Arkhangelsk starts celebration of Lomonosov
More than 60 Russian and international events will in 2011 be organized in Arkhangelsk Oblast in connection with the 300 years anniversary of the region’s great son Mikhail Lomonosov.
Among the main events will be the second International Arctic Forum in June, followed by the seventh International Northern Social-Economic Forum and the international youth conference “Ecology 2011”, Dvinainforms.ru reports.
The celebrations will peak with the 40th Lomonosov Readings in November, an event which will take place in Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk and Lomonosov’s own home village in the Kholmogorie Rayon.
As previously reported, also the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø. Norway, will be part of the Lomonsov celebrations.
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Lomonosov was born on 19 November 1711 in the village of Denisovka (later renamed Lomonosovo) in what was then the governorate of Arkhangelsk. His father was a ship owner, who engaged in shipping in the White Sea and Barents Sea with goods from Arkhangelsk to places like Pustozyorsk, Solovki, Kola, as well as northern Norway.
Mikhail Lomonosov is know as the father of science in Russia. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and more. Lomonosov was also a poet. He was one of the co-founders of the Moscow University in 1755.
