Pavel Glazkov's films to be screened on the International Day for Biological Diversity in the Presidential Library

On May 22, 2019, at 4:00 pm, the 118th cinema club meeting marking the International Day for Biological Diversity will be held at the Presidential Library. Do we know those animals that live next to us in the forests and lakes of Leningrad Region? These and many other interesting questions will be answered at the regular cinema club meeting. On this day, the audience will meet Pavel Glazkov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, leading the video blog “Two of Every Kind” where the author describes animals of Leningrad Region.

The attendees will see the premiere screening of the documentary “Spring migration of geese in Leningrad Region”, a short film by Pavel Glazkov “European Viper” dedicated to the only poisonous snake of North-West Russia, and the film-story about the Petrovsky pond formed on the spot excavated 250 years ago, the famous Thunder-stone - the granite pedestal of the Bronze Horseman will end the meeting. The short film is called “Petrovsky Pond is 250 YEARS OLD!”. The meeting with Pavel Glazkov will come to an end at the monument to the Bronze Horseman, where the author will tell what remains behind the scenes.

The cinema club meeting has been co-organized by the Lennauchfilm film studio, the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, the Russian Institute of Art History and the Youth Center of the Cinematographers Union of the Russian Federation.

The cinema club meeting will be held in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at the address: Senate Square, 3.

For all questions, please contact: (812) 305-16-35; +7 921 594-16-13 or e-mail: smolina@prlib.ru, Elena Smolina.

Accreditation of media representatives is available until 15:00, May 21, 2019.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form to an email address: media@prlib.ru, pechnikova@prlib.ru, Tatiana Pechnikova, press-service of the Presidential Library, tel. (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. +7 921 436-72-86.

The attached form should specify the full name, name of the media, date and place of birth, passport details (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers.

Please note that the admittance to the Presidential Library is carried out only by prior request and upon showing a passport: participants and guests of the event go through entrance № 1, media representatives go through entrance № 2.