covers the territories of Leningrad, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Pskov, Novgorod regions, Saint Petersburg, the Republic of Karelia and the Komi Republic, Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Tourist routes of the project are not limited in terms of subject, sequence, duration.
Eight cities of the Vologda Region are part of the Silver Necklace of Russia project. They are Vologda, Cherepovets, Belozersk, Tot’ma, Veliky Ustyug, Vytegra, Kirillov and Ustyuzhna.
The festival in Helsinki was organized by the RF Ministry of Culture, the Federal Tourism Agency and Russian tourism office in Finland. The main goal of the festival was popularization of historical and cultural heritage of the Russian regions included in the project “Silver necklace of Russia”.
At the festival in Helsinki Vologda’s delegation held presentation of tourism products of the region. Craftsmen from the Vologda Region presented the blackening on silver, Vologda lace and painting on wood. Ded Moroz, Russia’s equivalent of Santa Claus also participated in the festival.
The Russian North State Folk Music, Song and Dance Ensemble performed in Helsinki. It is the first professional folk art troupe in the Vologda region which performs the 'pure' folk culture of northwest Russia. Its mission is to reinterpret the rituals and traditions of these people.
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