The contest “My small motherland: nature, culture, ethnicity” started in Kazan

Kazan Board of Education together with Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center holds the city stage of the All-Russian contest“My small motherland: nature, culture, ethnicity”. The contest is aimed at fostering of value-conscious attitude to natural and cultural environment in children and youth, as well as tolerance and respect for cultures of other ethnic groupspopulating the territory of Russia. Pupils of educational establishments from 12 to 18 years of age showing interest to studying and preservation of natural and cultural heritage of their small motherland can participate in the contest.
Competitive pieces of work can be presented in the following forms:
− educational and research work –in the category“Humanitarian and ecological researches”;
− a guide or description of the route or path–in the category“Ecological and regional guides”;
− publicistic piece of work (article, essay, sketch and so on) – in the category“Publicism in defense of nature and culture”;
− photos of the objects of material culture (with abstracts), videosof execution of folk art (with abstracts) – in the category“Traditional culture”;
− Artistic work (drawing) and essay–in the category“Live symbol of small motherland”.
Competitive pieces of work are accepted until December15, 2014.

Press Service of the Ministry