August 24 was the key day of the celebration of the 550th anniversary of the city of Cheboksary. The main streets of the city – Lenin Avenue and Karl Marx Street – were turned into a pedestrian zone. The participants of Creative Boulevard Art Project have deployed their interactive platforms there.
12 key sites presented the main historical moments of the city, and sent the guests of the Creative Boulevard back in time. Theater and sport, education and science, art and music were combined in a single festive space, more than 70 children's entertainment, animation, cultural, interactive platforms and art objects worked here.
Yakovlev University opened its exposition at the site of educational institutions. The Pedagogical University, as the first higher educational institution of the republic, offered the guests of Creative Boulevard an excursion into history by presenting museum exhibits: a model of the first building of the pedagogical institute, samples of school desks from the middle of the last century, Physics instruments used by the first university students, archival documents and photos. Everyone could try their hand at writing a text in ink, or test old instruments with the help of students of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, look at the first movie cameras, conduct chemical experiments with students of the Faculty of Science, create a rag doll as part of a master class from the Faculty of Technology and Economics, take pictures with participants of the Kingdom of Dreams fashion theater from the Faculty of Art and Music Education, etc.

August 26, 2019
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