Ashgabat hosted a fair for book amateurs
The Ashgabat Chamber of Commerce and Industry for a couple of days became the center of attraction for reading lovers looking for novelties and rarities. Today, precisely, here it was opened the 13th International Book Fair and Scientific Conference of printed products “Book – the way to the cooperation and development”.
The geography of book fair participants covers 16 countries, including Russia, USA, China, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey and many others.
Of course, central place on the most of stands is occupied by books: fiction, children’s editions, dictionaries, old folios, “fresh” multi-volumes about art, textbooks... The list is endless.
Booklets, postcards, magazines and other printed products of Turkmen and foreign manufacturers are presented besides the books themselves. There is a variety of colors, all is bright, and snappy. The hand is stretching forward to take from the shelf one or another publication.
Favorite comedian Ashir Dyade presented books for the younger generation – toddlers and older children.
A stand of the State Book Chamber of Turkmenistan became a special place of pilgrimage for adult visitors of the exhibition, that pleased with “nostalgic” exhibits – magazines and newspapers of the 20th century, stored in the service archives. Among them are editions of “Toprak”, “Ayallar sesi, Harplar” and many others.
But the fair appealed not only to the printed products. Here, honored artists and students of the State Academy of Arts exhibited their works, a master class in ceramics was held and even there was a stand of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy, demonstrating sport as “the art of living healthy”.
A pavilion of the “Toprak” company, engaged in the recycling of waste paper and the production of corrugated cardboard, admirably encompasses the atmosphere of the “paper” holiday.
Participants and visitors of the exhibition were satisfied. Bright multinational forum, which brought together not only book publishers and printers, but also figures from different fields of culture, has become an excellent platform for sharing experience and expanding ties.
The exhibition will run until November 6. Admission is free.
