History Educators from Moscow, Mongolia and Tartarstan link up: Study visits by our Russian members!

EUROCLIO is very proud to share the great story of This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it of the Moscow History Teachers who travelled to Tartarstan and even Mongolia in June and August of 2011.

Volga in historical town of Sviajsk in Tatarstan

This is what Tamara wrote about the visits:

This summer was a really educating time for members of Moscow history teachers organisation. In June its 7 members went to Tatarstan for study visit, connected with celbration of famous Tatar festival Sabantuy. Sabantuy is a feast , celebrating good harverst and it usually takes place in June. All kind of festivities, as well as competitions take place all over the country.

Our trip was very well organised by a great friend of our Association Marat Gibatdinov, so that we could see some Sabantuy celebrations in Tatarstat town of Zelenodolsk, and at the same time visit many schools and see wonderful school museums which seem to be almost in every school there. Themes of museums could be different – from history of Space exploration, to Tatar customs and traditions, but they all were very impressive.

We also participated in one-day seminar for Zelenodolsk history teachers, where some members of our Association made contributions concerning multiculturality in history teaching. Two more days were given to visiting historical sites all over Tatarstan.

Historical museum in Mongolia monument to victims of political repressions At the end of August 6 members of our Association made even longer trip to Mongolia and Buriatia. This time we got help from history teachers from Buriat Republic. At first we flew to capital of Buriatia – Ulan-Ude, where, despite terrible jet-lag, immediately started historical sightseeing, and then participated in seminar of history teachers.

The next day we took a coach to Mongolia. We all agreed that we had a very vague idea of Mongolian history and culture, being aware only of Chengiz khan wars and imagining Mongolia as a very poor and dirty third-world country. What we saw really surprised us. Mongolia is really poor but you can see that it is a very fast developing country, open to tourists from all over the world. Moreover, tourists who are coming now more and more to this part of the world, have a lot to see. Buddhist monasteries, palaces, historical museum, natural museum with its dinausores collection, museum of history of political repressions etc. We also made a one day trip to steppe, and could enjoy incredibly impressive scenery and visit large ( 12 km) historical museum, showing life of true nomades ( with true nomades living there). Shopping in Mongolia was also very untertaining as prices are incredibly, impossibly low there.

After a very long and hard way back to Buriatia, began the second part of our journey. We travelled to Baikal lake with 30 Buriat history teachers to take part in Summer school. Summer school took part in a beautiful boarding school, belonging to Russian railways, where mostly children of railway workers study. All of us were strongly impressed by good equipment of the school and especially by its friendly teachers. The building where we worked and stayed is at 20 or 25 metres distance from Baikal, which made our workshops especially romantic. Summer school was a great success as teachers were really interested in everything we could tell and show them, and also showed their own wonderful skills. Every participant got a CD with Mosaics of culture book and copies of Uroky clio books. Eating famous Baikal freshwater herring (omul) was an additional treat.

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