Red Square Festival. Day five

From left: Assistant Professor Vladimir Kozlov, Ph. D. (History), Head of the Regional History and Lore Faculty at the Historical Archive Institute of Russian State University of the Humanities, congratulates Nikolai Sheptyajkov, chairman of a regional history and lore society, at an official ceremony of awarding winners of the 15th All-Russian Competition of Regional Regional History Literature and Lore Small Motherland. Sheptyakov received a Sigurd Schmidt certificate called Dedicated Regional History Enthusiast at the annual Russian Book Festival on Red Square. The 2019 Red Square Book Festival marks Russian Language Day and the birthday anniversary of poet and writer Alexander Pushkin.