#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The institution was created four years ago as the Taimyr Information Center to promote the territory in Russia and abroad. The center’s specialists worked on booklets, brochures, guides, and conducted information tours for representatives of Russian and foreign media, travel agents and tour operators. In addition, we developed projects of excursions and programs, and represented the territory at major federal and international venues.
District authorities, entrepreneurs, and family communities helped collect information about the peninsula sights.
One of the work results is the creation of the Arctic tourist and recreational cluster. It united the activities of hotels, catering establishments and other subjects of the hospitality industry. And the center itself received the status of a municipal autonomous institution Arctic Culture Center. Its tasks expanded in four directions at once: methodological work, tourism, the activities of club formations and the implementation of major events at the municipal, regional and federal levels.
“Over the past year, the Arctic Culture Center has taken part in and implemented 23 projects, including large federal programs Treasures of the North, World of Siberia, Arctic Salon, Finno-Ugric Transit. It is very important for us to show the activities of cultural institutions of Dudinka, Hatanga, Karaul, Dikson as systematic work, which is based on the preservation and promotion of the Taimyr five ethnic groups’ cultural heritage”, noted the Arctic Cultural Center’s head Aizada Mambetkerimova.
One of the projects is the festival There is a Ray of Sunshine in Every Visitor. In summer, Taimyr hosts exhibitions of souvenirs and educational events that introduce residents and guests to the territory’s tourism potential.
The Nenets family club Nyatva (headed by Elena Evay) and the deer antler carving studio Kemus Iliier operate on the basis of the Arctic Culture Center. Master classes here are conducted by horn and bone carver Philip Falkov. Travelers willingly buy items of decorative and applied art, products made from deer antler, mammoth tusk – this indicates an interest in the craft, culture, traditions and history of the northern territory.
Since 2019, the flow of tourists to Taimyr and the Putorana plateau has tripled – from 4 thousand to more than 12 thousand people.
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Text: Angelica Stepanova, Photo: Denis Kozhevnikov
