September 26, 2015: September 10-20, 2015: the community of Chekhov museums and libraries held a series of cultural events "Chekhov Without Borders: Taganrog-Moscow-Sakhalin-Melikhovo-Yalta-Badenweiler-worldwide..." across the island of Sakhalin. The so-called "cultural relay" started in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and was dedicated to 155th Anton Chekhov's birth anniversary and 125 years since the writer's arrival to Sakhalin in 1890.

All major Chekhov museums and libraries of Russian as well as international participants, including Mr. Heinz Setzer - Anton Chekhov scholar and director of literary museum "Tschechow Salon" in Badenweiler, Germany came to participate in the events. The Taganrog State Museum Reserve was represented by its director Mrs. Yelizaveta Lipovenko and director of the Literary Museum "Chekhov Gymnasium" Mrs. Zoya Vysotskaya.

For the first time since the Crimea's return home, representatives of the republic - Mrs. Angelina Titorenko, deputy director of "The White Dacha" Chekhov Museum in Yalta, Russia and Mrs. Yelena Emirova, director of the Museum and library department at The Ministry of Culture of Republic of Crimea participated in the events.

All participants were split into teams that every day went to different towns and villages on Sakhalin to meet school and college students, local municipality representatives, librarians and representatives of local communities. The meetings were held in the towns of Korsakov, Nevelsk, Kholmsk, Dolinsk and Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky.
September 13-20 at the same time with "virtual excursions", an international scientific conference "Island of Sakhalin - open finale" was held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky. Chekhov scholars from Argentina, Germany, Peoples' Republic of China, Japan, United States of America, Poland, Serbia and 10 regions of Russian Federation participated in the project. The Taganrog State Museum Reserve was represented by Mrs. Vysotskaya.

The meetings held on the island of Sakhalin made it possible to generate new contacts among Chekhov scholars and re-think Anton Chekhov's trip to former penal colony.