Svobodny hosts traditional Town Day festival of national cultures Svobodny — Everyone's Welcome!
Svobodny hosts traditional Town Day festival of national cultures Svobodny — Everyone's Welcome! Thousands of Svobodny residents and guests of the town have come to the festival. Concert, workshop and international cuisine events were held in the city centre despite the bad weather.
Everyone had a chance to taste dishes cooked by representatives of the ethnic communities, including employees of Amur GPP and Amur GCC contractors from Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and China. Amur Cossacks cooked their traditional kulesh porridge while EMERCOM employees offered dishes of Belarusian cuisine.
Entertainment included workshops of national crafts and traditional arts, as well as Flight Over the Amur GPP, a VR tour to one of the largest gas processing plants in Russia. The festival guests played games of different nations. Performance groups and ethnic communities of the Amur Region offered their shows on stage. Students of Svobodny children's art school showed the Amur GCC through the Eyes of Young Artists exhibition of paintings. Everyone had a chance to take photos in the Amur GPP and Amur GCC project booths.
Svobodny — Everyone's Welcome! festival was hosted by the Public Council of Amur GPP and Amur GCC projects with the support of the administration of the town of Svobodny, the Ministry of Culture and National Policy of the Amur Region, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk, the Amur GCC, construction contractors, and regional national associations.
«I sincerely thank all the participants of our festival. And a special thank you to the city volunteer corps and employees of the Vizit youth leisure centre. Together, we have made a wonderful gift for the Town Day of Svobodny celebrated today,» said Galina Tkachenko, Chairperson of the Public Council of Amur GPP and Amur GCC projects.