Makhachkala, March 21, 2017. The All-Russian Week of the Children's and Youth Book "We Read Smart Books and respect the Nature", dedicated to the Year of Ecology, has started in the Center for Traditional Culture of the Peoples of Russia in the village of Averyanovka, Kizlyar District, Dagestan the press service of the municipal administration reports.

The holiday has opened with a theatrical performance "Ecological journey into the world of nature". The children were told about the well-known public figures – the defenders of nature, the Russian writers and poets such as Anton Chekhov, Leonid Leonov, Vitaly Bianchi, Georgy Skrebitsky, Nikolay Sladkov, Mikhail Prishvin, Konstantin Paustovsky and many others