At the gallery space of Art-hotel “Rachmaninov” the opening session of the photo exhibition “Wiki loves Petersurg”, organized by “Wikimedia RU” foundation took place.

The Jury had to do a difficult job, choosing from more than 4472 works 10 best and representatives of Russia on the international part of the contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. The result of such huge project was not only the completion of illustrative materials for the free encyclopedia “Wikipedia”, but also drawing public attention to architectural heritage of St. Petersburg protection.

Art exhibitions in the concept art-hotel “Rachmaninov” always run as something special. Here people of different professions gather together: business people, artists, musicians, poets, writers, photographers. This time among the guests were partners of the Art-hotel, representatives of leading tourism companies, as well as, the art elite of the city. A lottery was a pleasant surprise of the opening. Prizes were very nice: any photo from the exhibition to choose, the exhibition catalog and a three-day stay at the Art Village «Rajan Loma» – a branch of Art-Hotel “Rachmaninov” in Finland.

Becoming the partner of the found, “Wikimedia Ru” in order to support all the great contests for the collection of unique information for a multilingual Internet Encyclopedia from November 2011 to all those who gave the project the necessary information, the Art Hotel “Rachmaninov” will grant a special discount on room rates plus champagne for free!

Informational partner TV Channel “100 TV”.

NP “Wikimedia administration” in conjunction with the art-holding “Rachmaninov”, a social movement to preserve the cultural heritage of St. Petersburg “Living City” competition for urban orienteering “Running City” and educational wiki-project in the genre of travel guide for pupils, students and teachers Letopisi.ru holds fotosorevnovanie Wikipedia loves St. Petersburg. The main winner will receive a ticket to the Finnish eco-art village Rajan Loma, and the winner of the special category in which all of the photos of the global competition will be chosen picture winner, it will become a guest of the art-hotel “Rachmaninov”!
Wikipedia loves Petersburg – part organized by the regional offices of the international Wikimedia fotosorevnovaniya Wiki Loves Monuments, 2011, taking place in Europe in September 2011. Its predecessor is the competition Wiki Loves Monuments, 2010, passed in the Netherlands in 2010, under which it was photographed about 50 000 architectural monuments (monuments), and which, in turn, followed the competition Wiki Loves Art Netherlands in 2009, during which 45 museums around the country has access to photograph collections to Wikipedia.
Contest Wiki Loves Monuments in 2011 consists of two parts – the regional and European. The competition is self made and self-uploaded under a free license on Wikimedia Commons in September 2011 photo. In the Russian part of the contest involves pictures, which depicted the architectural monuments of St. Petersburg; to return to the pan-European tour to enter the top ten winners of the country. In addition, there is a general competition videonominatsiya.
The contest is intended to provide illustrative material for the encyclopedic project Wikipedia, as well as draw attention to the monuments of the architectural heritage of St. Petersburg. According to the results of the contest in November, an exhibition of works of the winners and participants.