From July 15th, Russia has lifted the restrictions on crossing its land borders established in connection with the pandemic. Foreign tourists once again have the opportunity to enter our country on regular bus lines Lux Express and Ecolines.
On September 17-18, Kazan will host the Tasty Kazan gastronomic festival for the eighth time. The festival will take place on the square in front of the Palace of Farmers. Visitors will be able to try dishes, take part in culinary master classes from chefs, try tasting sets, learn the rules of hospitality and much more.
In the summer season 2022, Ask me SPb service assistants are again on duty at the main sights of St. Petersburg. More than a hundred employees will be helping tourists until the end of summer.
The Operational Headquarters for Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus decided to partly ease epidemiological restrictions on the entry into Russia of foreign tourists arriving by air, as well as through sea checkpoints, from June 14, 2022.
From 9 to 11 June, St. Petersburg will host the International Flower Festival. The colorful event will be dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter I, the founder of the city. In the very center of the Northern capital, the best florists from different cities of Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Novosibirsk and others) will present their works.
Until the 31st of May the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition dedicated to the Mummies of Ancient Egypt, the Art of Immortality. The exposition includes more than 400 exhibits, most of which visitors will see for the first time.
On the 4th of April the new art project was opened in Ivanovo - Tarkovsky.Return to the Motherland, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky. The exhibition features archival photography and audio recordings, as well as lectures by film critics devoted to the director's works.
World Theater Day has been celebrated since 1961. This is a professional holiday for actors, directors, lighting and sound engineers, make-up artists, theater artists, even cloakroom attendants and ticket collectors. Theater festivals, thematic exhibitions, performances and excursions are held all over the world on the 27th of March. Theatre was brought to Russia by Peter the Great, but did not yet look like a modern theater. During the reign of his daughter, Elizabeth of Rusia, theater became similar to the one we are used to now.
An exposition Right of Faith opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on the 22nd of March. It is part of the museum’s project Photo/Commentary, dedicated to contemporary Russian photography. The program includes personal exhibitions of authors that use photography to comprehend social processes.
Jazz Triumph is one of the oldest and most important world-class Russian jazz festivals, founded in 2001. For 22 years, Jazz Triumph has been successfully presenting the greatest jazz musicians of our time to the Russian public. In 2022, concerts and other events will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Russian jazz.
The Cultural Weekend event timed to coincide with the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia and International Women's Day, was held throughout the country from the 6th to the 8th of March. Thematic events were prepared by philharmonic societies, concert organizations, circuses and cinema halls.
On the 19th of February, the collective exhibition Moving Women opened at the Center of Contemporary Culture Smena in Kazan. The exposition, organized with the support of the Swedish Embassy, brought together the works of artists from Sweden, Russia, Spain and England.
