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Regional art gallery description and photos - Russia - Ural: Khanty-Mansiysk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Okrug Art Gallery in Khanty-Mansiysk is an exhibition center that meets all international standards and one of the city's cultural attractions.

For the first time the art collection of the Foundation of Generations was presented in April 1997 in the city of Langepas. The date of the founding of the Khanty-Mansiysk gallery should be considered June 1998, when the opening of the permanent exhibition of the collection took place in the building of the School of Arts for Gifted Children of the North. The gallery was created grateful to the enormous support of the regional authorities under the leadership of the governor A.V. Filipenko and the activities of the Generations Foundation, which was headed by A.I. Kondyrev.

The inauguration ceremony of the art gallery in the new building was held in September 2005. The gallery building was designed by the "Architectural Workshop AM-19" according to the project of the famous architect of the country V.V. Kolosnitsyn. The collection is based on the art collection of the Foundation for Generations, the history of which is directly related to the implementation of the Foundation's program entitled "Rare Books and Artistic Values." main sections: Russian graphics and painting, Old Russian icon painting and decorative and applied art. Here you can see the works of Orthodox artists of Russian fine art, namely - V. Tropinin, V. Surikov, F. Rokotov, I. Levitan, I. Repin, I. Aivazovsky and many other outstanding Russian artists.

The largest presentation of the art collection was the exhibition, which was presented in the summer of 2007 in Moscow at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin.

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