Leningrad Oblast of Russia donates more than 5,000 books to Kyrgyzstan

Leningrad Oblast of Russia donated more than 5,000 books to Kyrgyzstan — textbooks, learning guides, and fiction.

The regional printing committee also released a series of notebooks called «Great-grandfather’s medals» — 50 sets of 15 copies each, created by the Director of the Military Museum of the Karelian Isthmus, Bair Irincheev. These notebooks will be sent to schools in Chui region.

Governor Alexander Drozdenko supplemented the collection with books about Leningrad Oblast and iconic places in Russia.

A delegation from Leningrad Oblast plans to visit Chui region of Kyrgyzstan at the end of March.