It was Dmitry Ershov from Moscow, who came with his wife Irina and children - 11-year-old Egor and six-year-old Lisa. The family has been living in Moscow for four years - before that they lived in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia.
The guests received a gift from the ANO Directorate of the Exhibition of Achievements "Russia" and the administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug a trip to Salekhard for Reindeer Herder Day - the main holiday of the peoples of the North. The family will undergo a ceremony of crossing the Arctic Circle and receive personalized polar explorer certificates.
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We didn’t even imagine that we would become unique visitors. We planned to come to the exhibition several times. Thank you very much for such a warm welcome - it’s very nice that we will go to a new region,” Ershov noted.
On January 17, the International Exhibition and Forum “Russia” was visited by its five millionth guest. It was Polina Dmitrieva, a seven-year-old resident of the city of Kataysk, Kurgan Region.