International festival "Tale on a Mammoth's Tusk" started in Kazakhstan

On March 19, 2025, the Russian House in Astana hosted the opening of the international festival "The Tale of the Mammoth Tusk" and a unique exhibition attended by the best bone cutters of Russia, as well as Kazakh and Chinese craftsmen.

The festival was opened by Afanasy Noev, Minister of Culture and Spiritual Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The festival will include workshops and seminars on the exchange of experience between bone carvers. In addition, the results of the review competition of works will be summed up, and the authors of the best works will be awarded with diplomas and prizes.

Each visitor will be able to touch the high art, the heritage of the northern peoples and take with them a piece of beauty. Works from the Republics of Sakha, Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva, from the Tyumen, Magadan, Yaroslavl and Moscow regions, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and other regions can be seen at the Russian House in Astana until March 23 inclusive.

The electronic reading room of the Presidential Library, opened in 2013 on the base of the Russian House in Astana, today allows its guests to get acquainted with the entire variety of collections of the electronic library fund.

Russian House visitors in Astana will be interested in the collection Russian Language. It includes more than 1,100 items of rare archival documents, including manuscripts, monuments of Russian writing, archival affairs, scientific papers, dictionaries, reference books, textbooks and much more.

Guests of the Russian House can also get acquainted with materials about the history of relations between Russia and Kazakhstan, which are presented in the electronic collection of the Presidential Library Russia – Kazakhstan: the History of Relations.

Based on the materials of https://rs.gov.ru/news/v-kazahstane-startoval-mezhdunarodnyj-festival-skaz-na-bivne-mamonta/ portal