The Russian language: The X International festival “The Great Russian Word” in Crimea

6 June 2016

This year the events of the X International festival "The Great Russian Word", which is held from 1 to 12 June 2016, will cover the entire Crimea.

Key cultural events and festivals are by tradition the performed on June 3 opening ceremony of the festival and a festive concert dedicated to the Day of Russia - the closing ceremony of the festival is on 12 June.

Also within the festival are scheduled diverse cultural and artistic activities, in particular, will be presented the concert program "Crimea gathers friends" and the festival "Russian chanson in the Crimea", at the Crimean Academic Puppet Theatre will take place the traditional children's art-education program "Week of Russian fairy tales", held the feast of the Russian book "Book brings together friends" in the Franko Crimean Republican universal scientific library, on the basis of the Pushkin Museum be held "Day of poetry and music in Gurzuf".

In addition, it will be presented a number of exhibitions, such as the exhibition "The Beauty of Tradition: Russian folk costume" in the Crimean Ethnographic Museum, the exhibition-fair of products of masters of arts and crafts and handicrafts in Simferopol.