Amazing Sarov

06.08.2017

Tour is not a simple thing. It requires endurance and mobilization from
the actors, because it is not an easy task to tour not only several cities but
to show the performances. But our nuclear actors feel great! So after the first
night in Saint Petersburg we started for the tour. And the first point of the
NucKids 2017 tour schedule was the city of Sarov.

Sarov is a closed city in Nizhniy Novgorod region, where the first
atomic bomb was developed. The famous scientist, Nobel laureate Andrey Sakharov
lived here. It was not possible for us not to visit such a city with nuclear
history.

Sarov met us with the unusual warm weather. After the rainy Saint
Petersburg where all the children were wearing jackets the visit to Sarov
became the real pleasure. We felt like we got the summer at last! Everybody
rushed to put on summer shorts and t-shirts to go for a walk to enjoy the sunny
day.The
hosting side have prepared for the project participants the city tour to see
all the sightseeing of the amazing city.

The atomic industry
is full of interesting facts that our nuclear actors know for sure.  The
nuclear industry is the one that connects us in the NucKids project. To enlighten the
kids in that sphere our hosts from Sarov organized the interesting excursion to
the Museum of Nuclear Weapon. It sounds scary a little bit but in a fact it is
an exposition of the extraordinary exhibits and educational films on the
history of Atomic Project in the USSR and in Sarov in particular. The
participants saw the city model, took photo with the first prototype of the
hydrogen bomb and to knew out how it was developed and whom by. In a word they
got the impressions for the year ahead!

«It
is great that we came to Sarov! It is a real summer here at last! Just at once
the hosts arranged the sightseeing tour and told a lot of interesting facts
from its history. But most of all I liked the excursion to the Museum of Atomic
Weapons. The first  hydrogen bomb in the
USSR was shown to us, some of us even took photos with it. Moreover it was
interesting to know that the most powerful PC in Russia is located here not in
Moscow. Actually the city is beautiful and I am happy that our tour starts from
Sarov!”

Polina
Selezneva, 15 y.o., Saratov

But Sarov is not a famous atomic city yet but this is one of the most
famous Orthodox sites. It was exactly the place where the holy man Saint
Seraphim of Sarov lived his whole life. Saint Seraphim the renowned national miracle
worker whose Holy relics are kept in Sarov.  The
temple situated in the centre part of the city is devoted to him; there is a
room where Saint Seraphim lived several hundreds years ago. The project
participants made a small voyage in that historic place and were able to visit
one of these churches.

For the foreign participants of the project the visit to a closed city
was a moment they were awaiting not for one day only. The scoutmasters used to
explain them what the closed city meant, and the foreign participants were
eager to visit such a city. The city that is not indicated on the maps and  the city that is surrounded by the barbed
wire. And all of this is in reality! Anyway a visit to Sarov was an incredible
adventure for the children from Bangladesh, China, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Turkey, Croatia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan.

«Sarov turned out to be an amazing city to me! I have not
been to the closed cities yet. Anyway the visit to any new Russian city is
something incredible for me! The city is green; it is as if we are living in
the forest. As to me everything is a novelty for me. Nice little houses that
differ from the architecture of Saint Petersburg. We visited the first city of
our tour and I am able to understand what spectacular and amazing country is
Russia!”

Lizzy
Woe, 15 y.o., China

The project participants were welcomed with the open arms in Sarov. We
saw all the main destinations and now we began rehearsing
intensively again. Sarov audience is going to see the musical “Just summer
rain” in the Sarov Drama Theatre very soon.

  Leo Suoslov,

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