July 30, 2019 Kurban-bairam – the main and most recognizable event in the Islamic calendar. It is celebrated in honor of the end of the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) 70 days after another big Islamic event, Uraza Bairam. In 2019, the holiday falls on August 11th. Due to the fact that the holiday falls on Sunday, in the Republic of ...

July 30, 2019   The Russian Ethnographic Museum of St. Petersburg hosted a meeting of Renat Valiullin, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, with the museum director Vladimir Grusman.   At the meeting, the exposition of the museum devoted to everyday life, culture and traditional occupations of the ...