Helicopter tour raffle, acquaintance with your totem animal and a real tent with reindeer skins — the Komi Republic invites to its stand
Win a helicopter tour to the Manpupuner Plateau, travel through indescribable natural beauties, get to know your totem animal and try on a pilot's uniform. The stand of the Komi Republic welcomes guests with northern flavor and cozy resting places under a pine tree.
Visitors can look
into a real tent with reindeer skins and watch cartoons based on myths and
legends of the Komi people. There is also a fragment of the world's oldest ski
Jirkap - the discovery of scientists is more than 8 thousand years old.
At the interactive stand you can examine the artifact and listen to the legend about the hunter Jirkap - this is the first legendary skier of the Komi land, whose memory has reached us thanks to mythology. According to the legend, Jirkap made a ski from "his own tree" - in the Komi language, as pu, which Jirkap searched for a long time before making a pair of skis. The hunter's soul and happiness are contained in "his own tree". This tree was a pine. The bow is decorated with a carved head of a moose, which serves as an anchor-brake.
Don't miss
the chance to win a trip to the Manpupuner Plateau - one of the Seven Wonders
of Russia. There are seven stone pillars with the height from 30 to 42
meters, the age of these rocks is more than 500 million years. Travelers first
reached the plateau only 100 years ago. Before that, only shamans of the Mansi
people climbed the plateau - there they restored their magical powers.
According to tourists' testimonies, on the plateau one wants to keep silent,
and many people cannot hold back tears because of the greatness of the
"place of power".
The raffle of the helicopter tour to the Manpupuner plateau will be held on April 12. To take part in the drawing, you need to perform a series of simple tasks: vote for the stand of the Republic on the Exposition website, subscribe to the pages of the Tourism Agency of the Republic in social networks and get a token at the stand of the region.
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