On April 4, 2018, the Handover Ceremony of the UNESCO Certificate 'Memory of the World' for the Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures from the 16th through the 18th Century and Specimens of Persian Calligraphy was held in the IOM RAS. The Head of the Russian Federal Agency of Archives Mr A.N. Atrizov presented the Certificate to the Director of the IOM RAS I.F. Popova. The Director of the State Hermitage M. B. Piotrovsky, head of the Cultural Center of Iran Reza Maleki participated in the ceremony. A special temporary exhibition of the St. Petersburg Muraqqa was prepared for the participants and guests of the event.
The more detailed information on the event is available at the Russian version of the IOM web site.