On the day of the motherland defenders in Salekhard opens interregional exhibition “edged weapons. Tradition and modernity “. According to the official website of Government of Yamal, event is held with the support of the Governor of Yamal-Nenets and sponsored by the Government of the Okrug, District Museum and exhibition complex. I.s. Šemanovskogo, Gift Fund “status” (Moscow), Yamal cooperation fund.
Staff main Yamal Museum reported that the holiday fair, executed in the form of a medieval fortress, will gather under one roof of Russian craftsmen from Moscow, Chrysostom, Tula, Yakutia, Nizhny Novgorod region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The visitors will present various types of knives. During the exhibition, they can receive qualified consultations, purchase gifts. A section of the exhibit are weapons of stock collections IICS-arrowheads and Spears, knives, ritual swords, sabers, swords, generated significant time period: 1 century BC-beginning of the 20th century.
The exhibition is accompanied by additional textual and illustrative material, many anthropomorphic renderings on the origins and development of cold steel weapons, famous centers of Russia, unique copyright works. Special Entourage exposition will provide reproductions of paintings of the middle ages. Opening of the exhibition will take place on 17 February.
