On October 16, presentation of the book of french writer Jean-Michel Chevry «Kyym. Le petit mammoth. Le cirque» took place in the Scientific Library of NEFU. Students of federal university and schoolchildren , who participated in international project " Mammoth Kyym" were there to meet the author.

"Jean-Michel Chevry collaborates with the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies since 1999 and visits Yakutia not for the first time . Our country has become so close to him that he had wrote last year a children's book about the mammoth Kyym, and this year it came its sequel - says the head of the Department of French NEFU Marianne Samsonova. - As you know, we are engaged in research on Malolyakhovskov mammoth in our university, find of which,according to some scholars, could be a big step toward the cloning of this prehistoric animal. It is in support of a future revival of the rulers of the tundra, IFPRS(Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies) NEFU together with media group "Sitim" conducted a campaign to collect origami mammoths from around the world. "

Origami mammoth in quantities of 1, 000 pieces of protesters from South Korea, China, Japan, France and Russia will be collected and exhibited at the Museum of Mammoth in Yakutsk. According to the organizers, the project "Mammoth Kyym" directed not only to the unity and friendship of the nations, but also enable students of IFPRS to improve their skills of french, and schoolchildren - to get acquainted with the French culture.

"The book about mammoth Kyym will be translated into Russian and Yakut languages soon , so that Russian readers will be able to appreciate it. I decided first of all to present the second part of the adventures of a baby mammoth Kyym in Yakutia, and only then in Europe, also tell you a little secret - I have already planned for the third book in this series, so that the Yakut mammoth adventure will certainly continue, "- shared by Jean-Michel Chevry.

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Jean-Michel Chevry (born in 1961) - a French writer, poet and musician. He gave a large number of charity concerts in Yakutia, published a book-album "Celebration of the sun in Yakutsk," translated into four languages. Three of five published books devoted to Yakutia.