Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Sankin (born November 1, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian social entrepreneur , founder and general director of the Moscow interactive children’s museum of folk toys Zabavushka , whose main goal is to popularize Russian folk toys [1] .
| Alexey Vyacheslavovich Sankin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | November 1, 1958 (aged 60) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Russia |
| Occupation | social entrepreneur |
| Website | zabawushka.ru |
Biography
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Sankin was born on November 1, 1958 in Moscow . Received higher education at Moscow State Pedagogical University. V. I. Lenin in the specialty "History", after which he worked in the 1980s, the Central Committee of the Komsomol . In the 1990s, Sankin was engaged in various social projects, and soon began his active entrepreneurial activity . At the very end of the 20th century, he lost his father , who throughout his life was fond of collecting folk toys . It was this rather rich collection that served as the occasion for the creation of a charity children's museum . Initially, having received funds from sponsors, Alexey Sankin organized an exhibition for children with interactive elements, which was a success, which gave impetus to the further work of a social company [2] .
Alexey Sankin opened the museum in 1998 as a society of folk art lovers “Tradition” [3] . On September 5, 2002, on the initiative of a social entrepreneur, a charity event “Return of Folk Toys” was organized [4] . On February 12, 2002, another exhibition began, at which representatives of 20 crafts from 15 regions of Russia were represented. On September 16-18, 2008, the museum created by Sankin took part in the festival “The Kremlin for Children” [5] .
Among other things, on May 17, 2013 Aleksey Vyacheslavovich Sankin took part in the round table “Folk Crafts of the Moscow Region: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” in Balashikha , where he made a presentation “Using Folk Toys in Interactive Programs on the Example of the Folk Toy Museum“ Fun ” [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Minashkina, Elena A folk toy gives wings . Moscow truth (October 16, 2012). Date of treatment June 14, 2015. Archived on April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Moscow A. “Development of professional knowledge at the intersection of professions: the experience of social entrepreneurship”. 2010
- ↑ Moscow, 2013 , p. 141.
- ↑ Russian toys defeat Pokemon. - Day, 2002. - No. 9 .
- ↑ Information on registration of participation . Scientific and Methodological Center "Moscow Regional College of Arts" (September 16, 2008). Date of treatment June 14, 2015.
- ↑ Round table “Crafts of the Moscow Region: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” (May 17, 2013). Date of treatment June 14, 2015.
Literature
- Team of authors. Social entrepreneurship in Russia and in the world. Practice and research / Editor A. Moskovskaya, reviewer A. Yu. Chepurenko. - Higher School of Economics , 2013. - P. 66-71. - 286 p. - ISBN 5759808834 .