ABOUT THE MYSTIRIOUS UDORA

The intellectual game, which was built according to the principle of a popular TV-game «What ? Where ? When ?» took place in the settlement of Usogorsk of the Udora district with a base of Udora business incubator as a part of Model river Mezen project.

The questions were played according to the topics devoted to the fish fauna of Mezen, the instruments and the rules of fishing, Udora fishing сraft traditions, the Udora people everyday life features. Against Udora team of experts there played the members of  Model river Mezen project Working Group.

25 questions were asked and 9 of them were answered correctly. The game was finished in favor of the project Working Group, and this fact was really annoying for the experts, because during the discussion the correct versions sounded, but for the reason of some players’ uncertainty after the end of debates the wrong answers were given.

The team, where Vladimir Sorov was unanimously chosen as a captain, consisted of 6 young people from Koslan village, the settlements Usogorsk and Mezhdurechensk.  According to the Model river Mezen Working Group experts, the game could be finished with an entirely different account if the players standed for and defended on their opinion more confidently during the discussions. As a result, their non-compliance has played the fatal role in the game outcome. Model river Mezen project coordinator Nikolay Shilov and Silver Taiga GIS-specialist Alexander Borovlev acted as the game experts.

The experts of the game

Anastasia Lobanova, the social teacher of Usogorsk secondary school with an extensive learning of separate subjects, demonstrated a good game. She actively nominated different versions, warmed-up the interest of playmates to the game, and by the results of experts’ and spectators’ voting she was accepted as the best player.

Anastasia Lobanova (in the center), a social teacher of Usogorsk secondary school, became the best player

Both experts and spectators marked her dynamism and erudition. The best question accepted by experts was the question of the project Working Group member, a writer Alexey Vurdov, about a perch processing in old times before baking the fish in the ashes. The players did not give the correct answer, but they estimated the question as the most successful. The musical pauses were filled in by Alexander Morozov with the songs about Udora.

Alexander Morozov filled in the musical pauses 

Silver Taiga Foundation has an educational activity within the framework of biodiversity conservation projects on the territory of Komi Republic. This submission of material in an unconstrained form of intellectual game is used by the Foundation not for the first time already, and it turned out to be fruitful. We remind, that the Foundation with the assistance of Udora centralized library system conducted the same game a year ago in the settlements of Koslan and Bolshaya Pyssa during the The Mezen Day festival. If in Koslan the team of experts lost the game, then playing in another сontent during The Mezen Day festival, it took revenge from the Model river Mezen Working Group. This year The Mezen Day festival is planned to be held in the settlement of Glotovo, where the Udora experts will be again given the opportunity to recoup.

During the discussion there sounded right versions, but…

Photo by Sergey Gordeev