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Photo by Pauline Zmanovskaya and Yuri Karpekin
Photo by Pauline Zmanovskaya and Yuri Karpekin

There took place the XV jubilee fair «YugraTur» in Khanty-Mansiysk. There took part the branch of the Russian Geographical Society in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area for the first time in it.

The fragment of the camp of expedition of the branch «To the geographical center of Yugra» was recreated on the wall of the branch, organized with the help of specialists of Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies.

 

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The photo is provided by the branch of the Russian Geographical Society in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area
The photo is provided by the branch of the Russian Geographical Society in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area

The guests and the participants of the exhibition managed to see the equipment, which had been used in the expedition projects of the branch (hydroplane, snowmobile with passenger sleigh, small craft and ATV).

Besides, there were presented the works of the finalists of the All-Russian photo competition «The most beautiful country», video reports from the expeditions of the branch. Besides that, everyone could get to know about the II All-Russian educational action «The Geographical dictation» which took place.

The touristic exhibition-fair «YugraTur» annually has been taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk since the year of 2001.

The geography of participants of the exhibition covers cities and regions of Ural, Central, North-Western, Siberian, North Caucasian and Crimean federal districts.

The main goal of the exhibition is demonstration of the region's tourism potential, promotion and realization of the tourism products.

The exhibition has got an international status for the last three years, and the representatives of Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia and China became its participants as well.