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Dear friends!
On behalf of the team of the World Calligraphy Museum I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The employees of the Oka National Biosphere Reserve and The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation visited the World Calligraphy Museum in Orekhovo. Alexey Kharyutkin, Deputy Director of the Museum, gave a fascinating tour around the Museum exposition.

Volunteers of Sokolinaya Gora Educational Center, school 429 in Moscow, visited the World Calligraphy Museum situated in the village of Orekhovo. Alexey Shaburov, director and founder of the museum, gave a guided tour of the museum exposition and a lecture on calligraphy to his guests.

In this hall you can see a model of “Yury Dolgorukov’s Ancient Wooden Moscow”. This is the work of the National Artist of Russia Viktor Bakharev.

Every year, historians from various regions of Russia gather in Belgorod to discuss the latest studies on the history of the 17th century, focusing on such a historical phenomenon as the Belgorod Defense Line.

On November 6, 2022 Naila and her colleagues visited the Museum of World Calligraphy in the village of Orekhovo, Ryazan Oblast.

We present you with a film from our newest member, the Pedal Car Museum.

Pomorye News report about the meeting with artist Liliya Slavinskaya after her return from the Arctic expedition on Mikhail Somov ship in the Northern Sea Museum.

On November 1, the 100 Russian Compasses exhibition opens at the Marine Fleet Museum. It will feature compasses from the collection of Mikhail Ivanov, the founder of Russia’s first Museum of Magnetic Compasses.

We invite public authorities, representatives of the museum community, historians and regional ethnographers, tourist organizations and guides to the roundtable.

Dear colleagues!
Through your intellectual and financial support, up to the moment we have published the 8th issue of the Private Museums of Russia magazine, covering the most interesting stories of museums from different parts of the country, telling about new members of the Association, about private museums, behind each of which there are extraordinary people, real enthusiasts of their work. In the beginning of the year we also published the 3rd edition of the catalogue of the Association of Private and People's Museums of Russia, which by that time had brought together about 600 private and folk museums of our country.

Welcome to the opening of a new exhibition «OK. The image of the horse» that will take place on October, 21 (Friday) at 19:00.

On September 10, 2022, a Grand Opening ceremony of the Museum Complex was held in the village of Orekhovo, Ryazan Oblast.

The National School of Calligraphy announces the enrollment to the calligraphy course for children. The classes will start from the end of October/the beginning of December, 2022, and will be held each Saturday.

On September, 24, Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree awarding prizes of the Government of Russian Federation in the field of tourism for the year 2022.

The National School of Calligraphy is happy to announce that the enrollment for the Online Pointed Pen Course is now open.

On 10 September 2022 the Museum of World Calligraphy was opened. The museum is in the village of Orekhovo, Ryazan region, in a beautiful place near the Oka Reserve.

The private family Museum of Millstones near Veliky Novgorod on August 14, 2022, held a seminar and practical training for creative and initiative people from the Chudov district, Novgorod region on behalf of the training program “Forge a wheel spindle, Oskui!”, supported by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.

Large-scale construction works have unfolded in the Ryazan region. On a huge site in the Spassky district, preparations are underway for the "Orekhovo Autumn" festival.

Meet the new member of the Association of Private and People’s Museums of Russia — the V. Belov-Shchus Museum of Jaw Harp, Jaw Harp Art and Family History in Yelabuga. The founder and owner is Viktor Nikolaevich Belov-Shchus.

We would like to invite you to the Grand Opening of the World Calligraphy Museum in the village of Orekhovo, Spassky district, Ryazan region, on September 10 at 11:00.

The Association of Private and People's Museums of Russia and the Museum and Educational Complex "Our Orekhovo" invite you to the large-scale Orekhovo Autumn Festival of Craftsmen which will be held on September 10-11, 2022 in the village of Orekhovo in the Spassky district of the Ryazan region.

June 19 was a truly festive day for the village of Kokshamary, Zvenigovsky district. On that day, the regional festival “Rainbow over Kokshaga” was held there in observance of the Year of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia, as well as the national holiday Peledysh Payrem dedicated to the 475th anniversary of the village.

The Bryansk Regional Photo Festival “Kindness Reports” (the Photo Festival) organized by the Bryansk Photo History Museum, together with the Bryansk branch of the Russian Union of Art Photographers, will take place from June 1 to September 17, 2022, inclusive, followed by an exhibition of the finalists’ works.