Выставка “Язык – живая душа народа”

Discover the richness of the cultural diversity of the peoples of the Russian Federation through the books presented at the exhibition for International Mother Language Day.
You will get acquainted with the folklore of the peoples of our country and learn how their languages sound. Mordovian folk tales, proverbs, signs and sayings, the Bashkir epic “Ural Batyr”, Chuvash folk tales about animals, myths of the peoples of the Volga region, the Tatar folk tale “Sak-Sok” will help you get to know the peoples living in Ryazan and neighboring regions better. Legends, laughs and fun games of the Uilta and Nivkhi peoples, magical folk tales, games and fun of Sakha will tell about the traditions of the indigenous inhabitants of distant Sakhalin and Yakutia.
Folk tales are colorfully illustrated and translated into Russian and English. The books were published between 2015 and 2021 in Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Ufa, Cheboksary, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yakutsk and are available to Ryazan readers thanks to the sociocultural project of the Gorky Library “The Art of Living Together.”