On 1 October 2021, the head of the department “Museum Street” of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova G. Yu. held an interactive-entertaining event on “Beautiful moments of destiny” devoted to the International Day of Older Persons for the participants of the veteran’s club “Ak kalfak”.
The Day of Older Person is celebrated everywhere on the first day of the second autumn month – 1 October. This celebration has international status. For the first time, people thought about the possibility of establishing a holiday for older persons almost at the end of XX century. In December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution 45/106 in which it decided to consider the first day of the second autumn month as the International Day of Older Persons.
The participants of the event learned about the history of emergence of this holiday. Then the guests visited the Museum of Koran where they became acquainted with the exhibition of shamails and Korans, saw the biggest printed Koran in the world listed in the Guinness Book of Records. In the museum “Bolgar tea party”, the veteran’s club “Ak kalfak” joined with the participants of an amateur artistic ensemble “Bolgar dawns”. Tatar music and songs played there, merry jokes and laugh sounded. The guests remembered their youth playing folk games. At the end of the event, there was a celebration tea party according to the traditions of Tatar hospitability.

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