Memorable dates of Russia: “2012 — The Year of the History of Russia and the Middle Urals” program shown in Yekaterinburg on Boris Yeltsin’s birthday

February 1st 2012 sees 81st birth anniversary of the first President of Russia and an honorary citizen of Sverdlovsk Region - ­Boris Yeltsin. Following the tradition on this day Boris Yeltsin Center in the Urals (Yekaterinburg) will bring together high-school classmates and comrades of the first President of Russia. Together they will celebrate Boris Yeltsin’s 81st birth anniversary.

The attendants of the meeting will be shown a presentation of a new tour program “2012 — The Year of the History of Russia and the Middle Urals”, a book authored by I. M. Peshkova “Again on the art of Kasli masters”, and a video CD “Russia’s millennium in commemorative coins”. On display will go unique books “The war of Russian people against Napoleon in 1812” and a seven-volume encyclopedic edition “Russian society and the Patriotic War of 1812”, which came out in 1912 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Russia’s victory over the French.