The All-Russian Festival of Nature "Primordial Russia" will open its doors to visitors for the eighth time this year. The event will take place on February 19 in Moscow in the western side of the New Tretyakov Gallery. It will be the first major cultural event this winter after the ban on public events has been lifted.
The festival will host a large-scale program of lectures, master classes, meetings with outstanding people from the natural and related fields. A large educational and creative workshop will be organized for children.
The exhibition will feature the works of more than 200 Russian photographers that enable visitors to go on a unique adventure full of discoveries and vivid impressions, inspire them to plan their personal trips.
They will tell vivid and dramatic stories about the life of nature day after day, about the extinction of the old life and the birth of a new one.
The festival will show the animals that live in all regions of the country in their natural habitat.
In addition, for a month and a half, a carefully selected program will acquaint visitors with the most significant domestic projects in the field of environmental protection. Within the framework of the festival program: "Day of Nature Photography", "Day of the Red Book", "Day of Science", "Day of the Polar Bear».
Thematic days will be presented at the festival by its partners: the Russian Geographical Society, the Roszapovedtsentr of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Tourism of the Russian Federation, the Zhivaya Planeta TV channel, the Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East and others.
The general sponsor of the festival is PJSC Gazprom.
A detailed schedule of the festival can be found here.
