MOSCOW, November 10. / TASS /. The online expedition of the project “My Country – My Russia” brought together more than 1 million people from 85 regions of the country. Aleksey Agafonov, Deputy Director General of the Russia – Country of Opportunity Autonomous Nonprofit Organization, announced this Wednesday.

“In 2021, educational and ethno-cultural tourism were selected as the key topics of the expedition. In the new season, the expedition received a number of significant updates – online classes were no longer strictly tied to regions, so each lecturer was able to choose the most interesting for him as a topic of the online excursion. “an object or route, including interregional. The journey of 2021 lasted 25 days and brought together more than a million spectators – schoolchildren, students and all patients of residents from 85 regions of Russia, “the press service of the ANO quoted him as saying.

Larisa Pastukhova, head of the All-Russian competition “My Country – My Russia”, noted that during the two years of the expedition she had managed to acquire her own traditions. “We are planning a real big educational journey, during which the competition team will go to innovative teachers to collect the best teaching practices from all over the country.

The first season of the project was launched in 2020 in the format of open classes about culture, traditions, national and historical peculiarities of Russian regions. Then more than 200 thousand rubles took part in the online expedition. human.

In the second season, 60 lectures on ethnocultural objects and routes in Russia were held within the framework of the project. Online lectures on sites and routes of ethno-tourism in Russia were presented by teachers, specialists in the field of tourism and state national policy, as well as representatives of the non-profit sector, selected on the basis of an all-Russian competition-review of lecture materials. The online classes were broadcast in the community of the All-Russian competition “My Country – My Russia” on the “VKontakte” network.