The festival is intended to become a model for the cultural and tourist renewal of Russia.
The main objective of the festival is to unite small towns on a common platform in order to jointly promote positive image Russian provinces and consolidation of resources for further development tourism.
The theme of the III Festival of Small Tourist Towns is "Small Town Gastronomy". At the stand of Uglich, there was a tasting of fermented milk products of the agricultural holding "AgriVolga", Russian cheese of the Uglich cheese factory.
The event was held at several venues: a festive city fair, a gala concert and a festive procession of AMTG representatives with the participation of creative teams at the Trade Square.
The novelty of the festival this year was its design, a new corporate identity of the Association of Small tourist cities"Great in small". Training seminars were held on the use of the new brand of the Association. Stands of cities, stage, videos, booklets - everything is done in the same style according to new concept AMTG. Each city has its own unique style, together the cities form the "Constellation of Small Towns of Russia"
At the solemn meeting of the festival dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Association of Small Tourist Towns, the new President of the Association was introduced - the Head of the Uglich municipal district- Kuritsin Anatoly Gennadievich.
The festival was attended by 13 member cities of the Association of Small Tourist Towns. The delegations of the cities of the Association included creative teams, chefs, representatives of folk art crafts and tourism specialists from city administrations and TIC, as well as business representatives interested in developing the gastronomic brand of their cities.
The business program of the festival included: round table with well-known experts in the field of gastronomy, a seminar on territory branding, culinary master classes. The program also included a gastronomic competition " Form style in a small town". Uglich was presented at the competition by the chefs of the restaurant "Avenue" Maxim and Dmitry, who prepared "Pike perch in the Volga style". main goal competition was - the development and formation of a gastronomic brand of each city of AMTG and the Association as a whole. The competition included several nominations: the first was the presentation of a hot dish, which in the future could qualify for specialty of the house of the city, was connected with the history of the city and made from local products.
The second is the presentation of an apple dessert, which will be sold in every AMTG city in the future and serve as a unifying brand of the Association. Apple strudel was offered as Uglich's apple dessert. Dessert had to be prepared from apples, with a cost of no more than 80 rubles. The third is “a gastronomic souvenir of the city”. It had to be small in volume and weight, interesting in design and name, non-perishable and low cost, made from local products with their own history. Gingerbreads painted with glaze with images of the coat of arms of Uglich and the Chambers of appanage princes became a gastronomic souvenir of Uglich.
Representatives of Yelets, Kargopol, Myshkin, Kungur, Gorokhovets, Azov, Solikamsk, Tarusa, Yelabuga, Borovsk, Uglich, Tobolsk and Suzdal took part in the competition.
Vice-President of the Association of Small Tourist Towns Igor Kekhter introduced the chairman of the jury Olga Syutkina, culinary specialist and culinary historian.
Russian cuisine is not just sitting down and eating, - said Olga Syutkina. - It is rich and diverse, like the territory of Russia.
Olga Syutkina and her husband Pavel are not only the authors of a series of cookbooks. Recently in Paris culinary competition gourmet they took second place. Sergey Tkachev, the brand chef of the Academy, also joined the jury restaurant business, working in Rybinsk in the eponymous restaurant-pier and the owner of his own cheese factory and Leonid Gelibterman - presenter - President of the International Ethnogastronomic Center, Vice-President of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia.
By the end of the first festival day, the results of all three nominations were summed up. In the nomination "Main Dish" won the chefs of Kargopol with pike stew and blueberry pie. In the nomination "Desserts", the winners were Suzdal residents - Yuri Kovalchuk (chef of the "Ogurets" restaurant) and brand chef Maxim Rybakov (hotel complex "Pushkarskaya Sloboda"). Suzdal also won in the Gastronomic Souvenir nomination.
As part of the festival and the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the AMTG, representatives of the official delegation of the cities laid the apple orchard "10 years of AMTG" on the territory of the Spaso-Efimiev Monastery, and the Association of Small Tourist Towns received gratitude from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the development of tourism in small towns of Russia. Gratitude was presented by the Deputy Minister of Culture A.Yu. Manilov at the 5th Congress of Mayors of Small Towns in Suzdal.
13 creative teams took part in the gala concert of the festival. Uglich presented dance group"Confetti". At the closing ceremony of the festival, the city that will host the 2018 event was announced. The city of Tobolsk took over from Suzdal.
The Festival of Small Tourist Towns is a large-scale event project designed to become a model for the cultural renewal of small towns in Russia.
The project is organized by the Association of Small Tourist Towns with the support of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation. This year the festival was held in Suzdal from June 16 to 18, 2017, where participants discussed the prospects for the development of provincial cities, including the issues of attracting tourists. The main focus of the holiday was gastronomic brands and souvenirs from the Golden Ring.
The delegation of the city of Gorokhovets was headed by the head of the administration of the Gorokhovets district Alexey Alekseevich Bubela, who actively participated in the V anniversary Congress of mayors of small towns, on the topic "Small towns - big culture". Alexey Alekseevich made a presentation on cultural life of the city of Gorokhovets and on the implementation of projects in preparation for the celebration of the 850th anniversary of the city. 
Particular attention at the festival was given to gastronomic tourism and Russian cuisine. Within the framework of the festival, a gastronomic competition “Corporate Identity in a Small Town” was held, in which the director of the Zhemchuzhina restaurant, Anna Evgenievna Prokhorova, took part.
In the nomination "Gastronomic souvenir of the city" Gorokhovetsky gingerbread souvenirs were presented, the old recipes of which were revived in the restaurant. The Zhemchuzhina restaurant was awarded a diploma for preserving traditions. The festival program was very rich, several venues worked simultaneously, where gastronomic competitions, training seminars, master classes, and exhibitions of presentation of the tourist potential of AMTG cities were held. The potential of the city of Gorokhovets was presented by the tourist information center. 
In a costumed festive procession through the city of Suzdal and on grand opening festival with a presentation of our city folk ensemble songs "Expansion".
An exhibition-fair of folk crafts and master classes in arts and crafts were held at the Torgovaya Square in the city of Suzdal. Gorokhovetsky products and souvenirs, which were presented by craftsmen and specialists of the inter-settlement House folk art and crafts, were very popular not only among local residents, but also from foreign guests from China and England.
On the closing day, according to the tradition of the festival, the laying of an apple orchard took place. The symbol of the festival was solemnly handed over to the city of Tobolsk (Tyumen region) and the IV Festival of Small Tourist Towns of Russia in 2018 year will pass exactly there.
According to the materials of the department of culture, youth and sports of the Gorohovets region.
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From 16 to 18 June will be held III festival of small tourist towns Russia. The venue for the event was the ancient Russian city of Suzdal, which is both one of the cities of the famous "" and a member of the Association of Small Tourist Cities. It is noteworthy that Suzdal will host the festival in the anniversary year for the Association. The festival itself will be held for the third time, in 2015 it was held in Uglich, in 2016 - in Yelabuga.
The festival program has already been fully formed by the joint efforts of the city and regional authorities, together with the Suzdal branch Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve. The program turned out to be rich, but its details have not yet been disclosed. It is known that in Suzdal several sites will work simultaneously, where each guest will be able to find something interesting for themselves. However, the focus of any venue will be the culinary brand of a particular region. main theme the festival will become a cultural and gastronomic diversity that can be found in as well as folk crafts. Many of them are almost lost and are more of a tourist attraction than a real craft. A large and noisy fair will operate in the central square.
Residents and guests of Suzdal are waiting for a colorful carnival procession along the main street. In it, each of the cities of the Association will present, as brightly as possible, their favorite city. The mayors of all cities will take part in the solemn landing " Orchard of Small Towns of Russia».
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Association of Small Tourist Towns(AMTG) of Russia was formed in 2007 for the joint development and promotion of tourism in provincial towns. All cities of the Association have a rich historical past, were founded no later than the 18th century, have a population of less than 150 thousand people, and have a developed tourist infrastructure. On this moment the Association includes such cities as Azov, Kungur,
