S.Toraighyrov PSU together with Pavlodar Geography House (PavGeo) holds free screenings of geographic films for schoolchildren of the city and oblast during the winter vacation period.

The film screenings are being held in the main building of the University. After each screening Director of Pavlodar Geography House Aleksandr Vervekin and PavGeo members deliver reports on the organization’s activity and conduct excursions at the new office of Geography House, which is located in the main building of S. Toraighyrov PSU. Unique exponents are presented to guests. Pavlodar Geography House has its own public library that includes more than 2,000 books, an archive of periodical articles, i.e. 200 folders with texts from journals and newspapers about 185 countries of the world, film archives, expositions of political geography, geomorphology and culture geography. 

The screening of a feature film about a 1947 expedition led by Norwegian scientist and traveler Thor Heyerdahl, called Kon-Tiki has opened the film week. 

“At the moment of the expedition the traveler was just thirty years old. He was about to prove to the whole world something that he was so sure about. The expedition was incredibly dangerous, as Heyerdahl was serious in his intentions to put off on a journey to the Polynesian islands by raft made from timbers tied by ropes, i.e. without any nails and wires as the Peruvian Indians did in their time. What is more, Thor Heyerdahl stood assured of technical characteristics of the water-carrier, despite the fact that the raft was about to fall apart as its timbers and ropes had imbibed too much water. He forbade everyone to fasten them, having said that “the Indians have managed to reach their destination, so do I,” said Aleksandr Vervekin.

PavGeo is going to hold screenings of a feature film “Everest” (the USA, Great Britain, Ireland), documentary films “Great Secrets of Great People. Chokan Valikhanov. Part 1-2” (Kazakhstan), “The film about the Great River Commemorating the Irtysh Day” and “The Passage of Geese: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.” (Kazakhstan).