While visiting on Saturday three Moscow parks, the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin visited the Museum-Educational Complex «Sokolniki», in the grounds of which the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, the Museum of World history of package and the Museum of Ice are working. While the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy was called by the journalists the visit card of the Complex, the Museum of Ice was only opened on Saturday. Sergey Sobyanin was pleasantly impressed with the visit of the latter. The Mayor also had a walk along the original pavilion #2. Long before, in 1959 there was the first event of international importance here – American National Exhibition with its legendary «kitchen debates» between N. Khrushchev and R. Nickson. It is after the walk that an excursion to the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy was offered for the TV channel representatives, where a lesson in the National School of Calligraphy was being held under the guidance of Yuriy Koverdyaev.
Waiting for the special guest
To the right: the prefect of Moscow Eastern Administrative Department N. Lomakin,
the director of the park A. Demakov, Moscow Mayor S. Sobyanin, the deputy director
of the EcoCentre and the Museum-Educational Complex «Sokolniki» A. Kvasnikov
The walk near the famous pavilion #2
To the right: the director of the park A. Demakov, the deputy director of the Ecocentre and
the Museum-Educational complex «Sokolniki» A. Kvasnikov, Moscow Mayor S. Sobyanin,
the chief of Moscow Department of Culture S. Khudyakov.
The exposition of the Museum of Ice
The excursion for TV representatives in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
The Museum visitors are being interviewed
The calligraphy lesson by Yuriy Koverdyaev
