September 2009
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New ship was launched to the Volga
Today a new ship was launched to the Volga river. The experienced sailors didn’t conn the ship. Young sailors did that. There were a dress uniform, an orchestra and invited guests. There has not been such solemn event in Children’s Sea Center after Ushakov yet. And only because the young sailors were presented with a ship.
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Architecture of Movement's parks
Parks, parks and parks. There are lots of parks in Yaroslavl which are very green and beautiful either in summer and winter. You can just talk a walk or run in a circle. But there are more interesting things which have been realised by Architecture of Movement organisers.
Three times during this September — 6th, 13th and 27th — there were great performances directly in parks.
Dancing,...
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Jazz at Large
Another interesting event was on 16th of September. As all events of September, this one was also provided by Architecture of Movement.
The name of the quite amazing performance was “Jazz na Svobode” (either Free Jazz and Jazz at Large, a Russian pun). The main idea was to play jazz on the balcony and in the same time passersby can’t see an orchestra. They only...
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The biggest conference in Yaroslavl
The modern state and Global security is the name of the greatest conference ever which took place in Yaroslavl yesterday.
September 14, 2009 International Conference “The Modern State and Global Security” organized and held under the aegis of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will take place in Yaroslavl, Russia. The Key topic of the Conference is what the modern state...
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Stop Crisis with the Architecture of Movement
It is just a simple sentence on the grass which made with people on Moskovskiy prospekt. Stop Crisis or Stop Krizis is said by the Architecture of Movement to us.
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It is 60s with Stilyagis
There was another event of the Architecture of Movement (I have to mention that all September in Yaroslavl is filled with gorgeous events of the Architecture of Movements). 11th of September there was a ridiculous performance with a Stilyagi theme.
Stilyagi (Russian: стиляги, the plural of стиляга, literally “stylish”, “style hunter”) were members of a youth subculture...
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Pusto is not empty, it is an amazing videoart
What does the Russian word “Pusto” mean? Yes, I can write it in Russian as “Пусто” but if you don’t know Russian, you can’t differently say what does it mean. The simple translation of the word is empty. Nonetheless it is a famous street video festival in Russia.
Some people try to show some shot (or not) videos for other some people. The main idea is to...
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Yaroslavl Zoo celebrates its First Birthday
Inhabitants of Yaroslavl Zoo can expect to get refreshment. The wonderful village for animals is one year of age. Although this place can be called habitable, an improvement of the territory is in progress. There are new feeding-rack and houses for animals. This year a family of a deer became large: five baby animals were born! Fallow deer also was proud male.
In due course animals is getting...
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Velopanorama
There are lots of bicyclists in Yaroslavl. They are real fans of that. No wonder that an event of the Architecture of Movement was great and overcrowded.
It was the Velopanorama or the panorama of the bicycles. There were a lot of these vehicles on our streets on 5th of September.
They started from our Railway station and carried on through Svobody street and Sovetskaya square to another...
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Trends: Free Wi-Fi access in Yaroslavl
This is a new post in our new sub-category of the category News (like Details or Front Doors in Stories). Now we are going to post interesting trends of our city Yaroslavl. Today we want to write about Internet access.
We know that in most European countries there are lots of cafes and restaurants with free Wi-Fi access. In the same time our catering just begins to provide it. Yes, there were...
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Ex'libris is a positive pop rock music band
by Evgeny
Ex’libris is one of the “positive” Yaroslavl music bands which plays music in the pop-rock style. The project was founded in 1995 year by Nikolay Semenyaka. The band was a participant of lots different events like a concert in Olimpiysky, the rock-festival in Maloyaroslavets and many performances in Yaroslavl and Moscow clubs.
The music band likes to play...
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Poetical Arches
Do you know about street poetry? Many people think that there are no real poets today. Nevertheless the Architecture of Movement project (which has been mentioned recently) realized amazing poetical evening in Yaroslavl on 2nd of Semtemper.
There are lots of ancient arches in the city. They good look and in the same time they are very suitable for some art performances. For example,...
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Start with Architecture of Movement
Yesterday there was the first performance of the Architecture of Movement project which is organized for the second time. The Architecture of Movement (Архитектура движения in Russian) is a set of different kinds of events, performances and actions. Participants of this project say that the project for them is a festival of ideas.
The name of the first event is quite ordinary – Start (which in...