Call lightning and put out fires: make time to visit "Prirodograd. City of Professions" before the reconstruction
We invite
guests of the RUSSIA EXPO to visit Pavilion No. 16 of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment this weekend, December 9-10. From Monday, December
11, the exposition "Prirodograd. City of Professions" will be closed
for repairs. The pavilion will open its doors again on December 18 at 10 am.
Two
remarkable expositions of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of
the Russian Federation are operating at the International RUSSIA EXPO. The one
in Pavilion C is "Prirodograd" and the other in Pavilion No. 16 is
"Prirodograd. City of Professions." This exposition will be
unavailable during the week of December 11-17. On the coming Saturday and
Sunday the exposition is available from 10 am to 10 pm.
In the City
of Professions, children aged 6 to 14 can try their hand at being scientists, explorers
and meteorologists. But most exciting of all is the opportunity to become a
firefighter. After all, it's not every day that you have a mission to save
forests, and even more so with the use of such an interesting technology as
artificial rain.
"We
were divided into pairs and sent to helicopters. These are simulators where it
feels like you're really flying. I was the pilot and my partner was the
dispatcher. I had to fly over a cloud and she had to shoot it to make it rain.
We had three squibs, though we missed once, but we still put out the
fire", - said 12-year-old Ruslan Zakirov.
It turns
out that hitting the cloud with squibs - special charges with silver iodide -
really causes condensation of moisture. And in half an hour it starts to rain
heavily and for a long time. This is always useful when fighting natural fires.
This technology of extinguishing began to be used back in the USSR, and it does
not harm the environment.
To visit Pavilion No. 16 "Prirodograd. City of Professions", to learn and try many interesting things is very easy. Excursions are free and are held every 30 minutes, it is better to pre-register https://природоград.рф/регистрация. Also organizers ask to provide children with a change of shoes if possible.
Important: the excursion is available only for children aged 6-14. Children go to extinguish fires, call lightning and study metrology in the company of animators, without parents. During the 30-minute tour, adults can visit the neighboring pavilions, sit in a cafe or just walk around the territory of VDNH.
The National Centre RUSSIA informs visitors that its opening hours will be temporarily adjusted in the penultimate week of March.
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