Peoples of Russia: Svetlogorsk to host "Many Peoples - One Country" exhibition

The Maritime Exhibition Center of the Museum of the World Ocean in Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad Region) launched the most "northern" project entitled "Many Peoples - One Country". It spotlights the Arctic and Antarctic expeditions of Alexei Alexandrovich Vakhrameev. The exposition features 40 watercolours and graphics by Vakhrameev from the collections of the "Krassin'' icebreaker. They will show the North depicted by an artist, a member of the expedition on the legendary icebreaker in 1935. Most of the pictures are Arctic coastal landscapes. However, he often sketched animals, plants and, of course, the ingenious peoples of the Far North.

The author created the sketches of the coastline right on the moving vessel. The speed and accurate work were for the expedition artist (until the middle of the XX century he was called the sketcher of the coast) the fundamental principles. The exposition also includes the traditional applied art of the Far North - beautiful and refined bone carving and engraving. The exhibition presents household items and a fishing boat from Chukotka. They reveal the national character, as well as the uniqueness and diversity of traditions of the indigenous people of the Far North.

The exhibition will run until February 20, 2021.