The head of the SC WAC and entrepreneur Mussa Ekzekov was awarded the Patron of the Year prize.
WAC press-service
Mussa Ekzekov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the WAC and President of the GC Development Group, was named the nominee for the All-Russian Patron of the Year Award. The award winners were awarded on November 15 at the Faberge Museum as part of the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.
This year, cultural institutions that received patronage support nominated candidates for the award. Mussa Ekzekov was represented by the Russian Ethnographic Museum.
Ekzekov annually helps the museum in holding permanent and temporary exhibitions. So, with his support, a unique exhibition “Red-Yellow-White” was held in 2018-2019. For almost a year, visitors to the Russian Ethnographic Museum could get acquainted with the collection of minerals, jewelry, and the history of the use of “basic natural flowers” in the cultures of the peoples of Eurasia.
To organize another exhibition in November 2018 dedicated to the history and culture of Abaza and Abkhaz, Mussa Ekzekov ensured the arrival in St. Petersburg of more than a hundred unique exhibits - national costumes and archaeological artifacts.
The director of the museum, Vladimir Grusman, commenting on the Ekzekov award, noted that the philanthropist “pays great attention to fostering respect for the history and culture of small nations.”
“I do not know other people who, with such a social status and level of security, would seek to invest personal resources in preserving the material and cultural values of their people. We are grateful to him for his support in creating the expositions of the Russian Ethnographic Museum,” the director of the institution said.
Mussa Ekzekov himself, commenting on the event, expressed satisfaction with the fact that “it was the ethnographic museum that became one of the centers of the cultural forum.”
“The key topic of the forum“ cultural codes in the era of globalization” is consonant with our joint work with the museum and the activities of the “Alashara” association, which I lead. I consider it extremely important in modern conditions to preserve the traditions of all the peoples of the Russian Federation. The unique multinational Russian culture is formed from their heritage,” the award winner said.
In turn, he thanked the museum for their joint work.
“I am sure that new and important cultural projects for the country are waiting for us,” concluded Ekzekov.
Mussa Ekzekov's charitable work in the field of ethnography and culture is not limited to the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The patron is a member of the trustees of the World Club of St. Petersburg, is a member of the board of trustees of the State Memorial Museum of A.V. Suvorov. In 2017, Mussa Ekzekov acquired in Germany and donated to the State Memorial Museum A.V. Suvorov's unique collection of tin soldiers “The Last Parade of the Russian Imperial Guard.” This reconstruction became the basis of the Tin Soldier Museum, which opened in St. Petersburg in May 2018. With the support of Ekzekov, there is also a private museum of local history in the Elburgan village (Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia). It is also planned to create the ethnographic complex “Abaza yard” there. A place has already been chosen for the construction of a new museum building, and design work is underway.
Mussa Khabalevich Ekzekov - entrepreneur, philanthropist, public and political figure. In 2011, he founded the International Association for the Development of the Abaza-Abkhaz Ethnos “Alashara”. In December 2017, he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of the World Abaza Congress. Since September 2019, he has been deputy chairman of the KChR Parliament.
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