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15/02/2015. A Literary Evening of Armas Mishin
February 15, 2015:
A Literary Evening dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the National Writer of the Republic of Karelia Armas Mishin was held in the National Library of Karelia.
Armas Iosifovich Mishin is a poet, translator, literary critic, candidate of philological sciences. He is a member of the USSR Union of Writers since 1964. Armas Mishin has been a Chairman of board of Karelian regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia in 1990–2005. He is a laureate of the State Award of the Karelian ASSR named after Arhippa Perttunen and the Sampo Award of the Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Karelia, a Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Karelian ASSR, a Recipient of the Order of Friendship.
Armas Mishin has a longstanding creative and friendly partnership with the National Library of Karelia. It is said that each book has its own fate. The fate of books by Mishin has many times started in the National Library. There were many presentations of books and translations by Armas Mishin in the library. The library users have a great opportunity to get acquainted with a rich creative heritage of the writer. Despite the fact that Armas Mishin lives constantly in Finland, he kindly responded to the invitation to celebrate his anniversary in Petrozavodsk in the National Library rather than anywhere else.
The guests of the evening were the first who saw a new book of poems by Armas Mishin in the Finnish language Neljä Kotimaata (eng. The Four Motherlands). The book was published in the Periodika Publishing House in the book series The Classics of the Karelian Literature.
After that the participant of the event saw a researcher of the Institute of Linguistics, History and Literature of the Karelian Research Center of RAS Armas Mishin in a unique newsreel The Soviet Karelia from 1981.
An actress of the Credo Theatre Inga Gayevskaya recited poems by Armas Misin.
Music by famous Karelian composers Boris Napreyev, Alexandr Beloborodov and others was played at the evening, among them A Song about Petrozavodsk and fragments of the opera The Reed Pipe.
The hero of the day got a lot of kind words. The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Karelia Elena Bogdanova personally congratulated Armas Mishin. The Chairman of the Juminkeko Foundation, a writer and social activist Markku Nieminen also said plenty of friendly greetings.
A Doctor of Philology and literary scholar Elena Markova, who is a researcher of Armas Mishin’s works, congratulated him on behalf of the Institute of Linguistics, History and Literature of the Republic of Karelia.
The editor-in-chief of a literary and artistic Sever magazine and the Chairman of board of Karelian regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia Elena Pietilyainen and colleagues of Armas Mishin have come to congratulate him. The editor-in-chief of the Carelia magazine Armas Mashin congratulated Armas Mishin on behalf of the magazine.
A writer, musician and singer Nadezhda Vasilieva and the First Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs, Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Evgeni Shorokhov presented songs to the poems by Armas Mishin.
Robert Kolomainen, Alexandr Volkov, Boris Napreyev, Mikhail and Olga Stepanov and others congratulated their friend, colleague and teacher.
In his interview the writer has said that he was going to write book of memories about his life, friends, outstanding people, whom he had met in his life. The event was attended by good friends of Armas Mishin and many famous people.
At the conclusion of the evening Armas Iosifovich gave to the National Library of Karelia a unique book collection with dedicatory inscriptions, and books by him and his wife Olga Fedorovna Mishina.
The National Library is grateful to Ortjo Stepanov Foundation and Markku Nieminen for their assistance in preparing of the evening.
