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The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square, the historical center of St. Petersburg, the white-stone monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal, the Kremlin of Rostov the Great, Kizhi Pogost, Peterhof, Solovki, Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Nizhny Novgorod, Kolomensky and Pskov Kremlin are famous historical monuments Russia, the list of which goes on and on. Russia is a country with a huge cultural past, its history still keeps many secrets and mysteries, each stone of ancient Russian cities and monasteries breathes history, behind each human destiny. These autumn days the multimedia project-competition "Russia 10" is coming to an end, which gives us the opportunity to learn about the most famous and beautiful places of our country and in the first place are the main historical monuments of Russia, the wonders of architecture and architecture, the magic creations of the hands of Russian masters.

Kizhi

On one of the islands of Lake Onega in Karelia, there is the famous Kizhi churchyard: two wooden churches of the 18th century. and an octagonal wooden bell tower (1862). The architectural ensemble of Kizhi is an ode to Russian craftsmen, the pinnacle of carpentry, "wooden lace". According to legend, the Church of the Transfiguration was built with one ax, which the master threw into Lake Onega, having finished his work without a single nail. Kizhi is the real Eighth Wonder of the World.

The main historical value of Russia is the hands of its masters ...

Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon

The Moscow Kremlin is a real treasury of monuments of Russian history and culture. Some of them are Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon. They are famous not only for their size, but also for their amazing history ...

The Tsar Bell was ordered to be cast by Empress Anna Ioannovna. At her request, foreign masters should have done this, but when they heard the required dimensions of the bell, they considered the empress's desire ... a joke! Well, who is a joke, and who cares. The father and son of Motorina, a bell-maker, set to work. Not so long did they create the project as the subsequent approval by the Moscow Senate Office, which lasted for 3 years! The first attempt at casting the bell was unsuccessful and ended in an explosion and destruction of the furnace structure, and after that, one of the craftsmen, Father Ivan Motorin, died. The second casting of the bell was carried out by the master's son Mikhail Motorin, and three months later, on November 25, 1735, the famous bell was born. The bell weighed about 202 tons, its height was 6 meters 14 centimeters, and its diameter was 6 meters 60 centimeters.

The cast was cast, but not raised! During a fire in 1737, a piece weighing more than 11 tons broke off from the bell, which was still in the melting pit. The Tsar Bell was raised from the casting pit only in 1836, thanks to Montferrand, who knows a lot about lifting heavy structures. However, Russia never heard the voice of the Tsar Bell ...

Tsar Cannon on Ivanovskaya Square is considered a monument to Russian artillery. The length of the bronze gun is 5 meters 34 centimeters, the barrel diameter is 120 centimeters, the caliber is 890 millimeters, and the weight is almost 40 tons. The formidable weapon was supposed to guard the Moscow Kremlin from the side of the Execution Ground, but, according to weapons experts, by its power it was suitable for destroying fortress walls, but not for defense. Cast by the famous foundry master Andrey Chokhov in 1586 under Fyodor Ioannovich, she never took part in the hostilities. According to legend, they shot from it only once - with the ashes of False Dimitri.

Mother Russia, everything is special with her - and the tsar-cannon does not fire and the tsar-bell does not announce the gospel ...

Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God

On the day of the Protection of the Mother of God in 1552, Russian troops stormed Kazan, the capital of the Kazan Khanate. Ivan the Terrible in honor of this event ordered the construction of the Church of the Intercession in Moscow. How many legends and traditions are associated with him ...

Previously, another church stood on this site - the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, where Basil the Blessed, the most revered holy fool in Russia, who collected alms for the construction of this temple, rested. Later, others began to build around the Trinity Church - in honor of the most significant victories of Russian weapons. When there were already about ten of them, Moscow Metropolitan Macarius came to Ivan the Terrible with a request to build one large church on this place.

The first to consecrate the central tent of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, then a small church on the grave of the holy fool was completed, and the temple began to be called the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed. The cathedral symbolizes the Heavenly Jerusalem - its 8 chapters create the eight-pointed star of Bethlehem. According to legend, at the end of the construction, which lasted 6 years, the king, delighted with the unprecedented beauty of the temple, asked the builders if they could do something like that. The payment for an affirmative answer was the blinding of the masters by order of the sovereign, so that there was nothing more beautiful on earth ...

Several times they tried to destroy the Temple, services in it were forbidden and allowed again, but it withstood for centuries, as the Russian land withstood all troubles.

The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God is a beautiful and multifaceted holy Russia.

Peter-Pavel's Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the core of the city on the Neva, a historical, architectural and military-engineering monument, one of the main symbols of Russian history. It was from Petropavlovka on May 16, 1703 that the construction of the city of Peter began. All of it is history, the history of wars and revolutions, faith and love. Its bastions are named after the associates of Peter the Great: Menshikov, Golovkin, Zotov, Trubetskoy, Naryshkin and Gosudarev bastions.

In the center of the fortress there is the Peter and Paul Cathedral - a symbol of the formation of a new city in Russia. It contains the history of the imperial House of Romanov, the cathedral became the necropolis of Russian emperors, where their ashes from Peter I to Nicholas II rest. Near the walls of the Cathedral there is the Commandant's cemetery, where 19 commandants are buried. Peter and Paul Fortress(out of 32 who served her).

The fortress was both the defense of the Northern capital and its state prison: the prisoners of the Trubetskoy bastion were Tsarevich Alexei, the Decembrists, Chernyshevsky, Kostsyushko and Dostoevsky, the Narodnaya Volya, ministers of the Russian Empire, Social Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks.

Petropavlovka, like Russia itself, is both an intercessor and a prison, but, nevertheless, the Motherland ...

Monument "Millennium of Russia"

The Millennium of Russia monument was erected in Veliky Novgorod opposite the St. Sophia Cathedral and the former building of the Public Places in 1862 in honor of the millennium anniversary of the legendary vocation of the Vikings to Russia. The anniversary of its opening is celebrated on these September days.

Authors of the project of the monument: sculptors Mikhail Mikeshin, Ivan Schroeder and architect Victor Hartman. To create a monument-symbol of the history of Russia, a competition was announced, for which several dozen works were submitted. The winner was the project of young sculptors - M.O. Mikeshin, who graduated from the Academy just a year ago, and I.N.Shroder, a volunteer student of the sculptural class of the Academy of Arts.

The custom of erecting monuments, sculptures and obelisks in cities to commemorate events or historical characters is almost as old as the rituals of festivals or funerals. The art of sculpting has been honed for millennia so that those who pass by beautiful figures people admired human greatness. It so happened that almost all of the most ambitious Russian monuments left to us from the Soviet era, because then the colossal nature of the monuments had a special political significance.

10. Monument to Lenin in Dubna (37 m)

A huge monument to Lenin is erected in the famous Soviet and now Russian scientific center in Dubna. Even without the pedestal, the height of the figure of the leader of the proletariat is 25 meters. They put it near the lock separating the Moscow Sea from the Volga channel. A park was laid out around the monument, from which the panorama of the Moscow Sea is clearly visible. There was also a monument to I. Stalin here, but under Khrushchev it was blown up.

9. Friendship forever (42 m)

This monument, inaugurated in 1983, was dedicated to Russian-Georgian friendship. That year, the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Georgievsk was celebrated - this was the name of the treaty according to which the Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti voluntarily became part of Russian Empire and was under her full protection. This composition was staged on Tishinskaya Square, where the famous Gruzinskaya Sloboda was located until the 19th century. From the point of view of execution, the monument is a column made up of vertically arranged, difficult to distinguish letters of the Cyrillic alphabet and the Georgian alphabet, from which the words "peace", "unity", "labor", "brotherhood" are formed. The column is crowned with a wreath of grapes, into which ears of wheat are woven; this also shows the symbolism: wheat is Russia, and grapes are Georgia.

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8. Monument to Yuri Gagarin (42.5 m)

At the height of the Moscow Olympics in July 1980, a huge new monument appeared in the capital - this time to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. It was made of titanium, which is widely used in the manufacture of spacecraft. It took 238 cast elements to make the cosmonaut figure, connected by welding and bolts. The most difficult thing was with the manufacture of the face - the largest element weighing 300 kg, although one melting of a vacuum furnace could produce much less metal. The figure of the astronaut looks very dynamic - it seems to be directed upward. The semantic part of the composition is also a high ribbed pedestal - it means the start of the spacecraft.

7. Alyosha (42.5 m)

Residents of Murmansk decided to make the namesake of the famous monument of the Soviet soldier-liberator in Bulgaria - "Alyosha" their own monument, officially called "Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Second World War." The soldier is depicted here in a long overcoat. In 1975, it was installed on the Cape Verde hill so that it was visible from anywhere in the city - in fact, it was 173 meters higher than the average level of the urban landscape. The height of the figure is 35.5 meters, and it stands on a pedestal 7 meters high. This sculpture has become part of an architectural and sculptural complex dedicated to the defenders of the Motherland. Nearby is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

6. Monument to Vladimir Lenin in Volgograd (57 m)

At one time, it was this monument that became a figurant of the Guinness Book of Records as the highest among the monuments dedicated to real historical figures. Ilyich occupied, by the way, the pedestal on which his replacement, I. Stalin, had previously stood, but which was later dismantled. Lenin is not too original here - he is depicted briskly walking with a cap in his hand. The monument was opened on the 103rd anniversary of the birth of the leader of the revolution, that is, in 1973. The figure itself is 27 meters tall.

We all have long been accustomed to treating Russian roads with a fair amount of skepticism, and in truth, there is every reason for this. But don't ...

5. Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (58 m)

It was this monument that became the world famous symbol of the USSR, its image could be seen on various postcards, stamps, and other Soviet products, and the Mosfilm film studio made it its headband. This sculptural composition was commissioned by the state to decorate the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 international exhibition in France. Elena Mukhina portrayed the heroes of her time - young people from the leading political classes of Soviet society - a young man a worker and a woman collective farmer. In synchronously extended upper arms, they hold a hammer and a sickle. The sculpture seems to say what they are building peaceful life and strive for simple happiness.
After returning from France, the monument was erected in Moscow near the entrance to VDNKh, although according to the original plan it was supposed to decorate the site in front of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station's lock tower. But the preparatory work at the hydroelectric power station was delayed, so it was temporarily placed near VDNKh, and there it remained forever joked. For the hydroelectric power station, another sculpture was made. For this reason, the pedestal for the monument turned out to be too low - less than the authors intended, otherwise the monument would have become three times higher. Before France, the statue was transported disassembled in 28 wagons, but even in this case, some elements got stuck in narrow places of the track, so they had to be cut right on the road.

4. The Motherland Calls (87 m)

Until 1997, the largest statue in the country was the sculpture of the Motherland, installed in Volgograd on the Mamayev Kurgan. Fortunately, it never occurred to anyone here to dispute its semantic and architectural significance - in terms of the emotional impact of this sculpture, there are few equals in the world, and not only in Russia. A female figure with a sword raised high in her hand and half a turn back, as if appealing to an invisible people with a call to stand against the enemy.
This statue was installed in 1967 and 22 years after that it was the tallest sculpture in the world, for which it was included in the Guinness Book of Records. The statue itself is made of reinforced concrete, and the 33-meter sword, which weighed 14 tons, was originally made of titanium and stainless steel (to make it sparkle). But he had too much windage, and he transferred a solid load received from the wind to the hand holding him. Therefore, just 10 years later, the monument needed to be repaired. A sword made of a different material was put into the hand, equipped with holes to reduce the windage.

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3. Monument to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet (98 m)

Very soon it will be 20 years since a huge monument by Z. Tsereteli was erected on the Moskva River. Just like before its installation, Muscovites still, to put it mildly, dislike this work of a prolific Georgian. They do not like the monument both from an aesthetic point of view, and from the point of view of its value, moreover, it requires a lot of funds and annual maintenance. Calls are still heard to dismantle this monster, which disfigures the surrounding cityscapes.
To erect the monument, an island was specially poured in the middle of the Moskva River. The colossal bronze figure weighs over 2,000 tons, and the cost of installing the pedestal, the central figure on the ship with sails, has exceeded $ 36 million. The complex construction of the monument was assembled more than a year... Regarding the history of the emergence of this "masterpiece" there is a very popular version that the author made a monument to Columbus, who discovered America for Europeans, but could not impose his creation on either the Spaniards or anyone in both Americas, so he urgently baptized him in Peter I. In addition, , there was no connection between becoming Russian fleet and Moscow, since Peter was doing this when he was already rebuilding new capital.
After the appearance of the monument, mass protests by Muscovites began, who even raised funds for its dismantling or transfer to St. Petersburg. There was even an attempt to blow up the monument. But the then mayor's office, which patronized Tsereteli, ignored these protests, and the dark tsar still frightens Muscovites.

2. Monument to the Conquerors of Space (107 m)

This proud monument appeared in the capital in 1964, when the country felt a real euphoria from the success in space exploration. They put it at the end of the Cosmonauts Alley, near the main entrance to VDNKh, near the metro station of the same name, now it is the northeastern administrative district. Glittering in the sun with titanium sheets, the 107-meter obelisk depicts a rocket directed into the sky, followed by a gas plume.
At the base of the monument there is a statue of the first ideologist of cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The facade of the stylobate is equipped with poems by Nikolai Gribachev, lined with metal letters, and around the stylobate there are high reliefs of Soviet scientists, engineers and workers - all those who made the dream of space flight a reality.

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1. Victory Monument (141.8 m)

The tallest monument in Russia was erected after the collapse of the USSR - in 1995. It was an obelisk in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill, installed on the Pobediteley Square. The height of 141.8 m is symbolic - if you translate it into decimeters, you get the number of military days. The obelisk is shaped like a trihedral bayonet, the edges of which are decorated with bronze bas-reliefs to a considerable height. Attached to the obelisk at 104 meters sculptural group bronze - the goddess of victory Nike with a crown and two cupids trumpeting victory.
The opening of the memorial took place on Victory Day along with the entire memorial complex. This unique design, due to the peculiarities of its shape, while still within the framework of the architect's plan, showed aerodynamic instability. Therefore, her model was repeatedly tested in the TsAGI wind tunnel in order to minimize this property.

Monuments of architecture - objects that were created, as a rule, in honor of significant event or important person... The age of some is estimated at tens of years, while others still remember the Egyptian pharaohs. This review contains the most famous monuments architecture, about which you can write the history of mankind.

1. Kaaba (Masjid al-Haram)


The Kaaba (Masjid al-Haram) is a cube-shaped building located in Mecca

The Kaaba (Masjid al-Haram) is a cube-shaped building located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is considered the most sacred site in Islam, as well as the oldest and most famous cultural monument in the world.


Muslim shrine of Kaba.

The Qur'an says that the Kaaba was built by Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) and his son Ismail after the latter settled in Arabia. A mosque, Masjid al-Haram, was built around this building. All Muslims around the world turn to face the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are.


Pilgrims at Kaba.

One of the five basic laws of Islam requires every Muslim to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in their life. In this case, the Kaaba must be bypassed seven times counterclockwise (when viewed from above).

2. Taj Mahal


White marble mausoleum located in the city of Agra, India.

Taj Mahal ("Crown of Palaces") is a white marble mausoleum located in the city of Agra, India. It was built by the padishah of the Mughal Empire Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely regarded as "the pearl of Muslim art in India and one of the world's recognized masterpieces of world heritage." The area of ​​the Taj Mahal is about 221 hectares (38 hectares is occupied by the mausoleum itself and 183 hectares of protected forest around it).

3. Egyptian pyramids


Egyptian pyramids.

A total of 138 pyramids were discovered in Egypt. Most of them were built as tombs for the pharaohs and their wives during the Old and Middle Kingdoms. These are one of the oldest famous cultural monuments.


Top view of the Egyptian pyramids.

The earliest known Egyptian pyramids were found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. And the most ancient of them is the Pyramid of Djoser, built in 2630 - 2611 BC. e., during the third dynasty. This pyramid and the surrounding complex were designed by the architect Imhotep and are generally considered the world's oldest monumental structures made of clad bricks.

4. Great Wall of China


The great Wall of China.

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications of stone, brick, rammed earth, wood, and other materials built along China's historic northern borders to protect the country from invasions by various warlike peoples.


Sculptures on the Great Wall of China.

Several walls were built in the 7th century BC, and later they were completed, combining them into what is known today as the Great Wall. Particularly famous is the part of the wall built between 220-206 BC. the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (very little remained of her).

By the way, in the Celestial Empire there are many more beautiful and interesting places in China that are worth seeing with your own eyes.

5. Angkor Thom (Great Angkor)


Capital of the Khmer Empire

Angkor Thom is a 3 square kilometers walled royal city that was the last capital of the Khmer Empire. After Jayavarman VII conquered Yashodharapura (the previous capital) from the invaders from Champa in 1181, he built a new capital of the empire on the site of the destroyed city. He started with existing surviving structures such as Bapuon and Fimeanakas and built a majestic walled city around them, adding an outer wall with a moat and some of Angkor's greatest temples. The city has five entrances (gates), one on each side of the world, and a Victory Gate leading to the Royal Palace area. Each gate is topped with four giant faces.

6.Acropolis of Athens


Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens, also known as "Cecropia" in Athens, is the most important site in the city and one of the most recognizable monuments in the world. This is the main landmark of ancient Greek culture, as well as a symbol of the city of Athens itself, since it represents the apogee artistic development in the 5th century BC.

7. Chiang Kai-shek National Memorial Hall


Chiang Kai-shek Memorial

Chiang Kai-shek National Memorial Hall is a famous monument and local landmark erected in memory of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the former President of the Republic of China. It is located in the Chinese city of Taipei. The monument, surrounded by a park, was built in the eastern part of the Memorial Square. To the north of it is National Theater and to the south is the National Concert Hall.

8. Potala Palace


Potala Palace

The Potala Palace is located in the city of Lhasa in Tibet. It is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of Chenrezig or Avalokiteshwar. The Potala Palace was the main residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India during the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959.

Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, the fifth Great Dalai Lama, began construction of the Potala Palace in 1645 after one of his spiritual advisers, Konchog Chopel, noted that the location between the Drepung and Sera monasteries and the old city of Lhasa was the ideal location for government. In the end, the Potala was built on the remains of an earlier fortress called the White or Red Palace, built by the king of Tibet, Songtsen Gampo in 637. Today the Potala Palace is a museum.

9. Statue of Liberty


Statue of Liberty in the United States.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States of America, and it is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was unveiled on October 28, 1886, and in 1924 it was declared a National Monument.

10. Sultan Ahmed Mosque


Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historic mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1923. It is also commonly known as the Blue Mosque because of the blue tiles that line its walls.


The interior of the mosque.

The mosque was built from 1609 to 1616 during the reign of Ahmed I. Although it is still used as a mosque, the site has also become a popular tourist attraction.

The Syktyvkar City Court ordered the local 7 × 7 newspaper to pay 200,000 rubles for insulting the symbol of military memory. Last year, an interview with a popular blogger appeared on the pages of the publication, who called the Military Glory complex by the popular name "women are frying a crocodile." Soon after that, Roskomnadzor received a complaint from one of the readers, who saw in the publication a desecration of the symbol of military glory. The court's decision is not clear to everyone, since a similar name was previously used in the central press. In connection with these events, we suggest recalling the unofficial names of other monuments in our country.

Women fry a crocodile

The city of Syktyvkar has an eternal flame and a monument. The people call this monument "The women are frying a crocodile." It's all about the wreath, which looks like a crocodile from a certain angle. The popular name for the monument appeared from the first days of its installation in 1981.

Andrei Rublev draws Lenin from nature

Monuments to Andrei Rublev and Vladimir Lenin on the Cathedral Square of the city of Vladimir. The bronze figure of Lenin faces the Pushkin Park and the Rublev monument. It turns out that the leader of the world proletariat is drawn from life by Andrei Rublev.

Three came out of the forest

In Korolev near Moscow, on the Victory Alley, there is a Memorial of Glory, nicknamed "Three Came Out of the Forest", since there is a small forest behind it. The names of the soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War.

Liver monument

Monument to the victims of radiation disasters in the city of Oryol by sculptor V. Mikheev in the park of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. It is called the "liver monument".

Peeing Lenin in St. Petersburg

The kindest of the informal names of this monument - "Lenin with a cap" and "dancing Lenin", because of the unusually expressive pose of the monument. But most of all, the Lenin monument on Moscow Square is known to the local residents as "pissing".
At a certain angle left hand Lenin turns into a reproductive organ, which only increases when passers-by move towards the Moscow department store.

Five to seven

Monument to the heroes of the October Revolution and civil war - monumental sculpture installed in Ufa. In common people it is called "Five to seven". The name appeared during the Soviet Union. There used to be a shop nearby that closed at 7:00 pm.

Suicide student

The sculpture of Vardkes Avakyan called "Prometheus" is on the facade of the SUSU building in Chelyabinsk. Popularly nicknamed "the student-suicide".

Beavis and Butt-head

Monument to Vasily Tatishchev and Wilhelm de Gennin, located in Yekaterinburg on Labor Square. Young people call it the "Beavis and Butt-head" monument.

Pushkin on a skateboard

On November 5, 1999, in the Literary Quarter of Yekaterinburg, a bronze monument by G. A. Gevorkyan, erected with public funds, appeared. The poet is depicted in a nightgown, with bent arms, which symbolizes the unexpectedness of inspiration.
The people called the monument "Karate" for the aggressive wave of the hand and "Pushkin on a skateboard" for the unusual shape of the pedestal.

Tadpole

Monument to Valerian Kuibyshev, erected in 1938 on the square, which is also named after Kuibyshev, in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Designed by the sculptor Manizer. The dimensions of the head of the sculpture are slightly exaggerated in comparison with the rest of the structure, which is why the monument received an unflattering nickname from the townspeople - "tadpole".

At a proctologist's appointment

Monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky by sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov. Installed near the building of the Russian State Library.
Fyodor Mikhailovich sits in a very strange position, for this reason the monument received such nicknames as "Monument to Russian hemorrhoids", "At a proctologist's appointment", "Ankylosing spondylitis", "Ek twisted!"

Fridge with beard

Monument to Karl Marx in Moscow - erected in honor of the founder of Marxism, leader of the international communist movement Karl Marx on Teatralnaya Square.
“In the 60s, a monument to Karl Marx was erected in Moscow. - Faina Georgievna, have you seen the monument to Marx? - someone asked Ranevskaya. - You mean this refrigerator with a beard that you put in front of The Bolshoi Theater? - Ranevskaya clarified. "

Slaughterhouse

Monument Soviet writer, public figure, to the laureate Nobel Prize on literature to Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, installed in Moscow on Gogolevsky Boulevard.
The sculptor wanted to depict horses floating on water, but it turned out that the heads were as if severed, which is why the sculpture is called "The Slaughterhouse". Also in winter it regularly turns into a monument to "Grandfather Mazai", when enthusiasts sculpt hares from snow into an empty boat.

The blog "Get to know your native land" is a virtual journey for children across the Pskov region and is the embodiment of the main materials of the project of the Centralized Library System of Pskov "Get to know your native land!" In the Internet space.

This project was developed and implemented in the libraries of the Centralized Library System in Pskov in 2012-2013. - Library - Center for Communication and Information, Children's Ecological Library "Rainbow", Library "Rodnik" them. S.A. Zolotsev and in the innovation and methodological department of the Central City Library.

The main goal of the project is to give an idea of ​​the historical past of the Pskov Territory, its present, about the people (personalities) who glorified the Pskov Territory, about the wealth and originality of the nature of the Pskov Territory.

The project brought together library workers, participants educational process and parents.

"Raising love for native land, to the native culture, to native village or the city, to the native speech - a task of paramount importance and there is no need to prove it. But how to cultivate this love? She starts small - with love for her family, for her home, for her school. Gradually expanding, this love for the native land turns into love for your country - for its history, its past and present ”(DS Likhachev).

Pskov. Phot. Petra Kosykh.

Our region has made a significant contribution to the formation, development and protection Russian statehood, into the spiritual life of society. The Pskov region, both in the past and in the present, has repeatedly provided an example of understanding all-Russian interests, gave birth to local experience that became the property of society, put forward bright heroic personalities, prominent scientists, writers, and artists.

Project implementation partners:

City schools:
Average comprehensive school No. 24 named after L.I. Malyakova (teacher of the primary school Grigorieva Valentina Ivanovna)
· Secondary school №12 named after Hero of Russia A. Shiryaeva (teacher of the beginning of classes Ovchinnikova Tatyana Pavlovna)
Border - customs - legal lyceum (teacher of primary classes Ivanova Zinaida Mikhailovna)

Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Educators:
Pasman Tatyana Borisovna - methodologist on history, social studies and law of POIPKRO

Pskov State University
Bredikhina Valentina Nikolaevna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methodology liberal education Pskov State University.

Blog editor:
Burova N.G. - Head Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Central City Hospital of Pskov

At present, despite the fact that the project, which was originally the basis for the creation of this resource, has been completed, our local history blog continues to successfully exist and develop. Being inherently an information and educational resource and a good help for those who want to get to know Pskov and the amazing Pskov region (especially for the guys), whether it is the opening of a monument in the city of Pskov or on the territory of the Pskov region, impressions from trips to one of the corners of the Pskov region, the creation of a new local history game library or photo gallery and, of course, we always inform our readers about the publication of new books about Pskov, designed for young local historians.

The materials of this blog can be used both in school classes and at library events, or they can be read just like that - for self-education!

We are waiting on the pages of our blog for all the guys who are not indifferent to the history of Pskov and the Pskov Territory, and, in turn, we promise to delight our visitors with new materials. By the way, the blog updates can be followed in the section