A marathon of intellectual games dedicated to the history of Crimea completed in Kemerovo

On March 13-22, 2023 the Fedorov State Scientific Library of Kuzbass and the Youth Parliament of the city of Kemerovo under the Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies held an intellectual game for students and senior pupils "Our Amazing Crimea".  

The event, timed to coincide with the Day of the Crimea's reunification with Russia, was attended by about 400 people from 13 educational institutions: the Kuzbass State Agricultural Academy, the Kemerovo Cooperative College, the Kemerovo Agricultural College, the Kemerovo Mining Technical College, the Kuzbass Medical College, the Historical and Staged Dance Studio "Suite", secondary schools № 58, № 77, № 16, № 34, № 95, № 36 and № 82.

According to the contest rules, each team of participants had to assemble a puzzle, which was a recognizable Crimean landscape. Correct answers to the questions of the game made it possible to put all the parts of this picture together.

At the event, the children recalled historical events and facts, and also studied the sights of one of the pearls of our vast country.

The intellectual game was prepared by the specialists of the Kemerovo Regional Center of the Presidential Library. The main purpose of the event is the civil and patriotic education of the younger generation.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection Crimea in Postcards, which includes 850 postcards of the late 19th - first half of the 20th centuries with images of the sights of the peninsula.

The Presidential Library’s portal also presents the collection Kemerovo Region: Pages of History. It includes studies, statistical materials and archival documents of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, covering various aspects of the development of the region. Some copies of the collection were digitized and donated to the institution’s  holdings by specialists from the Fedorov State Scientific Library of Kuzbass.

Based on the materials of https://kemrsl.ru/ portal