Samara Chronicle No 4

The movie almanac is dedicated to the arrival of French President Jacques Chirac to Samara in the summer of 2001. On July 3, 2001, French President J. Chirac opened the first cultural and educational center "Alliance Francaise" in Russia. Samara residents welcomed the French delegation. Samara in the fall. Deserted beaches of the Volga. Samara residents have a rest in the city squares and parks. Strukovsky garden with a sculpture of the city's symbol "Samara goat", there is also a fountain restored in 2001 with a sculptural composition "Boy and Girl with an Umbrella" (19th century). Square named after V. Vysotsky with a fountain and a stele (2000, sk. I. Melnikov, art. A. Temnikov). Black and white photographs of French and Russian artists of the 19th-20th centuries tell about the history of cooperation between the city of Samara and the French. Old postcards depicting the theaters and museums of the city. Samara doctors studied with the French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur. Hall of the Samara Regional Museum of History and Local Lore named after P.V. Alabina is dedicated to the Samara Pasteur station. Pictures of French artists: E. Degas "Woman combing her hair" ("Woman at the toilet", circa 1885), E. Delacroix "Freedom on the barricades" ("Liberty leading the people", 1830), C. Pissarro "Boulevard Montmartre in Paris "(" The Sun. Afternoon ", 1897) and" Opera Passage in Paris "(" Snow Effect. Morning ", 1898). Filming from the TV screen: summer 2001, Moscow region, pos. Barvikha, NTV: Meeting of French President Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette with the first President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin and his wife Naina Iosifovna. July 2001, Samara: Meeting of the French delegation at the Kurumoch airport. Jacques Chirac is met by the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko, Governor of the Samara Region Konstantin Alekseevich Titov and others. J. Chirac's visit to the State Research and Production Rocket and Space Center "TsSKB-Progress", where the delegation is accompanied by the General Director and General Designer of the enterprise, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov.

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2001