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Grushinsky festival or "Grushinka" rightfully claims to be the oldest festival of author's song in Russia.

The venue for the All-Russian Festival of Author's Songs. Valery Grushin is served by the protected Mastryukovsky lakes, located between Samara and Tolyatti. Over the years of the forum, the natural oasis has become a cult place among domestic fans of live music, poetry, tourism and an active lifestyle. Such masters of poetry as Yuri Vizbor, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Gorodnitsky, Alexander Dolsky, Tatyana and Sergey Nikitin, Evgeny Klyachkin, Veronika Dolina, Oleg Mityaev, Andrey Kozlovsky, Timur Shaov performed on the famous stages of "Guitar" and "Teahouse". Over time, the festival program has outgrown the framework of the author's song. Today on the stage of the Grushinsky Festival you can meet rocker Yuri Shevchuk, guitar legend Ivan Smirnov, balalaika virtuoso Alexei Arkhipovsky or folk musician Sergei Starostin.

The organizer of the Grushinsky festival - the Samara regional club of author's song named after Valery Grushin - gathers tens of thousands of fans of creative outdoor recreation at the traditional site near the Mastryukovsky lakes. In addition to concerts on numerous festival and outdoor stages in the tent camp, open-air guests are offered a lot of additional entertainment. Among them - sport competitions, art competitions, performances, poetry evenings, master classes, children's cultural projects. The finale of the Grushinsky festival is a gala concert on the main guitar stage with the participation of all the winners of the festival.

The gathering of art song lovers was born in 1968, a year earlier than the legendary American "Woodstock". Only 600 people participated in the first festival, held in Zhiguli in honor of Valery Grushin, a student who died heroically while rescuing drowning people. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1990s, Grushinka gathered more than 200,000 bard song lovers, becoming one of the most popular musical holidays in the history of the country.

Entrance to the Grushinsky festival is free. You can get to the venue by train from Samara. The nearest stop to the camp is called Platform 135 km or (informally) Platform im. Valeria Grushina.

The Grushinsky festival is beautiful, among other things, because it takes place every year. And every year we spend the first month of summer where smoke from fires spreads over the water, and music, like gas, fills the space provided.

Music begins on the distant approaches to the festival glade. Misanthropes play, who do not accept the obligatory festival crowds in their immediate vicinity and set up camp further away. The farthest stage of the festival is playing - the Kola hillock. People passing through the festival play with jew's harps and pipes of unprecedented shapes.

In general, as Galina aptly noted, a pear is a big music box. You fall into it and even seem to fall, as in rabbit hole, and you never know what "dreams and songs" (c) will fill the air in ten steps. Here the Beatles sing, there is CHIZHA, and now “The Atlanteans hold the sky on stone hands” (c), Leps comes from around the corner, but thanks for not Tanya Bulanova, although maybe she is sung somewhere. It's great that we Galina Garshenina devirtualized!

On a musical basis, companies randomly gather, and unfamiliar guys sing with each other, laying out the songs according to their voices.

And all this musical diversity takes place every year, continuing as if in the same place where they finished last time. Sometimes I get the feeling that in fact the Pear never ends. This is such Grushin's space-time continuum, emerging from a parallel universe on the first weekend of July in the same place and bringing with it the same time due to some kind of physical incident.

And there is a Pear without fail with rain, which only confirms the theory. But if we almost didn't notice the rain, then this festival is one of the most "sedimentary" in my memory. And the rain became the musical accompaniment, the incessant percussion setting off the ringing of the strings, the harmonica and the long, delicate trumpet roulade in the style of Chat Baker. This trumpeter made my Saturday morning, the rain rhythmically knocks on the tightly stretched awning of the tent, without losing the rhythm. And here comes the pipe...

Traditional night concert as well as 5 and 10 years ago imperceptibly materializes on the lake. This time, even he could not do without rain, and the night tree-mountain attracts photographers and listeners to itself, like a lamp attracts moths.

And when the rain finally stops, at dawn on Sunday, the rising sun and the rising fog are already ready to remove the spell of witchcraft from the clearing, when time is ready to make its usual loop and turn the festival back into a simple forest clearing. The pear is the most beautiful. And you can follow her from the stairs for a long time trying to catch the moment when everything disappears. But you won't get it.

Everything disappears without you. The pear turns into a memory, like Santa Claus into gifts under the tree and an ajar window. "Personal New Year» (c) met. We are waiting for the next one.

This year the Grushinsky Festival turned fifty years old. The event, which most of the inhabitants associate with jokes about bards and the “bending of the yellow guitar”, in fact, has retained a powerful unifying momentum for more than a decade. The author of samizdat went to the festival itself, and at the same time tried to restore the chronology of its transformation into a cult.

On August 29, 1967, the doorbell of the Grushins' apartment in Novokuibyshevsk rang. On the threshold, Fyodor Ivanovich and Bella Yakovlevna saw their son's friends - Misha Kuznetsov and Tamara Muravyova.

Something happened? asked Bella Yakovlevna.
“Yes, it happened,” Misha answered.

The guys prepared the necessary words in advance, but at the sight of the frightened Grushins they were confused and could not pronounce them in any way. In this silence, Bella Yakovlevna guessed the terrible thing and, sitting down, said:

- Tomochka, daughter. A woman carrying such a message should be with her head covered.

The taxi driver drops me off at the train platform. There are a dozen and a half cars parked in the parking lot and so far there are almost no people. An obelisk in the form of a guitar rises near the cars. Both names of the stopping point are indicated on the plate: "135 km" and "Valery Grushin's platform".

Usually eight electric trains a day stop here - four each in the direction of Samara and Togliatti. During the days of the Grushinsky festival, the Kuibyshev railway introduces several additional flights for tourists. Short electric trains of four cars arrive at a low platform along a single track. For those who are here for the first time, there is a sign "To the festival" right on the ground. Not far from it, under a tent, there are temporary ticket offices of the KbshZhD. I'm passing by.

The path ends at a high slope, and in front of me is a view of the festival valley: a steep descent rests on a small lake. Behind him is a clearing with tents and a forest. You can see the Volga and the Zhiguli Mountains on its opposite bank. The festival has only natural borders: there are no fences, fences and metal detector frames.

On the left, on the shore of the lake, something is turning yellow - this is the famous guitar-shaped raft stage, on which the laureates of the festival will play tomorrow at the traditional Saturday concert.

I go down a long metal staircase. They say that when she was gone, tourists often rolled head over heels down to the clearing.

Around the tents. To set up a camp, just select a site and stretch a tape around its perimeter. From that moment on, the territory becomes private and entering it without permission is like breaking into someone else's apartment.

There are tents by the paths, by the music scenes, by the stalls, by the lakes and on the banks of the Volga. The camps are very different in size: someone puts up one tent in the forest, and someone has huge plots with long dining tables. The police officers who keep order at the festival also live in camps, which are easily recognizable by high fences, covered with camouflage disguise.

The festival meadow looks empty. You can’t hide from the sun on it, and cars pass by periodically, so tourists try not to settle here. In addition to a couple of dozen tents in the clearing, there is a tent with a press center and a museum of Valery Grushin, a children's trampoline town and a sports ground. There are several military tents nearby - members of public and youth organizations live in them. A banner catches your eye: "Love, Komsomol, Festival."

The only official fenced area is a small camp site for those who do not want or do not know how to live in camping conditions. I take the key from her administrator and settle in one of the houses.

In the summer of 1967, student Valery Grushin got ready for another trip. He spent a month at the military training camp, and before that he passed his last session at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute. Now, after five years of study, all that remained was to write and defend a thesis.

Initially, six people were going to go rafting on the Uda River in the Irkutsk region, but two of them were delayed at the training camp. There was no time to wait, so Grushin changed the difficulty category of the route from third to second and registered a group of four tourists. He went to the taiga with his fiancee Sveta Johim and friends Zhenya Nedosekov and Sonya Afanasyeva.

Valery was an experienced tourist. By the age of twenty-two, he had made thirty-six campaigns and managed to visit the Sayans, the Kola Peninsula, the North Caucasus, the Urals and the Pamirs.

During his studies, when he had to stay in Kuibyshev for a long time, he left a room in a hostel, crossed the Volga, put up a tent on the shore and raised his own flag over it. Classmates came to visit this tent to prepare for exams in nature. Grushina knew the whole institute, if not the city. Independent, decent, smart - he was the soul of any company and the pride of his big family. Valera had two younger brothers, Mikhail and Alexander. Two more children, Yuri and Nelya, remained with Fyodor Grushin from his first marriage.

Valery - Valerka, as his friends called him - did not compose songs, but brought them from campaigns. He listened to them at other people's fires and wrote down the words in a notebook, so that later he could sing to his friends. Gradually, Grushin collected an entire anthology of eight handwritten books filled with texts. In 1965, Valera and his friends Tolya Golovin and Slava Lunev united in a musical trio called Singing Beavers. They sang Vysotsky, Gorodnitsky, Kim, tourist songs. If anyone had a serious reason for claims against Grushin, then this was the noise that the "beavers" raised in the corridors of the KuAI hostel, learning new songs. Golovin was just one of those two who could not go to Uda because of the fees.

Rafting in the Irkutsk region was supposed to be a small trip in an endless series of trips. In mid-August, tourists arrived by train in the city of Nizhneudinsk. From there, on a small plane, they reached the village of Nerha, located a few kilometers from Uda.

The group covered part of the way on foot in order to bypass the difficult Millionny rapids along the coast, which was not included in the route. Once outside the threshold, Grushin and his friends set up a tent and began to build a raft. The area was swampy, and dry logs had to be carried from afar. It rained every day. The group ran behind schedule and spent over a week building the raft. By August 27, when the work was finally completed, the tourists had almost no food left.

"The consignment! Lenin! Komsomol!" I hear a scream from the street. I look out the window and see how a column of people in capes and T-shirts with Komsomol symbols is approaching the main stage of the Grushinsky festival.

On both sides of the stage hangs a huge banner. On the left - "50 years of the Grushinsky Festival", on the right - "100 years of the Komsomol", the already familiar slogan "Love, Komsomol, Festival" and a badge with Lenin. Outrage about such a neighborhood will appear only on Facebook and among some organizers, but in the clearing no one cares about Komsomol members.

Officially, the festival began the day before, on Thursday, and several dozen artists have already managed to play on this stage. But the solemn opening ceremony will begin only now. It's five o'clock in the evening. A flagpole rises in the middle of the pop field. Those gathered at the stage are greeted by the president of the Samara regional club of author's song named after Valery Grushin, one of the founders of the festival and its permanent organizer Boris Keilman.

Anatoly Golovkin comes out to the flagpole and raises the flag of Valery Grushin over the clearing to the tune of a tourist song. The flag depicts a crane flying towards the sun, and the abbreviation KuAI is displayed.

The musicians begin new song- "Union of Friends" by Bulat Okudzhava:

Let's hold hands, friends
Let's hold hands, friends
So as not to fall apart.

“Let's join hands, friends” - and everyone joins hands, and we sway to the beat. The jubilee, 45th All-Russian festival of author's song named after Valery Grushin is declared open. After the ceremony here begins musical evening in memory of Okudzhava, and then - a concert in honor of the centenary of the Komsomol.

On the morning of August 28, the raft was launched. Grushin knew that downstream, where the Khadama river flows into the Udu, there was a meteorological station Khadoma. There he planned to resupply food.

The journey to Khadoma took all day.

The guys did not want to spend the night near the station, so as not to irritate the locals. Moreover, she was considered state facility, and formally it was forbidden to even moor nearby. But the head of the station, Konstantin Tretyakov, himself invited Valera to settle down with the whole group in the house.

When the raft of the tourist group Valery Grushin stopped at Khadoma, in addition to the chief, five more people lived at the station: his wife Zinaida, sons Kolya and Lenya, niece Lyuba and radio operator Valentina. The children stayed at the station all summer, and on the morning of August 29, Konstantin was going to take them back to the boarding school in Nerja. All evening he was loading dried meat, fish, berries and other prepared products into the Kazanka boat, which he was going to take to the village as payment for the children's accommodation and education.

The next morning, the stationmaster put two Moskva engines into the boat and put the children on the stern. Of the two engines, only one started. Tretyakov carefully led the boat along the edge of the Shiver - a shallow section of the river with a fast current and standing waves.

When the second motor still started, Tretyakov lost control - and the "Kazanka" was abruptly carried to the middle of the shivers. The boat was overloaded, and her bow was pulled up due to the heavy weight at the stern. From the impact of the water shaft "Kazanka" turned over. Everyone who was in it ended up in icy water. Tretyakov grabbed his youngest son Kolya and swam to the shore.

At this time, Valera Grushin was washing himself on the river bank. He saw an overturned boat, which was carried towards the threshold, and children floundering about it. He took off his windbreaker and sweater and rushed across the Kazanka. Lyuba clung to the side with fear, and Valera had to forcefully tear her away from the boat. He got with the girl to the shore, threw her on the rocks and swam back.

Lyonya remained in the water. It is impossible to say what exactly happened next, because Tretyakov's son recalled this moment in different ways. Either Valera managed to grab Lenya and drag him to the coastal stones, or Grushin persuaded him to quickly jump into the water from the bottom of the Kazanka, on which the boy escaped from the icy water, or they were carried along the river together. One way or another, one got out on the shore of Lenya: Valera was carried away by the current.

Zhenya Nedosekov was on duty that morning. He woke up earlier than other tourists, went to the river and went home to cook porridge. At this moment he is last time I saw my friend: Valera, with a towel in his hands, was walking towards him.

When Nedosekov ran ashore, Valera was nowhere to be found. Hoping to find him, Zhenya walked one and a half kilometers along the Uda. The only find was an empty "Kazanka", stuck in the stones. Zhenya invited Tretyakov to go down the river on a raft. Together they swam about five kilometers, but Valera was nowhere to be found. The search had to be stopped in order to have time to return to the station before dark.

In the evening of the same day, the head of the Khadoma meteorological station Konstantin Tretyakov took a hunting carbine, walked fifteen meters from the house, put the barrel to his chin and killed himself with a shot in the head.

The roof goes, the train rushes, the plane flies /
The announcer in the "box" mumbles some problems /
I don’t have enough money for travel - I’ll go on foot /
Go to hell. Go to hell. Go to hell.
I'm fine!

On the stage called "Time of Bells" - a group from Tambov "Presumption of insanity". What is happening differs from the usual punk concert only in the absence of slam. Bell Time seems to be the only venue in the entire festival that has a drum kit, and so it is on the outskirts so as not to drown out the performers on other stages.

The myth that the Grushinsky Festival is a collective bard in a stretched sweater, ready to sing about “the skis are standing by the stove” at any moment, hardly corresponds to reality. Here, unhurried romantic songs with a guitar are still held in high esteem, but even the veterans of Pear say that the bard spirit has long been absent from the Mastryukovsky Lakes. Someone blames money for this, and someone - bad poetry. “The trouble with an author's song is that the authors leave, they die,” says Alexander Gorodnitsky, addressing the participants in the poetry contest.

Lineup also destroys stereotypes. In total, there are a dozen and a half scenes at the Grushinsky festival. Each of them has its own team and its own history. For example, "Teahouse" appeared back in the seventieth year and was intended for humorous songs. "Time of Bells" is one of the youngest and is formally considered a branch of the Saratov festival of the same name.

Feature Grushinsky music program lies in the fact that during the festival the same musician plays small sets on different stages. The “Presumption of Insanity” will be replaced by Dmitry Vagin, who played the acoustics in the “Apartment” an hour ago, and the “Presumption” itself will return to the “Time of the Bells” the next evening. The record holder of this year's festival was the musician Pavel Pikovsky, who managed to play twenty-two small concerts.

Singer Anna Gerasimova, whom everyone knows by her pseudonym Umka, will also go from stage to stage and perform different songs. She got to the festival for the first time in her life: she asked the organizers to include her in the program just a week before its opening. She and her violinist came to Grusha at their own expense.

Umka will also perform a song in front of the Grushinsky jury. Musical competition- the main and oldest tradition of the festival. The final of the competition takes place on the main stage. On Saturday afternoon, a few meters from the stage, there is a row of four white awnings - members of the jury sit under them. There are practically no spectators at this time. Participants of the competition take turns going on stage and perform one composition with a guitar. If somewhere the spirit of the old Grushin's song has been preserved, then it is necessary to look for it here - among little-known amateur bards.

In the evenings, the space in front of the stage is filled to capacity: legends come out to the audience. Hundreds of people bring folding camping chairs, and the clearing turns into an auditorium. On Friday, closer to midnight, Oleg Mityaev recalls with nostalgia how forty years ago he wrote one of his most famous songs. The hit "It's great that we all gathered here today" the glade sings in chorus. The full house will be repeated the next day: Alexander Rosenbaum will perform for the first time at the Grushinsky Festival.

At the first tourist meeting in her life, Tamara Muravyova found herself in the spring of 1958 in the Zhiguli mountains. The girl was 17 years old. During the ascent to the Molodetsky Kurgan, due to her out of breath, she fell far behind the group. Two strangers came to the rescue. They grabbed Tamara by the arms, let her catch her breath and slowly brought her to the top. They were Valera Grushin and Misha Kuznetsov. The rest of the day all three spent together, walking from fire to fire and listening to the songs of tourists.

After the meeting on Molodetsky, the guys parted for a long time, then the three of them disappeared on hikes, fishing, and rafting. The birthdays of Muravyov and Grushin were usually celebrated together, because both were born on the twentieth of October. Tamara was four years older than Valera and eight years older than Misha, and she experienced not only friendly, but maternal feelings for them. Before her eyes, the boys grew up, found new friends and fell in love.

The fact that Valera died, the girl learned one of the first in the city. Early in the morning, she received a call from the tourist club with an urgent message from Khadoma's radio operator.

That same evening, a plane with the first search group took off from Kuibyshev to Nizhneudinsk on a business flight. On board were Fedor Ivanovich Grushin, Misha Kuznetsov, Tamara and Valera's friend Viktor Gordeev. When they got to the scene of the tragedy, the station was already under police protection.

The raft for search work was assembled from logs that Tretyakov prepared for the construction of a new house. Together with the guys, two local fishermen plunged on it.
“Our river always gives us its victims,” they said.

Every two kilometers the raft moored to the shore. Part of the team went to the opposite side of the river in a punt boat. So the days passed. Autumn began, it quickly got dark in the taiga, and snow was added to the rain. Feeling and viewing the bottom of the Uda became more and more difficult.

Fyodor Ivanovich remained in the camp not far from the weather station. He connected fishermen, hunters and policemen to the search. The rector of KuAI managed to contact the Deputy Minister civil aviation USSR, and in good weather a helicopter circled over Uda.

Friends and classmates of Valera flew to the taiga. Grushin Sr. formed groups of them and local fishermen and sent them in search of his son. There were about eight such expeditions in total.

The forest near Khadoma, just in case, was also combed: Fyodor Ivanovich did not rule out that the head of the station could finish off Valera, who swam ashore and hide the corpse in the forest. Grushin's death was not the first tragedy that happened in Tretyakov's presence. Criminal cases have already been opened against him because of the death of geologists and poachers through his fault.

In early September, the team of Anatoly Golovin pulled the body of a deceased tourist from Angarsk out of the river. Another group found a male skeleton gnawed by animals, but Fedor Ivanovich refused to recognize the remains of his son in it. 36 years after the tragedy Native sister Bella Yakovlevna Mina will tell in an interview that in 1967, 40 people drowned on the Uda, and 39 corpses were caught and identified.

The search for Valera stopped in November. None of Fyodor Ivanovich's expeditions managed to find the body.

On October 2, by order of the rector of the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, Valery Grushin was excluded from the list of students due to death.

Grusha has its own Arbat. Dozens of stalls with souvenirs and knick-knacks stand along the narrow path that departs from the festival glade. Behind them, tents are crowded in the thickets. This Arbat is a portal to a parallel world. I walk through the crowd, and suddenly the path leads me to a new clearing. Trade is booming here.

Grushinsky is a paradise for lovers wild recreation with tents and stew on the fire. But commerce at the festival is so developed that you can come here without any things at all and live comfortably for several days. Everything is sold on the trading glade: barbecue, corn, beer, cider, cheese, tea, water, burgers, condiments, fish, sausage, clothes, sleeping bags, shoes and tents. At any time of the day, crowds of people with beer and food stagger here. A person who, a couple of kilometers away, is standing in line for drinking water or baking potatoes in a fire seems strange.

Every second stall has a speaker from which music rumbles. It has nothing in common with the author's song - only electronic and pop music.

And by the river, and by the river, and by the river
The girls are walking, the men are walking.

I feel like I'm on the Sochi coast.

Immediately behind the stalls and cafes begins a huge parking lot. Cars come down here, turning off the highway and crossing railway where the descent from the hill is not so steep. Every day, a thousand cars enter the Grushinsky parking lot through the “customs”. Drivers pay a thousand rubles at the checkpoint.

The fact that participants of the 45th Grushinsky Festival of Author's Songs are playing on the stages a couple of kilometers away is only reminded by magnets with the image of a guitar. Perhaps many inhabitants of the trading glade have never passed through the Arbat to the other side.

There is an opinion that the Grushinsky festival is a huge booze, which attracts not the most pleasant personalities from Samara and Tolyatti. Even the taxi driver with whom we rode to the station prepared me for this.

"Zhigulevskoe" flows like a river, and tourists with full bottles and glasses are constantly encountered on the festival paths. Surprisingly, all this does not affect the friendly spirit of the festival. No one fights, no one quarrels, and no one vomits in the wrong places. Several people passed out on the grass, complaints about the round-the-clock "swotting" in the trading meadow and quarrels with inadequate neighbors - that's all the chaos.

Friends and relatives of Valera Grushin began to be summoned for interrogation. The whole city spoke about his death, besides, tourists and students planned to hold a concert in honor of the deceased comrade. In the building of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate at 42 Kuibyshev Street, investigators and state security officers asked them what kind of person Grushin was, what songs he sang, and how he treated Soviet power. In addition, the KGB learned about the trip of Grushin, Kuznetsov and Muravyova in the spring of 1966 to the Temnikovsky forced labor camp in Mordovia, where Tamara's friend from the orphanage was imprisoned. After interrogation, Muravyova was accused of illegal publishing, and she managed to avoid criminal punishment only by a miracle.

Valery Grushin's memorial day that autumn was not held: on October 23, the local radio studio announced the cancellation of the already planned event.

Despite interrogations, searches and seizures of samizdat, Valery Grushin's friends continued to seek permission for a concert in his honor. It was important for them to openly talk about the feat of Valera, without hiding in the underground. The rector of KuAI and Fedor Ivanovich Grushin vouched for students and tourists.

In the summer of 1968, at a joint meeting of the Regional Council for Tourism and Excursions and the Zhiguli tourist club, it was decided to hold “ Golden autumn- 68" song contest in memory of Valery Grushin.

This competition, which will soon be announced as the first Grushinsky festival, was held in the Stone Bowl - this is the name of the tract in Zhiguli, formed by several ravines and rocky slopes surrounding them. It was attended by 632 people, including tourists from Moscow, Leningrad and Kazan.

A patch on a slope served as a musical stage. The concert began on the evening of September 28 and continued until four in the morning. There were torches and bonfires all around. In the morning, Valery Grushin's friend Boris Keilman announced the names of the laureates in the pouring rain. Among them was the trio "Singing Beavers", in which one of his comrades took the place of Valera.

On next year the festival was moved to Mastryukovskie lakes. It was attended by two and a half thousand people.

I stop at a campsite where the melody of Creedence's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" can be heard. A man of retirement age plays the guitar, and imitates the vocal part on the harmonica. I ask for a visit and sit on a folding chair next to the musician's friends.

And this is my friend Vasily, - one of them addresses me, imagining a man with a guitar. - Take a picture of him, then show in Moscow that I have such a talented friend - Vasily. We have been coming here since 1975, and Lidka was at the very first festival.

Lidia Alexandrovna knew Valery Grushin and went on campaigns with him. When he died, she was still a schoolgirl and, following his example, decided to enter KuAI. In response to the question whether she came here every year and whether she visited all the festivals, the woman mentions two famous Grushinsky exceptions.

In 1980, tourists who got out of the train cars saw signs “The festival has been canceled”. The reason for the ban on Grusha was the Moscow Olympics: local authorities said they were sending police officers to the capital, and there were no people left to maintain order at the festival. Considering that in the previous year, 200,000 people on Grushinsky were guarded by 42 policemen, the reason seemed far-fetched. The ban on the festival lasted five years, and it is because of this that in 2018 the 45th festival is held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Pear. The tradition was revived in 1986.

The second turn in the history of the festival took place quite recently. In 2007, the Grushin Author's Song Club failed to reach an agreement with the Meta company, which leased land on the Mastryukovsky Lakes for 15 years. As a result of the conflict, Meta enlisted the support of the son of Yuri Fedorovich Grushin and held the 34th festival on its own. The traditional organizers did not lose their heads and staged their own festival in the Fedorovskie Meadows - a landscape similar to the area upstream of the Volga, where several Grushinsky festivals were held back in the seventies.

A few years later, Meta lost the right to use the Pear brand and renamed its event to Platform. One of his concepts was the creation of a "festival of festivals" - various self-sufficient scenes.

The war ended in autumn 2013. The unification of the festivals took place through the mediation of local authorities, and the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky became the person who reconciled the warring parties.

However, the reunion was conditional. In 2014, the Club returned to Mastryuki and held the 41st festival together with Meta, and already in 2015, Platforma left the Samara region and moved to Moscow. She inherited the very numerous scenes on which the musicians roam.

After the return of the Club to the Mastryukovsky Lakes, the popularity of the festival began to fall. If in 2014 70 thousand people came to Grusha, then in the next year, 2015, there were only 20 thousand of them. IN anniversary festival In 2018, about 27 thousand people took part. About 180 thousand, like twenty years ago, now there can be no question.

The son of meteorologist Tretyakov Lenya, whom Grushin saved from the water, could not recover from hypothermia. A severe cold turned into inflammation of the brain, and soon after the events on Uda, the boy died. A few years later, Kolya Tretyakov also died.

In January 1973, in the mountain tundra of the Kola Peninsula on the Chivruai Plateau, a group of KuAI students completely died during a snow storm. One of its leaders was a friend of Valera Grushin and Tamara Muravyova - Misha Kuznetsov.

After the death of Grushin, his younger brother Mikhail did not want to live in the KuAI hostel: everything there reminded of Valera. Parents rented a room for their son in Kuibyshev. On January 5, 1971, the hostess unsuccessfully melted the stove. The apartment was shrouded in smoke - and Mikhail died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Fedor Ivanovich, who had already broken down after the death of Valera, again went into a binge. “Father drinks, and when he gets very drunk, he scares and bullies everyone along the porch. They don’t like us at the entrance very much, ”recalled the second brother Valery, Alexander, in 1981.

Bella Yakovlevna could not believe in the death of her Valerik. On the street, she rushed to people who looked like her son, and staying at home, she quietly repeated: “Alive, alive, alive ...”

Despite the family grief, the Grushins came to the festival named after their son many times. The last time they visited the Mastryukovsky lakes was in 1988. Two years later, Fyodor Ivanovich died, after another three - Bella Yakovlevna. Alexander died in 1994.

Yuri Grushin - the son of Fedor Ivanovich from his first marriage - died in 1998. All his life he worked in the state security agencies.

The archive, which contained the seized collections of songs by Valery Grushin, burned down in a terrible fire in the building of the Samara police department on February 10, 1999. Then on Kuibyshev, 42 killed 57 police officers.

In 1968, Grushin's portrait was placed in the very center of the graduation photo of the 561st KuAI group. In the early nineties, the institute was renamed the Samara State Aviation Institute and received a new coat of arms - the image of a crane flying towards the sun. The order to introduce a new coat of arms was signed by Valery's classmate Viktor Soyfer, who was appointed rector of the university in 1990. In 2012, a memorial auditorium named after Valery Grushin was opened in one of the SSAU offices.

Toward evening, a police cordon appears on a steep slope above the guitar stage. Technicians build camera towers and arrange equipment on stage, while volunteers take control of the benches at the bottom of the mountain, intended for VIP guests. Several young people are checking the pontoon ferry, which will take tourists from the festival meadow to the Mountain. A fountain spouts from the lake.

The concert starts at ten. It is opened by the Grushinsky Trio: Anatoly Golovkin, ex-wife Boris Keilman Olga Ermolaeva and bard Alexander Isaev. "A little ballad about big man» the mountain listens while standing.

Where is the taiga bluer than the sky, where?
Is it only in the taiga on the Uda River.
Where are the rapids more terrible, the water is colder, where?
Is it only on the edge of the earth, the river Ude.

Many festival participants are in no hurry to cross the lake to view the mountain from this shore and see with their own eyes one of the main traditions of Grushinsky - the light of lanterns, which are lit by the audience on the slope.

It is difficult to choose a convenient place: the coast is busy with camps. I find a barely visible path in the tall grass. The path leads to a patch on the shore, several people have already settled here. The singing voices of the musicians of the Romario group can be heard from the raft:

One two Three.
Mountain, burn!

In response, hundreds of lights are lit on the slope - and the slope shimmers with white sparks of lights.
“The mountain is on fire,” the man behind me says softly.

The fountain turns out to be a screen on which inscriptions about the anniversary of the festival, the coat of arms of Samara and portraits of musicians are broadcast by light. Laureates of the 45th festival, winners of competitions of previous years and honored guests come onto the raft in turn. Among the latter is Umka.

All this time, life in distant camps goes on as usual. In the trading glade, people continue to drink beer to the sounds of electronic cacophony and eat shawarma. At the other end of the valley, a song battle takes place: the guys around the fire take turns singing Lyapis Trubetskoy.

The crossing is crowded. It is necessary to wait until those who are already tired of the concert will return to the festival glade. People are asked not to stop on the pontoons, so as not to drown them.

The policemen in the cordon do not let drunks and people with alcohol on the Mountain. " Auditorium» operates in high-risk mode. The slope is too steep for easy climbing and descending. Feet slide along the trampled earth, and you have to climb up sideways or even on all fours. It is surprising that over these decades the tradition of the Mountain has been preserved, despite the obvious insecurity of what is happening.

Acting Governor of the Samara Region Dmitry Azarov comes out to the audience, makes a short speech and sings “Hope is my earthly compass” together with the Grushinsky Trio. After that, Oleg Mityaev descends onto the raft to present the festival medal to the official.
- It's great that we are all here today! - Azarov shouts into the microphone.
- Come on, did you write it? - Mityaev jokes, and then turns to the "hall": - I think that the governor will hang this medal in his office, and the stern profile of Valery Grushin will seem to be asking: "Isn't it time to start preparing for the 46th Grushinsky Festival?"
- It's time, we'll start it today! - Azarov answers and leaves the stage.

After several performers, the musicians from the Romario group again appear on the stage. They perform the song "Let's drink the federal budget."

The concert will last four hours and end with Yuri Vizbor's song "My Dear", which will be sung by the choir of legendary bards: Mityaev, Gorodnitsky, Khomchik, Chikina, Ivashchenko and eight more people.
- To the future Mountain! Thank you, dear ones, for the divine night, - Boris Keilman will tell the spectators who remained on the slope.

I am sitting over a stack of information boards, on which the whole life of Valera Grushin and the whole history of the Grushinsky Festival are painted. Due to overlays, this year there were two almost identical expositions in the tent of the festival museum at once. The newer one is assembled from beautiful press rolls.

The old stands I'm trying to fit into homemade cardboard cases didn't work this year. All days of the festival they stood second in line for press rolls.

Tamara Alekseevna Muravyova lies nearby on the floor, her arms outstretched to the sides from fatigue. The tent is very stuffy. The curator of the museum had just finished a tour that lasted more than two hours. On the eve, Muravyova's blood pressure dropped significantly, and for the first time in her life she could not visit Gora. Her volunteers fled during the tour; stands that Tamara Alekseevna printed on her own pension, I collect.

20.06.2017

Holding matches of the World Cup in Samara in 2018 will have an impact on the cultural life of the region. The Grushinsky festival will have to be postponed. This was announced by the Minister of Culture of the Samara region Sergey Filippov.

According to him, in 2018 the festival will be held from 9 to 13 August. At the same time, the organizers will prepare a grandiose performance. Indeed, in 2018, Grusha will turn 45 years old.

This year the festival will take place from June 29 to July 2 at Mastryukovskie lakes. Oleg Mityaev, Veniamin Smekhov, artists of the Taganka Theater, Alexander Gorodnitsky will take part in it. important event will be a combined concert dedicated to the deceased poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

To get to the venue of the festival, Samarans will need to pass through the village of Pribrezhny, turn at the thousandth kilometer of the M-5 highway and cross the railway crossing. After that, you need to turn left at the city cemetery. The cost of parking a car near the glade will be one thousand rubles.

– We can easily park about three thousand cars. Anything above will cause problems. However, please do not leave cars along the road at the entrance to the clearing. To ensure safety, evacuators will work, - said the director of the festival, Irina Zvereva.

It should be noted that three main stages, a football field, a forest playground, a sports center, and a children's playground will operate on the Grushinsky meadow.

According to the organizers, it will be possible to get to the festival by train. The train schedule will be published soon on the festival website.

Grushinsky Festival Photo: Pavel Lysenkov, grushin.samara.ru June 29 (date for 2017) Grushinsky Festival - all-Russian festival author's song named after Valery Grushin. It takes place annually in late June or early July near Samara. Thousands of lovers of bard songs gather here not only from Russia, but also from other countries of the world. The festival is held not only to bring together lovers of art songs in beautiful place, but also in order to familiarize young people with music, poetry, tourism and sports, preserve and develop the author's song, identify talented authors and performers, promote healthy lifestyle life. The festival dates back to 1968. In the late 1960s, when interest in the author's song (which was then called tourist) in our country increased sharply, the idea of ​​creating such a festival was literally in the air. And in the summer of 1967, a tragedy occurred - during a trip on the Uda River (Siberia), saving drowning children, Valery Grushin, a student at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, who was a fanatic of tourism and one of the active propagandists of the tourist song, died. The initiative group proposed to organize a festival in memory of their friend, this idea was supported by many tourists of the city. The first tourist song festival named after Valery Grushin was held on September 29, 1968 in Zhiguli in the Stone Bowl. It was attended by about 600 people. The second festival was held in early July, and since then the date has not changed. It has already gathered about 2.5 thousand people. The festival badge first appeared and was released. Starting from this festival, a raft on the water became the stage. In the first years of its existence, the festival gathered mainly tourists and lovers of art songs from the Samara region. But soon modest song meetings in memory of Grushin grew into a large-scale event, which even became a cult for several generations of singing poets. It was especially popular in the late 1970s, when it was visited by about 100 thousand people, and in the late 1990s - 210 thousand participants. The festival was interrupted in the 1980s when the official authorities closed it, and for several years the festival was not held, but was revived again in 1986. Since 2007, for a number of reasons, it has been held at two sites in the Samara region - on the territory of the Mastryukovsky lakes and on the Fedorovsky meadows. Today, the Grushinsky Festival takes place on the territory of the Mastryukovsky Lakes, being the most prestigious event of its kind in Russia, and also gathers tens of thousands of art song lovers not only from all over Russia, but also from countries near and far abroad. The festival is held in the conditions of a tourist tent camp. It is attended by art song clubs, individual performers, authors and creative teams, tourist clubs. The organizers of the event are the Samara Regional Club of Author's Song named after Valery Grushin, the Government of the Samara Region and the Foundation. V. Grushina, Togliatti. Traditionally, during the festival days, there are several creative venues-stages, where competitive program. Concerts are held here day and night, and friends gather around the festival bonfires day and night. True "pears" will never drive a random traveler away from the fire at night, and therefore "night gatherings" around the fires can bring a lot of pleasant acquaintances. The festival is held in the conditions of a tourist tent camp. But the most important thing at the festival is still a bard song, the discovery of new authors and performers. Among the laureates of the Grushinsky Festival different years such famous bards as: A.Dolsky, V.Lantsberg, A.Sukhanov, A.Lemysh, E.Schibrikova, L.Sergeev, V.Egorov, G.Khomchik, N.Vysotsky, A.Maysyuk, V.Trofimov, ensembles " white guard», « green lamp”, “Almanac”, “Rare Bird” and many others. Festival "own" for such famous performers, like Alexander Gorodnitsky, Viktor Berkovsky, Boris Vakhnyuk, Sergey Nikitin, Yuri Vizbor, Oleg Mityaev, the Mishchuk brothers. In addition to music, the program of the festival includes many sporting events. Everyone can take part in competitions in volleyball, cross-country, sailing tourism, mountaineering, in children's competitions "Mom, dad, I am a tourist family" ... One of the most spectacular sports events is the traditional Soccer game between the Samara Team and the World Team. The organizers and "honored bards" of the Grushinsky festival demonstrate their excellent physical form. Football on the Pear is not so much a sport as unforgettable show. Nevertheless, the Grushinsky Festival is an event for true romantics, tourists, lovers of a good author's song, for whom the main thing is the beauty of the world around us and simple human communication. After all, the Grushinsky Festival is always new meetings, new songs and new discoveries.