KEY CONCLUSIONS
Russia is among
leaders in liberal arts education
“Russia belongs to the leading countries, actual
leaders in liberal arts education. Our conservatories normally rank among the
best in the world. Our artistic educational institutions, our artistic
institutions are always the top ones,” Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of
the Russian Federation.
Education becomes
the primary function of cultural institutions
“People need more than just to come to a museum and
see something on the walls. <…> Educational projects, learning
facilitation become primary both in Russia and in the rest of the world. A
museum cannot be successful if its educational programmes are boring and do not
embrace the widest range of people possible,” Zelfira Tregulova, General
Director, The State Tretyakov Gallery.
Supporting cultural
projects results in a positive social effect
“Over the last two years, we have supported a
thousand projects, which equals about 3 billion, and this segment is on the
rise,” Innokentiy Dementyev, Deputy General Director, Presidential Grants
Foundation.
“Rostec State Corporation supports a large number
of federal and regional social projects. <…> The project of Oktava
creative industrial cluster opened in 2017.
It is an interesting project of public-private partnership. <…> In
this cluster we work with both the content and the context. The venue has a lot
of places: it is the first Machinery Museum in Russia that uses analogue forms
and multimedia content to basically tell the whole history of industry,” Olga
Pivenko, Director for Special Commissions, Rostec.
“If you want to see how the union of culture and
business can change the world, change Russia, change territories, just go one
day to the town of Vyksa in Nizhny Novgorod Region that has been hosting the
Art-Ovrag festival for many years now. So, over the eight years of the project
it is not just the new art pieces that appeared there – those you can find in
many places, but crime rate went down, average age of locals has grown and
out-migration has practically stopped,” Vadim Kovalev, First Deputy Executive
Director, Russian Managers Association.
PROBLEMS
Uneven spatial
development in terms of culture
“We have an important objective under national
projects. Unfortunately, for a long a time we have only been developing two
centres – Moscow and St. Petersburg. Our current objective is to change the
geography of important cultural centres. And the fact that such centres appear
here in Vladivostok, in Sebastopol, in Kaliningrad, in Kemerovo and become a
valuable addition to the ones that exist in the European part of Russia, in
Siberia – in Novosibirsk, in Yekaterinburg, in Samara, in Nizhny Novgorod, etc.
– is great. They will become our growth points,” Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime
Minister of the Russian Federation.
Liberal arts
education needs to be more accessible
“Our objective is to make liberal arts education
more accessible for children and for young people. <…> Theatres and
museums now open educational programmes for pre-schoolers and school students,”
Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
“We have faced the situation when learning
materials and musical instruments have not been procured to remote areas since
the 80s. The Culture national project has 9 billion roubles allocated for this,
including 8.28 billion being federal money,” Pavel Stepanov, Deputy Minister of
Culture of the Russian Federation.
SOLUTIONS
Improving training
methods in culture
“It is very important to train teachers, pay
attention to them and help them grow professionally. <…> As of today,
based on the lifelong education principle we plan to create 15 centres of
lifelong education by 2024 and upgrade skills of 200 thousand teachers from all
Russian regions,” Pavel Stepanov, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian
Federation.
“We have developed certain know-how’s that we are
ready to share. That is why a year ago we have signed an agreement with the
School of History at Moscow State University that we will develop a special
master’s programme for two years. Thus, we tell them about new professions that
appeared in museums that deal with advanced inventory, preservation, multimedia
technologies, marketing and PR, and fundraising, and we do it in a very
exciting way,” Zelfira Tregulova, General Director, The State Tretyakov
Gallery.
Government support
for culture
“I would like to tell you about the support, the
investments that originate from the Presidential Grants for the Civil Society
Foundation. It is a big support for our project. <…> Yakut Biennale of Contemporary Art.
<…> This biennale was created to brighten up the urban environment.
<…> Indeed, this was a big impetus for the volunteer movement, and a
beautiful art piece was installed in Yakutsk vicinity,” Asya Gabysheva,
Development Fund Founder, National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia).
“If we want to talk – and we were using the right
words to talk – about the volume, about involving places other than the capitals,
we need help form the government or private companies, sponsors. But this is a
different story. In order to avoid endless begging for money for an event,
because events must be popular and the audience votes through buying tickets,
and when this motivation to win over the audience and motivation to help your
event become sold out is lost, we report through the show and not through its
quality. I believe it is wrong,” Ilya Averbukh, Russian Figure Skater, Honored
Master of Sports; Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Ilya Averbukh Production
Company.
Making culture
popular
“You have such a rich
history of culture! Our culture in the US is only 200 years old, but your
history is different, that is why you need to convey it through people, through
their hearts. You have so much: profound conflicts and breathtaking romantic
stories and social conflicts,” Martha De
Laurentiis, Producer of Film and Television; President, De Laurentiis Company.
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