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The mayor of Moscow, Yriy Luzhkov visited Karelia last year in December.
In the course of his visit the agrrement on trade-economic, research and cultural
cooperation between Moscow and Karelia was signed. At the same time a decision
about conducting Days of Karelia in the Capital of Russia was accepted.
The last festival of the kind was held in Moscow 40 years ago, in 1959.
The head of the Government Sergey Katanandov will open the exhibition
"Karelia - 99" on the 6th of April in Sovincenter. The members of the Federation Counsil,
the representatives of Russian and Moscow government will participate in the opening ceremony.
More than 60 enterprises will be exhibited. Moscivites will be able to see Karelian paper,
furniture, paper bags, plywood, trailer tractors, iron ore species, timber, boats, skis.
Deary, bakery, meat, fish and liquer products s will be also exhibited. The enterprises -
participants are: Petrozavodskmush, Onega Tractor Plant, Karelian ore, Lachdenpochsky
plywood factory, AO Kondopoga, Segezhabumprom, Sortovalsky furniture-ski factory,
liquer plant, Petrozavodsky dairy mill Slavmo.
The Head of the Government S.Katanandov believes that this exhibition will serve as a base
for making mutually profitable agreements in order to widen sales market. Working meeting
and negotiations are supposed to be of great help to achieve this goal.
Scientific conference "The Republic of Karelia: yesterday, today, tomorrow",
exhibitions of fine arts are in the Days agenda. Many arrangements are connected with the first full publishing of Kalevala epos being selsbrated this year. Finnish writer Elias Lyonnrot had been collecting
Karelian folk poems for twenty years and then published them in a book named "Kalevala" in 1849.
New version of "Kalevala"translation was made by Karelian scientists Eino Kiuru and Armas Mishin
in 1998. New vercion will be presented in the frames of Karelian Days.
The ballet "Sampo" had been performed for many years in the Music theatre of Petrozavodsk. Sampo is the mill of happiness and joy and the characters of Kalavala are in search of it. The first night of the ballet was performed in the frames of Culture Days of Karelia held in the capital of former USSR in 1959.
The music to the ballet was written by Karelian composer Helmer Sinisalo and it was staged by Igor Smirnov. The ballet will be remade by its 150th anniversary and 40 years later moscovites will be able to see it again.
The Days of Karelia will be closed by a concert- performance "The songs of our kin" held in the State central concert hall "Russia". The best professional and amateur groups will participate.
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