Pomorskaya Margaritinskaya Fair will be held on a new site
Margaritinskaya Fair has historically been the main trading platform Pomerania, annually presenting the widest range of products of masters of northern folk crafts and crafts, goods of local manufacturers, as well as partners Arkhangelsk region from Russia and foreign countries.
This year, the largest trade and business event of autumn will be held from September 20 to 24, 2018. The main venue for the Margaritinskaya Fair will be the new exhibition center "Nord-Expo".The corresponding order to move the venue of the fair from the Sports Palace of Trade Unions was given by the Governor of the Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov.
The fair program traditionally consists of business and cultural parts. This year, the business program will be devoted to international and interregional cooperation and export, meetings of heads and representatives of organizations in the B2B format are provided, visits by honored guests of enterprises Arkhangelsk region.
The building of the exhibition center will house shopping malls with food and industrial goods, stands of municipalities, products of masters of folk arts and crafts. The opening and closing ceremonies of the fair, business and cultural events will also be held here. The second floor is considered for holding seminars and round tables and events with the participation of children and youth, including workshops on folk arts and crafts and accommodation of the City of Professions, where children will be able to try themselves as a firefighter, builder, baker or farmer.
The project of the cultural program proposed by the Ministry of Culture of the Arkhangelsk region, plans to hold a regional exhibition-competition "Master of the Year -2018", an interregional festival "Costume of the Russian North", creative programs with the participation of collectives of municipalities of the region.
Margaritinskaya Fair traditionally becomes a place of attraction for guests from other countries, including representatives of diplomatic missions and official delegations of foreign states and regions of Russia. So this year representatives of the diplomatic corps will take part in the events of the fair St. Petersburg and the government of the northern capital, with which Arkhangelsk Region implements an agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation.
Margaritinskaya Fair was the largest international fair in Russia in the XVI-XVII centuries. Up to the foundation of St. Petersburg, the customs receipts that it brought in averaged up to 2/3 of all monetary revenues of the state treasury. The beginning of the Margaritinskaya Fair was timed to September 14, the date of the ancient autumn holiday of the Pomeranian New Year. In its modern form Margaritinskaya Fair is held in Arkhangelsk since 2001.
Source: press service of the Governor and Government of the Arkhangelsk region
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