Its participants were people with and without disabilities.
The competition was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk Region and the Sverdlovsk Regional Special Library for the Blind. The competition was held in order to foster a sense of patriotism, national identity, preservation and development of historical traditions and culture, respect for the heroes of Russian historical events.
In total, 18 works from 7 cities of the Sverdlovsk region were presented for the competition: Alapaevsk, the village of Beloyarsky, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Yekaterinburg, Karpinsk, Krasnoturyinsk, Krasnouralsk. 78 people took part in the competition: 37 of them were children with vision problems, 30 adults with various types of disabilities and 11 volunteers (teachers and children from municipal kindergartens, librarians from the Sverdlovsk region, students of higher educational institutions).
The competition was held in three nominations: the best chant (slogan) about the Day of National Unity; the best chant (slogan) about the friendship of people of different nationalities in your environment; the best poster on the theme of patriotism. As told in the Sverdlovsk Regional Special Library for the Blind, many works were presented by children from kindergartens, so it was decided to determine the winners in two age categories. Among the adult participants of the competition, Elena Neupokoeva and Galina Kochugova (Olifer) from the village of Beloyarsky won, who prepared 6 audio files - chants about the Day of National Unity. In second place is the Karpinsky group of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, whose participants prepared and designed a presentation, including chants (slogan) about the Day of National Unity and chants about the friendship of people of different nationalities in our environment. In third place are representatives of the Central District Library of the Pyshma village, who also prepared a video.
The winners in the “children” category were the pupils of kindergarten 373 Valeriy Kulaev, Vasilisa Fedosova, Valeriya Pautova and teacher Alexandra Petrova.
“All people are the same, we can all be friends, and it is important that there are no wars and disagreements, that friendship, love for the Motherland, love for Russia come first. It was to promote these values that our competition was held. I think we succeeded: the children did a lot of work themselves, they were helped by their parents and teachers. There are many works that children came up with together with their grandfathers and grandmothers. One boy from a kindergarten, together with his family, made a poster for National Unity Day, it is wooden, it is tactile, you can touch it, see what exactly this child's vision of patriotism means. Vasilisa Pautova is a child with charisma, in her video, where she recites a poem invented by her grandmother, a clear and emotional presentation of the material, amazing facial expressions,”said Yulia Sabaeva, head of the typhlobibliography department of the Library for the Blind.
In addition to the announcement of the results and performances of the participants of the competition, an exhibition of posters for the Day of National Unity was organized as part of the event, a festive concert was organized by students of the Sverdlovsk College of Arts and Culture, and a children's scientific and practical conference “I, you, he, she: stories about Russia”, which was attended by both children with visual disabilities and without health restrictions.
The purpose of the conference is to familiarize students with the cultural values of their people, the basic national values of Russian society, universal values in the context of the formation of their Russian civic identity.
The director of the library, Irina Gilfanova, made a welcome speech to the conference participants, and Elena Ermakova, a typologist at the institution, presented an overview of Natalia Andrianova's book “I am a citizen of Russia”. Then the floor was given to children: the speakers told that they got acquainted with the cartoons from the animated series "Mountain of Gems", created based on the fairy tales of different peoples living in Russia, analyzed one of the cartoons, prepared and provided a presentation. In particular, fourth-grader Amir Sadykov from Yekaterinburg gymnasium 116 spoke about the results of his research on the cartoon "Orphan Fox", which is dedicated to Bashkir folklore, and 4th grade students of Yekaterinburg boarding school 10 talked about Tatar culture, Tatar games and the cartoon "Nightingale".
According to the organizers, such an unusual task will give the students an opportunity to develop the abilities of scientific and research work, learn to search and process information, demonstrate their educational research, research and creative work, as well as show the skills of project activities and successful public speaking. For teachers, this is an opportunity to show the results of joint productive work with students.