Speakers, Food, Music, Exhibits Friday  —  November 14, 1997  —  10 AM to 3 PM In Student Union Lounge

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	10 a.m. : Russian Exhibits   Art Music Literature Christmas / New Year Language Samovars
11 a.m.: Speakers  Welcome: Penny Smith, Russian Club President Andrew John Conovaloff:  "The Russian Settlers of Glendale, Arizona"  Fae Veronin:  "Growing up in the Molokan Community"
	12 noon: Lunch   Solianka -- potato and fish soup Pirog s miasom -- meat pie Pirog s kapustoi -- vegetable pie "Black Russian" sandwich
12:30 p.m.:  Barney Lorenz   "Pisanki" -- Creating Ukrainian Easter eggs
	1 p.m.: Snacks  Samovar Russian tea Russian Cookies

Russian Heritage Day  recognized the valley's Russian emigrants--from the Molokans who came  before the Russian Revolution to those who came after perestroika.

Molokan demographer Andrew Conovaloff used  maps to demonstrate the rapid expansion and collapse of the four communes that at their peak in 1920 occupied eight square miles of  the west edge of Glendale.  Fae Veronin, who is currently working on a pictoral history of the Arizona Molokans, described how they survived the depression and endured to the present.

About 400 students and community members, including many Molokans, were in attendance.

For more information contact:
Dr. Joyce Story, 
Russian instructor
Department of Foreign Languages
Telephone:  435-3686