Taiga: Territoriya Vyzhivaniya ("Taiga: Territory of Survival") is a survival reality show set in the Yugra region. The shooting took place from 2 to 6 August of 2022 in the Kondinsky district. The show about twenty complete strangers who have to fight for victory and survive. The age of participants ranges from 18 to 35 years. For five days, the contestants survive in a wilderness, with no access to the benefits of civilization. The main prize is 100,000 rubles.
Kayaks are the only means of transport. The contestants have to survive on fish and mushrooms, or anything they manage to hunt or gather. During the day, the they search for provisions and undergo trials. In the evenings they sit by the fire, learn about each other and eventually became one big family. The creators of the show from different parts of the country came together to show the beauty of Yugra and the unity of men and nature.
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Teatralnaia Strelka is an all-Russian festival-competition of independent theaters. It was first held in April 2019. Performances, discussions, readings of plays, round tables, and lectures are held as part of the program. At the end of the festival, the best troupes and artists are awarded by professional theater critics from Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as by the expert council, comprised of prominent figures of Nizhny Novgorod — experts in the field of culture and art, and journalists.
The festival is held by the Nizhny Novgorod Theater Arts Center. Teatralnaia Strelka introduces the Nizhny Novgorod audience to the theatrical experience of other Russian cities, new theatrical forms and innovative approaches. Thanks to the festival's main program, independent theaters in Russia form a profile of contemporary theater and have the opportunity to discuss the present and future of theater within their professional community. The parallel program of Teatralnaia Strelka is dedicated to experimentation: in the course of the second festival-competition the audience could see the transfer of the meaning of the site-specific works into new dimentions.
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The main focus of the project is to support and promote young Nizhny Novgorod art. Terminal A is the starting point where aspiring artists and curators learn the basics of exhibition work, mountmaking, as well as curatorial and managerial work. The space is considered part of a former 19th-century shipyard complex that is developing as an art cluster.
The space also hosts guest exhibitions featuring renowned all-Russian artists, with young local artists taking part. In the future, the project will become a kind of " home of the artist," where the craftsmen will be able to communicate directly with the viewer, displaying not only the finished project, but also the "behind the scenes" of the creative process.
The International Children's Festival of Contemporary Art is focused on introducing children aged 6 to 16 and young people to contemporary art. It debuted in Moscow in October 2021 and is curated and ideated by the distinguished theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Yulia Peresild.
The festival features performances of touring plays from different cities. Festival-goers can participate in workshops, attend lectures and creative meetings. It encompasses a comprehensive children's and professional program, along with an exhibition and educational project in collaboration with the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. The festival's core idea revolves around using contemporary art to engage in serious discussions with children.
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Teryaevskaya Cheese Factory is an artisan production facility that combines the best cheese-making traditions and modern technology. Cheese is made only from natural milk from local farms, Italian and French recipes are used. The factory offers a wide variety of cheese — from camembert to sulguni, from mozzarella to parmesan.
The logo, the name, the labels — everything is made in the vein of traditional European cheese packaging. The whole idea of the product is built on tradition: manual labor, natural milk, the right bacteria.
The Art World is an international art exhibition. It is held by the Luna Art Gallery and the Nizhny Novgorod Fair since 2016. The gallery features more than 10 500 works by more than 200 artists from 45 cities of Russia and around the world: paintings, graphic art, sculptures,as well as antiques and recycled art. Online conferences, lectures, film screenings, a charity auction, jazz and classical music live concerts and free guided tours are scheduled as part of the exhibition. Here you can watch the stages of the creative process and personally communicate with the artists.
At the 2023 exhibition, socially significant projects were presented: the exhibition "Osoznanost" ("Awareness"), focusing on recycling, the installation "Les" ("Forest") concerning forest conservation. More than 40 thousand people attended the exhibition.
"The Aviator" is a bestselling novel written in 2015 by the prose writer and philologist Evgeny Vodolazkin, tells the story of a man in a tabula rasa state, frozen in 1932 and thawed in 1999 after 67 years in St. Petersburg.
The novel is structured as a sequence of diary entries made by the main character Platonov, his physician Geiger, and Nastya, a girl, who first his fiancée and later his wife. All three of these characters, as they document their thoughts, strive to fathom their inner selves, the surrounding reality, and the profound currents of Russian history. The book is regarded by critics as one of the most anticipated Russian novels of 2016, according to Forbes and Meduza, among others. The novel was awarded the prestigious Big Book literary award.
