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Russian-Vietnamese Cross Year starts on Wednesday, May 22, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports.
It will start in Moscow, where My Homeland - Vietnam concert is planned. Its program will include the most interesting examples of Vietnamese music. Famous Vietnamese singers, dancers and musicians, artists Vietnamese theater of music, song and dance will enter the large stage of the concert hall in Zaryadye Park. The public will see choreographic and vocal performances included in the golden fund of Vietnamese folk culture. Vietnamese artists will play on ethnic musical instruments. A defile of national women's clothing will be held.
The opening of an exhibition of photographs depicting historical and cultural monuments and UNESCO World Heritage sites in Vietnam was timed to the concert. The exposition includes 40 pictures.
Another exhibition will open at the Museum of Russian Contemporary History. It is dedicated to a special type of painting, where canvases are covered with the juice of a lacquered tree.
Vietnamese art will also be presented in Saint Petersburg this week.
As Russkiy Mir
reported, 2019 and 2020 have been declared the Cross Years of Russia and Vietnam. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the program will include several hundred events. They will cover all aspects of cooperation between the two countries. Head of Russian diplomacy expressed hope that the residents of Vietnam and Russia would enjoy the cultural part of these cross years and the real benefits from investment and other projects.
Cross Years are timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of signing the Treaty on the Fundamentals of Friendship. And in a year, the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Vietnam will be celebrated.
Russkiy Mir
