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2018 Cultural Events
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Name |
About the festival |
Location |
Time |
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SKIF, Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival |
SKIF discovers new names in modern and progressive music of various countries. There are no style or genre constraints: jazz, folk, rock, metal, diverse electronic music etc. are welcome. |
St. Petersburg |
May 18 |
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Usadba Jazz Festival |
Annual international open-air jazz festival held in Arkhangelskoye estate. |
Moscow region |
June 2-3 |
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Maxidrom |
Grand international music festival. |
Moscow |
June 19 |
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SDikaya myata |
International festival. Memorable music, street theaters, fire shows, night open-air movie shows await the guests. |
Bunyrevo village (Tula Region) |
June 9-11 |
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Nashestvie Rock Festival |
Russia’s main rock music festival. |
Zavidovo (Tver region) |
August 3-5 |
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Dobrofest |
Grand festival of rock, punk, hip-hop and alternative music. |
Yaroslavl region |
July 27-29 |
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Park Live Festival |
International music festival. |
Moscow |
July 27-29 |
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Afisha Picnic Festival |
Music festival which takes place every summer in Kolomenskoye Park. |
Moscow |
August 4 |
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V-ROX Festival |
International music festival. |
Vladivostok |
August |
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Kaliningrad in Rock Festival |
Oldest and largest rock festival in the western part of Russia. |
Kaliningrad |
August |
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New Wave |
International musical competition among young performers of popular music. |
Sochi |
September 7-13 |
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Kinotavr |
One of the main film festivals in Russia open to Russian and international filmmakers. |
Sochi |
June 3-10 |
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Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) |
Second oldest film festival in the world (after Venice) attended by Russian and international movie stars. Many films have their opening nights in Moscow during the festival. |
Moscow |
April 19-26 |
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Pacific Meridians |
International film festival for Asia Pacific countries. Participants from around 60 countries attend it every year. |
Vladivostok |
September |
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Golden Mask |
Russian national theater festival. An annual award of the same name bestowed in all theater genres (drama, opera, ballet, musical, puppet theater). Best Russian theater companies come to Moscow for the event. |
Moscow |
February – April |
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International Street Theatre Festival in Arkhangelsk |
Theatre groups from across the world will present open air performances at several city venues. The festival will open with a carnival procession along the Severnaya Dvina Embankment. |
Arkhangelsk |
June 18-24 |
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Volga Theater Seasons Pan-Russian Festival |
A multi-genre festival covering ballet, opera, drama and puppet performances. Pan-Russian Laboratory of Theater Critique, where members of the jury and well-known critics discuss the plays, runs during the festival. |
Samara |
April 23-30 |
2018 Student Events
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Student Spring |
A pan-Russian student creativity competition that includes hundreds of university festivals and 11 inter-regional events. Participants (students of Russian universities) demonstrate their talents in singing, dancing, acting and other performing arts. |
Stavropol region, May |
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KVN Top League |
KVN (Club of the Funny and the Witty) Top League is the main series in the annual tournament of budding comics among Russian students. The best KVN teams compete in the Top League, and the winner is hailed as the Club Champion. All games are broadcast on Russian TV. |
The series take place in Moscow throughout the year – 1/8 finals (February, March), quarter finals (summer), semifinals (autumn) and finals (December). |
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Ice Cream Festival |
Summer city holiday. |
Moscow, June – July |
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Keening KVN |
Annual music festival of KVN teams. Teams only compete in a musical contest. |
Kaliningrad region, Svetlogorsk, July |
Dates to Remember in 2018
Russia celebrates a number of memorable dates on each year: birth dates of writers, artists, poets, and other cultural figures, and anniversaries of certain classics. Celebrations generally feature different events: premieres, exhibitions, and festivals. In 2018, Russia will celebrate the following:
- 120th anniversary of the opening of St Petersburg’s State Russian Museum (1898)
- 150th anniversary of F.Dostoyevsky’s novel Idiot (1868)
- 80th birthdate of V.Vysotsky (25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980), a poet, musician and actor
- 100th birthdate of A.Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008), a Russian writer, playwright, journalist and social activist
- 150th birthdate of M.Gorky (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), a writer and playwright
- 190th birthdate of N.Chernyshevsky (12 July 1828 – 29 October 1889), a philosopher and writer
- 190th birthdate of L.Toltsoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), a Russian writer and thinker
- 200th birthdate of I.Turgenev (9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883), a Russian writer, poet and journalist
- 205th birthdate of F.Tyutchev (5 December 1803 – 27 July 1873), a Russian poet and diplomat
2018 Sporting Events
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia |
June 14 – July 15 |
Moscow, Kaliningrad, St Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Ekaterinburg |
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Formula 1 Russia Grand Prix |
September 30 |
Sochi |
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