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The Khopyor Dawns of Mikhail Sholokhov

The National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve took part in the environmental and local history festival “The Khopyor Dawns of Mikhail Sholokhov”, which was held in Stanitsa Bukanovskaya the Kumylzhensky District of the Volgograd Region.

The festival opening ceremony was joined by T.P.Pravoslavnova, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Natural Resources and Environment of the Volgograd Region, S.V.Gorobov, Deputy Head of the Kumylzhensky Municipal District, S.N.Chernov, Chairman of the Committee for Nationalities and Cossacks of the Volgograd Region, T.Y.Turchin, Deputy Director on Environment and Rational Land Use of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov, and T.G.Ponomaryova, Director of the “Nizhnekhopyorsky” natural park.

The centre of the Stanitsa was occupied by “Amusing Maidan” with a holiday Fair inviting for fascinating games and competitions. Cossacks in the makeshift kurens (Cossack houses) hospitably entertained guests with songs and traditional Don viands. The guests enjoyed the performance of the State song and dance ensemble “Kazachya Volya”, the folk song and dance group “Donskoye Siyaniye” and the folk groups from the Volgograd and Rostov regions.

The guests were attracted by the exhibition “Sholokhov’s Personages in Cinema” set up by the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov. It was dedicated to the Year of Russian Cinema. The visitors learned about the films made after the writer’s works including the four screen versions of the novels “And Quiet Flows the Don”, “They Fought for Their Country”, the stories “The Fate of a Man”, “The Foal” and “The Shame Child”.

On that day everyone could find entertainment to his liking and feel himself among the big Cossack family. The holiday in Stanitsa Bukanovskaya, the land which inspired the great writer, has become a good tradition annually gathering the admirers of Sholokhov’s work.

Yelena Soldatova
Valery Yemelyanov