July 9, Moscow starts the international rally expedition "Call of the Ancestors"

On July 9, Zaryadye kicks off the international rally called Call of the Ancestors, an outstanding humanitarian project uniting 7 countries of the Eurasian continent in cultural, educational, educational and cognitive fields.

A convoy of 10 cars will travel 30,000 kilometers through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, North and South Korea. The key event of the expedition will be the intersection of the 38th parallel - the border between North and South Korea. Participants will ride a variety of cars, mainly SUVs.

47 people will leave for the Call of Ancestors expedition: leaders of the Assembly of Peoples of Russia and the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia, leaders of Korean public organizations, foreign photographers, travelers from Germany and Italy. At different stages, bloggers and journalists Ilya Varlamov, Sergey Dolya, Kira Altman will join the rally.

The project is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Committee on Tourism of Moscow, the National Tourism Organization of Korea.

Ernest Kim, head of the rally: “This is the sixth international rally in Eurasia, which I organize. In 2014, for the first time, we crossed the 38th parallel as part of a delegation of 32 people - public figures of the Korean movement. I hope that this year we will be able to repeat this. "Such motor rallies contribute to the rapprochement of the two Korean states and increase the credibility of Russian-speaking Koreans."

During the rally, participants will pass 41 cities, including Volgograd, Elista, Samarkand, Tashkent, Nur-Sultan, Gorny Altai, Ulan Bator, Beijing, Harbin, Pyongyang, Seoul, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg and Kazan.

During the expedition, participants will see and visit the sights of cities and countries of the rally: the palaces of ancient Samarkand, the modern capital of Kazakhstan, Nur Sultan, the monument to Great Genghis Khan in Ulan Bator, the Great Wall of China, Mount Pektusan - the highest point of the Korean Peninsula, Busan Strait, Ivolginsky Datsan - The largest Buddhist temple in Russia, Lake Baikal.

Participants will stay in hotels and live outdoors for 5 days in tents in Astrakhan, Altai Mountains, Mongolia and the Irkutsk Region.

As part of the rally, stationary photo exhibitions will open in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Pyongyang and Seoul. In other cities of the rally, mobile photo exhibitions will open.

The photo exhibitions will feature works by Russian and foreign photographers showing the reserved places of Russia, the Republic of Korea and the Korean People’s Democratic Republic. Photo exhibition in Moscow will be held in Zaryadye from July 9 to July 31, admission is free.

The expedition in Moscow will finish on September 15.