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10/07/2018. Hundreds of Belomorsk citizens came to the meeting with the National Library of Karelia
July 7, 2018:
The Day of the Republic of Karelia with the National Library of Karelia was held on the coast of the White Sea.
Despite the stinginess of the northern sun, this day was full of warmth, smiles, festive mood and bright spectacular events.
The public path to the mobile library moored to the Library Pier of Belomorsk and the book stall of the National Library of Karelia couldn’t be overgrown.
At our site, the Head of the Republic of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov handed books for children and youth, dictionaries and reference books provided by the Charity Fund Severnyi Duhovnyi Put (Eng. Northern Spiritual Path) to the Belomorsk Centralized Library System.
The National Library of Karelia has presented the program Traveling through the Pages of the Stone Book for the guests and residents of the town.
Everyone who went into the mobile library could feel himself a Lyok – the main character of Pages of the Stone Book by Alexander Linevsky, learn the tricks of fishing and hunting for sea and forest animals, the beliefs and customs of the people of the Stone Age and open the world of an ancient man – a hunter, a fisherman, a warrior.
Karelia is known to most tourists as a land of thousands of lakes and beautiful northern nature – a truly mythological and fabulous place. Secrets had been preserved for thousands of years at the Karelian land.
Seitas and stone labyrinths are the one of these secrets. The guests of the mobile library admired the art of ancient builders and their skills.
To protect themselves from evil spirits and natural elements, the peoples of Karelia used amulets. Often people needed the protection of powerful forces and turned for help to special dolls protecting a person. Faith in the power of amulets made man many times stronger and more confident. Visitors of the mobile library could make such an amulet by themselves.
Young readers and their parents participated with excitement in the family quiz Karelia: Mysterious and Unknown and found out how well they know our Republic, its customs and history.
There was a full house at the book stall of the library: the participants of the event were actively buying books by Karelian authors and souvenirs.
In 2019, the Day of the Republic will be held in Medvezhyegorsk, and in the year of the centennial anniversary the holiday will be organized in Petrozavodsk.