Festival “Mother tongue – my heritage” in Yekaterinburg
Cultural Event
18/02/2023 12:00 - 15:00
Global | Yekaterinburg Akademika Bardina 28 | Sverdlovsk Regional Polyethnic Library
Cultural performance
Languages: Russian
On February 18 and 21, 2023, the International Library hosted the festival “Mother tongue is my heritage”, timed to coincide with the International Mother Language Day and dedicated to the Year of the Russian language as a language of interethnic communication in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages in 2022-2032, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2019.
The Festival was opened and the guests and participants were greeted by the Director of the Sverdlovsk Regional Interethnic Library Olga Ivanovna Kalinina, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region Tatyana Georgievna Merzlyakova and Consultant of the Department of Ethno-Confessional Relations and Organization of Work on the Prevention of Extremism of the Department of Internal Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor Pavel Evgenievich Suslonov.
The partners of the festival were the Ural branch of the All-State Public Organization “Union of Women of Russia”, the Regional Center for Children and Youth Tourism and Local History of the Palace of Youth, the Sverdlovsk Regional College of Arts and Culture and the Center for the Adaptation of Migrant Children in Yekaterinburg at MBOU Secondary School No. 49, as well as national cultural associations of the city.
On February 21, the key event of the event was the public lecture “The Role and Functions of the Russian Language as a Means of Formation of the Russian Statehood and Communication of Various Ethnic and Social Groups”. The lecture was read by Parfenova Nina Vladimirovna, candidate of philological sciences, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak.
The traditional marathon of national literatures “Book in ETHNO Style” also continued. At the end, everyone took part in the intellectual and entertaining game “100 peoples – 100 languages”, the most active participants received memorable prizes.
