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Putin will take part in the closing of the world festival of youth and students. The World Festival of Youth and Students has become the most massive in its history. What is the festival

SOCHI, October 21 - RIA Novosti. The largest youth event ends on Saturday in Sochi: the official closing ceremony of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students will be held in the Bolshoi Ice Palace, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part.

The festival officially opened in Sochi last Sunday. In total, according to the organizers, 25 thousand people from 188 countries of the world, as well as five thousand volunteers, took part in it. It was originally planned that the number of participants would be 20 thousand, but more guests arrived.

"The president Russian Federation V.V. Putin will take part in the closing of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students," the Kremlin press service said earlier.

For a whole week, Russian and foreign guests listened to lectures with leading experts in a particular field, asked questions to politicians and ministers, took part in foresight sessions and master classes, listened to concerts famous musicians, skated and even watched the Sokolov of Russia aviation show. The topics of lectures and panel discussions dealt with six topics relevant to all mankind: ecology, poverty, education, energy, information and science. It was these themes that were revealed during the show at the opening ceremony of the festival.

The closing day of the festival is also notable for the fact that it will be dedicated to the Day of Russia. Prior to that, the days of the Middle East, Europe, America, Asia and Oceania were held at the festival.

Among the "star" guests with whom the participants talked were French writer Frederik Begbeder, motivational speaker Nick Vujicic, as well as famous athletes and models, actors and directors, singers and musicians. Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky were also popular - long lines lined up for panel discussions with them, and after that the participants did not let the speakers go for a long time, taking selfies with them.

After the opening, Putin still had time to have a lengthy conversation with the participants, and on Thursday to talk to them in a more informal setting. After his speech at the final meeting of the Valdai Club, he went to the cafe where the participants were relaxing and talked to them.

It has been 60 years since Russia first became the host of the World Festival (as part of the USSR). History repeated itself in 1985, and both times the palm branch went to Moscow. But this time Sochi received the right to host the festival, where the main events took place in the Olympic Park.

Last Saturday, Moscow hosted an equally large-scale event: in the capital, to mark the start of the festival, a 35,000-strong column of Russian students and 450 delegates from all over the world marched from Vasilyevsky Spusk to the Luzhniki sports complex. The procession presented the world's best carnival traditions, including Venetian, Brazilian and Indian. In the evening in Russian capital passed holiday concert and ended with fireworks.

The first World Festival of Youth and Students took place in 1947 in Prague. Until now, it is considered the longest in the history of the festival movement - almost six weeks. The first festival in Moscow, in 1957, also distinguished itself: it was the most massive in history - 34,000 people from 131 countries.

Well, that's the end of the WFMS, after which everything possible sources for some reason, they were packed with this video with Putin. And it's really funny to hear English speech from VV, I don’t remember before this

But to be honest, after the closing, I was interested in something else - a new open platform and one of the sections with foreign students about the future, where VV visited. I'll start with the second

Guys from different countries and those involved in different areas talk briefly about their cases and proposals.
I would like to draw your attention to the topics
1) Surely you know about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, so now it is extremely important to add the 18th goal - "creating a sustainable digital environment". I have already written about this topic more than once, the point is that until we explain to all users how to protect themselves and learn how to control the World Wide Web, there will not be a single and clear structure that "plays" by the rules.
2) An interesting recycling approach from a student from Finland - a fairly simple platform application in which the consumer can transfer waste to those who use garbage for their own additional purposes. In fact, a brilliant topic, I wrote a diploma on a similar topic, but I focused on the separate collection of garbage in the harsh Russian reality and in my time there were no applications, but now it's really so simple!
3) 29 minutes - creation of a place called "national science territory" with the support of the UN and the G20, in which there will be an opportunity to implement all projects for talents from all over the world. Very interesting desire and initiative.

In general, what I'm telling you - watch the video - it's very interesting:

Well, the second topic is Kiriyenko's story about the projects of the platform "Russia is a country of opportunities", which really arouses interest among those who were born in the 90s and did not see such innovative approaches from the point of view of "the state is a young talent."

I’ll start a little from afar - it’s curious, but exactly four years ago we set off across Russia in two cars and a group of seven people to show the capacities of our country and. And now it is also called an open platform that combines the support of a huge number of projects offered by young students. In fact, this is one of the effective and working social lifts, which I hope will qualitatively develop our regions with the help of talented youth. And this is really serious about elevators - a number of vacancies have already been prepared in government agencies, including in the presidential administration and deputy ministers, who can be filled by the winners of platform competitions.

The platform is absolutely open and now four projects are fully launched on it:

1) The "Leaders of Russia" competition, which received more than 120 thousand applications in two weeks! The project is aimed at young and accomplished managers who probably understand the prospects, but do not know that, for example, they are already in the Department domestic policy one of them was prepared one of the positions of director of the department. For example, Maxim Oreshkin himself plans to open competition, including from the winners of the "Leaders of Russia" program, to select a deputy minister and three directors of departments of the ministry "

2) The "Manage" project, which is aimed at students, but unlike student leaders, it is designed for those who do not have managerial experience.

3) Grant competition of youth initiatives

4) "The Russian movement of schoolchildren: the territory of self-government", which will contribute to self-organization on the right parting words from the school desk

And I can't help but agree that projects like this can help bring out talent and potential in people as much as possible. early age, and most importantly, they will help to develop, of course, if they have a desire.

It remains to be summarized that this festival has really good level organization and study of the relevance of topics, as well as opens up huge horizons for current students!

Until the moment when Russia solemnly opens its doors to 20,000 participants from all over the world, there are only a few hours left: International Festival youth and students of Sochi 2017 will begin on October 14, 2017.

According to the organizers, it will be one of the largest in the history of the festival and unique, as it will take place outside the capital, but at the same time it will capture the whole country.

President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth N. Papadimitriou

At the conference in the TASS press center, a rich program of events was announced, the purpose of which is to establish mutual understanding between representatives of different cultures and religions. During the week, young people from 150 countries of the world will exchange experiences and become imbued with Russian culture.

What is the festival

70 years ago, in the capital of the Czech Republic, for the first time, a congress of leaders of youth organizations with a socialist or communist orientation was organized, and held under the slogan "For Peace and Friendship", to which one more term was later added - "imperialist solidarity". In the 21st century, the organizers of each subsequent event at the preparatory meeting choose a new motto. This year it reads as follows: "For peace, solidarity and social justice, we fight against imperialism - respecting our past, we are building our future!"

For Russia, this is the third festival of youth and students. In 1957, Moscow gathered 34 thousand participants - a record number in history.

It was then that Soviet students got acquainted with rock and roll, jeans and Western values that impressed young people so much. Soviet people that at the subsequent event in 1985, the authorities made every effort to limit the communication of our citizens with foreigners.

In 2017, the organizers tried to think over the plan of the festival events in such a way that young journalists, athletes, engineers, entrepreneurs, representatives of the creative sphere and programmers, scientists, teachers, as well as leaders of youth organizations and political parties had the most effective and interesting time, exchanging useful experience . Numerous discussions and seminars, concerts, sport competitions and, of course, large-scale festivities.

Sochi - out of competition

In May 2016 in Caracas (Venezuela), the preparatory committee of the festival unanimously approved the decision to hold the 2017 forum in sunny and hospitable Sochi, since after the 2014 Olympics the city has all the necessary infrastructure corresponding to the scope of the event, which will help to significantly save organizational costs. The host party is sure that Sochi will pleasantly surprise the participants and leave an indelible impression in their memory.

Guests will be accommodated in the hotels of the Olympic Village. It will also host concerts, exhibitions and lectures. As for sporting events, they will be used ski resort Rosa Khutor (Mountain Cluster).

Aims and themes of the festival

This year's event sets itself the goal of consolidating the youth of the whole world, strengthening existing international connections and do your best to further development intercultural and interethnic interaction of the participating countries.

The festival is designed to work out the image of the future of people and the world and try to find answers to the most acute challenges facing the representatives of the modern young generation.

The purpose of the festival is to increase interest in Russia, as well as to preserve the memory and history shared with it.

The themes of the festival are carefully thought out

culture and globalization ( cultural heritage nation, communication of representatives different cultures, creation)
economy and development of small and medium business
knowledge economy: education, new technologies, ideas and discoveries
public sector, charity and volunteering
politics and security

TV presenter and journalist Yana Churikova, figure skating champion Irina Slutskaya, director of the Moscow Circus and National artist Russian Federation Edgar Zapashny, high jump champion Elena Slesarenko and Representative of the UN Secretary General for Youth Affairs Ahmad Alkhendawi.

Anthem and talisman

You can get into the spirit of the 19th World Festival of Young Leaders even before it opens: the anthem of the 2017 event has been officially published online. The composition was created and performed by singer, actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador Alexei Vorobyov.

Listen to the anthem of the festival.

Especially for the flash mob at the festival, the song was arranged by the Swedish musician and producer RedOne, who has two Grammy awards in his piggy bank, who has successfully collaborated with a number of world-famous stars (Michael Jackson, Enrique Iglesias, Rod Stewart, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, U2 and others) and wrote the anthem for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Main composition festival sounds in Russian and English and maximally conveys the meaning and ideas of the international forum: the ideals of peace, love, friendship and international solidarity.

The mascot for the festival was chosen through an open international vote, which was attended by about one hundred thousand people. The largest number of votes was won by an unusual trinity: Romashka the robot, Shurik the ferret and Mishan the polar bear. The creator of the latter, Sergey Petrenko, a designer from Volgodonsk, decided that just such a character, dressed in a traditional red blouse and with a flower behind his ear, would be able to fully convey the scale of the holiday and the positive atmosphere that simply cannot be in Sochi.

Volunteers have not been forgotten either - they have their own anthem and great uniforms!

Listen to the anthem of the festival volunteers

Equipment

Just a week ago, the official uniform of the Sochi Youth Festival, designed by renowned Russian designer Igor Chapurin, was presented in Zaryadye Park.

The presentation turned out to be a real treat!

Equipment for participants, volunteers, organizers and guests is made in the official color scheme festival, so it turned out bright, beautiful. Pleasant and important details on each set of uniforms are waterproof zippers, logos, embroidery and appliqués made using the latest technologies garment industry.

The kits were appreciated and perfectly demonstrated by journalist Alla Mikheeva, TV presenter Aurora, actresses Ekaterina Varnava and Nadezhda Sysoeva, singer Mitya Fomin and other famous personalities.

15 main words

15 is the number of regions from which participants will arrive. That is how many images, personifying Russia, they will take home and will remember with warmth. A specially prepared video presentation will help those who do not speak Russian to get to know a little better, and perhaps even understand the Russian soul.

These 15 words are:

Welcome

Meetings with speakers, as well as discussions, will be held at the main Media Center. In addition, a youth expo center will operate in the building. It is expected that it will become a platform for the start of fruitful international cooperation between young people from different countries. The building is equipped with venues for film festivals, photo exhibitions and press conferences.

The World Youth Symphony Orchestra will be located in the Adler Arena, where both rehearsals and grand concert a unique team created specifically for the festival.

For dancers and theatre-goers, spaces have been prepared in the Ice Cube, where there will also be a mini-football field. Sports slot machines will be located on the site of the skate park and the Fomula-1 track. Participants will find many activities at other facilities:

Olympic park sites
Green Theater of the Riviera Park
Winter theater
concert hall "Festivalny"
Southern pier and Sochi circus

Youth Festival in Sochi: plan of events

The start of the festival week is scheduled for October 14 in Moscow, where a solemn meeting of guests and a grand carnival parade will take place.

The opening ceremony will take place on October 15 in Sochi. A special feature is the idea of the organizers to build a ceremony around history real people, who are trying with all their might to change the world for the better, for example, Afroz Shah from India, who cleared the beaches of Mumbai from five tons of garbage, or the Russian Roman Gek, who built a school in Nepal, and many others.

A discussion program will be implemented from the first day

October 15 - First day of education
October 16 is America's Day. On this day, the guests of the event have a unique opportunity to participate in a discussion on the topic " World culture: global challenges”, listen to one of the most famous contemporary writers Frederick Begbeder, as well as to ask questions to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky.
October 17 - Africa Day
October 18 - Middle East Day
October 19 - Asia and Oceania Day
October 20 - Europe Day
October 21 - Russia Day

Plan of cultural events

October 16 - Jazz Festival
October 17 – International New Music Festival
October 18 - State Band « New Russia» with Diana Arbenina
October 19 – Festival of National Cultures
October 20 - Concert of the World Youth symphony orchestra, Gala Concert classical music and ballet
October 21 - Day of Russia

Sport program

October 15 - Opening of the site "World TRP"
October 16 - Festival run for 2017 meters, the opening of the "Dancing Planet"
October 17 - Rope-skipping show, tournament among Workout camp graduates
October 18 - Show of stars "Ekogonka", a session of simultaneous blind play on 30 boards
October 19 - Final contests in extreme sports
October 20 - Performance of the Football freestyle team, GTO race, mini-football tournament final

Scientific and educational thematic areas will be implemented through the organization of speeches by more than 700 speakers. One of the brightest guests will be motivational speaker Nick Vujicic.

The regional program involves visits by festival participants to 15 regions of Russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, where discussions of various thematic areas will also be held.

The closing ceremony took place on 21 October. The culmination of the program was the message "Let's change the world" written by the participants. Nail music program– Dutch singer Rochelle Perts, winner music competition"X Factor".

Online broadcast of the closing of the festival

The Sochi Youth Forum will bring together young and ambitious leaders aged 18 to 35 to Once again to prove to the world that friendship, love and creativity can make our planet and the future of people better.

Dates of the festival of youth and students in Sochi 2017: from 14 to 21 October 2017.

The article used materials and photos from sites:
Official website of the event: http://russia2017.com
WFYS Photo Bank 2017: http://wfys2017.tassphoto.com
Official group VKontakte.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that, leaving the Russian Federation, the participants of the festival will leave here "a piece of their heart"

SOCHI, 22 October. /TASS/. The closing ceremony of the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in the Sochi Olympic Park on Saturday, the main characters of the show were the participants of the festival. In general, this day at the WFMS was dedicated to Russia.

Previously, the days of America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania and Europe were held at the festival. Throughout Saturday, in honor of the Day of Russia, face painting with the Russian tricolor was painted on the cheeks of the festival participants.

"Awakening"

The show at the closing ceremony, called "Awakening", took place at the Bolshoy Ice Palace, where the opening of the festival took place last Sunday. Igor Krutoy became the producer of the closing ceremony, Alexei Sechenov directed it. As at the opening, the WFYS completion show was interactive. In order for each spectator to take part in the performance, those sitting in the stands received luminous bracelets that were switched on centrally and changed colors at the command of the organizers.

In addition, even before the official start, the presenters and animators suggested that the audience hold a small rehearsal. Volunteers, located in the center of the Bolshoi hall, showed various dance moves, which were duplicated on the scoreboards suspended from the ceiling of the palace.

During the ceremony, the representative from Brazil, Enrique Dominguez, took the podium. "I feel that each of the participants wants to change the world for the better and achieve equality in the world. At this festival, I felt the unity, solidarity and kindness of young people from all over the world," he addressed the audience.

Dominguez thanked all the volunteers and organizers. "Thank you guys! You did a great job," he said.

At the same time, Dominguez stressed that this festival was created by the peers of the participants. "We can say that the youth made this festival for the youth," added the delegate from Brazil.

Speaking at the ceremony, the head of the directorate for the preparation and holding of the festival, Ksenia Razuvaeva, said that UN volunteers took part in the organization of the festival for the first time in the history of the movement. “I am so happy to be here in front of you, I congratulate us on the fact that we left a mark on the magnificent history of the WFYS. On behalf of all the volunteers, I can say that we put our soul into this,” said UN Volunteers representative Shreya Bose from India.

In turn, President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth Nicolas Papadimitriou noted that during the days of the festival the participants had a unique opportunity to "exchange experience, beliefs, ideas and their vision of the world." He also called on young people to "come together to fight international terrorism."

Dances, songs and lights

Behind musical accompaniment the show was answered by a rock orchestra conducted by Alexander and Nikita Pozdnyakov, who performed modern hits in their own arrangement. So that the audience could sing along, the lyrics were displayed on the scoreboard. In addition, various tasks for the audience were displayed on the screens. For example, monitors called on participants to make a wave, freeze like a mannequin in a certain position, and also hug or kiss a person sitting next to them.

Particular delight in the hall was caused by the situation when the camera, flying around the hall in search of a couple for kisses, focused on a middle-aged man and a young festival participant sitting next to each other. The man, according to the assignment, kissed the girl on the cheek, to which the hall reacted with applause and cheers.

In the middle of the performance, a participant from Chad by the name of Ndolegulum Jasrabe Hervé appeared on the stage and performed a song written by him especially for the festival. unofficial anthem. In addition to foreign compositions, Russian songs were also played, such as "Kalinka-Malinka" or "Black Eyes", to which the hall unanimously performed movements from Russian folk dances. The show ended with the composition of the Canadian musician Leonardo Cohen "Hallelujah": almost the entire audience raised their hands with shimmering bracelets up and swayed from side to side, singing along with the musicians.

A series of events at the festival, dedicated to the official closing, ended after midnight with a large-scale and colorful fireworks display, consisting of four thousand volleys. According to the creators of the fireworks, volleys occurred at a frequency of more than 10 shots per second.

Show "Russia"

At the same time, the closing ceremony was preceded by another event, designed primarily to tell foreign guests about the features and traditions of the host country.

The show "Russia" at "Medals Plaza" showed that Russia lives in a century high technology but does not forget about his roots. Representing all eight federal districts country was designed as a presentation on a computer monitor, where the user enters queries in a search engine, watches YouTube videos, scrolls through posts on Instagram and Twitter. Kuban took the stage Cossack choir, "Buranovskiye Babushki", Chechen state ensemble"Vainakh", Russian folk choir named after E. Popov and "Storytellers of Altai".

The participants were greeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The head of state expressed confidence that when leaving the Russian Federation, the participants of the festival would leave "a piece of their heart" here, and Russia would remain in their hearts.

Prior to this, Putin also took part in the meeting of the session "Youth-2030: the image of the future." The session was the result of the work of 12 discussion platforms that functioned throughout the festival. In particular, the head of state was told about the results of discussions on the topics: aviation of the future, technologies of the future, ecology, new media and others. In turn, the President of the Russian Federation, speaking about the prospects for the development of mankind, urged young people not to forget about "morality and ethics."

"Russia is a country of opportunities"

Saturday at the WFYS began with the presentation of the platform "Russia - a country of opportunities", which was told by the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko. According to him, initially there were four projects under this platform, but in currently The number of such projects has grown to 10.

At the same time, the projects are designed for people aged 7 to 50 years. Kiriyenko stressed that the platform could expand. "The platform "Russia - the Land of Opportunities" is absolutely open to any proposals that are offered to people of the different ages", he assured.

According to him, the first projects were the "Leaders of Russia" competition for young managers, the "Manage" project aimed at students. The third project was the grant competition of youth initiatives, and the fourth - "The Russian movement of schoolchildren: the territory of self-government".

After that, other projects appeared within the framework of the platform, in particular subject Olympiads for schoolchildren "I am a professional", the project "I want to do good", the campaign for sending letters of gratitude "Thank you" and others.

Speaking about the festival as a whole, Kiriyenko called the WFYS participants "soft power" and noted that it is they who will determine the future of their states. He also called the festival "a good model of life" as it implies absolute freedom choice. "Nothing is regulated, no one is driven anywhere - neither lecturers, nor participants cultural program, nor the delegates themselves, they choose themselves," Kiriyenko said.

Finish of the sports program

Also on Saturday, the intercontinental tournament "Towards the World Cup - 2018" ended. It was won by the National Collegiate Football League (NSFL). In the final match, the team led by former Manchester United player Andrei Kanchelskis defeated the team of European universities in a penalty shootout.

One of the honored guests of the match was general secretary International Football Federation (FIFA) Fatma Samura. "It is a great honor for me to be here," she said before the start of the meeting. "On behalf of FIFA, I want to thank the Russian authorities for organizing such a wonderful tournament with the participation of young people from all over the world."

The best player of the tournament was recognized as the midfielder of the national team of Russian universities Khan Ngoc Viet from Vietnam, who studies at the Kuban State University.

In addition, on Saturday, the head of the Kamaz-Master racing team, seven-time winner of the Dakar, Vladimir Chagin, chose the winner of the competition for best sketch equipment for rally-raid racers. They became Ekaterina Rebezha from Kursk.

It also became known the number of participants in the festival who passed the testing of the complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (RLD) at the site in the Olympic Park. Of the 15,000 people who came to try their hand, over 6,000 people from 85 countries coped with the task.

“The festival is coming to an end, and today we can already say that it was not just a success, it was a fantastic forum hosted by young people,” said Vitaly Mutko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. “I hope that it will remain in the memory of its participants. About 30,000 young people from all over the world participated in the most interesting discussions and took part in the events of the sports program. We will definitely meet Russian participants, we are interested in their opinion, we want to understand what conclusions they have drawn from communication on this forum," he added.

About the festival

XIX World Festival of Youth and Students started on October 14 in Moscow, where the international carnival parade took place, the main events of the festival took place from October 15 in the Sochi Olympic Park. According to the organizers, on Sunday, October 22, the technical last day will be held at the WFYS, during which the participants will go home.

The festival brought together young professionals in various fields aged 18 to 35 from over 180 countries. Other cities were also involved in the youth holiday - 2 thousand foreign participants visited 15 Russian regions in the first three days of the festival.

The Russian news agency TASS acts as the general media partner and official photo host agency of the festival.

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