Mintimer Shaimiev and Grigory Rapota visit island town of Sviyazhsk

On August 14 Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of guardians of “Revival” Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev and State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota visited island town of Sviyazhsk.

Mintimer Shaimiev showed the honoured guest historical monuments and reconstruction works under the project “Cultural heritage of Tatarstan: the ancient town of Bolgar and island town of Sviyazhsk”.

At the beginning of the tour the guests looked around the River boat station, the exact copy of Paul I boat, excavations of Tatar sloboda wooden buildings with interest.

Later, the guests visited the historical reconstruction of camping from times of Ivan the Terrible, where young people in armours demonstrated the battle of the XVI century.

Mintimer Shaimiev and Grigory Rapota also went to the Trinity Church, and the Cathedral “The Joy of all Who Sorrow”.

Deputy Director of State historical architectural and art museum “Sviyazhsk island town” Svetlana Frolova showed the unique expositions of the museum to the guests.

Then the guests visited tourist ethnographical complex “Horse yard”.

Grigory Rapota noted that great work was done on the island.

The guests were accompanied by Deputy Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Alexandr Gusev, Head of the Executive committee of Zelenodolsk municipal region Alexandr Tygin and other officials.