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Russians Gave U.S. Helicopter, TV, Google
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke to the Russian-speaking community in New York during the sixth My Heritage festival, organized by the Russian American Foundation. He named the helicopter, television and Google as Russian gifts to America. He could have mentioned Russian contributions to New York’s ballet, opera, filmmaking, music and art worlds as well. There are about 200,000 Russian-speakers in New York and the surrounding area.
Igor Sikorsky patented the helicopter in 1910. Vladimir Zvorykin and David Sarnoff launched the production of the television in the 1930. Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin thought up Google in 1998. Forbes recently named their company the most respected in business. The Russian American Foundation is known for its projects with the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow’s New Opera and the Sovremennik Theater on Broadway. “A rich cultural tradition is the very bridge that unites Russia and the U.S.,” said Marina Kovaleva, cochairman of the foundation.
This year, the foundation will introduce Russian jazz to New York with a concert by vocalist Larisa Dolina and saxophonist Igor Butman and his orchestra. Young Moscow artist Olga Burtseva will have an exhibit, as will Ukrainian designer Viktoria Baron.
The Russian American Foundation will also hold a camp this summer at which about 200 students will learn about Russian ballet from teachers from the Bolshoi Theater. Kovaleva is an ethnographer who worker many years at the Leningrad Museum of the Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR and at the Brooklyn Museum.
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