Mintimer Shaimiev visits All-Russia historical festival “Great Bolgar”
15 August 2015, Saturday
On August 15, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev and other officials participated in solemn opening of All-Russia historical festival “Great Bolgar” held in Bolgar state historical-architectural museum reserve.
The event attracted spectators from 30 regions of Russia, as well as Belarus, Ukraine and Israel. Special tours were organized from Russian cities. The aim of the festival is reconstruction of life, culture and ammunition of XIV- XV centuries that is considered to be the Middle Ages Rise, including in Bolgar under The Golden Horde. The festival was organized by Tatarstan State Committee on tourism and non-profit organization “Historical fencing and reconstruction center “Sulitsa”. It should be mentioned that the first historical festival “Great Bolgar” took place in 2014.
Welcoming guests, Mintimer Shaimiev said that the festival is of great importance as it is the continuation of the work done in the field of renovation of two towns –Bolgar and Sviyazhsk and thanked all specialists and people who contributed to holding the festival.
In his turn, Chairman of State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergey Ivanov thanked Mintimer Shaimiev for the support rendered to the festival as well as the organizers of the event and volunteers.
Then, guests saw mass battles called buhurts on the tiltyard, looked around all sites of the festival and tried Tatar cuisine at the stall of the Tatar national fast- food chain “Tubetei”.
As for the competitions, Tatarstan was represented by a history club team of 24 members aged 19 to 30. Each member was clad in armour of The Golden Horde period. Russian national team includes two teams “Russia -1” and “Russia -3”, acting winners of World Medieval Fighting Championship.
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