World history: Exhibition "Moscow. 1957. The festival of friendship" to the 60th anniversary of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Kazan

February 6, 2017 at the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan) is opening a new exhibition "Moscow. 1957. Festival of Friendship". 

2017 is full of anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of the Great Russian Revolution, 60 years since the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite. 60 years marks one of the highlights of the XX century, which marked a kind of epochal change – the VI World Festival of Youth and Students held in Moscow in 1957. He became the most massive in the history of the festival movement: 34 thousand people from 131st country in the world have taken part in it. Symbol of the grand Youth Forum - Dove of Peace - has been specially designed by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.   

The atmosphere of the youth festival will be felt at the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan at the exhibition "Moscow. 1957. Festival of Friendship", which is a unique photo reportage of the journalist and philanthropist, artist and cultural activist Leonard Dzhanadda, reporter of the newspaper «L'Illustré» festival, and the participant as part of the Swiss delegation.

The photo exhibition is complemented with authentic materials participants of the VI World Festival of Tatarstan – K. V. Kalimonov, G. H. Tagirov, V. G. Nikitin. Extensive collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan will allow submitting a formal and everyday life of the Soviet man of 50s. The exposition is varied with souvenirs issued to twelve World Festival of Youth and Students in 1947 and 1985, and items from private collections. 

The exhibition is significant and symbolic, since this jubilee for the VI World Festival of the year, it returns to Russia. XIX World Festival of Youth and Students will be held from 4 to 22 October in Moscow (a solemn parade of the delegations) and Sochi (the festival itself).