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Flame of the All-Russian Family Hearth, lit at the RUSSIA EXPO, spreads around the world

Flame of the All-Russian Family Hearth, lit at the RUSSIA EXPO, spreads around the world
Photo: Sergey Baranov/Press office of the RUSSIA EXPO
07.07.2024

In Pavilion No. 68 "Armenia" and Pavilion No. 4 "Kyrgyzstan" at the RUSSIA EXPO, a solemn ceremony was held to hand over the flame of the All-Russian Family Hearth "Heart of Russia" to couples representing friendly countries — the Republic of Armenia and the Kyrgyz Republic.

The warmth of the All-Russian Family Hearth "Heart of Russia" was shared with foreign families by the Russian couples who concluded their marital unions at the RUSSIA EXPO within the framework of the All-Russian Wedding Festival and a special project of the Exposition.

A couple from Armenia — David Harutyunyan and Tatevik Baghdasaryan — have been married for four years. They are artistic directors of the Krunk Armenian Folk Dance Ensemble. David finally realized that Tatevik was his destiny at the moment when she performed a solo dance part at an Armenian holiday instead of the girl who could not come to the performance that day.

The lamps with the flame of the All-Russian Family Hearth were handed over to the couple from Armenia and their daughter by Igor and Olga Moroko from the Kursk region, Stanislav and Anna Pichaykin from the Republic of Mordovia, as well as spouses Alexander Kozychev and Anastasia Kondratyeva from the Lipetsk region.

Photo: Sergey Baranov/Press office of the RUSSIA EXPO

In turn, a couple from Kyrgyzstan — Turgun Abdykalykov and Toktokan Bakalbaeva with their children - received a piece of the All-Russian Family Hearth from Maxim and Alexandra Markovsky (Tyumen region), Samat and Syumbel Ziyatdinov (Republic of Tatarstan), and Andrei and Maria Sivkov (Kirov region).

Each family was given two lamps with the fire of the All-Russian Family Hearth: one will stay with them, and the second one will be given to the pavilions of the countries they represented.

The young couples who got married at the RUSSIA EXPO wished the representatives of the fraternal Republics that the piece of the "Heart of Russia" handed over to them would become a symbol of love and family happiness and would always keep and protect their homes. In turn, the couples who accepted the fire of the All-Russian Family Hearth addressed the participants of the ceremony with reciprocal words of gratitude.

"Thank you very much to the organizers for this opportunity, our Armenian family is very grateful, it is very pleasant and it is a great responsibility. On our part, we would like to wish your families to have, as they say, many flowers of joy in your life, and these are, as you understand, little beauties and handsome boys. May everything be wonderful in your life. Smile more often and be always attentive to each other," said David Harutyunyan.

"We congratulate everyone on today's holiday. Family is a small cell of the state, and let there be love and happiness in every family," Toktokan Bakalbaeva emphasized.

A piece of the family hearth from the RUSSIA EXPO was also handed over to the representatives of both pavilions as a symbol of long-standing friendship and enduring family values equally shared by the fraternal peoples of Russia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

Photo: Sergey Baranov/Press office of the RUSSIA EXPO

"Thank you for such a beautiful tradition and initiative. Our Pavilion is very pleased to host so many newlyweds and guests, and we would like to wish you, first of all, inexhaustible family happiness. We are very happy to be involved in such a big and beautiful celebration and such a reverent ceremony, thank you to all the organizers," said Armina Mamikonyan, Art Director of the "Armenia" Pavilion.

"It is very symbolic that on the eve of the long-awaited opening of our "Kyrgyzstan" Pavilion after restoration, such an event took place. We very much hope and believe that this hearth of friendship and family well-being will be a symbol of prosperity of our countries, a symbol of their strong friendship and that our Pavilion is dear to each of you," said Anisa Dzheenbekova, CEO of MURAS Trade and Exhibition Centre LLC.

The symbolic fire of the All-Russian Family Hearth "Heart of Russia" was lit at the RUSSIA EXPO on January 23 - on this day President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the Year of the Family. The flame for the "Heart of Russia" came from the city of Murom, one of the oldest cities in the country, where Pyotr and Fevronia, who became a centuries-old symbol of love and fidelity, lived.

The warmth of the all-Russian family hearth was spread to all regions of the country, and the first foreign married couple to receive two "Hearts of Russia" lamps were representatives of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ziyod and Gulbahor Ishankhodjaev. One of the lamps will remain in the country's pavilion, and the second one will go to the family.

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