From September 11 to 16, the II church and public exhibition forum Orthodox Rus will be held at Sibexpocenter, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Irkutsk Region.

From September 11 to 16, the II Church and Public Exhibition-Forum “Orthodox Rus” will be held at the Sibexpocentre exhibition complex. The event is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Irkutsk Region.
At the opening of the exhibition were present the Head of the Irkutsk Metropolis, Metropolitan Vadim of Irkutsk and Angarsk, Governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Eroshchenko, Chairwoman of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region Lyudmila Berlina, General Director of the exhibition association "RESTEC®" Igor Kirsanov, and Mayor of the city of Irkutsk Viktor Kondrashov.
The exhibition is part of the church and public exhibition project "Orthodox Rus," events of which, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus, are held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Veliky Novgorod, Samara, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk.
The spiritual center of the exhibition became the Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God "The Inexhaustible Chalice," brought from the Serpukhov Vladychny Monastery of the Moscow Diocese.
At the exhibition, books, icons, arts and crafts, vestments and secular clothing, ceramics, lecture recordings, films, spiritual and classical music, souvenirs, and monastic handicrafts were presented by 150 church and secular organizations from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Greece, Montenegro, and Israel.
As part of the exhibition, talks by clergy of the metropolis, lectures by historians, local historians, and museum workers, consultations by teachers from Orthodox schools and gymnasiums, as well as a presentation of the maritime Cross Procession of the Irkutsk Diocese across the Pacific Ocean will take place.
The organizers expect not only residents of Irkutsk, but also pilgrims from remote areas of the Baikal region to attend the exhibition. It is planned that more than 25,000 people will visit the exhibition.
Based on materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk