Tourists from Europe come in Tobolsk to look at an «obsessed Tatar»


Tourists from Europe come in Tobolsk to look at an «obsessed Tatar» Tobolsk, Tyumen Region. Name of a talented master bone-carver Minsalim Timergazeev is becoming known not only in Russia but also abroad and not only because of the original arts and crafts of the Tobolsk artist, drawing judges of art from Germany, Switzerland, Finland and other countries. Thank to a published in Europe guide in English for those travelling by the Trans-Siberian main, where it is told about an «obsessed Tatar» Minsalim, the flow of foreign tourists in Tobolsk constantly grows. If in 2005 of 3 thousand 409 guests of the city, there were 44 foreign citizens having specially arrived to look at the Siberian artist, so in the first half of this year already 77 of 3 thousand 521 people visited his bone carving workshop and History of bone museum. Minsalim Timergazeev hosted travellers from the USA and England, Austria and Holland, France and Argentina, Italy and Bulgaria, Slovakia and Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. «We have the richest history in Siberia, - speaks the famous bone-carver. Our task is to make it attractive for the tourists ". t-l.ru

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