Fall 2007

• COMMITTEE WILL HOST DECEMBER DELEGATION

Our Archangel Committee has received a grant to host a five person "Education" delegation from the Solovetsky Islands and the City of Archangel from Friday, December 7 to Saturday, December 15, 2007. The grantor is the U.S. Library of Congress based "Open World Program" and such grants are made available to members of Sister Cities International. We are using this grant particularly to strengthen our relationship with Solovki that began with the December 2005 Open World delegation from those islands. Delegation members are Solovki Vice Mayor Natalia Yakovleva, Solovki Museum Director of Education Yuri Surikov, Malye Kareli Museum Director Alexander Shayev, Archangel Business Media Publisher Elena Kuznetsova and Archangel graduate student Ivan Tabanin (the facilitator).

The delegation will spend two days in Washington DC prior to arriving in Maine. In Washington, they will be hosted by the U.S. Library of Congress where they will be involved in roundtable discussions about American and Russian culture and where they will visit national historic sites in the city. Tentative plans also include a private meeting with Dr. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress; this meeting is planned because the Russian Co-Founder of the Open World Program in the late 1990's, the late Dmitri Likhachev, was once imprisoned in the Solovki Gulag (in the 1930's).

After their stay in Washington D.C., our friends will arrive at the Portland Jetport on Friday, December 7 and will have a busy week thereafter. Professionally, they will focus broadly on educational themes including municipal school budgets .and curricula, the education programs and outreach methods used by small Maine non¬profit museums, and the cooperation between public government and private businesses in educational endeavors. In addition, topics of special interest to each delegate will be addressed.

If you are interested in meeting professionally or socially with our friends, you have several opportunities to do so:

Friday, December 7 at 10:19 a.m. at the Portland Jetport to welcome arriving United Flight 5312.

Saturday, December 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the home of Committee members Neale and Deborah Duffett in Portland for a Gala Welcome Pizza Party with this delegation and with the Severodvinsk delegation visiting Portsmouth, NH during the same week (see story below). FMI, call Neale 775-1515.

Sunday, December 9 at 9:15 a.m. at the Chebeague Island Ferry parking lot on Route One in Cumberland for a day of activities on Chebeague Island. FMI, call Dennis Marrotte at 854-3763.

Wednesday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m. at Sakura Japanese Restaurant in Portsmouth, NH for a combined dinner with the Severodvinsk delegation. FMI call Neale at 775-1515. Order off menu.

Thursday, December 13 at 10:15 a.m. at the Augusta office of Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap for a day of roundtable discussions and touring of the Capitol Complex and the State Museum and Archives. FMI, call Matt Dunlap at 626-8401.

Friday, December 14 at 10:45 a.m. at the Casco Bay Lines ferry dock on Commercial Street in Portland for a day of activities on Peaks Island. FMI, call Ray Pelletier at 774-4000. Thereafter, join the delegation for a Festive Farewell Potluck Dinner at the home of Committee members Ann and Ted Noyes on Route 88 in Yarmouth at 7:00 p.m. FMI, call Ann at 846-3157.

Saturday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Portland Jetport to see the delegation off on United Flight 5312 to Dulles Airport in Washington D.C.

 

• PORTSMOUTH NH WILL ALSO HOST IN DECEMBER 2007

The Sister City committee in nearby Portsmouth NH will also be hosting an Open World delegation December 7 to 15, 2007. This five person "Media" delegation is from Severodvinsk (which is the sister city of Portsmouth NH), a city located about 25 miles west of the City of Archangel. This delegation includes Severodvinsk television reporters Natalia Shustrova and Irina Shorshyeva, Severodvinsk newspaper reporter Artem Popov, Archangel newspaper editor Grigori Dityatev and Tver television reporter Ekaterina Karaseva (the facilitator). Both American committees want to bring the two delegations together if possible and two joint social events are planned. Our mutual goal is to strengthen the relationships between our four communities. FMI, call Alex Herlihy at 603-373-8933.

• UPDATE: FRIENDS IN ARCHANGEL

Inga Fillopova (teacher at school number 6) has recently married; her name is now Inga Simonova and she can be reached at: inga@arh.ru (her e-mail) * * * Galina Komarova is now Vice-Rector at Archangel State Technical University and can be reached at komarova@agtu.ru (her e-mail) * * * Victoria Kamanaya is doing very well; her daughter Anna is raising a family in Saint Petersburg and her son Dmitri is the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry's Representative in the Archangel Region. Victoria can be reached by e-mail through her son Dmitri at dkamenny@sanet.ru * * * The Archangel Rock Band Blind Vandal recently completed its second American tour with concerts in Texas and Oklahoma.

• NEWS/NOTES FROM THE ARCHANGEL REGION

Victor Pavlenko was recently appointed as the new Mayor of Archangel * * * Ice on the Northern Dvina River will be thick enough for foot traffic in early December * * * The Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk recently launched the first of a new class of ballistic missile submarine, the "Yuri Dolgoruky", which will be armed the new
Bulava ICBM (SS-NX-30).
 

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