Programme of cultural events
‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ International Arctic Forum
Programme accurate as at March 27, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Time
Event
Exhibition ‘Portrait in an Old Interior’
79, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
10:00–19:00
The museum is located inside an eighteenth century architectural monument. The
exhibition provides the opportunity to trace the shift in artistic interior design styles
from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The mansion’s five halls include
a portrait room, gentleman’s office, a blue living room, a boudoir, and a dining room.
Furniture, paintings, mirrors, and porcelain fill the house with the spirit of earlier eras.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you to attend the event.
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Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts
2, Pl. Lenina
10:00–19:00
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Forum participants can see unique Northern icons and wooden
sculptures dating from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, as well as folk clothing,
embroidery and weaving, wood carving and painting, and artistic metal and ceramic works.
The Museum also displays contemporary Kholmogory bone carvings, an artistic practice that
has survived in the North for over 400 years.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
Exhibition: Russian classical art from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries
E.K. Plotnikova Mansion
1, Ul. Pomorskaya
10:00–19:00
This exhibition is located in a landmark of late eighteenth to early twentieth century
architecture, a building which is part of the only surviving urban architectural ensemble in
Arkhangelsk, the Shingaryov-Plotnikov Urban Merchants’ Manor.
Paintings by Russian artists are displayed in a suite of great halls with genuine parquet floors,
glazed tile stoves, decorated ceilings, and stucco friezes. See work by Karl Bryullov, Vladimir
Borovikovsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexey Venetsianov, Kirill Lemokh, Ivan
Kramskoi, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, and many more outstanding masters of Russian
art.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
The Northern Sea Museum
80, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
10:00–18:00
The Northern Sea Museum is located in the historic centre of Arkhangelsk, on Krasnaya
Pristan. It was from here that the city was born as one of the country’s main ports. The
museum is located in the old maritime station building, between two piers: Sobornaya (now
known as Krasnaya) Pier and Seafaring Pier, which has legendary status in the history of
Arctic exploration thanks to famous expeditions by Georgy Sedov, Boris Vilkitsky, and Otto
Schmidt.
The museum’s exhibits tell the whole history of the maritime exploration of the North,
starting with sea journeys to Grumant and Mangazeya and the first Russian shipyard,
established in Solombala by Peter the Great, and continuing through Arctic exploration in the
twentieth century.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic
3, Ul. Pomorskaya
13:00–19:00
The A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic is the first and only museum
in Russia to provide visitors with an artistic view of the Arctic world, rather than presenting
the Arctic as a place for geographical discoveries and scientific research. The museum
displays paintings by Alexander Borisov, an artist known the world over and an early explorer
of polar themes in visual art. A separate hall is dedicated to the culture of the native peoples
of the Far North. Visitors can also see works by twentieth-century artists who worked in
Arctic conditions. Modern museum technologies and a striking design help to conjure the
unique atmosphere of the Arctic world.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
Exhibition: A discovery at the end of the Earth
A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic
3, Ul. Pomorskaya
13:00–19:00
The main attraction in this exhibition is a mammoth calf from the Yamal Peninsula, preserved
in the permafrost. There are no other specimens in the world that remain quite so wellpreserved. Lyuba the young mammoth was found in May 2007 by a reindeer herder named
Yury Khudi on the upper branch of the Yuribey River on the Yamal Peninsula.
A glass enclosure makes this unique exhibit visible from all sides.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you entry to the exhibition.
Exhibition opening: The Russian North in the history of Arctic exploration
Dobrolyubov Arkhangelsk Regional Scientific Library
2, Ul. Loginova
15:00–16:00
An exhibition of books and illustrations provides a unique opportunity to explore print
publications from the late eighteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Books, periodicals, and
maps that present the history of Arctic seafaring from ancient times to the present day will be
on display. The exhibit will present publications describing the feats of sailors from
Arkhangelsk, as well as courageous ice captains and polar explorers. The books on display
reveal the importance of Arkhangelsk in exploring the Arctic.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you entry to the exhibition.
Festival: The North rings with Russian voices
Arkhangelsk College of Music
211, Prospekt Lomonosova
16:00–18:00
Celebratory concert: Arkhangelsk Hospitality Festival award winners and students aged 9 to
27 will display their mastery in two categories, Musical Creativity and Artistic Recitation, as
they present original compositions in traditional styles and arrangements of folk songs from
the Russian Far North.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you to attend the event.
An evening of organ music entitled the ‘Organ Northern Lights’
Pomorskaya Philharmonic
Chamber Hall
3, Ul. Karla Marksa
18:30–20:30
A concert by musicians from the Pomorskaya Philharmonic will introduce the audience to one
of the newest organs in the Russian North, built by the German firm Alexander Schuke
Orgelbau. The concert will combine various musical genres, and the organ will be played both
as a solo instrument and within an ensemble, accompanying a variety of other soloists (vocal,
violin, guitar, saxophone, and more).
This event requires a ticket, which you can purchase via your personal web office. The price
of these tickets is not included in the package.
Performance of Strastoterptsy (The Passion Bearers), inspired by the Sergei Kokovkin
play.
Arkhangelsk Youth Theatre
9, Ul. Loginova
18:30–21:00
A mystery in two acts.
Russian history contains many ‘dark spots’, stories which have been carefully, purposefully
wiped from people’s memories, with heroes who have faded into oblivion. One such story is
the tale of Emperor Ivan VI, the ‘iron mask’ of the Russian state.
This play was long-listed for the Golden Mask national theatre prize in the 2015–2016 season.
This event requires a ticket, which you can purchase in your personal web office. The ticket
price is not included in the package.
Reception hosted by the Governor of Arkhangelsk Region
Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor historical architectural complex
85/86, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
19:00–21:00
The programme for the reception includes performances by a jazz band, the Northern Folk
Choir, the Khayar folk song and dance ensemble, and a visit to the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor
exhibition space.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. You can find detailed
information in your personal web office.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Exhibition ‘Portrait in an Old Interior’
79, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
10:00–19:00
The museum is located inside an eighteenth century architectural monument. The
exhibition provides the opportunity to trace the shift in artistic interior design styles
from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The mansion’s five halls include
a portrait room, gentleman’s office, a blue living room, a boudoir, and a dining room.
Furniture, paintings, mirrors, and porcelain fill the house with the spirit of earlier eras.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you to attend the event.
Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor historical architectural complex
85/86, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
10:00–19:00
One of the oldest museums in Northwest Russia, the Arkhangelsk Local History Museum, is
located in the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor, an architectural monument from the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. Visitors can view restored merchants’ rooms from the seventeenthcentury Russian Gostiny Dvor and staterooms from the eighteenth century, which now house
a museum and cultural centre.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic
3, Ul. Pomorskaya
10:00–19:00
The A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic is the first and only
museum in Russia to provide visitors with an artistic view of the Arctic world, rather than
presenting the Arctic as a place for geographical discoveries and scientific research. The
museum displays paintings by Alexander Borisov, an artist known the world over and an
early explorer of polar themes in visual art. A separate hall is dedicated to the culture of the
native peoples of the Far North. Visitors can also see works by twentieth-century artists who
worked in Arctic conditions. Modern museum technologies and a striking design help to
conjure the unique atmosphere of the Arctic world.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
Exhibition: A discovery at the end of the Earth
A.A. Borisov Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic
3, Ul. Pomorskaya
10:00–19:00
The main attraction in this exhibition is a mammoth calf from the Yamal Peninsula, preserved
in the permafrost. There are no other specimens in the world that remain quite so wellpreserved. Lyuba the young mammoth was found in May 2007 by a reindeer herder named
Yury Khudi on the upper branch of the Yuribey River on the Yamal Peninsula.
A glass enclosure makes this unique exhibit visible from all sides.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you entry to the exhibition.
Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts
2, Pl. Lenina
10:00–19:00
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Forum participants can see unique Northern icons and wooden
sculptures dating from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, as well as folk clothing,
embroidery and weaving, wood carving and painting, and artistic metal and ceramic works.
The Museum also displays contemporary Kholmogory bone carvings, an artistic practice that
has survived in the North for over 400 years.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
Exhibition: Russian classical art from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries
E.K. Plotnikova Mansion
1, Ul. Pomorskaya
10:00–19:00
This exhibition is located in a landmark of late eighteenth to early twentieth century
architecture, a building which is part of the only surviving urban architectural ensemble in
Arkhangelsk, the Shingaryov-Plotnikov Urban Merchants’ Manor.
Paintings by Russian artists are displayed in a suite of great halls with genuine parquet floors,
glazed tile stoves, decorated ceilings, and stucco friezes. See work by Karl Bryullov,
Vladimir Borovikovsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexey Venetsianov, Kirill
Lemokh, Ivan Kramskoi, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, and many more outstanding
masters of Russian art.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
The Northern Sea Museum
80, Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny
10:00–18:00
The Northern Sea Museum is located in the historic centre of Arkhangelsk, on Krasnaya
Pristan. It was from here that the city was born as one of the country’s main ports. The
museum is located in the old maritime station building, between two piers: Sobornaya (now
known as Krasnaya) Pier and Seafaring Pier, which has legendary status in the history of
Arctic exploration thanks to famous expeditions by Georgy Sedov, Boris Vilkitsky, and Otto
Schmidt.
The museum’s exhibits tell the whole history of the maritime exploration of the North,
starting with sea journeys to Grumant and Mangazeya and the first Russian shipyard,
established in Solombala by Peter the Great, and continuing through Arctic exploration in the
twentieth century.
Your Forum badge will allow you entry to the museum.
Festival: The North rings with Russian voices
Arkhangelsk College of Music
211, Prospekt Lomonosova
12:00–13:30
A master class on applied folk art by Natalia Kuzmina, a Russian folk arts master and
employee of the Malye Korely Museum.
Your Forum participant badge will allow you to attend the event.
Presentation of publications dedicated to the history of Arctic exploration
Dobrolyubov Arkhangelsk Regional Scientific Library
2, Ul Loginova
15:00–16:00
The collection of the Russian North Electronic Regional Studies Library contains a wide
assortment of rare publications from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
including unique information about the history of Arctic exploration and Arctic scientific and
commercial expeditions. The presentation will introduce readers to the most interesting
documents. These include Mikhail Lomonosov’s Brief Description of Different Journeys in
the Northern Seas and an Indication of a Possible Passage Across the Siberian Ocean to
Eastern India (1847) and a publication by the Hydrographical Department entitled The
Lomonosov Project and the Chichagov Expedition (1854).
Your Forum participant badge will allow you to attend the presentation.
Voices of the Arctic
Solombala Art Cultural Centre
29, Nikolsky Prospekt
18:00–19:30
Concert featuring world music group Ayarkhaan (Sakha Republic/Yakutia), folk music
ensemble Zarni Yol (Komi Republic), Ergyron (a state Chukchi-Eskimo song and dance
ensemble from Chukotka Autonomous District), and throat singer Olga Letykai, who will
perform Chukchi and Eskimo songs (Chukotka Autonomous Area).
Premium and Standard package holders can attend the event by invitation. You may collect
your invitation from the cultural programme stand at the foyer of the ground floor of the
Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University.
A concert programme entitled ‘Come Visit Us Up North’
Northern Russian Folk Choir
21/3, Ul. Timme
18:00–19:10
The State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir presents a concert programme entitled
‘Come Visit Us Up North’. You will hear Russian folk songs from the ensemble’s repertoire
of perennial favourites drawn from all corners of this immense country and beyond its
borders. Audiences love them for their emotional intensity, beauty, and singability. The
concert programme will also include the choreographed musical presentation ‘UstTsilyomskaya Hill’.
This event requires a ticket, which you can purchase at the Northern Choir box office directly
before the concert.
Concert by the Khayar folk song and dance ensemble
Arkhangelsk City Cultural Centre
2, Proyezd Priorova
18:00–19:30
The Khayar folk song and dance ensemble was founded in 1962. Khayar means ‘sun’ in the
Nenets language. The ensemble has performed in many cities in Russia, France, Spain, and
Finland. It was part of the cultural programme for the 12th World Festival of Youth and
Students in Moscow and the Marathon of Russian Regions, which took place as part of the
Cultural Olympiad in Sochi. It represented Nenets Autonomous Area at the Riddu Riđđu
international festival of indigenous peoples in Norway.
Attendance at this event is by invitation only. You can find detailed information in your
personal web office.
Performance of Strastoterptsy (The Passion Bearers), inspired by the Sergei Kokovkin
play
Arkhangelsk Youth Theatre
9, Ul. Loginova
A mystery in two acts.
18:30–21:00
Russian history contains many ‘dark spots’, stories which have been carefully, purposefully
wiped from people’s memories, with heroes who have faded into oblivion. One such story is
the tale of Emperor Ivan VI, the ‘iron mask’ of the Russian state.
This play was long-listed for the Golden Mask national theatre prize in the 2015–2016
season. This event requires a ticket, which you can purchase in your personal web office. The
ticket price is not included in the package.
A concert by the Moscow Soloists chamber orchestra and Yuri Bashmet
Pomorskaya Philharmonic
Chamber Hall
3, Ulitsa Karla Marksa
19:00–20:30
A concert by the Moscow Soloists chamber orchestra and Yuri Bashmet, featuring soloists
from the Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Attendance at this event is by invitation only. You can find detailed information in your
personal web office.