The event was held in our country for the third time. Previous festivals took place in 1957 and 1985. The current festival was attended by 30,214 people (12,576 from Russia, 12,638 from other countries (185 in total) and 5,000 volunteers). It is significant that half of the participants are foreigners.

The 2017 World Festival of Youth and Students was held under the slogan:

"For peace, solidarity and social justice, we are fighting against imperialism - respecting our past, we are building our future!"

Although it must be admitted that this slogan had very little effect on the content of the festival.

It should be borne in mind that each festival was held in a particular historical era. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to talk about the very era in which we live today, and about the situation in which the whole world and Russia in particular are now, in order to start a conversation about what the World Festival of Youth and Students has brought in its anniversary ( the first took place in 1947) and in the Russian centenary-revolutionary 2017.

DAY TODAY

The third generation of people living in a new logic of social behavior has entered into life on our planet. It was the second and third generations, represented by the youth of almost all countries of the planet, that were represented at the festival. The change in logic is characterized by the fact that since the middle of the 20th century, the speed (frequency) of the change of information at the cultural level has exceeded the speed (frequency) of the change of generations.

Thus, it is no longer enough for today's generations to master a certain amount of information for their successful development, now everyone needs to constantly learn so as not to get lost in this information ocean. That is why two types of people were clearly visible at the festival: thinking people who consciously or unconsciously were in search of methodologically significant information, and another type - people who came to “hang out” and spend their time idly, floating with the flow of life. The latter were in the majority at the Festival, as, indeed, so far in our society.

Also, people are divided according to the type of civilization within which their national culture developed. There are several regional civilizations on earth. Civilizations differ not in the way of life, not in “values”, but in Ideals: the difference is that “values” can be traded, but Ideals cannot be traded; a way of life can be imposed, but Ideals cannot be imposed. Based on the difference in Ideals, three self-sufficient regional civilizations can be distinguished - Western, Eastern and Russian.

Russia differs from many other countries in that it is not just a country, but a whole civilization, consisting of more than two hundred different small and large nations. The special path of development of our civilization attracts thinking foreigners like a magnet, some of whom have come hoping to find something new for themselves. It is not without reason that in the past the Soviet Union was a guiding star for many other countries, burning in the night, and people have not forgotten this.

Actually, the very appearance of the USSR qualitatively changed the life of the entire planet and those social successes that today are a daily norm for us and most countries of the world were achieved not thanks to the so-called "democracy" of developed countries, but real justice, which, despite all the hardships and hardships , brought to life the people of the USSR and representatives of the real Soviet power, which was on the side of the working people.

It is no secret that different regions of the planet are at different levels of development. It is clear that the same Africa or a number of Asian countries, not satisfying the needs of the population, first of all, in quality education, as well as food, clothing, housing, find themselves at a different level of development with the inhabitants of the same Europe, Japan and Russia. Therefore, what seems to us to be a lagging behind or yesterday, for them may be progress and a matter of tomorrow in their regions.

There are also alternatives - the Japanese and Chinese projects, announced in 2006 and 2013, respectively, but the Japanese project does not contain a fundamentally new sociology, psychology, economics and management theory that differs from biblical sociology, and the Chinese as such is not presented at all for public discussion. But they are not real alternatives precisely because the East does not offer the society Ideals that the whole world could follow. But nevertheless, in the East there are prerequisites for this - we are talking, first of all, about Islamic culture. Basically, Islamic and Russian culture are similar, it is not for nothing that they coexist peacefully in Russia. It is not in vain that the West invests huge funds in support of terrorism, the main goal is to discredit Islam and prohibit the Koran as a source that carries an alternative to the biblical worldview.

GTU - project "Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy"

The Islamic region is for Russia the most natural ally in the world, and among other Islamic countries - Iran, as one of the most educated Islamic powers with the prospect of entering a new concept of development.

RUSSIA

Since ancient times, Russian civilization has been distinguished by its ideal of justice from the life of other civilizations. It is for this reason that since the moment of baptism, which interrupted the original development of Russia, our whole history is a continuous struggle with the Western (biblical based on the usurious buying up of the world) concept imposed both from within by the authorities and by foreign invaders who are trying to introduce more modern and aggressive modifications from the outside. this concept. For more than a thousand years, Russian civilization has overcome the idealistic atheism of Orthodoxy, the materialistic atheism of Marxism. The attempt to impose liberalism was not crowned with success, because even under Marxism, people generally lived better and were confident in the future. Today society is in a state of conceptual uncertainty, and the possibilities of liberalism to fool people are practically exhausted. Moreover, the uniqueness of the moment lies in the fact that the people in terms of understanding management processes are becoming more literate than the "elite", which has never happened in history.

Vladimir Putin is faced with the task of maintaining stability under the influence of an often aggressive external environment, inadequate internal governance of statehood and other public institutions, as well as internal changes taking place in society - an irreversible process of mastering managerial literacy and self-training of a new managerial cadre, which should make a leap into the future.

The complexity of the task lies in the fact that Life requires changes and improving the quality of management, but the existing management architecture is not adapted to this. It is impossible to stabilize the situation, as many dream it is. Either a new quality of management will have to be presented, or the wind of history will sweep away the existing "menagers" like a house of cards.

The current state apparatus is not capable of solving even the simplest tasks - providing the population with the necessary education, medicine and meeting other demographically determined needs. This also manifested itself at the festival organized by Roscongress.

Marginal Notes on Roscongress

The Roscongress Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of promoting the development of economic potential and strengthening the image of Russia through the organization and holding of congresses, exhibitions and public events. The Foundation forms their content, provides consulting, informational and expert support to companies and organizations, as well as comprehensively studies, analyzes and covers issues of the Russian and global economic agenda.

Today, the Foundation's annual program includes events from Montevideo to Vladivostok, which allows it to bring together world business leaders, experts, media, government officials on one platform, create the best conditions for discussing and promoting new ideas and projects, as well as assist in the formation of social entrepreneurship and charitable projects.

http://roscongress.org/o-fonde/

It should be noted that the number of participants was more than the declared 25,000, since 5,000 more foreigners came to the festival without invitations.

Roscongress (seemingly not a sharashka) failed to fully cope with management in an emergency situation: there were queues for check-in, poorly organized food of poor quality in the early days (vegetarians generally had a hard time), queues for accreditation and problems with obtaining it, queues for receiving symbols, poor logistics (even the fact that they hired additional buses did not save them from queues for them), queues at checkpoints, and so on. However, despite the large number of unregistered participants who arrived, the organizers of the forum showed tact, realizing that this could lead to complications in diplomatic relations, and the participants - understanding (many Russian participants were placed second and third in single and double rooms, respectively). We were able to accommodate everyone. After a while, these memories of everyday inconveniences will be erased, and only the best will remain in the memory - touch and complicity in something big and significant for the entire planet. But were the organizers able to present the New Global Agenda for the entire planet through the Festival? Let's see who they are.

FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS

The quality of the organization is not surprising - since the festival itself is just a mirror of what is happening in the state.

The organizers of the WFMS 2017 checked the readiness of the festival infrastructure

The main organizer of the festival from the Russian side is Sergey Kiriyenko. He went through Scientology and is known as a member of Shchedrovitsky's circle of "methodologists". Further, an excerpt from the article “The Shchedrovites: Who Shaped the Worldview of Sergei Kiriyenko. Methodologists will deal with Russia's internal policy. Carnegie.ru ”with our text inserts.

Generous

Sergei Kirienko is a follower of the Russian philosopher Georgy Shchedrovitsky, the founder of the Moscow Methodological Circle. Shchedrovitsky began work in the late 1950s, continued it during the Khrushchev thaw, Brezhnev stagnation and Gorbachev's perestroika. He died in 1994.

Methodologists not only and not so much explained reality - they were determined to change the world around them, including society. Back in Soviet times, Shchedrovitsky's circle held the so-called organizational-activity games. Their participants were asked to formulate a problem (often arbitrary), and then solve it. Georgy Shchedrovitsky identified the most active players, gave them their say, the participants had to defend their point of view and answer provocative questions. The result of the game was a scheme with a solution to the problem. She did not have an author - creativity was considered collective.

Our comment

According to the recollections of one of the members of the circle, a representative of the School of Effective Leaders Valery Lebedev:

“We are training personnel through our (??? - is there something missing in the quote?). Not cadres (ugh, the official party word), but members of a secret Masonic order, with their own ritual, charter and secret super task.

The strong point of the SMD methodology (System-Thought-Activity), which Shchedrovitsky had developed for a long time, was schematization. That is, the representation of any social device or process in the form of diagrams, blocks, figures and functional connections between them using arrows. Everything became very clear and understandable. Where, what block, who is connected with whom and how, where you need to enter in order to do this and that. (It is highlighted by us in bold when quoting) "

Here is one of the keys to understanding what is happening in life, valid for any scale of consideration. There are two ways of thinking:

• “To think” by constructing sequences of states, each of which appears to be motionless, unchanging, like a frame of a film strip;
• think in processes, i.e. it is speculative to see not only states that can really be perceived as motionless at the appropriate moments or short intervals of time, but the main thing is to see the process in which states arise in a certain sequence under the influence of the flow of cause-and-effect relationships, in which there is also a hierarchy of various kinds of controls.

That is why the “current moment” is constantly flowing. But for those who think with states in the phrase “current moment”, what is significant is that it is a moment, an instant, and accordingly there is a certain immobility in it, and the word “current” is perceived as clarifying, secondary in importance, which can be forgotten without losing the main meaning.

This difference in the ways of thinking is one of the criteria for the personnel policy of all orders that are stable in the continuity of generations. Those capable of thinking exclusively by states - can be useful for "orders" only as performers manipulated by these "orders", who must be protected from manipulation by competing "orders", since the set of states and their sequence explaining the course of the process for such "thinkers" and its perspectives, - is set by those who think in processes, and they are the manipulators in relation to thinking states, since they select certain momentary states from the process model and assemble them into a sequence that is provided for understanding by the "thinking" sequences of states.

“Thinking” in sequences of states means to take out of work the right hemisphere and imaginative thinking; to think in processes means to develop the skill of coordinated work of the left and right hemispheres, which ensures the unity of process-shaped and discrete-logical thinking.

If we correlate this understanding of the two types of thinking with the bold paragraph we highlighted in Lebedev's quote, then the SMD methodology is a manipulation methodology based on providing a set of states and connections-transitions between them, focused on processes that cannot think. But what about the thinking of the "methodologists"?

According to Shchedrovitsky, thinking is the highest authority. And people only "work" on its basis, as computers work on the basis of an operating system or a program, in this respect they are rather passive. Language can be considered as one of such operating systems. Thinking, according to Shchedrovitsky, is always primary in relation to knowledge and practice (in relation to reality):

"First, the means of human thinking must be developed, and then subject or object knowledge, which are always a consequence of the method and means."

In this regard, the methodologists were interested in pedagogy.

“In the system of pedagogy, a special specialty of a teacher-designer appears, developing a model-project of a person of the future society,” argued the founder of the Moscow Methodological Circle.

The methodologists presented a person as a kind of machine that can and should be programmed for certain functions. This was called "social engineering." Literary critic Ilya Kukulin finds common ground between the philosophy of Shchedrovitsky and the works of the Strugatsky brothers. In most of their novels, the protagonist is a "progressor" - a person abandoned in the past or on a planet that has lagged behind in development, who begins to slowly change the world around him.

The participants in the methodological circle (and Shchedrovitsky himself) were the same progressors. With the help of games, they infected others with their ideas - as a rule, these were managers, scientists, teachers. They did not hide their desire to influence the decisions of the authorities. The circle was quite open; on the other hand, the special language (the program on which he worked) was understood only by the initiates - in some way the followers of Georgy Shchedrovitsky resembled a secret society (sometimes direct arguments about the "conceptual elite" appear in their works).

“Civil society is divided into groups of professionals, each of whom speaks and must speak its own special language, to shield itself from amateurs and talkers with a palisade ... of special terms. This is the law of life in a normal civilized society, and there is no need to strive for everyone to understand everything. The specialists who are moving the business should understand, no more, ”Shchedrovitsky himself explained the development of his own language.

It is possible that Shchedrovitsky's followers played a role during the perestroika of the 1980s: by that time, thousands of people had gone through the games (for more details: https://meduza.io/).

Now the opinion is expressed that the concept of "sovereign democracy" and "Russian world" is a product of those who were taught by the "methodologist" and "gamer" G.P. Shchedrovitsky (1929-1994).

Another proof of the lack of independence - the lack of sovereignty of the "order" of "methodologists-gamers": G.P. Shchedrovitsky was active in the period from the late 1950s. (main publications - from the early 1960s) to 1994, but neither he nor any of his students and followers on the basis of the "methodology" revealed in the global historical process the concept of managing globalization, which has been valid for many centuries, and did not announce any alternative concept to it.

"The civilizational essence of Russia-Russia and the Russian version of globalization"

This is an indicator that their "methodology" is a fake, an imitation of a really workable methodology of cognition and creativity, the purpose of which is to "blab the topic" and manipulate those who "think" states and their sequences that others put into their psyche, but who do not shows itself in this kind of mounted "films" for the manipulated by them - for the ambitious builders of "orders".

The members of this circle-order can be characterized as liberal-Trotskyists. That is, being essentially unprincipled Trotskyists, they are able to adapt to any ideology - in the past, Marxism, today - liberalism.

And on the international side, the organizers are already the Marxist-Trotskyists.

In general, it is clear that the conflict between the two modifications of the Western (biblical) concept was caused initially, and therefore the liberal-bourgeois government would in no way provide an international platform for discussing social justice issues, which is why the event was relegated to a low-standard event in the style Eurovision and Muz-TV mixed with Seliger and Territory of Meanings.

But it would be difficult to expect from the Trotskyist-Marxist branch of the discussion of social justice in essence, since this contradicts the goal of preserving the crowd-“elite” structure of society, and besides, the language of philosophy and political economy of Marxism is not adapted to identify and solve the problems of society.

"Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy"

The very fact that the "leftist" festival is funded by capitalist corporations like Sberbank, Russian Railways, Norilsk Nickel, Renova (full list: http://russia2017.com/) speaks for itself.

The so-called open discussions certainly did not represent a platform for open discussion and development of solutions to society's problems with the subsequent release and proposal to the president and global structures, both due to their strict moderation and the fact that the participants were generally not ready to solve serious problems. There was enough bread and spectacles for the crowd - every day they brought in various showmen, "celebrities" and politicians.

In principle, the festival did not differ from the description of the planet Tormans by Ivan Efremov in the novel "The Hour of the Bull":

“Little attention was paid to the achievements of science, the display of art, historical finds and discoveries that occupied the main place in earthly broadcasts, not to mention the completely absent news from the Great Ring on Tormans. There were no planet-wide discussions of any changes in the social structure, improvements or projects of large buildings, large research organizations. Nobody raised any questions, posing them, as on Earth, before the Soviets or personally before any of the best minds of mankind.
Very little space was devoted to showing and discussing new problematic theater productions, trying to catch the emerging turns and changes in public consciousness and personal dignity. Many films about the bloody past, the conquest (or rather, the extermination) of nature and massive sports games took the most time. It seemed strange to the people of the Earth how sports events could gather such a huge number of spectators who did not participate in the competition, who for some reason came to incredible excitement from the contemplation of the wrestling of athletes. Only later did the earthlings understand the essence of the matter. The sports competitions were carefully selected people who devoted all their time to hard and dull training in their sports specialty. There was no room for everyone else in the competition. Physically and spiritually weak Tomskians, like little children, adored their outstanding athletes. It looked funny and even disgusting. A similar position was held by artists. Only a few were selected from millions of people. They were provided with the best living conditions, the right to participate in any performances, films and concerts. Their names served as a lure for many spectators who competed for places in theaters, and these artists themselves, called "stars", were subjected to the same naive deification as athletes. The position reached by the "star" deprived her or him of any other activity. Any other person who managed to independently reach the heights of art, as on Earth, apparently failed here to act as an artist. In general, the imprint of narrow professionalism lay on Tormans' entire life, impoverishing the feelings of people and narrowing their horizons.
In TV programs and radio information, a lot of attention was paid to a small group of people, their statements and trips, meetings and decisions. Most often, the name of Choyo Chagas was mentioned, whose considerations on various topics of public life, primarily the economy, aroused immoderate enthusiasm and was praised as the highest statesman's wisdom. Perhaps, far from the true sagacity of a genius covering the entire depth and breadth of the problem, the statements of Choyo Chagas were in some way very important for the inhabitants of Tormans? How could the aliens hovering at an altitude of six thousand kilometers judge this? .. ".

Young people who came to the festival were instructed - not a word about politics and about sensitive topics. That is, by doing so, this very youth was pushed aside from the solution of future issues to the "margins" of history. And really, who needs thinking youth? Navalny, Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov, Kirienko or other pseudo-managers?

IN RUSSIA CENTER ON THE PERIPHERALS (V.O. KLYUCHEVSKY)

"Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy"

The greatest interest at this exhibition was represented by the Russian regions, which, although not all were represented - due to the irrepressible appetites of the organizers (account for millions of rubles) and their own disorganization, nevertheless made a serious contribution to the promotion of Russian culture.

"Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy"

The stands of the Russian regions mainly presented some national peculiarities, folk art, some achievements of science and technology, famous personalities from the region, or simply were a gathering place for delegations.

There was a lot of VR (virtual reality) at the festival. Everyone had the opportunity to use virtual reality to walk through the cities of Russian regions, try themselves as a pilot or watch presentations of various projects.

OUR PROJECTS

We did not find any meaningful, worldview projects at the festival, so we want to note the work of the team of the project "Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy", which was carried out on the basis of the site of the Leningrad region, within which an alternative project of globalization - Russian was presented. Also express gratitude to the representatives of the regions and countries - who were supported and worked together with the team at the site of the Leningrad region.

At the festival, the team of the Resource Center distributed a brochure that outlined the vision of global processes and the place of the Russian version of globalization in them. The brochure can be downloaded here: http://upravolenie.ru/

Its essence lies in the transition of global civilization to a culture of harmonious relationships between social groups and peoples on the basis of the moral and ethical unity of all Mankind, as well as ensuring the life of human civilization with the biosphere of the Earth and Space. Thus, Mankind from the Era of the divided world will pass into a new era of its development - the Era of world reunification, as our great compatriot Ivan Antonovich Efremov wrote about it in the novel "Hour of the Bull".

All people of the planet Earth must become human beings who have taken place and are capable of acting, that is, they must become carriers of such a device of their psyche, in which behavior is subordinated to conscience by will. It will become mandatory to master dialectics as the art of identifying and resolving various kinds of uncertainties by posing leading questions. This requires a policy of universal enlightenment and protection of the younger generations from corruption by the vices of historically established cultures.

The Resource Center team presented several projects: "Educational Center of the Future", "Ready for Work and Management!"

"Educational Center of the Future"

Today, in a rapidly changing information environment, the demand for obtaining managerially significant information (methodology) has sharply increased on the part of society. For this reason, it is planned to launch a remote and full-time center with branches for the training of management and teaching personnel in the Leningrad Region and the Republic of Dagestan. For details, see the brochure on the website: http://upravolenie.ru/2017/11/vfms-2017/

"Ready for work and management!"

Within the framework of the project "Ready for Labor and Management!" badges are given to those who know the "General enough control theory" and know how to apply it in practice.

Indeed, the country, whose population will master the most universal theory of management and increase the level of managerial literacy, will have the maximum sovereignty and will become the leader in the development of mankind.

"Resource Center for the Development of Management Literacy"

"Health-saving technologies"

The project for the promotion and implementation of the system of health-saving technologies in the education system, at workplaces and in everyday life by V.F. Bazarny.

The basis of this system is the translation of the ergonomics of the educational process in educational institutions, as well as a number of professions accompanied by immobility against the background of visual and neuropsychic stress, for example, a natural basis that provides the ability to maintain small forms of physical activity directly in the labor process, taking into account the requirements of the human body.

This is the only officially certified and truly effective system that preserves the health of schoolchildren in the process of many years of study in a limited space.

"Noopolis is a continuous city-territory of the future"

Noopolis is a continuous city - the biospheric envelope of the Earth, evenly developed by man, consisting of residential modules in which the activities of mankind are concentrated, and vast territories where the prosperity of the planet's biocenoses has been preserved or recreated. All modules are interconnected in a single transport, information and computing network. This will make it possible to maximize their potential in economic, scientific and nature-forming activities.

"Information and Analytical Center"

The center analyzes problems and trends in the world, country and regions; making decisions; information and educational activities; providing various information, consulting, expert and social services.

Materials on a wide variety of topics are published regularly.

The center is open for cooperation with all citizens, interested structures and organizations. IAC website inance.ru

"New youth policy"

The movement unites the intellectual youth of Eurasia and the world. It opens up opportunities for personal growth for young people in the region. By organizing conferences, round tables, meetings of young professionals, "New Youth Policy" helps to deeply integrate the cultures of the region.

The main thing, we believe, is by the efforts of the participants in the movement to systematically, gradually increase the results and success in achieving these goals.

Website of the movement: newyouthpolicy.org

Interview of the festival participants about management

Our team took more than 70 interviews with the festival participants in the form of a blitz survey about management on the following five questions:

1. In your opinion, what is governance?
2. How do you assess the phrase of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moiseev: "A scoundrel, a scoundrel, ... a careerist can sit at the top, but if he is an intelligent person, then he is already forgiven a lot, because he will understand that what he is doing is necessary for the country"?
3. Do you think everyone should be managerially literate?
4. Do I need to introduce Management Theory as a subject in school?
5. What would you wish the youth of the future?

You can leave your options for answering these questions in the survey at the link: https://docs.google.com/

Then we will compare the quality of the responses of the WFYS 2017 participants and our readers.

Leaders of Russia

The stand of the new project "Leaders of Russia" was presented at the festival. Here is how they describe it on the website (leaders of Russia.rf):

Leaders of Russia is an open competition for the leaders of the new generation. Challenge thousands of executives and join the community of leaders who will shape the future of Russia. Participation in the competition is free. "

Why has another project in the field of personnel policy appeared? What is it - an acknowledgment of the absence of an integral concept of personnel policy, a confirmation that the “elite” is formed according to special rules, or a one-time project within the framework of an election campaign?

Any idea of ​​an opportunity for talented and competent people to rise to the top is good. The problem is implementation. After all, there have already been personnel projects. There is also the “presidential thousand”, there is the “Professional team of the country”, etc. In recent years, we have heard more than once about the launch of new personnel projects. But as a result of their implementation, only a lot of questions arose, and not a real personnel reserve.

As for the Leaders of Russia project, it is important that the winners of this personnel selection are really high-class managers and would be in demand. To rule the personnel policy not by nepotism and cronyism, but by professional competence. They should get the real places they deserve from this selection. And so that everything does not turn into another "campaign" for the presidential elections.

Therefore, we consider it obligatory for all conscientious citizens who fit the formal selection criteria - to apply for a competition and participate in it, if only to show those in power that the people have potential that needs to be claimed, otherwise it’s nothing good to have such power. does not wait.

Apply for this competition on the site leaders of russia. The more of us, the better!

CONCLUSION

Thus, the festival did not become a useless event. In general, seeking and thinking participants had the opportunity to find an alternative and become familiar with it when there was a distinction.

The World Festival of Youth and Students 2017 is an event of a planetary scale, the potential of which has not been fully utilized.

One side, for fear of appearing "different", the organizers did not put forward any global agenda for this Festival, although they could not put forward it, since they do not have one. Russia for the festival participants was presented as a technically advanced country with many different regions, but no more.

On the other side If we imagine for a second that such a global agenda would be presented at the festival, then the question arises in the staffing of its presentation for foreign participants. How many young people today can present the content of at least the article "The civilizational essence of Russia-Russia and the Russian version of globalization"? How many people can do this in English?

On the website of our partners "New Youth Policy" there is a translation of this article "Russian Conception of Globalization - Sustainable Development of Humanity or another Alternative to Western Globalization? », And only about 7 thousand views.

Question: And where are the personnel that could show the world the New Global Agenda? They simply do not exist!

Within the framework of the festival, about 800 people were familiarized with the project "Ready for Labor and Management" and a summary of the "Russian Globalization Project" (700 brochures were distributed and more than 100 conversations were held), which is no more than 3% of the total number of festival participants (30 thousand). In the country, statistics may be a little bit better - this information covers 7-9% percent (among young people a little higher - 10% percent). But, if we assess the ability to present the Russian version of globalization in other languages, then it is unlikely that even 1% of the population of Russia will be typed.

In the face of such a shortage of personnel and a lack of understanding among young people of the importance of issues of managerial literacy, such small results are already an achievement.

Such were our feelings and impressions of participating in the World Festival of Youth and Students in 2017. The potential of the event is great, but not fully used. When will we have the Festival next? Maybe 2037? It will be a century of well-known events of the middle of the 20th century.

What can be presented at such festivals in the future? The real future of humanity? Maybe who knows ...

Venue

Rosa Khutor

Date and time of the festival / event

From 14 to 21 October 2017, the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students will be held in Russia.

"World Festival of Youth and Students 2017" will be held in Olympic Sochi, and a solemn parade of delegations will be held in Moscow.

More than 20,000 young people from 150 countries, aged 18 to 35, will take part in the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students 2017. Young leaders from different fields will gather on one site: representatives of youth public organizations, young journalists, creative and sports youth, young engineers and IT specialists, leaders of youth organizations of political parties, young entrepreneurs, leaders of student government, young scientists and university professors, and also compatriots and foreigners studying Russian and interested in Russian culture.

Live broadcast of the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017

Watch the live broadcast of the Opening Ceremony of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students online at ALLfest at the link!

A live broadcast from the Luzhniki Stadium of the concert in support of the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017 can be viewed online on our portal HERE.

Participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students

Everything important for the participants of the "World Festival of Youth and Students 2017" can be downloaded from the link, namely: information about food, about medical care, about the rules of stay and checkpoints, about the festival sites, about the work of transport and a call-center, as well as about what things are necessary for the participants of the festival.

Anthem of the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017

You can listen to the anthem of the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017, which would be written and performed by pop singer Alexei Vorobyov and presented on the eve of the opening of the Festival, at ALLfest at.

World Festival of Youth and Students 2017 program

The festival starts on October 14 with a solemn meeting of the guests of the festival in Moscow at the parade-carnival. After the carnival, a grand concert "Music of the First at Luzhniki" will take place, in which the stars of the national pop scene will take part.

The Opening Ceremony performance will be built around real stories of people who change lives for the better: among them Afroz Shah from India, who removed 5.4 tons of garbage from Mumbai beach in 86 weeks, Roman Gek from Russia, who built a school in Nepal, founders of the I am! Egor Beroev and Ksenia Alferova and others. Popular music stars will perform at the opening ceremony: Dima Bilan, Nyusha, Polina Gagarina, Sergey Lazarev, Alexander Panayotov, Quest Pistols Show, Tina Kuznetsova, Guru Groove Foundation, Lena Katina, Morandi. The headliner of the ceremony is OneRepublic!

Throughout the festival, its guests will find a rich discussion program, a varied cultural program, an active sports program, a powerful scientific and educational program (speakers of which, in particular, will be motivational speaker Nick Vuychich, Director General of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Marco Lambertini, Google foreign policy director Avni Doron, writer Frederic Begbekder, FIFA secretary general Samuru Fatmu).

For the first time in the history of the festival movement, the whole country will be involved in a grandiose youth holiday. Within the framework of the festival, from 14 to 17 October 2017, a regional program is planned for more than 1,500 foreign participants who came to the WFYS 2017.

The closing ceremony of the festival will take place on October 21 at the Bolshoi Ice Palace in Sochi. One of the key elements of the Ceremony will be the message "Let's Change the World", which will be drawn up by the participants. The closing ceremony will feature world-renowned artists such as 25-year-old Rochelle Perts, the most popular R'n'B singer in Holland.

• The full program of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students is available at ALLfest by the link. You can also download the program in pdf format there.
• The discussion program of the Festival can be downloaded from the link.
• The cultural program of the Festival can be downloaded from the link.
• Festival program by day - download.

Registration for the festival of youth and students

Any young person can register for the Festival of Youth and Students 2017 on the official website of the festival - russia2017.com. As of October 1, 2016, more than 1000 young people have already applied to participate in the festival.

On October 1, the international stage of recruiting participants started on the English version of the festival website. Citizens of most countries of the world will be able to apply for participation. In addition to Russian and English, the official website of the festival for youth and students will soon start working in all working languages ​​of the festival: Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic. Thus, the audience of the whole planet will be able to get acquainted not only with the program of the festival of youth and students in 2017, but also receive information about the history of the festival movement, learn more about the host country and, of course, stay up to date with all the latest news.

Foreign participants of the festival will be provided with visa-free entry to Russia.

Who can become a member

A young man aged 18 to 35, who has an active life position, who has what he loves, who respects the interests of his country, who considers himself part of the world community and belongs to one of the categories of participants:

1. leaders of youth NGOs
2. young journalists
3. creative youth (musicians, writers, artists, directors, etc.)
4. leaders of sports clubs
5. young engineers
6. leaders of youth organizations of political parties
7. young university professors
8. student government leaders
9. young scientists (social, humanitarian and economic, natural, technical sciences)
10. young entrepreneurs
11. foreigners studying Russian who are interested in Russian culture

What awaits the participants

• visa-free entry to Russia for foreign participants
• a unique educational and discussion program with the participation of world-class professionals
• real applied skills in workshops and creative workshops
• variety of facets of Russian culture: ballet, ice show, film festival, jazz festival, circus performance
• Life-style program: street dancing, healthy lifestyle, jogging, passing the GTO standards, extreme park, musical subcultures
• meeting like-minded people and colleagues from 150 countries of the world
• participation in a grandiose youth event of an international scale

And also - at the expense of the receiving party:

• nutrition
• hotel accommodation
• access to all educational, cultural and sports grounds

The purpose of the festival of youth and students

The upcoming festival in Sochi is intended to increase interest in Russia and show its best sides.

Breaking news of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students - preparation for the festival

Official outfit # WFMS2017

The official form of the festival was developed by designer Igor Chapurin. He set himself the task of creating a coherent picture of all the people who will be present at # WFMS2017: participants, volunteers, organizers and guests.
The uniform is made in the official colors of the festival. The most sophisticated modern technologies of the garment industry were used in the manufacture of the equipment: waterproof zippers, 3D printing of logos, a combination of appliqués and embroidery.

The uniform was presented by famous Russian actors, TV presenters, athletes, musicians, including the special correspondent of the Evening Urgant show Alla Mikheeva, TV presenter Aurora, actresses Ekaterina Varnava and Nadezhda Sysoeva, Miss World 2008 title holder Ksenia Sukhinova, creative producer # VFMS2017 Ilya Bachurin and singer Mitya Fomin. Below on this page are some video presentations of the outfit of the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017. More details on ALLfest by the link.

Opening ceremony headliner determined

From July 11 to July 17, elections were held by popular vote for the headliner of the # WFMS2017 opening ceremony among performers Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, OneRepublic and The Black Eyed Peas. On July 18, it became known that according to the results of the popular vote, the OneRepublic group became the winner and headliner of the World Festival of Youth and Students.

Folk Museum of the Festival

On June 6, the project "People's Museum of the Festival" starts, timed to coincide with the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS). During the month, an exhibition will be formed, which will open on July 7 at the Museum of Moscow. Anyone can bring souvenirs left over from the Moscow festivals of 1957 and 1985 to the collection point that has opened in the museum. In October, the exhibition will be presented at the WFMS-2017 in Sochi.

Choosing a mascot for the 2017 World Festival of Youth and Students

The photo gallery on this page presents the 10 best competitive works selected by an expert jury, which included famous Russian artists, designers, representatives of the Union of Artists, and Public Ambassadors of the festival. Until April 28, on the festival website and in the VKontakte community, you can vote for your favorite mascot # ВФМС2017. On April 28, the results will be summed up and it will become known we will find out the name of the winner and the winning concept of the festival mascot! The best drawing will be finalized by professionals.

On April 28, a popular vote on the choice of the mascot for the festival of youth and students ended. About one hundred thousand users from different countries took part in the open voting. As a result, the winning entries were the robot "Daisy", the ferret Shurik and "Mishanya"! Very soon we will introduce you to the authors and learn all about talismans.

On October 14, 2016, festive events were held in Moscow, Sochi and other cities of Russia, timed to coincide with the launch of the countdown - A Year to the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017. World Festival of Youth and Students ".

On January 19, 2017, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Decree "On the preparation and holding of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students". The Organizing Committee # WFMS2017 was established by the decree. First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko has been appointed its Chairman.

On January 30 and 31, 2017, a presentation of the upcoming XIX World Festival of Youth and Students took place in New York as part of the Youth Forum of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) opened at the UN headquarters. The Russian delegation was headed by the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Alexei Palamarchuk. During his speech, he invited the forum participants to take part in thematic side events on the margins of #ECOSOC on January 30 and 31 and talked about # WFMS2017. "The festival will host completely different youth from different countries, different continents with different cultures, with different views, but they are all united in their desire to make our world a better place!" - stressed Palamarchuk. Following the presentation of the youth festival, the UN Secretary General's special envoy for youth affairs, Ahmad al-Hendawi, spoke out. According to TASS, he said that the festival will help the peoples of the world to unite and overcome the problems facing humanity: “We stand for the rapprochement of people, for the rapprochement of youth. At a time when there are so many difficulties and difficulties in world politics, I hope that people can come together and try to chart a new way forward based on mutual understanding, recognition of each other, and the ability of people to act as peacemakers and contribute to (socio-economic) development, "he said.

On February 8, Moscow hosted the 1st meeting of the Organizing Committee for the preparation and holding of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students. Chaired by First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko, the meeting participants discussed the preparations for the Festival and formulated the tasks of the organizing committee for the future.

On February 6, Sergey Kiriyenko approved the composition of the Organizing Committee. The National Preparatory Committee is represented by its chairman Grigory Petushkov. On behalf of the Chairman of the Organizing Committee Sergey Kiriyenko, specific tasks for the joint work of the preparatory structures of the Festival and federal executive authorities will be worked out and formulated in a short time. "It is necessary to formulate precise and specific tasks for joint development. I propose to do this within two weeks. The Federal Agency for Youth Affairs will act as the main coordinator and organizer," the Chairman of the Organizing Committee emphasized.

Hashtags: # WFYS2017 # ВФМС2017 # Rosmolodezh

From 14 to 22 October, the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) will be held in Russia. The procession of delegates will take place in the capital, the opening and most of the events will take place in Sochi. The congress will bring together 25 thousand young people from all over the planet, its main goal is to establish mutual understanding between representatives of different cultures and religions. According to preliminary estimates, representatives of 150 countries will take part in the event, and 8 thousand volunteers will provide its holding.

Sochi - the capital of the festival in 2017

Russia received the right to host the festival in May 2016. The RF application was the only one that was unanimously approved by the preparatory committee of the festival, which met in Caracas (Venezuela). Vladimir Putin personally proposed to hold the WFMS in Russia. After submitting the application, he discussed the goals and content of the festival with representatives of the youth associations that will organize it.

The head of state stressed that during international events, Russia must show its best sides and successes, demonstrate a desire for international cooperation and the development of the youth movement. The festival will open with the Student Parade, which will take place on October 14 on Red Square. The festivities will continue on Vorobyovy Gory, from where a view of the main building of Moscow State University, a symbol of Russian students, opens.

Further events will take place in. After the 2014 Olympics, the resort has an international level infrastructure that allows you to host large-scale events at no extra cost. The participants of the festival will settle in the hotels of the Olympic Village. Exhibitions, lectures, concerts will also be held here. The Rosa Khutor ski resort, located half an hour's drive from Sochi, will become a platform for sports events.

Program of events

The festival is dedicated to topics relevant to young people:

• Culture and globalization (cultural heritage of the nation, communication between representatives of different cultures, creativity);
• Economy, development;
• Knowledge economy (education, new technologies, ideas and discoveries);
• Public sector, charity and volunteering;
• Politics and security.

The festival will host art and scientific exhibitions, open lectures, creative workshops. Russian culture will be presented by a jazz concert, ballet or ice show, film screenings and circus performances. The sports program includes a cycling marathon, competitions in game and extreme sports. The exact timetable of events will appear after the second preparatory meeting, which will be held on October 30 in Namibia.

The main part of the 2017 Festival will be held in Sochi and

Festival ambassadors

The event was supported by personalities known in Russia and abroad:

• Yana Churikova- TV presenter and journalist.
• Irina Slutskaya- champion in figure skating.
• Edgard Zapashny- People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Director of the Moscow Circus.
• Elena Slesarenko- champion in high jump.
• Ahmad Alhendawi- Representative of the UN Secretary General for Youth Affairs.

How to get to the festival?

To become a participant in the event, you need to meet a number of requirements:

• Your age is 18-35 years old;
• Do you have a hobby and an active life position;
• You respect your country and the international community.

The last requirement is to belong to one of the groups of active youth:

1. Heads of youth non-profit organizations or political parties;
2. Media professionals, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc .;
3. Organizers of sports sections;
4. Engineers;
5. University lecturers, researchers, members of student government;
6. Entrepreneurs;
7. Foreigners interested in Russian language and culture.

Flyer inviting to participate in the world youth festival

Participants will be able to live and eat for free in the Olympic Village, as well as attend all festival events. Foreigners will enter Russia without a visa. If you meet the requirements and wish to participate in the festival, fill out the form at russia2017.com/#/members. Then candidates will undergo correspondence and face-to-face interviews.

How do I become a volunteer?

Another way to get to the festival is volunteering (free organizational work). Volunteers can be active Russians over 18 years old who speak a foreign language and want to try their hand at one of the areas of work:

• Transport logistics
• Holding and servicing events, including the parade in Moscow
• Medical support of the festival
• Meeting and escorting foreign delegations
• Working with journalists
• Working with volunteers
• Organization of meals and accommodation for participants
• Translation for staff and delegates of the festival
• Creating a festive atmosphere in Sochi ("city volunteers")

Volunteer recruitment will begin in October 2016. All interested persons must fill out a questionnaire on the website. The best applicants will undergo face-to-face or online interviews, followed by training at centers that will open across the country. Participation in the festival will give volunteers an unforgettable experience and new acquaintances. "Silver Volunteers" - experienced volunteers who worked at international conventions during the Soviet era, will be involved in organizing the events.

Festival organizers

The main organizer of the event is the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY). It includes domestic left-wing youth organizations:

• Russian Komsomol (RKSM)
• Lenin Communist Youth Union (LKSM RF)
• Youth Union "Fair Force"

The application for the festival was supported by the Russian Youth Union and the National Council of Youth and Children's Associations. The chairman of the latter department, Grigory Petushkov, headed the National Preparatory Committee for the event. According to the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, Russian students will play an important role in organizing the festival. He invited the leadership to involve students in the activities.

Preparing for the festival

Events timed to coincide with the festival are in full swing. On October 12, 2016, a meeting of the festival ambassadors was held in Moscow. On October 10-13, the participants of the Russia - Country of Sports forum covered the 2017-meter distance in honor of the festival. On October 14, the youth celebrated the year before it began with a concert on Vorobyovy Gory. The WFMS will be the leading theme of the Vkontakte festival, which will take place in St. Petersburg in the summer of 2017. Postage stamps and a commemorative coin timed to coincide with the student event will appear in Russia.

The history of the festival

The World Festival of Youth and Students is a congress of youth associations of the "left" (socialist or communist) orientation. It was first held in 1947 in the Czech capital under the leadership of youth democratic and student organizations. The slogan of the event was “For Peace and Friendship”.

Russia hosted the Festival of Youth and Students back in Soviet times

In the first decades of its existence, the festival was held every two years. He gathered representatives of communist, socialist and anti-fascist youth associations. Among the participants were members of radical movements, some of whom were banned in their countries. The leading themes of the festival were international cooperation and the fight against fascism.

50 thousand participants from 180 countries came to the world festival of youth and students in Russia

On Sunday, the World Festival of Youth and Students was launched in Sochi. Instead of the announced 20 thousand participants, the organizers expect 50 thousand young people from 180 countries of the world to visit Russia.

The opening ceremony of the festival took place at the Bolshoi Ice Palace. President Vladimir Putin opened the festival and then drank tea with the participants.

"Seven decades ago, the first festival took place. Then the same young guys and girls like you were united by the power of dreams, the belief that young people, their sincerity, kindness can melt the ice of mistrust, help rid the world of injustice, from wars and conflicts," - said the president. Then the youth proved that “the barriers are powerless in front of true friendship, and the warmth of human communication does not depend on political, national, religious, cultural and any other differences,” he recalled.

The President of Russia called on young people to strive to change the world, to make it a better place

"Our country is proud that it has already hosted the world youth holiday twice," Putin continued. "Sochi is a city of Olympic brotherhood and hope. Five rings, like the five petals of the festival chamomile, have become a symbol of solidarity on all continents," he said.

“I am convinced that you - young people of different countries, nationalities, religions - are united by common feelings, values ​​and goals, the desire for freedom, happiness, peace and harmony on the planet, the desire to create, to achieve more,” Putin said. everything in order for you to achieve success. " "The energy and talent of youth have amazing strength. The young generation always brings innovative ideas into the world. You are characterized by experiments, arguments, it is common to disagree with the usual way of things. Dare. Create your future. Strive to change this world, make it better. Everything is in yours. The main thing is to stubbornly go only forward, "the head of state gave advice.

Good luck! - he wished the youth.

After the opening ceremony, Vladimir Putin met with the rally participants from different countries over a cup of tea. “When you work and live for the benefit of others, it always comes back a hundredfold,” the head of state said. “It always helps you, lifts you up, develops you." "I would very much like you to have new ideas that would allow you to move forward," he added. Putin noted that Russia is "a real fusion of cultures, history, religion, living together within the framework of a single state." And she was always very tolerant.

Young people from different countries were invited to the meeting. The youngest were born in 1994, the oldest - an environmentalist from India - was born in 1975. “I collect garbage from the ocean,” he said. “Before, as a child, I put my hand into the ocean and did not see it: the water was so dirty! .. I want my whole country to be clean,” he worried.

We have very warm relations with India. And I have very good relations with the Prime Minister of India ... You will definitely find an ally in his person, ”Putin assured. According to him, it is not always easy to switch to environmentally friendly technologies - not all developing countries have the funds for this. “In addition, it is necessary to force the industry to switch to these new technologies,” the president said. “Ultimately, the future, of course, lies with progress,” concluded the head of state. Putin agreed that plastic in the ocean is a big problem. Here, perhaps, a legal solution is needed, he did not rule out: preferential conditions for cleaning the ocean.

The President has already met the Russian scientist Artyom Oganov. “I thought I would live in the West all my life, the West was kind to me,” he began. But then he came to Russia on mega grants for several months, and so he stayed here, and even became a father with many children. "Colleagues in the West ask how is it in Russia? ... Maybe I should return too?" - he conveyed the conversations. “It’s great that you found yourself. It’s not so easy,” Putin commented. “Russia is interested in the return of those who really took place and can really work here effectively, not everyone in a row,” he said. “From the point of view of the civilian component, we are interested in all our citizens to come here. those who can move it forward. "

They also started talking about geopolitics. Nicolas Charras, a political scientist from France, spoke about prejudices in the West towards Russia. "There are more and more immigrants in the United States and the white Christian population is already in the minority. Already less than 50 percent," Putin noted. "The world is undergoing very serious global changes." The President urged not to share in national apartments, but to look at how to build a common future.

"We need to stop looking at each other as rivals ... We need to strive to look at each other as partners," said the head of state, speaking with a teacher from the United States, who, I must say, thought in a similar way. “And instead of cooperating, we spend resources on secondary things, on rivalry,” regretfully. “This can be a utopia, of course, - all nature is permeated with the spirit of rivalry and the entire society, - but, in any case, we must strive so that it does not pass into a hot stage, enmity, and even more so a war,” he concluded.

The President considers it important to preserve the cultural and linguistic unity of the Russian state, which will benefit not only the country itself, but also the world as a whole. "Russia is a Eurasian space, but from the point of view of culture, language, history of people living in this territory, it is a European space, it is inhabited by bearers of this culture," Putin explained. "In order for us to remain as a significant center in the world, we need to preserve all this," the president is convinced.

Our country has hosted the festival twice - in 1957 and 1985. But in Soviet times, all events were held exclusively in Moscow. This time the participants were met in 15 regions of Russia - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. In Moscow, a carnival procession of 35 thousand Russian and foreign students started on Saturday from Vasilievsky Spusk. Multicolored columns, stretching for 8 kilometers along the Kremlin, Prechistenskaya, Frunzenskaya and Luzhnetskaya embankments, were greeted by Muscovites. On the way, young foreigners confessed to journalists that they had already fallen in love with Moscow and Russia, and they perceive the procession as a bright event in their lives.

In the train-museum of the Novosibirsk metro for the opening of the Sochi festival, they assembled the exposition "We live with a dream of the world." On the walls of the car is the entire history of the festival movement for 70 years: photographs, notes, documents, memoirs of participants and other materials dedicated to previous festivals of youth and students.

About 100 people from South America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia arrived in Rostov-on-Don for the festival. Among them are teachers, engineers, doctors, educators and even the prince of Bahrain - Ahmed Ali Abdullah Mohammed Ali.

During the flight from Moscow, a cardiologist surgeon from Tajikistan, Hayem Makhmudov, distinguished himself by providing first aid to an unconscious elderly passenger who became ill during the flight, and the flight attendants hesitated. Then a young doctor came to the rescue.

Festival participants visited 15 regions of Russia - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok

"The patient has diabetes mellitus. I assume that his blood sugar level dropped, because of this, the pressure dropped sharply. The flight attendants and I provided the passenger with first aid, regained consciousness, stabilized the pressure and then provided psychological support until the landing." - said Hayem.

50 young people from Germany, Indonesia, Great Britain, Australia and other countries arrived in Sevastopol to participate in the regional program of the festival of youth and students. Most of them are for the first time in Russia. "We hear a lot of different stories about Crimea and Russia from the mass media," James Wark from British Newcastle, a Cambridge student, a future engineer, told RG. eyes. I really like Crimea, I feel protected. People here are nice, friendly. "

"I was very surprised by this beautiful city by the sea, with a rich history," says a student from Paris Emilie Emiro. "I see people living here peacefully, I don't feel any conflict. There are absolutely no negative things that tell about Crimea in France."

Information about the festival:

The World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) is an irregular festival of leftist youth organizations that has been held since 1947. The organizers are the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and the International Students Union (IUU). In the 50s - early 60s, festivals were held under the slogan "For Peace and Friendship", later - "For Anti-imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship."

Since 2001, each subsequent Festival has a new slogan, which is traditionally approved at the first international preparatory meeting for the upcoming Festival. The 2017 WFYS slogan: "For peace, solidarity and social justice, we are fighting against imperialism - respecting our past, we are building our future!"

To prepare for the festival, an International Preparatory Committee and national preparatory committees in the participating countries are being created. The program of the festivals includes sports competitions in various sports, political seminars and discussions, concerts, mass celebrations, as well as an obligatory colorful procession of delegations.

Event Information:

From 14 to 21 October 2017, the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students will be held in Russia.

"World Festival of Youth and Students 2017" will be held in Olympic Sochi, and a solemn parade of delegations in Moscow.

More than 20,000 young people from 150 countries, aged 18 to 35, will take part in the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students 2017. Young leaders from different fields will gather on one site: representatives of youth public organizations, young journalists, creative and sports youth, young engineers and IT specialists, leaders of youth organizations of political parties, young entrepreneurs, leaders of student government, young scientists and university professors, and also compatriots and foreigners studying Russian and interested in Russian culture.

Registration for the festival of youth and students

Any young person can register for the festival of youth and students 2017 on the official website of the festival - russia2017.com. As of October 1, 2016, more than 1000 young people have already applied to participate in the festival.

On October 1, the international stage of recruiting participants started on the English version of the festival website. Citizens of most countries of the world will be able to apply for participation. In addition to Russian and English, the official website of the festival for youth and students will soon start working in all working languages ​​of the festival: Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic. Thus, the audience of the whole planet will be able to get acquainted not only with the program of the festival of youth and students in 2017, but also receive information about the history of the festival movement, learn more about the host country and, of course, stay up to date with all the latest news.

Foreign participants of the festival will be provided with visa-free entry to Russia.

Who can become a member

A young man aged 18 to 35, who has an active life position, who has what he loves, who respects the interests of his country, who considers himself part of the world community and belongs to one of the categories of participants:

1. leaders of youth NGOs
2. young journalists
3. creative youth (musicians, writers, artists, directors, etc.)
4. leaders of sports clubs
5. young engineers
6. leaders of youth organizations of political parties
7. young university professors
8. student government leaders
9. young scientists (social, humanitarian and economic, natural, technical sciences)
10. young entrepreneurs
11. foreigners studying Russian who are interested in Russian culture

What awaits the participants

• visa-free entry to Russia for foreign participants
• a unique educational and discussion program with the participation of world-class professionals
• real applied skills in workshops and creative workshops
• variety of facets of Russian culture: ballet, ice show, film festival, jazz festival, circus performance
• Life-style program: street dancing, healthy lifestyle, jogging, passing the GTO standards, extreme park, musical subcultures
• meeting like-minded people and colleagues from 150 countries of the world
• participation in a grandiose youth event of an international scale

And also - at the expense of the receiving party:

• nutrition
• hotel accommodation
• access to all educational, cultural and sports grounds

The purpose of the festival of youth and students

The upcoming festival in Sochi is intended to increase interest in Russia and show its best sides.

Breaking news of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students - preparation for the festival

On April 28, the popular vote on the choice of the mascot for the festival of youth and students ended. About one hundred thousand users from different countries took part in the open voting. As a result, the winning entries were the robot "Daisy", the ferret Shurik and "Mishanya"! Very soon we will introduce you to the authors and learn all about talismans.

On October 14, 2016, festive events were held in Moscow, Sochi and other cities of Russia, timed to coincide with the launch of the countdown - A Year to the World Festival of Youth and Students 2017. World Festival of Youth and Students ".

On January 19, 2017, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Decree "On the preparation and holding of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students". The Organizing Committee # WFMS2017 was established by the decree. First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko has been appointed its Chairman.

On January 30 and 31, 2017, a presentation of the upcoming XIX World Festival of Youth and Students took place in New York as part of the Youth Forum of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) opened at the UN headquarters. The Russian delegation was headed by the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Alexei Palamarchuk. During his speech, he invited the forum participants to take part in thematic side events in the fields