Russian House, Chennai

On July 23 "Russian Education Fair 2022" was inaugurated by Mr. Oleg Avdeev, Consul General of the Russian Federation in South India at Russian House, Chennai.
"I am very happy that after 2 years we again have the Russian Education Exhibition in Chennai and the cities of South India. I am very glad that many students from India, especially from South India, go to Russia to get a higher education. It is a good sign. And I am sure that this year, when all the Covid restrictions are lifted, the number of the students will be increasing steadily".
The Russian Education Fair will be held in Chennai on July 23-24. After that it will be held in Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy.

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🇷🇺Paanajärvi National Park is a nature reserve filled with the spirit of Finno-Ugric legends and myths, which is captured even in local toponyms: the Mutkajoki River, Mount Nuorunen, Kivakkakoski waterfall.

🗺️If you read the map of the park like a Scandinavian epic, it's time for you to plunge into it.

🚗You can get to Paanajärvi from St. Petersburg, Murmansk or Petrozavodsk, having reached the village of Pyaozersky by car. There is a modern visitor center where you can get permission to visit the park. During the day, choose the routes to explore the nature of the park, and at night, stay in a tent or rent a wooden hut.

Be sure to look for one of the iconic attractions of the park - seids, huge boulders on stone legs. According to Karelian legends, revered spirits live in them. The pearl of the park, which is framed by the Paanajärvi forests, is the lake of the same name, although there is an unprecedented number of mountain lakes, swamps, turbulent rivers with rapids and noisy waterfalls. The total area of the park is 104,473 hectares.

🌿In Paanajärvi, biologists managed to preserve many species of flora and fauna that have completely disappeared as a result of deforestation in other places. Plants and animals of both southern and arctic latitudes live here, so Paanajärvi can be called the whole world of Karelian nature.

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Unusual coats of arms of Russian cities 🇷🇺

There are thousands of towns, villages and regions in Russia that have own coats of arms. As a rule, they depict what the locality is famous for. However, some of them are quite original.

Chelyabinsk🇷🇺
1️. Camels in the Urals?🐫
The coat of arms of also looks puzzling, as it depicts a camel that is not typical for the Urals climate. It turns out that the "ship of the desert" appeared on the coat of arms by order of Catherine the Great in 1782, since a caravan road from China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan ran through Chelyabinsk.

Zheleznogorsk🇷🇺
2️. Atomic bear in Siberia?🐻
The coat of arms of Zheleznogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk Region depicts a dramatic battle between a bear and an atomic nucleus in a structural lattice. As the creators of the coat of arms pointed out, it is an experimental bear, which symbolises the joining of the forces of nature and human thought.

Saki🇷🇺
3️. Dinosaurs in the Crimea? 🦕
The coat of arms of the Crimean town of Saki features... a brontosaurus. They do not walk around the town, it is just that archaeologists once found a huge amount of bottom sediment from the dinosaur age in the ancient Saki Lake. A monument to the brontosaurus was erected in the park of one of Saki sanatoriums; now it is a symbol of the town.

Shuya🇷🇺
4️. Brick on a coat of arms?🧱
A small ancient town Shuya in Ivanovo Region placed a difficult to identify element on its coat of arms. No, it's not a brick, as many people think, it's a bar of soap. In the description of the old version of the coat of arms from 1781 it symbolizes the soap factories of the city. Since 2004, the bar of soap has been depicted as gold.

Snezhnogorsk🇷🇺
5️. A snow seal under the snow?❄🦭
It is quite logical to see snowflakes on the coat-of-arms of Snezhnogorsk in the Murmansk Region. But why are they admired by the seal from the ice-hole? Simply this cute animal symbolizes the town's main ship-repair enterprise Nerpa (where submarines are repaired).

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On July 21 Russian Language Courses at Russian House, Chennai, together with Queen Mary's College, Chennai, held the Faculty Development Programme in Basic Russian.
The Faculty Development Programme in Basic Russian was held for the tutors of II BA/BSc Classes and other faculty of Queen Mary's College. More than 75 faculty joined today this programme including Dr. Maria Preethi Srinivasan Associate Professor and Head Department of English, Dr. Uma Maheswari Assistant Professor and Head Department of Sanskrit, Dr. M. Vijaya Associate Professor and Head Department of Mathematics, Dr. K. Sathyabama Associate Professor and Head Department of Sociology, Dr. E. Malathi Associate Professor and Head Department of Zoology, Dr. E. Uma Associate Professor and Head Department of Physical Education&Sports, Assistant Professors, Guest lecturers from various departments.
The Programme was inagurated by the Principal of Queen Mary's College Dr. B.Uma Maheswari with words about the importance of learning new languages in the modern world and the opportunities it provides.
Ms.Evgeniya and Ms.Valentina made a presentation about the benefits of learning Russian Language, taught the participants basic Russian phrases, alphabet and basic conversations.
We are thankful for Queen Mary's College, Chennai, for this wonderful opportunity to work together in relation to promoting the learning of Russian!
Looking forward for further cooperation!
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