Quest available in the Sakhalin Regional Center of the Presidential Library

Middle school pupils of the city's schools and students of the Technical School of Service and Tourism, an employee of the Sakhalin Regional Center of the Presidential Library based on the Sakhalin Regional Universal Scientific Library Valentina Tarskaya were provided with the quest timed to coincide with the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture. The children learned new useful information in a playful way. For example, that the writing is more than a thousand years old, and the word “alphabet” itself consists of the names of the first two letters of the Russian alphabet, where the first letter in the old days was called “az”, the second - “buki”.

The event participants solved crossword puzzles, found encrypted words in the text, made up proverbs and anagrams and solved puzzles. So, in a playful way, the guys learned that Cyril, after whom the alphabet got its name, was popularly nicknamed the “philosopher” for his ability to debate and knowledge of many foreign languages, and Methodius was the eldest of the “solunsky brothers”.

In addition, several stages of the quest were electronic. The children had to find the hidden words in the spelling dictionary stored in the Presidential Library’s collections, put stress, check the spelling of the word. The National Electronic Children's Library’s portal features the history of the font, and at the end of the event they wrote their name in the font they liked.

The collection of the Presidential Library Cyril and Methodius - Slavic Enlighteners features studies, essays, speeches that spotlight the life and career of the creators of the Church Slavonic language, Orthodox preachers, revered as Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles - Cyril and Methodius. The collection also includes a photograph depicting the monument to Cyril and Methodius in Kyiv and the Decree of the President of Russia on the celebration of the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture.