Enlightener Day will be celebrated in Moscow

On Saturday November 16, 2013, the Enlightener Day will be celebrated in the capital of Russia. At different city venues, copyright lectures, open lessons and excursions from finalists, laureates and members of the jury of the Enlightener of different years will be held. This holiday is held on the eve of November 21 - the announcement of the laureates of the Enlightener Award. On this day, the paleontologist Kirill Yeskov at 13:00 will conduct a tour of the Paleontological Museum, and his colleague Alexander Markov at 16:00 will make a lecture at the Darwin Museum. In the Museum of the East at 17:00, Japanist Alexander Meshcheryakov will give a lecture “Japan: the Land of the Rising Sun (the origins of the solar image)”, and Dmitry Kopelev-“Peter the Great and his secret Madagascar Pirate project in 1723-1724”.

At 14:00 in the Museum of Cosmonautics at VDNH, scientific journalist Anton Pervushin will conduct a lecture-excursion "Flight of Yuri Gagarin: from propaganda myths to historical truth."

In the Moscow zoo, the historian, philologist Vera Milchin at 13:00 will tell you about animals with a human face, and Kolmanovsky’s pocket scientist at 15:00 will give a lecture-meeting with the famous ornithologist Vladimir Ostapenko “Blondering bird Ruh or how to save the whitish eagle”. At 16:00 near the monkey, Biologist Egor Bazykin will give a lecture “Who is sitting on the tree of life? What we know about the evolution of animals from their molecules. ” At 18.00, a lecture of the biologist, scientific journalist Olga Kuvykina “Letters of insects” will be held at the Moscow Zoo.

The architecture Museum at 15:00 will be a lecture by the historian, Moskvoyeda Alexander Vaskin about the fire of 1812 “Burn Moscow, save Russia”, and at 16:00 the mathematician Nikolai Andreev will conduct an interactive lecture “Mathematical Studies. Shukhov Tower. "

At 14:00, a specialist in arms, Alexander Prishchepenko, with the story “On Weapons and Munitions”, will perform at 14:00, and at 16:00 scientific journalist Lyubov Strelnikov will hold an interactive show “Condition”.

In the Pushkin Museum at 16:00, philologist Viktor Sonkin will conduct an interactive tour "Wolf, your city is the same: the adventures of the famous statues."

Also, Muscovites and guests of the capital with lectures will be: scientific journalist Peter Obraztsov, writer Marietta Chudakova , economist Konstantin Sonin , anthropologist Marina Butovskaya and historian Natalya Basovskaya . Vladimir Surdin will hold his excursions. For a detailed program of the Enlightener Day, see the page http://premiaprosvetitel.ru/news/view/?190 .