On 12 August 2020, a director of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Ziganshin R.R. visited official opening of the exhibition in the Museum of the Battle of Kulikovo “Great Bolgar. Civilization on Volga” in Tula.
A new exhibit opened on Kulikovo Field in the framework of the two museums’ cooperation. It will last until 2022. The exposition of the exhibit includes about 700 items from the funds of Bolgar Museum-Reserve.
The exhibition project tells about the history of the largest trade center on the Volga River and one of the centers of the Golden Horde – ancient town of Bolgar. This project had been working a few weeks when it opened officially. Such exhibition that was large by number of original archaeological items was taken outside of Tatarstan for the first time. This event was dated for celebrating the 100th anniversary of TASSR and the 640th anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo.
On 12 August, a ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at the door of the exhibition hall. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Tula region Olga Gremyakova, Minister of Culture of the region Tatiana Rybkina, the director of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Ramil Ziganshin, the chairman of Tatar national cultural autonomy in the city of Novomoskovsk Fazol Nasibullin, Rector of Tula theological seminary Hegumen Euphemius, the head of Kurkinskiy district Gennady Kalina, directors of museums in Kimovskiy and Kurkinskiy districts participated in that ceremony.
The official opening was preceded by communication of directors of museums and participants of the project “Great Bolgar. Civilization on Volga” in an informal setting, during which a strategy of mutually beneficial cooperation in future projects was outlined.

 
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