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55th Russian expedition sets out for Antarctic
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ST.PETERSBURG, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Academician Fyodorov
scientific research vessel will set out on its 30th voyage to the
Antarctic continent from the St. Petersburg Maritime Port on Sunday.
"The voyage is taking place according to a program of the 55th Russian
Antarctic Expedition," Valery Lukin, the deputy director of the Institute
of Arctic and Antarctic Studies of the Russian Hydro-Meteorological Centre.
He said the expedition would last for 201 days. The ship is to return
to St. Petersburg on May 21, 2010.
The Russian expedition will turn round the Antarctic from the East. It
will call at the Antarctic stations Progress, Mir and Bellingsgausen,
visit the seasonal field base Druzhnaya-4 as well as stations
Leningradskaya and Russkaya which work in an automatic mode.
Representatives of 22 scientific research institutes and universities
will carry out 34 scientific programs during seasonal operations.
.International art festival to help orphans to find family.
MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The 16th International Art Festival -
Art-November - will open in Moscow on Sunday. It will help orphaned
children to find a family.
The festival's art director Natalya Rubinshtein told Itar-Tass that
the Art-November festival remains one of the most significant charitable
events in Russia. A special program has been prepared for children this
year. It includes concerts by young musicians from various Russian cities
who are the laureates of the "Nutcracker" contest as well as an exhibition
of paintings and graphics of the students of the Moscow Lyceum under the
Russian Academy of Arts.
Part of the funds raised from the concerts and exhibitions will be
handed over to the Family for Every Child charitable foundation.
"The festival has rich geography. Its participants include musicians
and painters from Azerbaijan, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Slovakia, France,
Croatia, Sweden and other foreign countries," Natalya Rubinshtein went on
to say.
Three famous countertenors - Terry Barber (USA), Jordi Domenech
(Spain) and Andrei Nemzer of Russia - will give a concert at the Svetlanov
Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on November 17. It will
be devoted to the 350th birth anniversary of Henry Purcell, a 17th-century
composer. The American group Klezmatics, the winners of the Grammy prize,
will perform in the Chamber Hall on November 19.
The festival's program includes eight art exhibitions, the running of
films and theatrical shows. The Art-November festival will be held at six
concert stages in Moscow. It will end with a concert by pianist Natalya
Rubinshtein and cello player Alexander Knyazev.
. An IL-76 plane crash claims the lives of 11 crewmen.
KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - All the eleven crewmen who were
onboard an Il-76 plane died in an air crash early on Sunday morning in the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The accident occurred at about 02:00 Moscow time as the plane was
taking off from the Mirnyi airport, a source at the Far Eastern regional
centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The plane fell down in a deserted area, causing no casualties on the
ground.
The fire at the crash site has been extinguished.
.Commission leaves for Yakutia to investigate plane crash.
KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - A special commission of the
Russian Interior Ministry has left Moscow for Yakutia to investigate the
causes of an IL-76 cargo plane crash. The accident occurred at about
02:00 Moscow time as the plane was taking off from the Mirnyi airport, the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a source at the Far Eastern regional centre
of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The cargo plane had arrived in Mirnyi from the Yermolino airport in
the Kaluga region.
"After being unloaded the plane with 25 tons of diesel fuel took off
but then deviated from the course and crashed 25 kilometers away from the
runway," the source went on to say.
The plane fell down in a deserted area, causing no casualties on the
ground. The crash claimed the lives of 11 crewmen.
The fire at the crash site has been extinguished.
.International music contest in Moscow to open new names.
MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow conservatoire will host
the first international contest of musicians playing wind and percussion
instruments. It will open at the Rakhmaninov Hall on Bolshaya Nikitskaya
Street on Sunday.
The entrants are young musicians from Russia, Belarus, Hungary,
Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, the United States, Ukraine, France and
Switzerland.
Alexander Sokolov, the rector of the Moscow conservatoire, says that
the contest will become a good school for the participants and will
improve their professional skills.
Vladislav Kazenin, the chairman of the Russian Union of Composers,
believes that the contest will open new bright names in symphony
orchestras.
The jury includes musicians from Germany, Hungary, Britain, the United
States and Switzerland and Russia.
The competition will end with a concert at the Grand Hall of the
Moscow Conservatoire and an award ceremony on November 7.
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ST.PETERSBURG, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Academician Fyodorov
scientific research vessel will set out on its 30th voyage to the
Antarctic continent from the St. Petersburg Maritime Port on Sunday.
"The voyage is taking place according to a program of the 55th Russian
Antarctic Expedition," Valery Lukin, the deputy director of the Institute
of Arctic and Antarctic Studies of the Russian Hydro-Meteorological Centre.
He said the expedition would last for 201 days. The ship is to return
to St. Petersburg on May 21, 2010.
The Russian expedition will turn round the Antarctic from the East. It
will call at the Antarctic stations Progress, Mir and Bellingsgausen,
visit the seasonal field base Druzhnaya-4 as well as stations
Leningradskaya and Russkaya which work in an automatic mode.
Representatives of 22 scientific research institutes and universities
will carry out 34 scientific programs during seasonal operations.
.International art festival to help orphans to find family.
MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The 16th International Art Festival -
Art-November - will open in Moscow on Sunday. It will help orphaned
children to find a family.
The festival's art director Natalya Rubinshtein told Itar-Tass that
the Art-November festival remains one of the most significant charitable
events in Russia. A special program has been prepared for children this
year. It includes concerts by young musicians from various Russian cities
who are the laureates of the "Nutcracker" contest as well as an exhibition
of paintings and graphics of the students of the Moscow Lyceum under the
Russian Academy of Arts.
Part of the funds raised from the concerts and exhibitions will be
handed over to the Family for Every Child charitable foundation.
"The festival has rich geography. Its participants include musicians
and painters from Azerbaijan, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Slovakia, France,
Croatia, Sweden and other foreign countries," Natalya Rubinshtein went on
to say.
Three famous countertenors - Terry Barber (USA), Jordi Domenech
(Spain) and Andrei Nemzer of Russia - will give a concert at the Svetlanov
Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on November 17. It will
be devoted to the 350th birth anniversary of Henry Purcell, a 17th-century
composer. The American group Klezmatics, the winners of the Grammy prize,
will perform in the Chamber Hall on November 19.
The festival's program includes eight art exhibitions, the running of
films and theatrical shows. The Art-November festival will be held at six
concert stages in Moscow. It will end with a concert by pianist Natalya
Rubinshtein and cello player Alexander Knyazev.
. An IL-76 plane crash claims the lives of 11 crewmen.
KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - All the eleven crewmen who were
onboard an Il-76 plane died in an air crash early on Sunday morning in the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The accident occurred at about 02:00 Moscow time as the plane was
taking off from the Mirnyi airport, a source at the Far Eastern regional
centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The plane fell down in a deserted area, causing no casualties on the
ground.
The fire at the crash site has been extinguished.
.Commission leaves for Yakutia to investigate plane crash.
KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - A special commission of the
Russian Interior Ministry has left Moscow for Yakutia to investigate the
causes of an IL-76 cargo plane crash. The accident occurred at about
02:00 Moscow time as the plane was taking off from the Mirnyi airport, the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a source at the Far Eastern regional centre
of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The cargo plane had arrived in Mirnyi from the Yermolino airport in
the Kaluga region.
"After being unloaded the plane with 25 tons of diesel fuel took off
but then deviated from the course and crashed 25 kilometers away from the
runway," the source went on to say.
The plane fell down in a deserted area, causing no casualties on the
ground. The crash claimed the lives of 11 crewmen.
The fire at the crash site has been extinguished.
.International music contest in Moscow to open new names.
MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow conservatoire will host
the first international contest of musicians playing wind and percussion
instruments. It will open at the Rakhmaninov Hall on Bolshaya Nikitskaya
Street on Sunday.
The entrants are young musicians from Russia, Belarus, Hungary,
Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, the United States, Ukraine, France and
Switzerland.
Alexander Sokolov, the rector of the Moscow conservatoire, says that
the contest will become a good school for the participants and will
improve their professional skills.
Vladislav Kazenin, the chairman of the Russian Union of Composers,
believes that the contest will open new bright names in symphony
orchestras.
The jury includes musicians from Germany, Hungary, Britain, the United
States and Switzerland and Russia.
The competition will end with a concert at the Grand Hall of the
Moscow Conservatoire and an award ceremony on November 7.
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