CONTEMPORARIES ARE SAVING COSSACKS TRADITIONS IN PRIMORYE

CONTEMPORARIES ARE SAVING COSSACKS TRADITIONS IN PRIMORYE
In 1859 Zabaykalsk Cossacks laid the Grafskaya village on the coast of the river Ussuri and became the founders of the current Dalnerchensk city.
In the Cossack culture museum local residents carefully keep everything that tells about the life and traditions of the first border guards, customs officers and farmers of Russian Primorye.

Natalia Antonova, a head of Dalnerechensk branch of the regional state Arsenyev Museum: "We have the Iman stanitsa Cossack community, they do great job among the youth, they engage in social work in the city, as far as I know, they are working closely with the border detachment. "

The ensemble of the Dalnerechensk Cossack song is a mandatory participant of all urban and many boundary festivals and festivals of popular culture. The representatives of different professions - police, doctors, teachers save up the traditions of the Cossack songs today. All of them are descendants of those who founded this city and region more than a century ago.

Alexander Shushval, choirmaster: "We started systematically study the Cossack folklore, dance tune, lyrical, lingering songs."

In the International Tourism Fair PITE descendants of Ussuri Cossacks not only brought the part of the museum, but also treat everyone Cossack porridge. 

Dmitry Kutovoy, the participant of the "Gaida" Cossack Choir, Ussuriisk ciry: "Please, come to taste our porridge. It is very tasty! In the past the army was large, and small plate for everyone is not enough. This is a Cossack field kitchen. "

The ancestors of Dmitry Kutaviy were Zaporozhye Cossacks. His great-grandfather told his grandchildren how they were carrying the carts, wheel, plow, samovars, pitcher across India by sea.

Dmitry Kutavoy, participant of the Cossack Choir "Gaida": "You have to read the history of their ancestors, to perceive traditions, carry the culture, that's what we do. Renew the Cossacks traditions."

Today Primorye Cossacks are participants of all events related to the preservation of the traditions of the peoples, living in the Primorsky Territory.
Together with representatives of other ethnic communities of Primorye they make a great public and patriotic work among the youth "Lessons of courage", cossack festivals, the mobile exhibitions.
Now more and more Cossacks join to the volunteer Cossack guards, becoming firefighters and employers of the public order protection.

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